Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Halloween Highscore

PokerStars Tournament #62401072, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: 10 FPP
5297 players
$500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $500.00
Tournament started - 2007/10/30 - 19:40:00 (ET)

Dear Sires,

You finished the tournament in 111th place.
A $0.60 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 91 hands and saw flop:
- 8 out of 10 times while in big blind (80%)
- 2 out of 11 times while in small blind (18%)
- 5 out of 70 times in other positions (7%)
- a total of 15 out of 91 (16%)
Pots won at showdown - 6 of 7 (85%)
Pots won without showdown - 2

The final hand was spooky... I had pocket As, and went all in after the flop. Here's the hand history of the showdown:

*** FLOP *** [3d 7d 3h]
irishgolfpro: checks
Sires: bets 6216 and is all-in
Switcher1960: raises 78918 to 85134 and is all-in
irishgolfpro: calls 17740 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [3d 7d 3h] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [3d 7d 3h 3s] [Js]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
irishgolfpro: shows [Th 3c] (four of a kind, Threes)
Switcher1960: shows [Jd Qd] (a full house, Threes full of Jacks)
irishgolfpro collected 23048 from side pot
Sires: shows [Ah As] (a full house, Threes full of Aces)

When I went all in, I was already behind. I guess I would have freaked out about somebody playing a hand like T3, but since he was in the BB, it was ok for me. I was happy with all my decisions... and it's the furthest I have ever made it in one of these 5000+ tourneys.

Yay!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Blogger Tourney

The blogger tourney was FUN! There where around 1300 players, and I finished in 763rd place, when my AA got called by QQ and QQ hit a flush on the river.

You may say "that doesn't sound like FUN! to me", but as I said yesterday, the ranking wasn't important today.

What was important was that I met a few players I used to play the WWdN tourneys with... including Wil, of course, who finished in 861st place.

Heh... :-)

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Home Improvement

Tomorrow I will play at the blogger tourney. Today was the last day of training in the 10FPP tourney, and here's how I did today:

PokerStars Tournament #62401021, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: 10 FPP
4775 players
$500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $500.00
Tournament started - 2007/10/13 - 19:40:00 (ET)

Dear Sires,

You finished the tournament in 163rd place.
A $0.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

My stats before the last hand, where I was killed by the blinds:

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 86 hands and saw flop:
- 8 out of 11 times while in big blind (72%)
- 3 out of 9 times while in small blind (33%)
- 5 out of 66 times in other positions (7%)
- a total of 16 out of 86 (18%)
Pots won at showdown - 8 of 8 (100%)
Pots won without showdown - 1

I am quite happy with the way the game went. Actually, there has been a big progress in my game since I took the break a while ago and re-read Small Stakes Hold'em. Tomorrow, I don't really care for how far I will make it.

I just want to have fun. Who knows, maybe I will even meet Wil at my table... we wil(l) see.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Improvement...

PokerStars Tournament #62401018, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: 10 FPP
4955 players
$500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $500.00
Tournament started - 2007/10/12 - 19:40:00 (ET)

Dear Sires,

You finished the tournament in 209th place.
A $0.45 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 79 hands and saw flop:
- 3 out of 9 times while in big blind (33%)
- 2 out of 8 times while in small blind (25%)
- 7 out of 62 times in other positions (11%)
- a total of 12 out of 79 (15%)
Pots won at showdown - 8 of 10 (80%)
Pots won without showdown - 1

I am very happy with my decisions. And I have to say that reading the Small Stakes Hold'em book Wil sent me a while ago really helped. After all, I can see the progress in these tourneys. On Sunday, whith the blogger tourney taking place, I hope I will be able to continue my improvement. ;-)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Oh yeah, baby....

PokerStars Tournament #62401012, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: 10 FPP
5545 players
$500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $500.00
Tournament started - 2007/10/10 - 19:40:00 (ET)

Dear Sires,

You finished the tournament in 274th place.
A $0.40 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Sweeeeet....

PokerStars Tournament #62401006, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: 10 FPP
6029 players
$500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $500.00
Tournament started - 2007/10/08 - 19:40:00 (ET)

Dear Sires,

You finished the tournament in 359th place.
A $0.35 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Texas Holdem Poker

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 6452916




PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker

Hey, I just found out through Wil's blog that the annual PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is going to take place soon... and I will be part of it. This will be a unique chance to play poker again with Wil Wheaton (hopefully). Since the WWdN tourneys ended, I haven't been able to play with him or the other bloggers like Dr. Pauly. This is gonna be fun. Like a family reunion kinda thing.

I'm off now, I have to fill out the registration form!


Escape through time

I finally did it. I'm writing on a story. At this point of the project, I am not so sure yet whether it's going to be some sort of short story or something longer... it's an experiment, to find out whether what I write is interesting enough for others to read or not.

The story is sort of science fiction mixed with mystery and some elements of a detective story à la Sherlock Holmes. The main characters are a scientist who has to escape from a despotic, 1984-style government, Robert Foster by name.Then we have two members of the GlobalPolice representing the government, Lark Dammion and Merrin Lonestar. Then the obligatory young and beautiful woman (Sirah) and some other folks I need to get the story from the beginning to the end, like Cadogan Crest and Alveran Redwood, just to name two.

Location of the main story is London at the end of the 19th century... but some parts take place in the year 2099. I write it in German, of course... it's easier than to write it in English. So far, I have written 60 pages or so... and it's fun.

Hell yeah, it is...