im still playig one tourney and the guy next to me cant stop squizing killer farts out of his arse...

Its tilting the hell outta me!

GOD WHY THE SMELL!!!

i played some tourneys today but didnt really enjoyed playing. I used to like playing some major ones on sundays but since i got back from vacation i didn't really felt like playing those. Today i went over to a friend of mine to play some togheter.

Its just so much more waiting and less creativity till you get deep that its not really a challenge and feels more as a varaiance game with you have to grind out.

This week i dealt with some things that had to be done before i can concentrate on playing more. I bought a chair, fixed my subscription to the gym, and cleaned up my room. Besides that i visited my dad and some friends and went out for drinks a couple of times. This week i'm planning on really starting to play more hands and do some damage.

Moneywise this week was kinda non interesting every session was up or down within small ranges and therefore the overall result wasn't very exciting. A little plus for the week but not more then that. Def not enough to compensate for the 5K loss on my first day playing.

I'm sure ill make up for it this week.

My routine will be waking up, eating some breakfast, do some analysys or watch a vid then play some, then go to the gym and after make dinner and play more poker. I should be able to get 15K hands in this week so hopefully i dont run like shit and win my 5K back ;-)

gl all

p.s. Still dont have my pics!! :@

And the first day was really bad..

Lost about 5K and actually i made some horrible bluffs. Blew 150BB on a river checkraise which was in retrospect kinda unbelievable. I reraised preflop 4 handed in btn vs blind. I check call flop on A high with QQ. Turn is a king it goes check check. River i check he bets 400 in the 500 pot and i decide to rep Kings and crai. Point is that in these games people expect you to be able to turn hands into bluffs... So now my range consist out of some low A/x type hands which i turn into a bluff and KK. So i guess it was a pretty easy call for 900 more for him...

really a-hole play..was way to focused on me repressenting KK, not thinkin about how the whole situation came up and what range he would percieve me to have. He called after some thought with A/j..gg

I signed up at teh gym so i hope that will bring my focus to higher levels and my dicipline to a more stable level..i might actually avoid this kind of stuff.

Besides that i didn't run well but that goes without saying if you lose 5K at 3/6 and a little 5/10

I will recover :)

Gl at the tables everyone. I prepared all things to be able to play ALOT upcoming month..so i hope it will work out and that i can improve and be able to do some damage. I just hope i can easily put this bad start behind me and not start chasing losses.

Greets

La Mano

sup y'all!

Sup guys,

Last week weve been chilling in the City of Sin, Las Vegas! It is a really crazy place, but we definitly enjoyed ourselves there.

After meeting up with rochus (RochusN or something on stars ) we decided to go to the gunshop to fire some weapons. Robert (Takaa) decided that it was a good idea to put on his Obama-for-president-shirt today. The shopkeeper thought differently about that. Outside we already spotted a poster saying something like: Voting for Obama? Drop off guns here, it will save you time. (with a trashcan beneath it). So we entered the shop and decided what weapons we wanted to shoot. After being in the shop for a while one of the guys behind the counter told takaa that he couldn't enter the shooting area in thhat shirt. He added that he let him shoot for free though if he shot the shirt with a shotgun. Takaa Found this an rather apealing offer since he would get a free other shirt and didnt have to pay for the shotgun. The redneck was to dumb to see that this actually saved taaka money lol. I guess they really hate obama there since he is gonna put them out of business when he gets elected. I decided to buy a package with an M242, a Baretta, an automatic weapon and another handgun. Besides that i really wanted to fire some sort of sniper rifle so i added that as well. It was really cool to shoot those guns for real which you have been shooting with in videogames for years. I did pretty good with the M242 and the handgun. I kinda sucked with the other automatic weapon. we def had a blast and made some nice rambo pictures.

