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Summersummersummertime aka back on teh Rock

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It's been a while, i know... This is mostly due to teh horrific month of may which was one, if not teh worst month in my career. To put things into perspective: I was still slighty up after rakeback but really only pocket change. But that's poker i guess - there are months were absolutely everything works out and ofc there are months were everything goes wrong as well. It still blows my mind til the current day how much variance really is involved in this little game of cards. I mean, I end up making close to 25.000$ US at the tables in april and once i return to Malta i manage to lose around 5.000$ US over a similar sample of hands. Without making too many big mistakes in neither of those months. Good news is that I managed to win around 10.000$ US so far in June so I'm back in teh zone and will not complain about teh dirty may... In short the main reasons for the massive win and the decent loss in both months was running insanely hot at 400+ and running insanely bad at 40...

Big month in Buenos Aires / adios South America

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I planned to blog somewhat earlier this month but since I was always downswinging after posting graphs I figured it's in my best interest not to do so and it seem to prove me right. First off this was one of my biggest month at the tables, definitely the best in the last 2 years and hourly-wise most certainly the best ever. It started off pretty massive from day one and I haven't booked too many losing days in the process as u can see: Main reasons for that are good play, insanely good games and being 6k over EV helps obviously as well. I also managed to play a very funny hand in the beginning of the month at ZOOM 500 which I already crossposted a couple of times and around half of the 6k EV are from it. In the meanwhile this was also my biggest pot profitwise. If you missed it just click on the link below: http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4253476 Graph for the month is damn pretty as well so I don't want to hide it for too long: As you can see it was a pretty st...

Time in Brazil comes to an end, time to move it move it again...

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Sup, fools?! After not posting for a while i figured it's about time. My time in Brazil comes to an end and on saturday I'm going to move to Buenos Aires for another month in lovly South America. Poker is being quite good atm but moar about this later. I was staying at a big mansion close to Praia Mole Beach the last 5 weeks living with alot of different poker related people. All in all was a good time, after carnival i needed some break from all the parties and drinking which result was working a shitload aka > 200 hours and > 200.000 Hands of Texas Holdem and only going out once on the weekend. Living close to the beach had it's advantages and disadvantages. Being able to walk down to the shore in 3 minutes is kinda cool but on the other side there's not much else around here and especially since we returned our rental car mid march it kinda sucked for me mainly bc of the lack of restaurants. Yes, there were a couple of them at the beach but eating chick...

NOSSA, BOM DIA Update Brasileira Style

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Allrighty friends, it's been a while and so far I was only writing about pokerrelated bs nobody give a crap about so it's time for teh real brazilian shit this time. When I was in Thailand and all the boys told me to get my ass down to Brazil asap I was sure it would be nice... Little did I know how sick it really is. So far I've seen alot of advantages compared to Europe while only few (minor) disadvantages. Let's go into detail on different parts about the daily life. Weather: weather so far is amazing, it's end february now and I haven't seen days here were temperature was below 22c°, in general it's around 30°C and sunny. You always have some clouds and it's raining like every 10 days but all in all nothing to complain. However you will not have the maltese summer with like no clouds, no wind, no rain for 90days in peak saison. Girls: there's alot of girls here. In fact a shitload. In fact even moar than a shitload. Rule of thumb is when you were...

FAQ: My Pokerstory and the question if it is reasonable to still go professional these days...

Bom dia, amigoz! First blog entry from Brazil but I don't want to say to much about Brazil yet besides that it is very cool country, with amazing weather, sick hot chicks and maybe 35 people speaking english... However this blog post will be about some questions I'm getting asked quite frequently, when I got started in poker and why -> my roots... So instead of telling teh same stuff over and over to different people in future I can just crosspost this blog-entry and probably will be fine... Q: When you started playing, what did you play, where did you play, etc.? A: I got in contact with poker quite early to be honest but unfortunately didn't realized the massive potential (especially money wise) which was involved there. I can only guess when it was exactly but I assume it was shortly after Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP 2003 and poker got alot moar attention in TV. Since I was frequently watching sportschannel I realized that there was moar and moar poker (texas holdem...

Back to Samui, Thailand Update no3

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Been some days until my last update and I got some spare time so here some new details. Life is good atm and besides deciding which hands to get in preflop and which not my other main decisions are to which restaurants I'm going and if I spent my time in teh sun at the pool, the beach or in front of my lovely villa. But let's start a little earlier. After my time in Khao Lak I went with Alex to Krabi for the weekend there. Not too much to say here. Krabi is a pretty small town with a pretty overrated Ao Nang beach. They telling it is one of the nicest beaches in Thailand but the beach is literally 3m wide and dirty as fuck. We arrived saturday noonish and after some decent lunch at the tourist mile we decided to do a last ALL IN night while we both are in Thailand. We were staying in some meh 4star resort but in the end it was cheap and it was only for 2 nights so I guess it was ok. Night out was kinda funny though. In Krabi they have no clubs but a shitload of Bars and Beerbar...

Khao Lak and Poker update

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Hello there, me and Alex arrived in Khao Lak 2 days ago. We r staying in a pretty nice resort in 2 Villas very close to the beach. Yesterday we had dinner in Khao Lak which is like 5km away from our resort. Life here is alot moar quiet and relaxed compared to Patong (Phuket), Samui, Phi Phi or Koh Phangan. But since we want to keep it slow for now, relax, work and work out it seems we are at the right adress. Unfortunately I managed to get sun rash (prolly for teh first time in my life) which shows that the sun here is alot stronger compared to anywhere in europe. First I thought my neurodermatitis which I had as a child is coming back or that it had something to do with the extreme alcohol consumption during teh last 2 weeks but since Alex showed me an article about sunrash it was pretty obviuous that this is the right diagnosis...It's pretty uncool bc atm we have decent weather and I have to stay away from beach and pool but there is not much I can do about it and it seems to get...