Well a short day today as I only played one hand of 10-20 7 Stud Hi/Lo and won that. Went on an excursion outside of Caracas today just to get out of the city a little bit and enjoy the country side. Cooking up some lentil soup with various things that is smelling pretty rightous now. Think I am going to take the rest of the day off and watch a movie or two.

Well after a hard fought battle with TW in the wee hours of the morning I managed to overcome an early deficit and hold old for a victory in the TW challenge. I have to say that I caught my sure of huge hands (A6o, K8o, K4s, K3s, Q3o, J5o, 108o, 107o, 106o, well pretty much every hand with a ten in it, 95o, 43o) that all miracoulously held up. When you are catching those kind of cards your opposition is in for a long night and so it was. But I thought what the hell in honor of the challenge I christened today TW Day here in Venezuela and celebrated with a long ocean drive and then swept up into the mountains while downing quite a few cold ones and then I said a new holiday has to have a good feast associated with it so I bought some fresh shrimp, calamari, mussels and various other tasty morsels for a paella and a big ass container of Sangria. My wife and I just made a toast to TW, "humanitarian, consumate gentleman and a perfect candidate for a Check Raise". Thanks for a wonderful day TW

LoL! Thats quite possibly the most perfect description of TW i have ever read! A gentleman because only someone very comfortable with his status as 'gentleman' would drink $6 bottle of whiskey, humanitarian because he drinks as much of the stuff as he can find so as to spare the rest of the world from it, and well, i think the third thing speaks for itself.

Man i feel like a total muppet. Am i the ONLY one that lost to that mizor in the so-called TW challenge?

you've probably got some major leaks in your post-flop play, mecos. i hear TW charges $125/hr for lessons (see his journal), and i can only think they would pay for themselves if you took a few.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (9 handed)

UTG ($1192.40)
UTG+1 ($243)
MP1 ($524.45)
MP2 ($1061.85)
MP3 ($998.15)
Hero ($599.25)
Button ($162)
SB ($222)
BB ($267.45)

Preflop: Hero is CO with , .
UTG calls $6, 4 folds, Hero raises to $30, 1 fold, SB calls $27, BB calls $24, UTG calls $24.

Flop: ($120) , , (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $84, SB folds, BB calls $84, UTG folds.

Turn: ($288) Ad (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $186, BB calls $153.45 (All-In).

River: ($627.45) (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $627.45

Results in white below:
BB has 8s 8c (three of a kind, eights).
Hero has Kd Qd (flush, ace high).
Outcome: Hero wins $627.45.

That was terrible piers...

dont listen to em piers! That was nihan!

Hmm... well, since i just HATE being out done in terms of mizorly play, heres a little gem of a hand-- I think youll like it especially, since its perfect for your journal-- it involves a very-- uhm- shall we say TENACIOUS blind defense with a monster of a BB special, namely the infamous, the ever feared...68o.

Seat 2: AKsoGay ( $600 )
Seat 6: Robinstacks ( $1177 )
Seat 9: gr814u ( $794.56 )
Seat 1: Imissed ( $938 )
Imissed posts small blind [$10].
AKsoGay posts big blind [$20].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to AKsoGay
Robinstacks raises [$40].
gr814u folds.
Imissed folds.
AKsoGay calls [$20].
** Dealing Flop **
AKsoGay checks.
Robinstacks bets [$20].
AKsoGay raises [$40].
(FOLD EQUITY?)
Robinstacks raises [$40].
(OK MAYBE NOT...)
AKsoGay calls [$20].
** Dealing Turn **
AKsoGay bets [$40].
Robinstacks raises [$80].
>You have options at Table 51972 Table!.
AKsoGay calls [$40].
(NOTE TO ALL FLAMERS: Do note i had the double gutter on the turn!)
** Dealing River **
AKsoGay checks.
Robinstacks bets [$40].
AKsoGay raises [$80].
Robinstacks calls [$40].
AKsoGay shows ] a straight, six to ten.
Robinstacks shows two pairs, queens and nines.
AKsoGay wins $528 from the main pot with a straight, six to ten.\

theyll never understand how we do it.............

After starting off up then down then even I decided to play a 20 S&G on Stars. I have been running extremely well and playing well in all the games and in this S & G you could write a textbook on a perfectly played tourny. I doubled up + a little early on when my AQ held up against a flush draw and then continued to nibble away at small pots until it got 4 handed and I had about 7K of the 13.5K at the table and the others were evenly distributed. I just kept up a barrage of steals, reraises, etc. while the other 3 fought to make the money. When number 4 went out I held 12K of the chips. Then I did the same to the other 2 as they tried to hold on for 2nd. When HU I had 13K and finished him off the next hand.

When you are able to get a significant lead in a S & G and it's bubble time just keep pounding with every opportunity and you will put yourself in a good spot to win the whole thing without much of a fight a big part of the time.

A decent afternoon session put me in the black for the day, albeit only a small amount. Going to use the proceeds to enter a couple of tournies at PStars, 10NL and 5NL at 7:45 and 8:05. Haven't played a MTT in a while so should be a nice change of pace.

Well all I can about today is that I won money, not much I can assure you.

5-10 limit, 27 hands, 0.50
36 limit, 571 hands, -35.00
24 limit, 48 hands, 55.75
12 limit kill, 48 hands, 16.25
12 limit, 39 hands, -12.25
Rake return, 3.45
Tournaments, 11.00 ca. 900/1464; 5.50 ca. 220/1461; -16.50
Various, -10.54
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GRAND TOTAL: +++++++++1.6600000000
Time: 5h30m