I’m playing all kind of games at the same time at the moment: Hold’em, Omaha, cash game, tournaments,… call it and I’ll play it. So i experienced a lot of hands when playing Poker Online and I have a few examples of sick hands for you down here, one from a PLO cash game and one from a NLHE tourney.

Here we go:

I fancy this starting hand of course, with the Kings having two connectors here. However, I’m out of position so there’s no need to raise here. I flop the full boat and can only hope my opponent has something like AhAc9h8c or something like that . Turn comes a third club and if I want to make ány money in this hand I’ll have to bet my hand here. The Ace high flush (which I’ve already crushed) calls and I improve to a STRAIGHT FLUSH! On that point it’s in my disadvantage that the board had already paired on the flop, but I’m able to extract the maximum value out of this hand. Next one:

Jacks in late position and I make a rather small raise. I call the reraise to see what comes on the flop and get my free set on the turn The guy who flopped top two thinks this is the moment to get all his chips in and I even improve to quads^^. Stay in touch because next time I’ll show the best live music performances I’ve ever seen!

I took a little break from playing hu and big MTT’s and played some regular tournaments again this week. First I played a little bit on Pokerstars (regular $5 tournaments), later on I returned to FTP. During a game on Stars I saw a phenomenon I discussed earlier when I was talking about online tells:

Some player makes a standard raise in early position and I call because the blinds are still low and I have position on my opponent with my A5 suited. The flop comes all hearts, and the other player bets the same amount as preflop. Now this usually is a sign of weakness, certainly on a dangerous board like this. So I raise and he flatcalls, so I figured he didn’t hit hard but has a strong heart he can draw with. After his call on the turn my thoughts are confirmed. Now, on the river I still only have a pair of fives, but this is important in poker: stick with your read! Your opponent won’t most likely call an extra bet with Ah8 for example, but will win the hand if you don’t fire again.

After making some small profit after two sessions (about $40) I decided to play some shorthanded tourneys on FTP. I saw a very spicy hand over there:

So this player lets everybody limp in with his pocket Queens and only bets half the pot on the flop… simultaneously another player flops the nuts and improves towards the second nuts with a straight flush . I didn’t cash in this tournament and will return to playing heads-up for some tokens so I can play another big multi-table tournament .

Finally we arrived at the BEST TEN ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (imho^^). If you don’t have one of those, withdraw from your bankroll and buy them :

10 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975)
9 Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
8 Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (1968)
7 Jethro Tull -Thick As A Brick (1972)
6 Radiohead - Amnesiac (2001)
5 Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
4 Tool -Aenima (1996)
3 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
2 Brian Wilson - SMiLE (2004)
1 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

So it has the best of classic (hard)rock (Led Zep & CCR), progrock (Thick As A Brick), psychedelic rock (Beatles’ MMT), psychedelic pop (Zombies), progmetal (Aenima), art rock (Amnesiac) + perhaps the most brilliant person in pop music éver (Wilson with SMiLE as well as Pet Sounds) and the best concept album ever: ‘DSOTM’ still is the best album ever made in my opinion.

Travelin’ Band (Cosmo’s Factory) and Brain Damage/Eclipse (Dark Side of the Moon)