March 15, 2007
APL Manly 120307
APL Manly Warringah Leagues Club
Went to support my mate as he was doing his first tournament this week, at the first break I found out he already got knocked out and went home.. anyway thought lets finish the tournament, and guess what:
LeaderBoard APL Manly Leagues Club 12-03-07
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February 28, 2007
#43983694
PokerStars Tournament #43983694, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $3.00/$0.30
539 players
Total Prize Pool: $1617.00
Tournament started - 2007/02/27 - 04:00:00 (ET)
Dear player,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $351.70 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
YAY!
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February 9, 2007
NPL2006/04 final day
Alright, the total is published.. i'm around 207 players away of grabbing $15.000 :)
I know its a very positive way of putting that, especially my 5700 in chips isnt that much anymore seeing the list, with the contestants left.
Never the less I always do better with less :)
Wish me luck!
**** UPDATE ****
60.000 players total, 1000 finalists all over New South Wales, last top 200 final day.. an hour drive up to the event, and half an hour of total play time in the final for me :( ..
Just couldnt set my mind to play and enjoy poker.. got annoyed and walked into massive hands of my opponents.. boo !
Thats poker too..
Not a next time in a while I think..
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February 7, 2007
APL Dee Why RSL 0602
Played an APL Pro Poker event last night at Dee Why RSL, $10 buy inn and had 137 players turning up.
Could hold up my game pretty good, even got Quad Jacks on a hand going in with 2.
- little poker story if you want to know what happened -
I had 30.000 in chips with 20 people left of the 140 players, called a 10k ALL-INN bet as I was high connected, but the guy hit his one over card on the river -bad luck-. Then I got the blinds past who were 6000/3000 at that time, so had with 11 ppl to go, only 11k left... I was sitting just before the button (means after me only the dealer and small blind and big blind left so 3 players), I looked Ace Queen.. TOP ranked hand, went All-Inn.. the guy next to me immediately called (dealer).. thought shit im up against pockets (pairs), and of all the hands he could have, he had AK.. (hmm AQ sits next to AK in one deal grrrr) so only the lady (queen) could save me or a far far away flush.. anyway dont count on a woman to save you in this situation, lol.
So anyway good training for this Saturdays final for the NPL, scoring 10th out of 140.
Only bad thing is the quick exit just made me miss the money again! @#$$# !!
Dee Why RSL - Leaderboard 060207
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February 3, 2007
NPL2006 s4 day 2
Ive made it to day two!
They started at several venues at once and all got 2000 in chips to start with. All venues played until the magic number that fits in 1 venue was reached.
I played in Massey Park Golf Club, and we had about 114 players rocking up.. after 3 hours of playing, what was rather quickly they called it quits, as the magic total number of all players left over several venue was reached.
I played nice and tight, lost 2 hands.. one I folded at the end and the other was against an all-inn for 600 total, so not much damage.. finally on a all inn with A2 suited, I got called by 9-j os, and the flop hit the Jack, but the River game me my Ace..pfieuw
I ended up with 5700 in chips and thats just below average, so I'm going to give it a try in the last day of these finals! I heard that the chip leader had around 30.000 in chips so thats no worries at all.
Hopefully I can play well this Saturday and grab 1st prize in the NSW finals day 2!
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January 29, 2007
NPL NSW final
Just received a text-message from the National Poker League that i've qualified for the New South Wales Final again.
Normally I would have already known this, but they never updated the last weeks score and I didnt do well on that one, so had to wait till they found the time and effort to share this information!! again slack asses at NPL!
The final is again a two day event, and first day is this Saturday at Massey Park Golf Club ironically, as I had to cancel my golf day for this, and the next one when I make it through to the next day.
Hopefully I can do better this time, I mean im happy to qualify for the third consecutive season in a row, being in the top 5 of our venue but the cards are not sticking with me lately and I've had it a bit with NPL.
So another shot to win the $15.000 dollar first price, or the opportunity to go to a $1.000.000 event, first have to beat probably 800 players.
Tonight we trade our NPL night in to see what Oz Poker Tour has to offer at their Venue in Dundas.
**** UPDATE ****
Just got message from my poker buddy Nick, that the list of qualifiers is online, and watta you know I came 3rd overall just behind Nick who came 2nd !
NPL2006 season 4final list
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January 18, 2007
Poker Table
I've got my poker table finally !! YAY !!
The National Poker League is having a rough time at the moment, but I finally got my last seasons winner prize delivered at home.
Its a very nice and solid poker table, not cheap material and it got its own legs. To bad it has big written PartyPoker.net's ad on it as I never play there, but the rest is very nice.
We just played the last day of this season, and the slack*sses havent updated the site yet, to see if I made this seasons top 5.
