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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Haha nice vid Rogier, so are you suggesting I should throw her off a bridge too?

Decided to play more HU again since I enjoy the game more than 6max and I have a very solid winrate over large sample. The reason why i stopped playing it in the first place was just because of the fact that its so hard to get action on midstakes. Last when i tried it again it actually seemed a little better than i thought it was, so I will try it again :).

After this session i will go through my database again and try to look for some nice hands from the previous days.


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Phgrinder
Joined: 16.02.2009

Originally posted by Joenaes
Being able to click with someone and share your deepest thoughts and feelings is so much more than those 10 minutes of pleasure,

what?? you only last 10minutes in bed and you post it on your blog for everyone to read?


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Originally posted by Phgrinder

Originally posted by Joenaes
Being able to click with someone and share your deepest thoughts and feelings is so much more than those 10 minutes of pleasure,

what?? you only last 10minutes in bed and you post it on your blog for everyone to read?

After 10 minutes they always start bitching and crying: 'Too big, too biiiig' :f_cool:. As a sensitive young man, I just obey their commands.


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Some cool hands from the past weeks:

PokerStars - $6 PL Hi - Omaha Hi - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $908.71
Hero (SB): $907.70
BB: $600.00
CO: $980.55

Hero posts SB $3.00, BB posts BB $6.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $9.00) Hero has A♦ 8♥ Q♦ J♥

fold, BTN raises to $18.00, Hero raises to $60.00, fold, BTN calls $42.00

Flop: ($126.00, 2 players) J♣ 9♠ T♦
Hero checks, BTN bets $80.92, Hero calls $80.92

Turn: ($287.84, 2 players) 7♣
Hero checks, BTN bets $186.12, Hero calls $186.12

River: ($660.08, 2 players) T♣
Hero bets $580.66 and is all-in, fold

Hero wins $658.58

Pretty interesting hand. I decided to check the flop cause it is important to always have balanced ranges. Sometimes i will want to check/call this board with maybe an AAKx hand and in order to not be too vulnerable to barreling it is a good thing to have some strong hands as well. He also was fairly agressive and after my flopcheck I expect him to bluf a very big percentage of his range, at least on the flop.

Plan doesnt really change much on the turn.

The river, however is a very interesting card for us. It brings out a possible flush and full house now. Our relative and absolute hand strength got weakened severely. It is very possible for him to have rivered a flush as well. Still I think we are ahead of his range, cause it still is reasonably wide but we have to stop and think about what our perceived range is. We c/c 2 streets, we ALWAYS have showdown value here. Not many people would expect someone to turn straights into bluffs here. If we shove, we rep a lot of strength since we have no air in our range and they dont expect us to bluff medium-strength hands. Combined with the fact that we can easily have something like QJT/JT9 the river is a clear shove for us. Especially if we take into account that he almost never will barrel sets/2p on this board, he will take a potcontrolling line.

So our shove is to ofc get hands like AK/flushes to fold with having a fairly low risk of him having a boat. This while we can rep a strong hand really well. He tanked for about 20 seconds and folded. I most likely got him to fold a strong flush.

PokerStars - $6 PL Hi - Omaha Hi - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: $964.97
UTG+1: $251.46
MP: $162.00
MP+1: $180.00
CO: $618.00
Hero (BTN): $997.21
SB: $174.00
BB: $1,791.94

SB posts SB $3.00, BB posts BB $6.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $9.00) Hero has A♠ A♣ 7♣ 9♥

fold, UTG+1 raises to $18.00, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $63.00, fold, BB calls $57.00, UTG+1 calls $45.00

Flop: ($192.00, 3 players) 6♥ 4♠ 5♦
BB bets $54.00, fold, Hero calls $54.00

Turn: ($300.00, 2 players) Q♥
BB bets $192.00, Hero calls $192.00

River: ($684.00, 2 players) 6♦
BB bets $474.00, Hero calls $474.00

BB shows J♥ Q♠ K♣ T♥ (Two Pair, Queens and Sixes) (Pre 38%, Flop 12%, Turn 45%)
Hero shows A♠ A♣ 7♣ 9♥ (Two Pair, Aces and Sixes) (Pre 62%, Flop 88%, Turn 55%)
Hero wins $1,629.20

I 3bet IP, BB overcalls which means a lot of medium-high rundowns or BBBB hands. He donks out on a very dry-lockdown board. His sizing is very small cause he can put a lot of leverage on us. UTG has to play really straight forward with me behind him, so with this small betsize he can still pressure him a lot and what will do with a lot of my 3bet range here?

