So I’m still watching some WSOP 08 now and then, maybe I have to decide to just watch it till the end, but I don’t like to watch one show in a row so I mix it up with HSP, PAD,EPT,… . However, I saw a very nice play from the Irish player James McManus today, sitting on the feature table.

The chipleader at that moment, the Norwegian player Sigur Eskeland, was also at that table. Interesting to know is that those two players already had a little history on the table: Eskeland had been using his stack and had been the table bully for a certain period. McManus noticed this behaviour and decided to stop it when he ‘bluffed’ Eskeland’s pocket sixes away preflop earlier with JdTd. Subsequently the following hand occurred (starts at 6′40″):

So Mcmanus senses excellently that Eskeland is trying to keep pushing the table around with another big reraise. But also after the second gigantic all-in reraise from the Norwegian, he’s still convinced his AQ is in good shape. Great play with all the camera’s pointed at you on the feature table to say the least. The AQ holds up on the board, like it always should be in poker after a showdown .

Now, I asked you after your favorite song on your poker-headphone a while ago and it happens to be that Hotel California from the Eagles is popular among the visitors of my blog because it won with 24% of the votes! I’m a little disappointed though that my personal number five, God only knows, didn’t receive any votes . Anyway for all the Eagles-voters, a live version of ‘Hotel’:

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Some typical day for a poker addict again. I was surfing on the internet to find some information about other books from ‘Action Dan’ Harrington, because I liked his Harrington on Cash Games very much. But instead of that I ended up on a site of some guys who made T 3 their signature hand and called it ‘Action Dan’. When I saw some hand historys, I couldn’t stop myself from some playing online . So I sat down on the heads up tables on FTP ($11+.50 Turbo) and guess what…

So the hand indeed gets respect! Subsequently I received an e-mail from Ultimate Bet that they deposited $10 in my account because they didn’t see me around for a while, I like them! So I took a shot at the micro stakes cashtables there:

Again, playing T 3 worked out very well for me hehe. By the way, nice about the ‘new’ Ultimate Bet is that you can activate the ‘rabbit cam’ option, which you can use to see the next card when the hand is over. Anyway, I lost my 10$ and went back to FTP:

So even when you are not playing the T 3, it can make you a good profit by being a beaten hand in the other fellow’s hands . What rests are the next 25 tracks in the list, with among others the first two Beatles songs (they are best represented with 8 tracks) and the ‘queen of diamonds song’: Desperado.

175 Buena Vista Social Club - El Cuarto De Tula (1997, Buena Vista Social Club)
174 Muse - Sunburn (1999, Showbiz)
173 Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave (1971, Master of Reality)
172 Triggerfinger - Soon (2008, What Grabs Ya)
171 Eagles - Desperado (1973, Desperado)
170 Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate this… (1998, This is My Truth Tell me Yours)
169 Guns ‘n Roses - Rocket Queen (1987, Appetite for Destruction)
168 Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1983… (A Merman I should turn to be) (1968, Electric Ladyland)
167 Placebo - Every You Every Me (1998, Without You I’m Nothing)
166 Tool - Eulogy (1996, Aenima)
165 Sonic Youth - Cross the Breeze (1988, Daydream Nation)
164 Neil Young - Southern Man (1970, After the Gold Rush)
163 dEUS - Mute (1994, Worst Case Scenario)
162 Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier (2006, Broken Boy Soldiers)
161 Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (+reprise) (1967, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
160 Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (1969, single)
159 Rage Against the Machine - Ashes In the Fall (1999, The Battle of Los Angeles)
158 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (2008, Fleet Foxes)
157 Eels - Cancer for the Cure (1998, Electro-Shock Blues)
156 Radiohead - Pact Like Sardines In a Crushd Box (2001, Amnesiac)
155 Eagles - Last Resort (1976, Hotel California)
154 White Stripes - Black Math (2003, Elephant)
153 Neil Young - Prairie Wind (2005, Prairie Wind)
152 Beatles - Come Together (1969, Abbey Road)
151 Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock (1993, Siamese Dream)