Betting on the Eurovision Song Contest
I was playing online poker with these European guys last night and they all got into this big fight about who was going to win the Eurovision Song Contest. Crazy dudes!
The contest is about each European country writing, composing and singing a pop song. This year the contest is in Moscow and there are 42 countries competing in the event. You can even bet on the outcome at Eurovision betting sites. I’m not sure, I looked at some of the videos on the website but I don’t know who is good enough to win this. These guys got so defensive of their countries it was funny man! I mean how can you get so worked up about a bunch of people performing on a stage, singing a song – just dont get it? Crazy dudes.
Posted by Jared on 21. 04. 2009 in Online Betting. And 1 Comment .
Tom “durrrr” Dwan…
So by now I am sure everyone is aware of the Durrrr challenge as well as the fact that the young pro is down quite a large sum of money on the year. Yesterday was a pretty big action day for him as he had decreased his gap to break even. At the beginning of the day he was down an astounding $2million for 09′ but after the long day of work he had proffited $600k which is bringing him closer to breaking even. The main hands were between Dwan going against 2 Full Tilt Pros: Gus Hansen and Phil Ivey. He took quite a big pot away from Hansen when he hit a higher 2 pair on the turn but for some reason he cannot beat Ivey. Throughout the course of the day he had lost a few pots totaling over 100k each to Ivey and continued the recent trend of loosing to him…I have to say that Dwan is gaining more and more respect from me every day for even thoe he is loosing to some for the most part he started taking out huge chunks out of his $2million spread for 09′ and if this keeps going on the not only will he break even but will also be up a huge amount of money after 2009 is all done with.
Good luck to all of the pros and thanks for providing us with such entertaining high price hands to watch.
Posted by Jared on 08. 04. 2009 in Cash Game Poker, Poker News. And 1 Comment .
Cash Game Poker…
Played the $10/$20 cash game last night at the casino and it went uqite well 
Started of slow and actually went down $3000 at first. Bought in for another 3k and started playing a bit better as well as catching the cards I needed to help me. I made one foolish call in an omaha hi hand when I flopped a set of 9’s but the flop was a rainbow 9, 8, Q…Bet pot and got called by two people and turn came out a 7. I checked and the next to players bet pot and then re-raise pot so for me to call if was a bit over 3k…Sometimes I guess you just have to go with your gut feeling and I had one so I made the call and river came out a 9
After picking up that pot it was all smooth sailing from there. Had a huge hand in 7 card stud. I got dealt a set of deuce’s and just kept betting pot with my opponent calling. I had no intention of slow playing the set because that’s how bad things happen in stud hehe…By the 6th card I got a full house and the other player went all-in himself with me obviously making the call. My last card gave me a higher full, Jack’s over deuces and I took down a pot of about $9500…After that hand I had a bit over 17k and figured it was time for me to go home. Bought in for a total of 6k so profit of $11,000. Not a bad night at all if you ask me
Posted by Jared on 02. 04. 2009 in Cash Game Poker, Casino. And No Comments .
Having Some Fun at the Final Table…
Went to play in a small freeze-out tourney yesterday after a long weekend. The whole game was kinda blah, didn’t pick up on any big hands and just stacked up some chips through good play and big bluffs. It was only a 28 person tourney so went by pretty quick. In about 3 hours it was down to 8 people at the final table. Average stack were about 7000 and I had 1800 in chips. To be honest I just got bored and started playing the final table like if I was playing online poker. I must have went all-in about 12 times in a row and I’m not exaggerating…By the time my all-in barrage has ended I had 7800 in chips, all coming from picking up the blinds. Some of the guys got very aggravated as others which were more experienced players at the table kinda knew what I was doing, they just didn’t have reasonable hands to call with.
After skipping a couple of hands I picked up pocket 10’s and went all-in again and got a call from A,10…No Ace came out and that was the first person out from the final table. Having close to 13,000 in chips in front of me now and some breathing room I took out 4 more people in the next 30minutes and once it came down to head’s up play me and the other guy just split it. Must say it was the first time I played that loose at a final table but it was very entertaining. Loved getting under peoples skin with those moves but at the end they did it to themselves. Had they not been playing that tight I would have probably been the 8th person out, glad it worked out the way it did thoe
Posted by Jared on 30. 03. 2009 in Key Poker Skills, Poker Advice, Tournament Play. And No Comments .
That damn river card!!!
Decided to play a bit of online poker yesterday. After losing to that low straight flush of hearts I was so mad!! Just needed to walk away and stay away until I calmed down. I mean how many times is that gonna happen to you??? I figure the worst thing you can do is go back into the casino on tilt, to try and win your money back!
I usually only play poker online at the best online casinos and poker rooms, don’t trust any old place. Had mixed luck online, but at least I wasn’t losing as bad as I have been in the cash games – and that damn river card didn’t give anyone a straight flush! Enjoyed the pace of playing poker online again, at least it moves along quick and you dont have to listen to all the stuff the other players have to say. Not having much luck on the flop… just the way it goes sometimes!!
Posted by Jared on 20. 03. 2009 in Casino. And No Comments .
Worst bad beat I ever had!!!
So I went to play in a cash game last night at the casino. Minimum Buy-in was $2000 with the blinds being $10/$20…I sat down at the table with $2500 and was playing a good game. Making all the hard tough right calls and at the same time making some big folds which ended up to be correct. Then the worst hand I ever had came. By then I had about $5400 and got dealt QJ of heart’s…Threw in a small raise and two people made the call. Flop: A,K,4 of hearts…I thought I hit the lotto, Nut Flush with a Royal Draw, it doesn’t get much better than this. Checked it, one player bet $400 with the other one making the call. I just made the call to get more money out of them. Next card was a 2 of hearts which kinda worried me since one of them just might have 5,6 of Hearts…So i bet out $800 and was called and then re-raised by the next player all-in…Of course I made the call since I was holding the Nuts and the other guy did turn out to have 5,6 of heart’s so he only had one out in the whole deck. Guess what came out next? It was the 3 of hearts giving this idiot a low straight flush and beating me. It doesn’t get much worse than that if you asked me. I wanted to flip the table over after that hand…I hope my luck changes for the better soon, lost a decent amount of money in the past week in cash games…
Posted by Jared on 19. 03. 2009 in Cash Game Poker. And No Comments .