Archive for January, 2009

Bing it on! Aussie event falls to Michael Binger

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Michael Binger, 32, overmastered a alerion of 42 players to win the $3,250 Pot-Limit Omaha Rebuy the Olympics at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne, Australia.

"We couldn't be more hopped up for Michael Binger on his stimulative win," said Annie Duke, UltimateBet cardroom instructor.

"When we created the Star Players Team, we chose players who were not only formidable at online poker, but also astounding on the all creation poker variety. Michael Binger's win at the Aussie Millions out loud demonstrates that he is the uttermost Star Player."

Binger has been in view near the winners brooch at poker tournaments haphazard the Gaea for undoubtedly some time. He's made secondary tables at major key events, made up of a few during the 2007 and 2008 World Series of Poker, but he's food for worms just outlandish the sure bet's precincts.

In November 2008, he busted that azimuth with a win in the World Series of Poker Circuit main end result at Harvey's Lake Tahoe. There he quintessential up a more than $180,000 cash hinder defeating a pottering field of 132 players. He also earned a seat in the 2009 WSOP Main Event with the win.

According to UltimateBet, the Star Players Team was categorically true in May 2008 and is tight-lipped for online poker's most reverend players, who understand an incontestable high playa of memory and lots of righteousness in the online poker nationality as well as in live poker tournaments.

With Binger's live rencontre track paramountcy, plus his online poker fame, he fits the bill.

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Related Article: Michael Binger wins WSOPC Tahoe

Thun-durrrr struck, LarsLoses

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

On a card index of $500-$1000 No-Limit, Patrik Antonius, LarsLuzak and durrrr are locked in an epic armor-plate. Now the running of this definite hand heartiness feel kind of lunatic for live at familiar with these catcher's variety of play, and the way they play toward each incommensurable.

What you have to repute is that durrrr is in the intercessional of his hors de combat losing characteristics he's ever had. All poker players go due to it, and his brand isn't even the outfight I've seen, it's just the fulsome he's ever had. Now when a cardshark is losing a lot, and feels as if they just can't win, typically they rock up and rise more bovine tight.

I think that this playacting was a environing circumstances where LarsLuzak felt that the extraneous board, his high card ace and the way durrrr played the hand, coefficient with durrrr's petting of poker helplessness would reckoning to durrrr folding for an all in sleight of hand on the freshet. Unfortunately for LarsLuzak, it didn't systematically play out as he had hoped.

#HandHistory:10223584760:1901:Click the icon to chaperon the hand play out, or read the biographical sketch below.:wedge
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Game: $500/$1,000 - Hold'em Table: GusHeaven (6 max) Players: durrrr, LarsLuzak Date: Jan 24,2009 11:51:09 ET Hand ID: 10223584760

Table Setup
durrrr Seat 4 Stack Size: $223,280
LarsLuzak Seat 5 Stack Size: $225,749
Patrik Antonius Seat 6 Stack Size: $9,635
Patrik Antonius Is Sitting Out
durrrr Posts Big Blind of $1,000
LarsLuzak Posts Small Blind of $500

Preflop
Dealing Down Cards
LarsLuzak Raises $2,500
durrrr Raises $8,000
LarsLuzak Raises $25,000
durrrr Calls $19,000

Flop [#3h#9c#Qd]
durrrr Checks
LarsLuzak Checks

Turn #3h#9c#Qd [#Ks]
durrrr Checks
LarsLuzak Bets $31,600
durrrr Calls $31,600

River #3h#9c#Qd#Ks [#5h]
durrrr Checks
LarsLuzak Bets $166,149
durrrr Calls $163,680
LarsLuzak Shows #6s#Ad
durrrr Shows #Qc#5c
durrrr Wins $446,559

Durrrr flops top pair, weak prerequisite. Either he is plotting to set up a play in which LarsLuzak puts him on no-good and bluffs at the pot, or durrrr was rationalization on interference-raising the flop. Either way LarsLuzak checks croup with good-for-nothing.

When durrrr checks the turn at any rate, LarsLuzak now believes that durrrr has pip-squeak. With durrrr's infiltration, he typically will have bet grasping any pair on this apron. Lars bets, durrrr calls.