His bet is rly polarised tho, he either has the board crushed or hes gonna have fairly low equity against my hand. Either 78xx/ 567 or 89T/complete air. So I decided to go into call-down mode. I would probably fold to a bet on a heart river tho.

Some hands from todays HU session:

PokerStars - $4 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $397.12
Hero (BB): $710.00

SB posts SB $2.00, Hero posts BB $4.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $6.00) Hero has Q♥ Q♠ K♣ K♥

SB raises to $12.00, Hero raises to $36.00, SB calls $24.00

Flop: ($72.00, 2 players) 9♣ J♦ J♥
Hero bets $32.00, SB calls $32.00

Turn: ($136.00, 2 players) T♥
Hero checks, SB bets $96.00, Hero calls $96.00

River: ($328.00, 2 players) 8♦
Hero checks, SB bets $233.12 and is all-in, Hero calls $233.12

SB shows 9♠ T♠ 4♥ Q♣ (Straight, Queen High) (Pre 29%, Flop 21%, Turn 7%)
Hero shows Q♥ Q♠ K♣ K♥ (Straight, King High) (Pre 71%, Flop 79%, Turn 93%)
Hero wins $793.74

PokerStars - $4 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $225.80
Hero (SB): $597.06

Hero posts SB $2.00, BB posts BB $4.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $6.00) Hero has 8♠ K♦ J♦ 4♠

Hero raises to $12.00, BB raises to $36.00, Hero calls $24.00

Flop: ($72.00, 2 players) 5♥ J♠ 7♦
BB checks, Hero bets $52.00, BB calls $52.00

Turn: ($176.00, 2 players) 7♣
BB bets $137.80 and is all-in, Hero calls $137.80

River: ($451.60, 2 players) 2♥

BB shows 9♦ A♦ T♠ 3♠ (One Pair, Sevens) (Pre 58%, Flop 34%, Turn 20%)
Hero shows 8♠ K♦ J♦ 4♠ (Two Pair, Jacks and Sevens) (Pre 42%, Flop 66%, Turn 80%)
Hero wins $451.10

PokerStars - $4 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $404.00
Hero (SB): $1,500.62

Hero posts SB $2.00, BB posts BB $4.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $6.00) Hero has 3♥ T♥ A♦ 4♠

Hero raises to $8.00, BB raises to $24.00, Hero calls $16.00

Flop: ($48.00, 2 players) 2♥ 5♣ 7♥
BB bets $47.50, Hero raises to $190.00, BB calls $142.50

Turn: ($428.00, 2 players) T♦
BB bets $190.00 and is all-in, Hero calls $190.00

River: ($808.00, 2 players) Q♠

BB shows J♥ 8♦ 7♦ J♠ (One Pair, Jacks) (Pre 58%, Flop 33%, Turn 50%)
Hero shows 3♥ T♥ A♦ 4♠ (One Pair, Tens) (Pre 42%, Flop 67%, Turn 50%)
BB wins $807.50

It feels good though to have a winning day again :). Plus its my first day I end above EV for a 15-day streak :P. But hey I should not pay attention to that.

Anyways it would be cool if you guys can let me know what you want again for this blog. I want to keep updating it regularly again, so I need your guys wishes :f_love: about poker/parties/life&philosphy/ladyboy stories/challenges etc

Peace out.


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9toFive
Joined: 17.07.2010

Finally this blog needed more attention!!

Just keep posting what you are posting, but more of it!


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deskcompmedion
Joined: 21.05.2011

Idd thanks for the updates sir!

Glad to see you back on the winning side again.


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DeLau
Joined: 10.01.2009

Originally posted by Joenaes
Anyways it would be cool if you guys can let me know what you want again for this blog. I want to keep updating it regularly again, so I need your guys wishes :f_love: about poker/parties/life&philosphy/ladyboy stories/challenges etc

I 'd like to here more about your other 'businesses'. I remember you guys started a 'boat experience' or something like that. How's that going?

Btw, did you see Giev's november? Really brutal!


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

@DeLau: I don't really know who Giev is, so I have no idea :). I havent checked the forums for a long time actually.

I can definitely tell some more about our business.

I'll give some links to our site and facebook page to start with:

http://cebupartyboat.com/

Then we also made some promotional videos but they really aren't as good as I wanted them to be, but I'll share them anyways. It was done by a friend, next time we'll hire some professional company to make it look really really sick :f_cool:.

