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Liquid`RaSZi
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands2766 Posts
August 23 2008 01:11 GMT
#1
Intro~

Sup guys,

It's been a while since I posted a blog. The months right before WSOP I hardly played poker or did anything except tennis and XBOX, so that demotivated me a bit to blog. During WSOP I was exhausted and I had a rough schedule, so nothing really happened there either, sorry about that. However, I'm getting myself in grind mode again, plus the new site Pokernews Strategy is gonna be launched soon. For people that haven't heard about it, you can check it our here:

http://www.pokernews.com/strategy-videos

It's gonna be an instructional site, with Patrik Antonius, Chris Lee (Genius28), Corwin Mackey (mig.com) and myself as the main instructors. Of course you can be expecting lots of video's from others as well, but this would be our starting group. What I think makes us different, is that all the sites say that they give out all their secrets and then u see a lot of the same stuff or a lot of lower no limit videos. Also the main instructors post videos as irregular as 1 vid every 5-6 weeks in some cases. Antonius will be uploading a nice consistent stream of videos and also of highstakes! So stay tuned. Also our apologies for launching later than expected. We wanted to launch before the Main Event, but as that moment neared we realized it was gonna be close. The decision then was to do it exactly how we wanted it and make it what looks and works best for everyone, hence the delay. This time it will definitely be within a week or 2 from launch.

WSOP

Vegas is not good for me. At least when I'm living out of my suitcase. It's a very rough schedule and I don't have a lot of rest. Not only at night, but also mentally. It wears you down and becomes mentally challenging. Of course it would be different when you run hot or have some good results, then being tired is fine. When you lose and you're tired, it's hell . I had a rough WSOP, with a couple of huge stacks that got minimized in unfortunate ways, and sometimes mistakes by me. Even though the good results weren't there, I did learn and realize a lot. I improved greatly since last years WSOP, mainly when it comes to patience and shortstack tournament play. This is something I really had to learn. I was reading live updates after I got knocked out and I noticed every time it said: RaSZi loses big pot, it would say RaSzi busted 3 posts later. I figured there's no coincidence there, so I tried working on that, and I'm happy with the result. I did almost make the final table of the 1500$ shoot-out event, finishing 3rd at the second to last table.

Another thing i was really happy with, was beating CTS in the 2nd round of the 10k HU tournament. He is one of the sickest heads up players worldwide, so I wasn't too thrilled about drawing him. When they announced: 'If you wanna know who you are playing in the next round if you win your match, just look to the other side of the table. You're playing the winner of that match.' I look over to see CTS playing BrynKenny, are you serious?!?! I ended up drawing CTS, but I kinda had a freeroll idea. He is a better player than me, but I'm good enough to beat him, especially in a single heads up sng. So I did and I was thrilled, only to lose against a much weaker person in the next round, yugh. I learned a lot, but yay variance.

The best thing about Vegas was definitely 'meeting' my new girlfriend, Evelyn Ng. We already met two years ago in Vegas and got along great, but nothing specific. The past year we have been talking a lot online and we have a lot of things in common. I went to hang out at the charity barbecues for Phil Ivey's charity foundation, where Evelyn organized a Guitar Hero tournament for charity. In the week after we saw each other daily and we're going out since then. I actually stayed in Vegas for 2 extra weeks. So i came back from Vegas a winner in the end ~ :D.

Tennis

Ok, that was a quick wrap-up of what I've been up to. I'm back in Europe now and Im feeling better and better. Ive suffered from Vertigo for a while, but that's gone now too. Also I picked up tennis again! I actually had to play a doubles match 2 days ago. It was the first time in 8 years (!) I had to play an official match again. My partner was Bas de Zeeuw, with whom I play a lot. Him and his girlfriend Lies, really good too, are really cool and they are always up for some tennis, which is nice. We had to play at midnight, yes i know, in a city close to Rotterdam. We play in catagory 4 ( no idea what that would be internationally) and won! I was nervous as hell, but Bas kept me relaxed and we won 7-5 6-1. Jaco is making a lot of video's today and he shot this:



He also did an after-match interview, in which I'm exhausted. I wasn't used to the tension and exhaustion official matches can bring. I noticed a lot of people on the pokernews forum, if you like to see inside movies, Jaco posts them on http://www.blogmysport.tv/ You can also find blogs of Dutch athletes there. Hollaaa.