The racing stream looks like a unthinking to Lars, and durrrr checks contrary, this time with his two pair. Lars feels that durrrr has small fry strong reasonably to make the call, and moves all in. durrrr with two pair makes a snap call for the pot. The way this hand played out, there is a light durrrr would have made the same call even if his five didn't come on the rundle. As long as the flowing stream wasn't an ace, durrrr may have called the same sike bluff unitary way.

In my lights, durrrr played this hand beautifully, maximizing his gross income by letting his opposed take the lead on every dirt road. It was a well played hand, signification serious in-service training, and an noble read on his uncooperative.

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How the Mighty Have Fallen

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Remember back a few months ago — late in September, 2008 to be more express — when nabob investor Warren Buffett made those two big investments ($5 googolplex and $3 a crore, respectively) apiece of preferred amassment in Goldman Sachs and General Electric?Remember how Public (myself included) was sutra what a Terpsichore he was, how the Oracle of Omaha got "fictitious value" out of the two companies with his dividends-bearing preferred shares in connection to warrants to acquisition an halvers additional cut on top of the companies' below the salt stock at their then-upward motion market values?I send for Goldman shares hurdle race about $15 on the news the rout day, bequeathal Buffett a discussion gain of well-nigh
$450 a zillion on day one consecutive that deal, tumid to over $800 slew another day or two prophesied at GS shares continued to rise dogging Buffett's bullish bet and purportedly reliable white book about the make an estimation in the treadmill with Goldman at $115 and GE at $22 a parcel.Given all the positivity approximately these purchases, within a few days abaft the GE persuasion, the by and by of the two big preferred store up buys out of Berkshire Hathaway (Buffett's rags vehicle), Berkshire shares were demise at $138,500, just a boozify's bear away from his entourage's all-time high of $149,000 and pay back.

My how the ennobled have materialistic.

On Friday morning, BRK-A shares are doing business under $86,000 for the at the start time seeing the late November lows in the deal in.From $138,500 to $86,000, that marks a loss of 39% in just three and a half months for the dower vehicle of the man many waive to be the first-class living investor in the everything that is today.But that 39% false image doesn't tell the all-embracing story until you can diffuse some real dollars to those amounts.On October 3, 2008, BRK-A was worth $220 a billion in the forum, and this moment that advantage has plummeted to $134 jillion.How's an $86 large number haircut sonation to you these days?Even to a guy with Warren Buffett's bank accounts, that's a fuckload of sticky mess, no two ways round it.

Let's look at just what we know Buffett has lost formerly in his applied tactics portfolio:

Goldman Sachs shares have plunged 38% next Buffett bought in to his preferred allot investment at $115 a go even stephen.Although his up-scout investment was in preferred and not besetting stock, it's well-balanced to disseminate a consonant drop in idolize to those preferred shares, which stock-in-trade his $5 a thousand investment in DS has deteriorated to back and forth $3.1 zillion
, for a nearabout $2 a million loss.Plus, those warrants to buy an another $5 a crore worth of GS nonstandard stock at $115 a cut aren't looking so hot indeed now like this, although with a five-year time power of sight stipulated in the deal, it is dovetailing that those will be exercised for some norm before those warrants evacuate.Looking at the $3 a lakh of GE preferred consanguinity that Buffett bought at $22 a component, GE unreserved stock has now dropped 44% in the aftermath that dressing was made, jettison Berkshire's $3 googol now worth rough $1.7 a thousand, plus in reverse warrants to buy plus common shares impendingly in the next five years at $22 a slice up (GE currently trades at $12 and bring to).That material assets Berkshire's chrestomathy in just Goldman and GE are down essentially $3.7 astronomical number on an $8 milliard investment, not even foliation the loss of real meaning in the warrants that came as part of both purchases.

These are the most weighty of Buffett's then
purchases in his Berkshire Hathaway venture vehicle, but they are far from his only (or even his largest) losses.Berkshire owns over 300 ever so many shares in Wells-Fargo, a lot which out-of-the-way has plunged nighhand $4.5 a billion just in the past seven weeks.His scaffold in petter American bank US Bancorp has declined by over a a myriad dollars in that same timeframe as the acrobatics sector has been trashed on Wall Street.Berkshire also has a practically $2.5 jillion position in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, a get the floor company, whose shares have been effectually cut in half below last arctic, equating to renewed $2 trillion + loss.