First vid was when we just started, but its a bit outdated, we changed resort/boat etc. Plus it was before the launch, so the party shots aren't from us either.

This one is made right after our first trip and is with actual footage. But yeah, I don't really like it that much. I needs to get a lot better next time.

It is not going as we expected either. Finding a constant stream of costumers is a lot harder than expected but we had some management meetings this week and we will follow a new strategy for the next months. We'll see how that goes :). Anyways, it is still fun and challenging and we're aiming BIIIIGGG :f_biggrin:.


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mbml
Joined: 27.11.2008

Hey joenas looks interesting.

Why is everything in sgd? Is singapore ur main target mkt?


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Well our main company is based in SG and indeed in the beginning we targeted only Singaporean clients. Although I want to change the currency to USD to get more international clients as well, but my partners in SG don't agree with that :). But its something well be discussing again in the near future.

Atm we are also planning to organize customized sport-yacht trips for golf/football clubs etc.

I also finished an online course in eco-consulting and im actually considering to start-up a green consultancy bureau here as well. But I feel like I need a little more expertise right now to feel comfortable in consulting people :f_biggrin:.


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DeLau
Joined: 10.01.2009

Originally posted by Joenaes
@DeLau: I don't really know who Giev is, so I have no idea :). I havent checked the forums for a long time actually.

Giev's november graph

Guy is a real sicko, I think he made about 2 million with poker. There are overall graphs in his blog.

@eco-consulting. Couldn't you consult couple of companies for free? Companies have nothing to loose and you gain experience.


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Originally posted by DeLau

Originally posted by Joenaes
@DeLau: I don't really know who Giev is, so I have no idea :). I havent checked the forums for a long time actually.

Giev's november graph

@eco-consulting. Couldn't you consult couple of companies for free? Companies have nothing to loose and you gain experience.

Thats exactly what I was thinking, altough then just with a discount, I dont want to look too cheap _biggrin:.

Another thought is to start with a company from some friends I know, and then they can spread the name as well if they are satisfied, which they should be _evil:


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

After my session yesterday I was reflecting on the fact that I'm not crushing HU anymore. Ofcourse I only played 2-3 days but still I was already thinking about what I could change. I used to have a very high winrate HU over a large sample (25-30bb) and I guess I had to rediscover my style a bit. Since after playing only 6max for a long time, my HU game got a bit rusty.

Then I remembered the style I used to have while playing HU: the rep-the-nuts-every-single-hand-style

So I went back to that one and had pretty solid day today :f_biggrin: (massive sample size as well)

All 200 and 400.

Some hands:

Full Tilt - $2 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): $379.10
SB: $345.45

SB posts SB $1.00, Hero posts BB $2.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $3.00) Hero has 8♥ J♦ A♥ 6♠

SB raises to $4.00, Hero raises to $12.00, SB calls $8.00

Flop: ($24.00, 2 players) J♠ 2♣ K♣
Hero bets $18.00, SB calls $18.00

Turn: ($60.00, 2 players) J♣
Hero checks, SB checks

River: ($60.00, 2 players) 9♠
Hero checks, SB bets $52.00, Hero raises to $186.00, fold

Hero wins $163.50

PokerStars - $4 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $327.00
Hero (SB): $253.14

Hero posts SB $2.00, BB posts BB $4.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $6.00) Hero has 4♥ 2♥ Q♣ Q♦

Hero raises to $8.00, BB calls $4.00

Flop: ($16.00, 2 players) T♦ J♣ K♦
BB checks, Hero bets $12.00, BB calls $12.00

Turn: ($40.00, 2 players) K♥
BB checks, Hero checks

River: ($40.00, 2 players) 6♣
BB bets $28.00, Hero calls $28.00

BB shows 7♦ 9♦ 8♦ 8♠ (Two Pair, Kings and Eights) (Pre 39%, Flop 64%, Turn 38%)
Hero shows 4♥ 2♥ Q♣ Q♦ (Two Pair, Kings and Queens) (Pre 61%, Flop 36%, Turn 63%)
Hero wins $95.50

Full Tilt - $2 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): $606.20
BB: $128.35

Hero posts SB $1.00, BB posts BB $2.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $3.00) Hero has J♠ Q♠ 5♠ 5♣

