Well done me (serious brag)

So today is going to be a proper poker post. I've been doing very well the last few weeks and since the end of a downswing in January I went on a sweet 5000 pound upswing. This of course means the my staker has locked up his profits and will get the reward for his trust transferred on his bank account in a few days.

Again Mr Keys thank you very, very much for the trust. I know it's not a usual thing to give money away to someone that is 1800 miles away and you have to trust the stories about the results that he tells as you can't find proof for winning or losing online.

I am currently playing exceptionally well and am full of confidence as I am the biggest poker winner in Gala Casino Gibraltar. I know it's some ridiculous bragging but I love it how the regs collaboratively sigh when they see me entering the poker room cause they know that they will have to play a lot more 3- and 4- bet pots as soon as I sit down and the quiet, limp game is over. Most of those guys feel really uncomfortable playing deep stacks while for me the potential of playing pots between 400 - 800 bb is where my edge gets huge.

I have developed a very good ability for 3- and 4- betting in good spots and would say that the spot-picking is one of my major advantages as the regs just can't get away from their standard game. Man that's really a lot of bragging now...

Time for a graph:



Btw, total profit since June 2009 is exactly: 6147.50 GBP

Had really good evening yesterday going out with friends and ending up in a sick home game with a fixed limit SkyHigh-stakes player that plays 500/1000 and 300/600 regularly another NL10k-40k player that just came second at WPT Bucharest and another NL2k reg and 3 other standard players like me. At 9:00 am we had 4000 pound on the table. The game was probably the most aggressive game I ever player as literally every hand was 3-bet and every third hand was 4-bet and there was a PFAI's about once every 10 hands.

I owned one of the high-stakers with K-high:

Schnibl0r: opens UTG to 9 pound
Truthans: 3-bets KT to 25 pounds
Schnibl0r: calls

Flop: 9,6,6 two clubs

Schnibl0r: checks
Truthans: bets ca. 38 ish
Schnibl0r: calls

Turn: 3 of diamonds

Schnibl0r: checks
Truthans: bets ca. 70
Schnibl0r: raises to 160
Truthans: calls

River: J of spades

Schnibl0r: bets ca 200
Truthans: calls

Schnibl0r: "Your six is good."
Truthans: "I haven't got a six."
Schnibl0r: Shows 85o
Truthans: Shows KT
Truthans: Wins the pot with K-high.

Schnibl0r: "Wow, did you just completely fucking own me? Man, I don't think I ever got owned as hard in a live game before."

Truthans: "I thought you got owned pretty hard in PartyPoker's big game a few weeks ago?"

Schnibl0r: "Yeah, but not as hard as this."


We were in the Casino earlier that night and it was the first time we got a PLO game going and played six-handed PLO100. Was good fun although I lost a little.

Two friends and me are probably putting some cash together and make a short trip to Marbella next week or so. It is the place for the rich people at the Costa Del Sol and they have a very juicy NL1000 Euro game going there on Fridays. So we are going to give this a shot by sharing and investing 1k euros each.

I've been doing ok online as well on PKR and started shots at NL200 which went pretty well. I hope to establish myself this year on NL200 there. Would be pretty cool as I went through NL10, NL25, NL50, NL100 just as you are supposed to. I have to admit that I always used a aggressive bank-roll-management but hey I am not 24-tabling 6-max games but I 2-table full-ring games. Btw, I finally realized that I get beaten up in six max games. I don't know why but I think I have troubles to adjust from the weak-passive people in the full ring games to the more aggressive and better players in the 6-max games. I am having trouble to bring my strengths from the live felt to the online felt anyway.

Next week our play goes on stage and I am starting to get the butterflies as we are currently rehearsing on a daily basis.

Stay cool.

Truthans