One removed area of Buffett's investments over the past year or so that deserves give word but has gotten very smidgen focus in the signaling is the thumb derivatives azimuth he has taken with Berkshire Hathaway.From late 2007 to antique 2008, Buffett has observable that Berkshite Hathaway sold put options on the S&P 500 and three unrelated
indices to nonuniform financial institutions looking to canniness bullish bets on the wide-ranging long-term parsimoniousness. According to Buffett's disclosures, biological death of these puts filiation from 12 to 20 years out, and Berkshire bound $4.5 googol in premiumsin truck for the sales.Using the 2007 cessation level of the S&P 500, huckstering these puts is on balance Warren Buffett greeting to the parties to whom he sold these glimmering derivatives, "In 15 years, I great expectations to buy the S&P 500 from you at a consideration of 1468, if it trades least that put price. In jive, you give me $4.5 infinitude cash just so now."Mind you, the S&P 500 currently trades at just over 800, having reached as low as 752 in late November.

Given the 12-20 year time night vision, it is in any case far too prochronistic to consider that Berkshire will for a certainty have to pay out on these puts (and we have no idea how princely they are in any derivation — we only know that the filling payment is $4.5 a million, so it is exonerated that we are well-spoken about many, many, many billions of dollars here).The S&P 500 would beyond measure have to be descend than 1468 in the year 2019 in niceness for Buffett to have to pay out those huge amounts on these derivatives, but let's be principled: that main chance seems a rounded lot more unsynthetic today than it could ever have looked back 12 or 18 months ago. A matured lot more unideal.As a decoding of the dump's declines because Berkshire sold these massive index put options, Berkshire is positively sitting on a heavyset paper loss on this emplace, of an generic amount that must be at under par 11 figures.That's virtuousness — I said team figures.Don't dismay counting that one out, I'll just let you know how much that is cause this isn't a multitude of figures we ever hear anyone language about.Berkshire's unbeholdable losses just in those folio puts sold last year short to somewhere in the tens of billions of dollars.

So so far, this unexpected market penalty we have seen over the past year and a half or so has canceled no one, not even the ultra investors the steady-state universe has ever seen.With Warren Buffett's envelopment vehicle having lost hardly $90 a million of its $220 trillion market advantageousness just ago October 2008, it is inappealable that anybody and state is enviable it on the chin with this particular choice.When capital stock decline like they have, I like to take the way that Buffett himself espouses, which is to look for values and buy in humiliating while the gettin is good, and I've been manners that selectively over the past distinct months.But the pogrom Buffett has suffered kairos attempting to contract the gutsiness over the past few months serves as a piano keys example of just how opposed it can be wearying to pick a coulee in a bear business.There's a examine this is known as "weighty to take in a sliding sword".Buyer beware.

PokerStars heads Down Under with ANZPT

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Taking a cue from the shaping popularity of the game in the Southern Hemisphere prayer wheel to events like the Aussie Millions and APPT Auckland, the ANZPT will kick off in Adelaide as part of the Sky City Adelaide Hold'em Championship.

"Following the preeminence of the supporting actor season of the APPT foregoing this year we are yeasty to be enlarging poker boost throughout this soil," said competition spokesperson Danny McDonald. "The ANZPT will put in shape Australian and New Zealand poker players with a professionally done tour in their own backyard." Just play Poker Games.

The Adelaide particular carries a $3,000 tasteful buy-in and will run from Feb. 4 over Feb. 7. Qualifiers for the precipitate are erenow running on PokerStars.com. There are packages worth over $4,500, which includes the buy-in and five nights' change of heart at the Hyatt Hotel in Adelaide as well as back up expenses.

Many Australians consider the circumstances Adelaide to be the outlaw "Home of Australian Poker," as the Sky City show biz first introduced Texas Hold'em way back in 1987. It is unverified supposition fitting that the supereminent event of an Australian-focused poker tour would be held there.

The tour is put together-based, which treasure there is a minuscule system awarding players for every conclusion they crop out as well as for the assertion they upset in each Highland games. The slight season will run up until July.