Hero raises to $4.00, BB calls $2.00

Flop: ($8.00, 2 players) 2♦ 8♠ 3♥
BB checks, Hero bets $6.00, BB calls $6.00

Turn: ($20.00, 2 players) 6♥
BB checks, Hero bets $14.00, BB calls $14.00

River: ($48.00, 2 players) 4♠
BB bets $48.00, Hero raises to $120.00, BB calls $56.35 and is all-in

Hero shows J♠ Q♠ 5♠ 5♣ (One Pair, Fives) (Pre 48%, Flop 27%, Turn 17%)
BB shows 7♦ A♠ 5♦ 8♣ (Straight, Eight High) (Pre 52%, Flop 73%, Turn 82%)
BB wins $256.20

PokerStars - $4 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $505.50
Hero (BB): $483.50

SB posts SB $2.00, Hero posts BB $4.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $6.00) Hero has Q♣ 6♣ T♠ J♠

SB raises to $12.00, Hero raises to $36.00, SB calls $24.00

Flop: ($72.00, 2 players) 3♣ 8♦ 7♥
Hero bets $40.00, SB calls $40.00

Turn: ($152.00, 2 players) A♣
Hero bets $92.00, SB calls $92.00

River: ($336.00, 2 players) 2♥
Hero bets $315.50 and is all-in, fold

Hero wins $335.50

It doesn't really matter if you play balanced or if you should always rep something. Against fishes, it would be foolish to play that.

Anyways, time to finish watching LOTR :f_love:


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mbml
Joined: 27.11.2008

How do fishes play in PLO? do they assume you have the nuts every time? I thought many of them can't hand read and just overplay their twopairs on flush or straight boards?


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Originally posted by mbml
How do fishes play in PLO? do they assume you have the nuts every time? I thought many of them can't hand read and just overplay their twopairs on flush or straight boards?

Nah most of them are afraid of the nuts, if you put enough pressure :). But ofc some fish call you down with anything. Today was just a day that all my fishes were really weaktight, thus the ridiculous red line :).


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acceleration123
Joined: 11.12.2010

Hey, really interesting about the bussiness stuff, looking fwd to read more about that ;)


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chenny8888
Joined: 03.10.2007

Originally posted by mbml
How do fishes play in PLO? do they assume you have the nuts every time? I thought many of them can't hand read and just overplay their twopairs on flush or straight boards?

call flop w/ any flushdraw, gutshot+

call again on turn w/ any flushdraw, oesd+

call river with nuts.


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Originally posted by chenny8888

Originally posted by mbml
How do fishes play in PLO? do they assume you have the nuts every time? I thought many of them can't hand read and just overplay their twopairs on flush or straight boards?

call flop w/ any flushdraw, gutshot+

call again on turn w/ any flushdraw, oesd+

call river with nuts.

Don't tell people the secret! :f_mad:


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Tried some shot again at 1k HU. Guy was pretty weaktight and bad but unfortunately ran pretty hot so didn't manage to win. But had some solid grind earlier on 200 and 400 so overall a decent day:

The sick days will come when I finally start running hot on 1k :f_biggrin:.

Some cool hands though from the session:

PokerStars - $10 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $511.50
Hero (SB): $3,480.89

Hero posts SB $5.00, BB posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $15.00) Hero has 8♦ K♥ A♠ Q♥

Hero raises to $30.00, BB raises to $90.00, Hero calls $60.00

Flop: ($180.00, 2 players) 9♥ 4♠ 9♣
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($180.00, 2 players) 9♠
BB bets $179.50, Hero calls $179.50

River: ($539.00, 2 players) 7♣
BB checks, Hero checks

BB shows 3♠ 4♥ 6♥ 7♠ (Three of a Kind, Nines) (Pre 47%, Flop 48%, Turn 20%)
Hero shows 8♦ K♥ A♠ Q♥ (Three of a Kind, Nines) (Pre 53%, Flop 52%, Turn 80%)
Hero wins $538.50

He was 3betting a fair bit. His flopcheck is kinda polarised to 9x (sometimes) and QQ+ (sometimes) and just hands that give up. His turnbet is really polarised to 9x and maybe AA/KK. But since I block those overpairs and I believe that I was betting those a little smaller I decided to peel one off. He also never bluffs low pairs here cause my range is still very weak, he will just try and check it down. Also my call is very very strong and I expect him to never bluff the river again.