During the week our main occupation was hanging at the pool (while drinking huge cocktails and checking out the plastic boobies and Whales), playing poker and boozing. Most of the time we combined the last two by playing poker and getting totaly hammered at the table. I have no idea how i did overall pokerwise but the amount of hands you play wouldn't be a good estimator of your total profitability anyway due to a lack of samplesize. The games are really weak though but i must add that i only played 1-2 and 2-5 ( 200 and 500 buyin). We were staying in the monte carlo casino, which didnt really had a lot of games running. So we went over to the MGM grand and the venetian a couple of times to play there. The homegame in the monte carlo was most enjoyable by far though. The dealers knew us just like everybody else who played there more often since we were ordering wiskey cokes, malibu cokes and heinekens the whole night long. We just keep making bad jokes and keeep talking to neverybody at the table. Waitresses didn't even ask anymore what we wanted, every time they came by they had a heineken and a mix drink with them, for which we obviously tipped them generously. Our table image was totaly wrecked because of the huge amounts of alcohol we consumed at the table in combination of our reraises with all kinds of shitty hands. Funny thing is that you really see them think like: Ow yeah...these guys are good money!! but in fact although we were drunk, talking alot and drinking even more, we were still playing some decent poker allthough we played way to many shitty hands..cause thats what you start doing when drunk hehe. Some 40 year old chines lady startted hitting on Takaa at one night, and when she found out Takaa liked to talk, but didn;t really was gonna get juicy with her she tried to hook him up with her daughter haha. she kept showing him pictures of her daughter etc. I mean...what kinda mom is that, who sits at the pokertable at 3 am, showing pictures of her daughter to a guy who ALSO sits at a poker table at 3 am, and who is drinking wiskeyy coke after wiskey coke :P One of the greatest lines i heard about our mental and physical condition was: You guys where pretty marinated last night, you must have been Beef jerkey today!" I found it pretty funny.

Taxidrivers are pretty fun in vegas. Most will make a chat with you and some will even offer you all kinda services... One night we met Tudor Stankov. His Mother was half german and his father was bulgarian...aka this mothafucker was dirteh! He told us he had been working for 13 hours straight and to back up his words he decided to drive us around liek a maniac..We really had to fasten our seatbels because of his bumpy driving styl. At the end of the ride he grabbed my shoulder and looked me deep in the eyes while saying "ghave you already been to the tittybars?" he visualized the term by making boob-grabbing gestures and laughing dirty a bit. I told him no and he starts writing down his number on a card, telling me to call him if i needed a handjob or a fuck. While saying he grossly visualized his words with hand gestures..meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh. Obviouly he would ride us there for free and ofcourse he wanted us to know that all others who told us this where ripp offs, but he was not! That was special lol.

A lot of people find it appealing to get married in vegas. I find it pretty dumb. We saw like bride and groom sitting behind slotmachines in the casinos....thats like....unbelievable if you see that. On the last day of our vegas trip we experienced a true Mariage strom..the date was 08-08-08 so everybody wanted to get married that day. Every weddingchappel was in use, even the old ones from back in the days in down town las vegas. pretty sick....Those chappels marry like 60 couples a day or something....that will make you feel really special....:S

All in all i found vegas for some part really disgusting with the whole gambling attitude arround there and the negative vibe of addicting you feel when you are there. But on the other hand, its a good place to party and have fun as long as you have the money and can afford to spent it! We visited a lot of casinos and most of them have some kind of theme ( like new york theme, pyramid theme, circus theme, or movie themes like mgm grand) I was most impressed by The venetian. WHAT A CASINO!...like SICK...it is so nice....you enter in some gigantic hall way with all roofpaintings and stuff and some guy playing an instrument and singing italian ballads at a fountain, then you enter there casino which is pretty neat. But then yuo go upstarirs and your lower jaw really starts scraping dirt of the floor. They rebuild Venice or something. Its insane....you walk on the seoncd floor of a casino and you have the idea you walk outside. They have bars, shops, chairs outside, they even have canals with gondols ( or whatever those boats are called) in it. And the roof is like really far up, with skyprints on it, and lights behind the prints, giving the effect of daylight! So when you look up you actually are looking at the sky! its so sick... We were walking through the streets there when we saw a guy proposing in a gondal to his girl...lol proposing on the second floor of a casino thats romance! we decided to eat luxurious this time and sat down at some italian place canaletti which looked good...it was GREAT. I ordered some fish in a saltcrust or something so they brought it to my table, opened up the salt crust, started preparing the fish right before my eyes, and serving it on my plate. absolutely great! The waitresses at the poker tables in the venetian are also of the highest quality. They runnign around in some sort of bunny suits and looking really good, i loved it. I def was impressed by this casino.