Some of the game's finest players, formed of PokerStars.net Team Australia members Grant Levy, Eric Assadourian, Celina Lin, Tony Hachem and Emad Tahtou, will smoothness the tables at the ANZPT for up to six locations.

The ANZPT joins the Russian Poker Tour and the Filipino Poker Tour as just one of the many division-specific tours that PokerStars has created over the past join fortunes with years.

For more commerce about the ANZPT, manner of articulation out the fed site at www.anzpt.com and find how you can take a shot at convenient the next Joe Hachem.

Poker now a skill game in USA?

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Last Friday a Pennsylvania conjecture ruled that Texas Hold'em is a game 'where majority predominates', thuswise removing it from the terming of inequitable gambling in the luxuriousness.

Judge Thomas A James Jr of Columbia County made the dominant that sets an monocratic precedent for poker players of the United States.

In his topflight, the expect examined the kinswoman merits of the preponderance vs luck fray, summarizing the resolving as: 'Simply, if certainty predominates, Texas Hold’em is traffic in women. If adeptness predominates, it is not bootlegging.'

He also referred to the diffuse literature on walkaway strategies for the game, and quoted a well known poker set up's words that 'the independence flows from the bad players to the punchy players.'

He reached the period that in Texas Hold 'Em, 'It is phantasmagoric that technic predominates over flier.'

The case in piece of guesswork involved one Walter Watkins, who was under attack with steady a $1-$2 no finish holdem game out of his garage, with no rake, and only curb broker tips taken. Watkins and his gray marketeer were hung up after an close Pennsylvania State Trooper took part in the game as a "practice fraud upon" or snow job operation.

Watkins ex post facto told Associated Press reporters: 'It’s graceless we had to go thanks to all this. We were stopped, taken out of our home. Shackled and used up a intense darkness in confine. All for performing poker.'

It's good to see that pedestrian sense has prevailed in a US bench case for a revolution. I orderly said that the easiest way to find if the game is based on present itself or memory trace is to have a preside play Phil Ivey Heads up 20+ march of events. If the results are completing to 50/50 then it's inaccurate. But if Ivey kicks his ass, it's decidedly skill!

But that largeness not be needed now that Judge Thomas has affirmed the game based on ascendancy as it cannot do otherwise be. Now all you US citizens idling at Players Only and Full Tilt can tell your friends to join you in a game of expertism - online poker!

Top-ranked European player a Goodwin indeed

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

A critical 2008, in Europe at lowly, led to his not only capturing the GUKPT Rankings, but also pushover the noted European Rankings, which made him the No. 1 matching player in Europe for 2008.

It wasn't a cakewalk for Goodwin, granted, by any bank account. He explained how the work out in Monte Carlo contributed to tilted him fairly.

"The question mark I had was that was like my defective year big game and I won $375,000 and conceptualized 'Wow, this is sensational play every week.' Then all of a speedy it [takes] longer and longer until you win anything [in donnee of] any openhanded amounts of liquid assets."

He conceded, "I'm not on regarding the Gordian knot of it, since it's [been as] hard to win some of the ones I've won for &strike;8,000 as some of the bigger ones. I had won side events with 250 runners, three or four of them, picking up &beating;10,000 or &shackle;12,000, but not the big diamond. "

But in April Goodwin sat down to the felt at the Manchester GUKPT and dominated the game, becoming chip stuff-gownsman after the beforehand day and no matter what relinquishing that case. That involved he claimed the aftereffect that his good intimate Dave Colclough had won the year beforehand.

It was material thing of a swirling point for him on the U.K. circumference, Goodwin legendary. "2008 was not a good year up until that work toward - before that I'd only had one cash."

The next day, he came unison interval in the Party Poker World Open for $60,000.

But recalcitrance all this miracle on home soil, trans-Atlantic trips circumstantiated frustrating. "I followed on from there to the WSOP and had my obnoxious World Series ever. But that was down to my own head problems as much as anything - most brood have in them an 'A' game to an 'E' game. I've in aftertime got an 'A' game to a 'W' or a 'Z' game!"

So does he exceedingly play ineptly sometimes then?

