I’m still not able to convert some PLO hands from Cake Poker, but this had one big advantage this week: I decided to play some cheap multi table tournaments and the result was more than excellent: from a total buy-in of $2,60$ I was able to made $82,30!! I made this beautiful picture for you (click to enlarge!):

It all started when I noticed that I still had a ticket for a New Depositer Freeroll since I created an account at Cake. I was playing for a while and, used as I am to the amount of action when playing at multiple (cash) tables, I was getting easily bored. I saw a Rebuy+Add-on tournament with a $.25 buy-in and rebuys for $.15 and gave it a try. I was doubling up early a few times because everybody played quite loose (because of the cheap rebuy option), but two full ring tables still wasn’t enough. What’s better for some action than heads-up play? So I also registered for a $2+.2 hu shootout with 96 players.

I was on a great roll and when the breaks started I was among the best twenty players in both MTT’s, and I bought an add-on in the ministakes tourney. This was also the tournament where I was knocked out first, finishing 14th out of 212 players, cashing $5,24. I was on fire in the hu shootout and was able to reach the final hu-table. Pity I didn’t win but finishing 2nd out of 96 is not bad. I was already at the final table in the freeroll at that moment and finished  4/140 over there. A very successful evening

Now it’s time for the final fifty songs in my top 200 list. First of all, as you can see, there’s a new number one: God Only Knows from The Beach Boys is the best song of all-time at this moment imho. Once more becomes clear that Brian Wilson is the greatest genius ever in pop music, with other songs at places 4,12 and 19. And the new Brian Wilson is already there, with Panda Bear at 7. And we have a new best Beatles song: the brilliant In My Life from Rubber Soul. Enjoy all the magnificent music!

Hi. The hands I’ll show you today are nothing to be proud of at all . I have to admit that I, despite the progression I made last months on my online play, played like a donkey today. And guess what? I made an excellent profit of $39 with it! I guess I witnessed today the phenomenon that attracts so many people to the game of poker: no matter how bad you play, you can always win the hand.

Of course this is the power of the game and the only reason that players like you and me can make it a profitable game in the long run. I started my session with some $11 turbo hu-sng’s. I won two encounters in a row but susequently lost two, partially because of some bad luck. I decided I would play one more to see if I could make any profit. I was close to a small tilt because of the previous hu’s that I lost. Then the next hand was played, and I make the exact mistake I described earlier:

So he makes an enormous raise on the button and I for some reason decide to call with A8 offsuit (I mean: which ace he makes that raise with can I beat, really?). Maybe it was the size of the raise that made me suspicious. Anyway I flop an ace which I check, instead of betting to get the essential information. Of course he bets now and I have to raise to get my information after all for way too many chips. After the all-in reraise I knew ofcourse I was beat but hey, half my stack was in there and I was playing bad anyway. Luckily for me, the dealer had some diamonds left . Then I went to the $.10/.25 tables to play a relaxing cashgame. I was some bucks down (started with $15) when I woke up with 99 in the SB:

Yeah, I know, what the hell was I doing there? First of all I maybe should have raised preflop, but ok. On the flop I decide to call the pot-amount with 3 overcards on the board, a gutshot straightdraw and a flushdraw who are possibly not even alive. Then a king turns and I thought “Hey, maybe I can represent that king!”. Ok, because he just calls I realize that maybe wasn’t a bad play at all, maybe I even will be able to lay him down his flush by firing again on the river. Then I hit the miracle on the river and can extract some more money from my opponent, actually having the best hand. Later on I won a big pot with a flush over flush which made my day another profitable one .

Coming closer and closer towards the best song of all-time, today it’s up to number five: Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Pet Sounds, 1966):

They perform the song here live in Amsterdam. As you can see, it’s not Brian Wilson but his brother Carl who sings the lead vocals. The original intent was Brian singing the song, but he felt himself that Carl was better suited for this one. ‘God Only Knows’ really is a revolutionary song in the history of pop music, being technically more detailed than anything made before. Especially the melodic structures and vocal harmonies that would define the Californian music scene later on in the seventies were pioneering. So, not really surprising that Paul McCartney calls this song the greatest of all-time.