I'm currently in 4th position overall again, but didnt put any score in on last day, so still having my fingers crossed if I didnt got passed on the last day.
Normally they are very quick updating the results, but its the last one of this season so they have to screw this up too.
NPL is making a lot of mistakes, and are in a battle with one of their former employer, as he started his own tour (OzPokerTour).
I wont trouble you with all the things NPL was doing wrong before, but now they are in a battle over venues, they finally opened up the marketing channel, and trying to keep their players. This is what they were lacking before (communication).
Maybe one day I will go into detail what goes wrong, but for me getting the table I had to write an angry e-mail to them, to finally stand up and delivering my hard earned prize of the season behind.
Mind you I pointed out some other issues to, but only got response on the table delivery what they have picked up on the spot and delivered within the agreed time and date! WD (well done).
I liked playing for NPL at the venue Carlingford, but things changed and it aint as fun anymore. Ive agreed with some other players that we are going to use next season to try other leagues around like Oz Poker Tours and the Australian Poker Tour etc..
Anyway, hopefully I made it again for the 3rd time in a row to reach the New South Wales final of this league, as Im due for a good game to take another shot at the 15.000$ prize, or the paid seat in a 1.000.000$ tournament. But we have to wait untill they update.. grrrrr
Ow, they put an extra chipset with this table, thats a very nice gesture actually!
Now were am I going to store this prize :)
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December 6, 2006
PokerPer
Also the weekly final that hosts 150 players on friday evening, and top 7 gets paid with first price 1500$ then second 750 and so on.. i tried now 4 times, but no luck at all.. every time just after the 1st break I come in a do or die situation that turns to the latter. U need a couple of breaks to advance in the game.. when they dont come or hit, the blinds (compulsory bets) kill you. I do like the type of play that ppl do.. its way more reserved and not so many cowboys calling gutshots.
So last monday came second again... #$%%###@$l !!! get a second syndrome here.
So I can try again, hopefully I can play a bit now.. but then again, if it aint going well im gonna throw in the towel very soon, as the day after hit off for golf at 5.58 AM.. whut? yep.. 5.58 .. and I love it! Nice and cool in the early morning, and when we are finished before noon!
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November 10, 2006
Golf & Poker, Busy Day
Busy day tomorrow .. but a very interesting one, 2 of my new aquired hobby's sinds ive come to Australia
Poker (Texas Hold'm) and Golf (As straight as possible :P)
After that its straight to the poker finals @ freeway hotel Artarmon
This years New South Wales winner for the NPL gets produced by a two day showdown, done the "World Poker Tour" way.
There are 8 venues, and they all play till the magic number of the day is reached. As these tourneys are like every other knockout based without rebuys, after hours of play there is a final, lets say 400 left from I think atleast 1200 finalists. Then they say.. STOP PLAYING, and they do a chip count. I believe every1 starts with 2000 in chips.. and you just have to survive the day with that to reach the final day.
Because there are more venues that play you have more top 5's of those venues that are participating. Last season it was around 800 finalist of NSW (600 turned up).
The blinds (compulsory bets, every one gets at his/her turn) will go up every half hour i guess.
My game is a bit unfortunate at the moment, so hopefully I'll find some more live cards tomorrow!
Im sure I'll have to fight the sleep, after a full round of golf, so I've got my W800i walkman phone armed with a 2GB memory stick, loaded with kewl traxx and some poker also to kill the time when not getting good cards to play :)
**** UPDATE ****
Hmm.. as excited as the day was, ended pretty non rewarding.. put another bad card in for golf, but hey.. better then NorthBridge, and towards the end I did play 5 pars in a row.
So the good thing about a bad card, is when they estimate my handicap, and I start playing a bit more how I think.. watch this, how I THINK :) i can play, prolly win the comp every week for a little while :)
But Im better of laying that to rest, cuz this aint really cards im proud of.. grr
After that I barely made the poker event, every1 was already started but they fit me in.
In my first two hands I took one guy out, he must be livid.. I mean here is this dude rockin up late then the first two hands I take him out.
After that I stayed alive not gaining and slightly loosing till the last 50 of the 180 were left.
They already announce they gonna do the stop at 43 players left, and they would go to the next day.
I lost one little hand, so I was back to 2500 in chips.. I figured, when I go to the other event I wanna go bigger then 2500 in chips, as its a 1.5 hour drive to that Sunday event... plus I can't play golf that morning, I wanted to make it a bit more worth while.
I pulled another guy in my "all inn" as the flop connected me with the 10 and there was already 7000 in the pot, so this was it... yes or no.