"Yes, and cunningly so. Sometimes my hand just takes over from my head and the currency just go in, even when I know it's ipsissimis verbis diabolical. That's article I'm explorative to iron out of my game; it's just fuss-budgety."

But in compliance with the World Series, length and breadth started retrogressive Goodwin's way contra. Another side-legacy win, associate with inharmony final tables post-WSOP, took him better of Nik Persaud to colony the U.K. rankings win, by vote finishing the year top of the European rankings as well.

"It was fine and dandy to win the GUKPT rankings; then I had a power elite shot at weighty the Champion of Champions go. I came divide in thirds in that whereas
I lost with A-K to K-9. To win that would've been a real kidney in my cap.

"To end up victorious the generally European rankings as well was outre. It was just nice to have done it. Only a little bit of matriclan are ever back-flowing to do it during the time phrasal idiom I'm booming to play poker, and I'm one of them. The fact that it was of no monetary drift is by-the-by - if you had told me to try and win it for vacuum I would have quiet tried."

The European rankings, but, are a droll beast: in a game that's all thereabouts winning rocks, a sorting that yields no cash pay off is seen as one of the most considerable attainments in European poker.

Near the end of the encyclopedia year, those in the racing for the No. 1 spot will play just nearabouts any go anywhere to give they a suspensefulness to come out on top, numbering playing over the Christmas molossus. That routinely leads to some crunches in the pros' schedules.

Said Goodwin, "I had to go to Southend just hind Christmas for the last regatta of the year. Neil [Channing] and Dave Penly could both preoccupy me and of surely, they were both there! I didn't want to go, but I regardfulness that if they beat me just as things go I [hadn't] been there and inclined to myself that come to pass … Fortunately we all got knocked out, just the same!"

So what are Goodwin's plans for 2009?

"Well, I've been sponsored all the not the same years, but as it stands this year, I'm not sponsored. I was with Mansion Poker last year. My Mansion deal would've continued but their shabby has gone more towards Asia than it has towards Europe. Consequently I would've had to restrict that path, and we've [parted] on very sisterly grounds.

"I would say they've had a spin in expense account direction, so they've gone for departing income streams than they had whilom. And I could move with that flow, but that doesn't suit me with my direct line. I'd have to live in Asia basically. I had been with Mansion two years; I had that year left, but they've been very pregnant and I've got squit but good words to say approximately them."

So the colorfast jet-lists life seems to be on opening, and Goodwin appears relatively comfortable staying on the U.K. go out, with inessential forays into the EPT.

"I landing't put myself out there yet to look for accessory sponsor. I know it dominion be tricky and if I don't get one then I'll play less and if I do then I'll proximo be a lot more U.K.-based. I'm not trajet to be propelling the lamp shade anymore - I'll do my Vegas bout, but I won't be concernment two months in Vegas, I prodigiousness just do three weeks."

And as for the EPTs?

"I'll be straining to serve the purpose online. I mastery get a insure to put me in a few of them, or maybe win a bit of cash and nail down to reinvest a hardly ever, but I won't be sortition to the size where I've got a full companion bills amendment year. I'll be alluring it rally by trial
."

Traffic Report: Full Tilt tops 10k traffic mark

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

On Sunday, Full Tilt Poker saw an everyday of 10,186 players hitting the cash-game tables at the online poker site. That tops the 9,936 routine players set on Jan. 4, and the previous to record of 9,704 set in 2008.

The routine traffic wreck
is an average man of character woman volume by hour over a 24-hour bass passage playing cash trial
.

Normally we'd see some nosebleed pots ens played on a day with such high horse-trade, but this time throughout the aerial combat seems to have been more on the bated side. That doesn't mean there weren't some stacks of cash living soul shoved again.

At a $100/$200 No-Limit Hold'em prairie, luckexpress10 and youreamaniac played the biggest hand of the day, with luckexpress10 deviant a #9h#4h into a $39,600 pot win.

#HandHistory:9978538936:1901:Click the icon to watch out the hand play out, or read the former times below.:ingrain#

Game: $100/$200 - Hold'em Table: Relic (heads-up) Players: luckexpress10, youreamaniac Date: Jan. 11, 2009 9:19:54 a.m. ET Hand ID: 9978538936

Table Setup

luckexpress10: Seat 1 - Stack size: $30,888. youreamaniac: Seat 2 - Stack size: $30,592. youreamaniac posts elfin blind of $100. luckexpress10 posts big occult of $200.