PokerStars - $10 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $619.50
Hero (BB): $3,368.89

SB posts SB $5.00, Hero posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $15.00) Hero has J♠ 4♣ J♣ 3♥

SB raises to $20.00, Hero calls $10.00

Flop: ($40.00, 2 players) 5♣ K♦ 2♦
Hero checks, SB checks

Turn: ($40.00, 2 players) 8♣
Hero bets $30.00, SB raises to $129.50, Hero calls $99.50

River: ($299.00, 2 players) K♥
Hero checks, SB bets $298.50, Hero calls $298.50

SB shows 3♠ 8♠ 6♥ 8♦ (Full House, Eights full of Kings) (Pre 33%, Flop 22%, Turn 65%)
Hero mucks J♠ 4♣ J♣ 3♥ (Two Pair, Kings and Jacks) (Pre 67%, Flop 78%, Turn 35%)
SB wins $895.50

Only hand he could have really besides maybe K8.

PokerStars - $10 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $562.50
Hero (BB): $3,036.89

SB posts SB $5.00, Hero posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $15.00) Hero has 9♣ 5♣ 7♦ 4♣

SB calls $5.00, Hero checks

Flop: ($20.00, 2 players) A♦ 4♥ 6♥
Hero bets $19.50, SB calls $19.50

Turn: ($59.00, 2 players) 2♥
Hero bets $40.00, SB raises to $140.00, Hero calls $100.00

River: ($339.00, 2 players) 7♣
Hero checks, SB bets $338.50, Hero raises to $677.00, fold

Hero wins $1,015.50

He was weaktight so I decided to double barrel this board which is fairly std. His range was so polarised cause he wasnt the typ of guy who would raise anything but the A flush here, a straight flush is very unlikely too ( just combo-wise and he would at least think a bit longer on the turn and maybe just smooth call to trap me). He, however hardly ever has the A flush here since an A flush would have top pair on the flop and a very strong draw, he would almost always raise the flop with that. A hand like Ahxxx makes a lot of sense for his flop peel and then turn raise, so I decided to call, knowing that he would bluff any river (if it pairs i bet myself cause I can definitely rep boats). After his river bet, I would shove over it unless I made the straight now he can still have some weird two pair with his A, so i decided to get it in.

PokerStars - $10 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: $1,057.00
Hero (BB): $2,930.89

SB posts SB $5.00, Hero posts BB $10.00

Pre Flop: (pot: $15.00) Hero has K♠ A♠ 8♠ T♣

SB raises to $30.00, Hero raises to $90.00, SB calls $60.00

Flop: ($180.00, 2 players) A♥ J♠ 3♥
Hero bets $130.00, SB calls $130.00

Turn: ($440.00, 2 players) J♦
Hero bets $200.00, SB raises to $400.00, Hero raises to $1,330.00, SB calls $437.00 and is all-in

River: ($2114.00, 2 players) 5♣

Hero shows K♠ A♠ 8♠ T♣ (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks) (Pre 41%, Flop 22%, Turn 0%)
SB shows Q♦ A♣ J♣ K♦ (Full House, Jacks full of Aces) (Pre 59%, Flop 78%, Turn 100%)
SB wins $2,113.50

He was that weaktight that he would never raise the turn here with a single jack. He did however minraise me two times in certain spots but I never had the hands to look him up. Just a minraise from a draw makes quite some sense cause I cbet and turn brings a good barrel card so my range is still rly wide. It is true tho that I never get called by worse but there is A LOT of value in picking up the pot if he indeed had a bluff. The ony value hand he can rly have is AJ or maybe some weird J3 anyways. Not too happy/sure about this play, but I think it makes some sense.

Anyways off to a housewarming+goodbye party from the same guy


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Joenaes
Joined: 18.07.2008

Sorry that has been a few days since last update but I encountered some bad experience. We bought some 'grass' somewhere and first tries all was good. We even watched LOTR and was by far the best movie experience ever :f_biggrin:, but a few days ago it backfired and I had a horrible trip. No more grass for now on, ever again :f_o:. And yea the days after that I felt pretty sick so wasn't able to grind at all.

Won't grind anything actually in the next weeks cause next day my gf is coming over from Manila and after that I will go back to Belgium for the holidays, so no more grind this year.

I am not really sure yet of what to do next year with poker. Basically I have to option to only grind HU, mix some sites, bumhunt like crazy or play PLO midstakes and probably go for SNE.

Gonna have to think about it a little bit more but any feedback is always appreciated :).

Gonna watch 'The Hobbit' tomorrow as well. Hopefully it's gonna be as awesome as LOTR :). Probably a lot different but Jackson set my expectations high, so he better fulfills them _evil:.


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