I'm playing again tonight, August 22nd at LTC Spijkenisse at 9 pm. People were asking me about it and some wanted to come watch, so there . Would be fun if people came, especially now that I am less nervous lol. Interview after match:



Talking about sports, shoutout to Fatima Moreira de Melo (wut) for winning gold medal at the olympics womens field hockey event today! I met her beginning this year and I'm really happy for her and she deserves it. Also, Thiemo de Bakker, a dutch tennis talent, is playing a tournament in Italy and just won the first set in his 3rd round match. He is 19 and ranked around 200 in the world, on his way up. Flippie~

Guitar Hero

I've been thinking about the subjects on my blog, but then I realized, this is my blog and what happens in my life. I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but if you don't like it, just skip the paragraphs you don't like :D. I play this game a lot and I love it, so I wanna spew it on my blog too. I've been making some movies which you can find in my youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/baboraszi .

Subscribe yo. Also, if you like Guitar Hero, here's a page with my scores on the best GH community site in the world:

http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=126345&group=4&game=6&diff=4

Here is an example video of me playing Don't Speak by No Doubt:



I will definitely keep uploading videos I found on youtube on my blog. Just random or impressive shit I come across on the interwebs.

Poker

I haven't played online in ages. I was sick for about 3 weeks and I needed to get some energy back. I feel good now again so I started playing. I wanna get into shape again and learn how to grind so I started out 15-tabling 2-4 No limit. I played 13k hands first day and 6k hands yesterday, so I'm started out well. I'll be playing it a lot and also I'll be recording a lot of videos this weekend. I'll save my interesting hands to post once in a while.

I hope you guys will enjoy my blog, comments and questions are welcome as usual.. see ya.

This movie is the nuts. These two guys were raising a lion cub from birth, before releasing it in the wild. They wanted to see Christian the Lion again, so they went and looked for him TWO YEARS later. This is after Christian spent 2 years in the wild. Little dangerous if you ask me. Watch and enjoy.



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Fire and blood
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42283 Posts
August 23 2008 01:41 GMT
#2
15 tabling 400nl? Sick life man. Congrats for your wsop results and for setting up a site with Antonius (wtf baller lol).
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Night[Mare
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Mexico4793 Posts
August 23 2008 01:46 GMT
#3
Sound like you had a good time in vegas. It's good you learnt so much, it will be good for your future
Teamliquidian townie
kpcrew
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1071 Posts
August 23 2008 02:13 GMT
#4
WTF U HAVE LINK AS ICON!!!!!
Clan Lzuruha
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25975 Posts
August 23 2008 02:17 GMT
#5
That video always make me happy :D

I watch it quite often :D
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Spenguin
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia3316 Posts
August 23 2008 03:26 GMT
#6
Link as icon.
Heartwarming video.

WHERE'S THE STARCRAFT!!

< TeamLiquid CJ Entusman #46 > I came for the Brood War, I stayed for the people.
Liquid`RaSZi
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands2766 Posts
August 23 2008 04:08 GMT
#7
When SC2 comes out maybe .. i just figured i'd crosspost blog here since i played SC for 6 years
Fire and blood
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
August 23 2008 05:36 GMT
#8
oh raszi, you and your poker
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9102 Posts
August 23 2008 06:03 GMT
#9
How do you even keep track of 15 tables at once! That sounds so crazy.
miNi
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Korea (South)2010 Posts
August 23 2008 08:04 GMT
#10
cause raszi is a degen
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