One of the last nights e and robert decided to do a famous graveyard shift....thats means like playing till dawn. So we started at 12 in the evening and played till 11 am in the morning. At one moment the game was only 3 handed with me robert and some american dude in it. We were trying to convince him to play razz with us, which he refused.. That was kinda good because i dont know how to play razz at all, but it is always good too bluff at the table so i didnt mind convincing him off playing razz ;-) At one point the restrooms where closed near the poker area. i was drunk and needed to take a leak so i jumped over the stop signs and ran into the toilet where i foudn the mexicans cleaning. I tried to bribe the mexican by offering him 5 $ if he let me pee, he refused so i raised it to 14$ ( 15 was to much obv) but he kept refusing....thats like 2 hours pay for him i think...pretty stupid he didnt take it. The pokersession ended with us seeing the early morning poker players come in, sipping coffee while we were still ordering mixdrinks at 11 am. I was really fun to have done that but i felt horrible when i woke up after 5 hours of sleep.

Yesterday me and robert decided we are gonna hike up Mount half Dome. It is said to be a very very very difficult hike which you cant complete if you are not trained ( or you have to be a marathon runner they told us) We are really considering doing it. Niels was laughing at us when we said we are gonna do it. i told him i could do it if i wanted to ( maybe im a bit to confident....i gained weights last two weeks and boozed all day long, besides, i havent been working out/playing sports for like 3 years now). I said he should put his money where his mouth is so i dared him to put money on it. After some negotiations we made a 500$ bet wheter i am gonna make it. He gave me odds which are fine, so i dont mind the bet,...It would be nice if i can win it. If we will start the hike to the top it will be a very exhausting, horrible experience i think. But when up top, having achieved the impossible, we will feel GREAT! so i hope we will try it and succeed! ( check out youtube and internet for more info on Half dome, Yosemite)

We have rented a car today and are moving to the coast now. My friend are already sleeping so i'm gonna join them!

Take care,

Hans

Yoo, sup!

Sup!

At this moment im sitting in my hotel room, which is literally like 20 meters from Times Square (balla). Ill give a little trip report about our first two days:

day1: Traveling to the USA
Sucks. It was my worst trip ever. We hopped on the plane in Amsterdam at 1.30 PM and flew for 8 hours while the girls in blue were feeding us and giving us drinks so that was ok. Then obviously some tropical storm broke lose above JFK airport and we had to make a stop (the didnt allow us to go out of the plane) which brought us 6 hours delay. When we finally arrived we met with Mr. Homeland Security....Jeeee It's good that no international sportsevent like the olympics or the WC of soccer is going to be in the USA anytime soon, cause im afraid the system would fail... We had to wait for like 2,5 hours in line, just b/c they needed fingerprints and photographs of everyone. When we finally got our luggage we decided to visit the MacDonalds for a late night snack. I must say: never in my life have i seen such uninterested demoralized people. They were trowing with there Burger equipment and looked like someone drugged them or something. Later i discovered that like half the NY survice industry people are like really unfriendly and not good at their jobs so that made sence.

Day2:
i decides to put 5$ bill on the pillow to persuade the cleaner to leave the ipod (street value >5$) in the suitcase (+ev). and clean the room somewhat more passionately We tracked down a starbucks to add to the american experience and decided to go for breakfast/lunch at Subway's (again...lousy service, starbucks was ok though). Afterwards we took the subway to Time Square. The Adds you see in the subway are really hilarious. "Be someone else, Be Kanye! Fast acting tablet transform anyone into Kanye West! (this text was the best:) Feel famous on the outside" ..LOOOOLL why you wanna feel famous on the outside instead of the inside. Best thing was the "Before" picture (bold white male in his 40ties) with and arrow pointing at the "After" picture reflecting the white male after he took 2 Kanye tablets =>displaying Kanye West (black male in his 20ties - for anyone who has been in a coma for the last 5 years). I also liked the fitzgerald and fitzgerald ad, which displayed some statements that should induce the mob to sue and hire their services. Comments like "Amy got 4 million because the failed college" and "Jason got 3,5 million because he threw a cup of coffee over himself", great..def LoL-tastic.