The river came (last card), another diamond (4 diamonds on the board).. giving every one with a diamond the flush, so despite being leader from flop till fourth turn, my jack of diamonds wasnt enough as my opponent had the queen.
Unlucky but thats poker.. and quite honestly, thats my game at the moment... making the most out of any situation I can think of, then getting booted on a situation like that.
My mate Nick, who came 2nd in Carlingford made the decision to stay in.. so did a couple of others of the venue I play in.. I wish them good luck.
The good thing is I guess they got my poker table ready as they asked for my address to ship it too :)
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October 25, 2006
#1 S#3 Carlingford
#1 Season #3 @ Venue Carlingford
I've made it, after starting playing poker half way during season #2 ranking top 5. I am now venue winner of season #3 at Carlingford Bowlingclub for the National Poker League.
That is 3 months playing "Texas Holdem" every monday competing against total 260 players, not all played every monday tho, would say 50-60 loyal competitors.
The venue winners get an original poker table, but i've heard that last season’s winner still is waiting for his :(
So wont get my hopes up on that one..
But I do get a seat in the final again like last time, with 15.000$ first prize or paid seat with flight and acc. in one of worlds biggest poker events like the WPT.
Let you know when it comes up!
Not bad start after a fab weekend at Indy.. will post on that one later, working on some photo's.
Here are my stats
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October 14, 2006
That's poker
2nd 1500$ tournament was quickly over.
Sometimes you know it, and I must admit I used quite a bit of luck last night if it comes in volume :)
The table I joined was nice and easy, enough to survive for long.. but the cards didnt do me any good.
I was out just after the first break.. quickly cought a kebab on the way home, Ally was my supporter today.. was great evening, but to bad no good poker.
Monday night again, see if I can crank up my #2 spot at Carlingford venue leaderboard for my weekly poker for points and chipsets.. and thats it.
My stats:
My NPL stats
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October 13, 2006
50 bucks
First tournament played, and finished 7th with $50 bucks prize money.
Not a big pot but oke considering I had to fight my way back with only one chip of 100 left after a big bad beat.
Raked up to 5100 in chips after 6 hands.. then the final table (last 8 players), and I was small blind, every one folded I was next to see against only one player (Big Blind), looked.. Ace 10 suited clubs. Little think, though what are the odds.. go all in will in 80% scare him out, what I hoped for!, another 10 prolly he loose when he calls me, and yes.. the final 10 to let me go down.
He called.. with Ace Jack unsuited, Arrgh.. the moment I can get the blinds back mister BB has a hand like that... against my Ace 10 suited.. one over for him with me extra a possible flush draw, only the Ace came out on the flop the rest was rubbish and no clubs.. with letting him taking the pot with a higher kicker.
~ That's poker! ~
Was a great game and the final table only shared the 1500$ with top 8 paid.. so #1 got 600$ orso..
Up to the next one..
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October 10, 2006
2x1500$ !?
I still play poker every mondaynight, and now also the last 2 thursday nights.. The mondays is for National Poker League, where I got my 3rd victory a couple of months ago, and now finally climbing out of a big dip scoring last week 5th and this week 2nd.
The extra this week with the 2nd place is it was also a sattelite to another event with a 3000$ prize pot. A sattelite is saying you automaticly can play that tournament without buying in!
So this friday i play another tournament for 1500$ #1 prize.. total 3000$ prize pot, due to my 2nd place finish.. HOOYAY!
Thursdays I play a money game, 17$ buy-in and top 4 gets payed, depends on the participants.. mostly the pot is around 500$, so #1 gets 250$.. #2 +/-150$ and so on..
I've played alright those thursdays, and everytime made the final table (last 7 players), but always just lost out.. grrr that hurts! (#6 & #5 ggrrrr.. )
Anyways, this Thursday its also a 1500$ #1 finish.. dont know about the rest of the prizes.. but how funny is that the moment I get my game back I classify for 2 x 1500$ events!
Ally is going to join me this friday what would be an 150 ppl max event, I have no idea what thursday will look like.. but hope for the best:)
Like Bob Sexton from WPT says, hope All my cards be LIVE and my posts be MONSTERS!
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August 20, 2006
40 nothing
After saving my ass more then 10 times (all-in), and out playing around 450 people, in 5.5 hours of playing poker... I had to give in.. havent picked up a good hand after first table, playing only on the blinds to survive (pokertalk for hangin in there).. I met my end result, top 40.. no price no nothing..
Gr8 tournament tho, to bad couldnt play a decent hand when i needed to and also going down to a 60 to 40 % hand fav..
Thats poker...next season another chance!