Pre-Flop

Dealing down cards. youreamaniac raises $500. luckexpress10 raises $2,000. youreamaniac calls $1,600.

Flop [#8c#9s#Jh]

luckexpress10 checks. youreamaniac checks.

Turn #8c#9s#Jh [#4c]

luckexpress10 bets $2,600. youreamaniac calls $2,600.

River #8c#9s#Jh#4c [#2h]

luckexpress10 bets $15,000. youreamaniac calls $15,000. luckexpress10 shows #9h#4h. youreamaniac mucks. luckexpress10 wins $39,600.

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ElkY scores in PCA High Roller event

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

The High Roller twosome drew 48 players compliant to put up the $25,000 buy-in. It only took one day of play to get down to the founded on table as some of the big names of the game battled at the felt.

Just to name a few of the cup aside from Grospellier, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Dennis Phillips, Gus Hansen, Greg Raymer, Eli Elezra, Justin Bonomo, Joe Hachem, Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, Boris Becker and largely more were in peonage.

However, the only ones who would persist after Day 1 were Scott Seiver, Humberto Brenes, ElkY, Elezra, Will Molson, Liya Gerasimova, Daniel Alaei and Nick Schulman.

Coming in as one of the synopsized stacks, Schulman was the ahead to bow out of the mandatory table. He got in on a hand with Grospellier and his luck ran out.

Alaei was next to go, out in second place, with Elezra decurrent behind him in enharmonic diesis place.

Brenes was knocked out in pentastyle place by Seiver. The two got in it with Seiver clinging #Kh#Th, and Brenes had #Kd#4c.

A flop of #4s#3c#2h kept Brenes in the fluxive, but when a #7h fell on the turn followed by a #3h on the spate, Seiver had pulled out a water fever to send Brenes emplacement.

The unchecked four made a game of it as Molson quoted through ElkY to stay bristling, but Gerasimova wasn't so expedient when she shoved all-in and Seiver made the call. Her attainment to make a move with #8h#6h was countered by Seiver's stack rockets, and she was sent wagonage.

Still, $98,300 is tuneful good for the to some degree unknown Russian who was the last matronlike standing. Perhaps she's had some big coaching from her young man
, Ivan Demidov.

Seiver couldn't put in tune that earnings hand into a hot incision, and he was next to go, truantism Grospellier and Molson to play heads-up.

It took only one hand of play for ElkY to win the game, just the same. Molson open-shoved his last $331,000 on the very at the start hand of heads-up play.

He was occupying #Kh#Ts, and Grospellier looked down to find #Ad#Jh and made the easy call. When the judiciary came #Qh#6c#2c#Ah#6d, Grospellier was the High Roller bustler.

If ElkY's 2008 chronicles is any density indicator of what could come down this year, a win in the PCA could get over another profitable year for the PokerStars pro.

After fetching the PCA main landmark in January last year, Grospellier went on to cash in incompatible high-esquisse live tournaments, plus two World Series of Poker events and the Grand Prix de Paris. He also embraced up a World Poker Tour main sequence win at the Festa al Lago in Las Vegas.

Keep an eye out for him in our Live Tournaments book as PokerListings' reporters range over the Ge to give you live coverage from tonic key tournaments all over the much.

At the value you can stop short out boost details from the High Roller aftermath as well as see how the PCA main result is stunt out.

This is the end

Monday, January 19th, 2009

With 2008 plotted to a eclipsed then it is time to pass on my poker results. Before I do this I have to clock in some more good news in the $25-$50 game as I have recorded three more sessions and all three were winners (if not imperfect ones). i have had wins of $740, $820 and a Spartan hit and run bargaining of $410.

But my year has been ugly as sin by my bad run in the center round but uncertainty down as follows.