I bought some Hugo Boss underwear (I know you guys want to hear about this but im gonna keep it short) at a store at broadway because . When i told the lady at the shop that i thought i would need size Small She started laughing. I noticed her dentist never finished high school, or prolly more logical, she didnt have a dentist at all. So while that Graveyard with two eyes above it was laughing at me i thought of some nasty things to say but i didn't. Instead i smiled and said something like "Yeah i need to eat some more burgers" (in retrospect i think i should have tapped on her belly while making the comment). Im not really a balla Yet :(.

So we visited Financial District and drunk a beer before we did a ferry-ride across the Hudson, which was really cool. Takaa (one of my travel companions) let himself get hustled big time when some Black dude showed up, who was selling candy for 5$ a box and telling a story about how they helped the lowlife kiddos by playing basketball with them and they really needed equipment etc. To back his story up he showed a piece of paper where the story he just told was printed upon....pretty good prove! I guess Takaa was either afraid of this african american guy who desperately wanted to shake our hands and sharing names, or he was really hungry or something. Now that the weakish player in the group was spotted Mr Vendor tried to sell more boxes to Takaa. While the black beast was aproaching Takaa shrinked with fear but Takaa put himself together and told him to Fock off.

Last but not least i wanted to buy a MacBook Pro (its awsomeeeee). So we headed to the Apple store. After trying the macbook for a bit i decided to buy it and after arranging the deal with some sales guy i said i wanted to pay with my neteller mastercard. He looked at it and the next conversation started..

AppleDude: Sir you can't pay with this card although we do accept mastercards but this one we do not except.
La Mano: Dude..............
La Mano: ..............
La Mano: .............
La Mano: DUUDEEEEE...believe me you don't want me to pay cash..
AppleDude: Cash would be perfectly fine Sir!
La Mano: Ok then, you asked for it, im afraid i have to do this Balla-Styl
AppleDude: Balla-what?
La Mano: Can you count to 110?
Appledude: Say what? yeah i can , why?
La Mano: You'll see, gimme 20 min
Appledude: sure, ill just continue to do nothing!

So i decided to use my perfectly working mastercard to empty an ATM. I actually had to withdrawel two times because it was to much money for the ATM to handle (lol). So since in NY only 1 type of Bills comes out of ATM's I got my 2200$ in bills of 20 (total pack was almost 2 inches thick) and returned to the Apple store. I gave the money to a girl who's eyes lit up when she saw money. they counted the money with two persons, b/c it was obviously too much for them to handle. and finaly they shipped me my MAcBookPro
Its really nice actually.

well thats for the tripreport ...

photos will be on later cause im pretty done with trying to upload them and failing in evefry way...

That's all for now, rather long this time... Laterrr! Hans

This is it!

I guess i'm gonna start a blog. Ill be playing full time poker for a few months when i return from my holiday to the States this summer.

I hope to post some good content here...for starters perhaps some pic of the holiday and afterwards my progres at the poker tables.

The main challenge will be to keep this blog updated but i think it will be good for me to be able to read back my thoughts and motivations when im facing hard times during the big grind. After the first few months of poker i will evaluate and decide wheter i will travel the rest of the year around the globe and start my Master in Finance afterwards or wheter i'll be keep playing poker for as long as it will remain profitable enough.

During my holiday in the states i will not post much, just gonna enjoy life. Afterwards i intend to blog more.

P.S. My english grammer and writing is on the same level as your grandmothers Pokertracker skills, so plz don't flame on that.

We will visit NY, LA, San fransisco, Vegas and the bahamas, + some random citys like santa barbara, Santa Maria etc..

Thats all for now,

Have a nice summer y'all!