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August 17, 2006
Poker Finals
Whoa, watta you know.. I've made it into the finals of last season of National Poker League, by making the fifth place overall on the Venue ranking in Carlingford. Not bad if I may say so as I only played half a season, so my one time 1st and 2 times second place finishes, and a couple of top ten was just enough to finish 5th overall :) ...
This Saturday are the FINALS already, we play with all other top 5's from Australia's New South Wales Venues.. I guess there would be around 400 - 500 players playing for the top price of 15.000 cash or a seat with flight and accommodation in a grand televised $1.000.000 poker tournament.
- Finals name list
- Finals Prizes
Please keep your fingers crossed this Saterday for me.. maybe you see me in Vegas or so after this tournament.. lol
To start the new season, i've already added a new pokerset to my list of winnings as the first day of season 3, I finished 1st again.. YEAH!
Now I play also sometimes in Dundas on Tuesday, as its more or less the same poker players, and not far from Carlingford.
Check my stats for season #3 here: NPL stats
Wish me goodluck!
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July 10, 2006
Poker Per
Poker is getting bigger and bigger over here, and especcially Texas Hold'm!
As I previously posted, I was playing more and more poker online, but now there are in Australia some Poker leagues going on.
I joined the Australian Poker League and played a couple of tournaments in the nearest club.
Firstly it is so much better playing with seeing peoples faces... secondly these poker leagues are free to join and like the Australian poker league u start with $ 1000 bucks in chips, and start at a table and try to win everyone's chips..
The evening mostly has around 60 to 100 ppl.. and my first evenings I mostly came around half way.
I met a guy (Chris) on one of those nights, who I also play agains with basketball, and he told me about this other league the "National Poker League" who runs more tournaments per evening.
So we gave that one a go, as the "Australian poker league" was on a break anyway..
On our first evening I already became second in the 3rd game.. YAY.. the next week I didnt do that good, 20st just in the points.. but last week.. YAY... #1!
I won the tournament #2.. and actually won a good price.. as before becomming #2 only gave me points for the league. (lost with AK against K/9s, only the 9 came out.. grrr).
So here I was sitting again heads up against only one opponent (the current #1 actually), whom I could gently squeeze out of his chips by winning the blinds.. and then the famous words "ALL INN".. came from his side but the bet was small enough for me to "call" and take the risk. I didnt had a great hand.. but with heads up anything can happen.. I had Q 4 and the flop gave me 2 extra 4's, he got 2 pairs at the end but that isnt strong enough to beat my mirakel three of a kind :)
Every winner of a tournament gets this grand pokerset worth $140,- ! So here is mine.. lol
Now cuz my points raked up, I actually made it already in the top 5 of the location I went to.. and If I hold on a bit, and win some more I maybe can get a invite to the finals.. with big money prizes and the #1 gets 15k in cash or a paid trip to an 10.000.000 $ tournament to Vegas or where-ever.
Now ok ok ok.. this all is a bit far dreaming but hey.. this monday you will c me sitting again to crank up my score.. as u never know..!
Here are my stats
Funny how a couple of months practise online on pokerchamps etc already gave me two last table finishes with one win in real tournaments! :)
Ok.ok.. there is a bit more to it, but I will let u know later..
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May 6, 2006
Poker
Yes... I play poker ! and I play Texas Hold'm for a little while now.. and wow.. if I have a little break or I want one, this is the way to do so.. almost half the world is playing this game now, and its so fast.. and its so kewl ...YEAH!
It doesnt have to cost u a dime... really, click on my banner above, and become my affiliate with this, ive got tons of fun money to share with u and from all the poker rooms out there, I must say PokerChamps.com is the best. They have got the best tours at the moment, and they also have almost every hour a freeroll, that makes u play without paying, but if u come close to winning you can win real US $ !!
Ive almost racked up around 55 US $ in just one night of playing... so there are stacks of other tournaments I can join now... and my most fun ones are the Sit 'n Go's, u pay for example one time 2.75 $ and 9 ppl join.. u can rake up around 18 bucks to be #1 or if u land behing 3rd u rake up enough to try agian!
The free rolls are the best way to learn and also the funmoney games ofcourse... pls take this tip from me.. with the free rolls, if u are just starting only play if u have a top 10 hand.. like A-A or A-K or A what ever.,.. till A-Jack..
K-Queen or K-Jack will also work a little bit but be carefull... If u got double KK for instance hit a little bit bigger, to make the contesters amount smaller!
The tours are No Limit games.. which are the most fun game.... but to learn the game, just go for the Pot Limit games so you can learn what hands win in what situations.. just a little example, a straight doesnt often win in a 10 persons game... as most of those games will have a flush..
Just get your poker hands a bit organised here.. POKER LESSONS and learn just to fold often, and bid high when your playing the highest card.. boom your an instant winner like me ! :)
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