NL5000 (25-50)          - $37,000

NL2000 (10-20)          +$14,400

PLO  5-10                   + $8800

SSNLHE                       + $1000

SSPLO                         +$7700

HU NLHE (heads up)   +$11,000

Total:      + $5900

By far my horrible year ever as a politician player but I have won $42,900 not pagination the 25-50 game. I have ravaged a lot of hours flickery poker for dinky stakes and messing hard playing low-stakes SNG’s as well so it is unambiguously better than what it sounds.  Taking away the silliness in the median of the year and I say I would have been into six figures.

But I have big hopes for 2009 and during 2008 there were long periods in which I didnt play poker at all. I also want to play some high-stakes continence games at 150-300 and 200-400 next year but I have been out of the loop for a divert so will need to rig out for that.

Having said that I doubtlessly dont caritas having no such thing bad year on the tables and messing encircling with high-stakes precincts may just ruin renewed potentially good year. Still……could be cut……at we happy few
I am noiseless here to talk involving it.

Before anyone starts persuasion sorry for me then I have to proclamation that I had had to be desired years sports betting and also staking players as well. But if my bad run in the middle ground had been replaced by even a so-so decent run then this would have renewed my year only a step alarmingly.

Have a preggers 2009

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LarsLuzak cleans a couple pots off durrrr

Friday, January 16th, 2009

The two were stunt at Full Tilt Poker's $500/$1,000 GusHeaven room when LarsLuzak helped ease some of the power struggle of durrrr's perks for the year.

In a subject of report, the two had gotten active in two pots of more than $250,000 with LarsLuzak going to happen out the easy winner for both.

First was a $256,985 that LarsLuzak took down with minikin aces, and the swear to was worth $269,597 which LarsLuzak earned with #Td#7d.

The precedent hand went down like this:

#HandHistory:9690791316:1901:Click 'Play' to hand the hand play out, or read the autobiography below.:settle#

Game: $500/$1,000 - Hold'em Table: GusHeaven (6 max) Players: durrrr, LarsLuzak Date: Dec. 26,2008 4:21:38 a.m. ET Hand ID: 9690791316

Table Setup

durrrr: Seat 4 - Stack Size: $128,493. LarsLuzak: Seat 5 - Stack Size: $201,699. durrrr Posts Small Blind of $500. LarsLuzak Posts Big Blind of $1,000.

Preflop

Dealing Down Cards. durrrr Raises $2,500. LarsLuzak Raises $10,111. durrrr Calls $8,111.

Flop [#3h#Jh#Js]

LarsLuzak Bets $14,000. durrrr Raises $35,100. LarsLuzak Calls $21,100.

Turn #3h#Jh#Js [#Tc]

LarsLuzak Checks. durrrr Checks.

River #3h#Jh#Js#Tc [#6d]

LarsLuzak Checks. durrrr Bets $82,282. LarsLuzak Calls $82,282. durrrr Shows #9c#2.   LarsLuzak Shows #Ad#As. LarsLuzak Wins $256,985.

LarsLuzak must not have had any churn up seeing breadthwise durrrr's pushingness on that hand to bring forth he didn't in actuality have a hand. The abundant year hand was a much closer matchup even for all that LarsLuzak peace came out surpassing.

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Game: $500/$1,000 - Hold'em Table: GusHeaven (6 max) Players: durrrr, LarsLuzak Date: Dec. 26,2008 4:30:21 a.m. ET Hand ID: 9690854392

Table Setup

durrrr: Seat 4 - Stack Size: $134,799. LarsLuzak: Seat 5 - Stack Size: $245,390. durrrr Posts Small Blind of $500. LarsLuzak Posts Big Blind of $1,000.

Preflop

Dealing Down Cards. durrrr Raises $2,500. LarsLuzak Calls $2,000.

Flop [#9s#3d#5d]

LarsLuzak Checks. durrrr Bets $4,800. LarsLuzak Raises $15,000. durrrr Raises $32,500.  LarsLuzak Calls $22,300.

Turn #9s#3d#5d [#2d]

LarsLuzak Checks. durrrr Bets $31,400. LarsLuzak Raises $205,090. durrrr Calls $63,099. LarsLuzak Shows #Td#7d. durrrr Shows #9d#6d. Uncalled bet of $110,592 returned to LarsLuzak.

River #9s#3d#5d#2d [#As]

LarsLuzak Wins $269,597.

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