EPT Dortmund - €2,000 NL Hold 'Em

Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 Professional Internet Live Tournament Women

8th

€6,500

PCA & Aussie Millions!

Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 Professional Internet Live Tournament Women

I know it's been a while, so hopefully u all haven't missed me too much! I promise I'll get better at updating... it's just not the first thing u wanna do when u get knocked out of a tourney... anyways.

I guess I'll start with the PCA. Not too much to tell from the Main Event. I busted in the middle of day one. Made a very unnecessary play shoving TJs into AK with deep stacks. That's kinda been my standard way of busting in these lately, and I know I can do better than getting my money in bad every time against very aggressive players because I never give them any respect. I did the exact same thing in the 2k side event. We were 3 from the money. I had been extremely aggressive, stealing a ton, squeezing twice (with good hands, but they didnt know that), so I opened 47s with about 40x in HJ. Button, a young aggro player who I had only played with for three rounds or so, reraises me to about 3x my raise and we have very even stacksizes. I ship em in figuring his range is very wide and that he cant call with many hands in that spot, but I was wrong and got snapcalled by AT for all his chips... gg me. So the trend continues.

Aside from the live tourneys, we had tons of fun. Me and Negreanu were discussing my play with the TJs for a loooong time. He didn't agree with me at first, but that's understandable, cuz we play different styles, and he's probably not used to having the image I do. I think I got close to convincing him before his break in the tourney was over haha. He still owes me dinner tho from a last longer we had in an online tourney that I won... obv brag lol

I spent a lot of time playing online in the lobby. Probably doesn't sound very fun to most ppl, but I don't get to play a lot anymore because I'm travelling so much, so playing online with a lot of my friends was really cool just like last year. It was a very relaxing trip overall with no interviews or media attention for me. Nice for a change.

After PCA, I flew straight to Melbourne for Aussie millions. I've heard rumours from ppl that taking the long flights from Bahamas to Australia is a nightmare, but I didn't find it too hard as I slept most of the time :). Might do the same thing again next year or maybe skip PCA and go early to Melbourne for prelims. We'll see.

I'm very happy with how I played in the main event. Was able to create a good image on all the tables I played at, and at the same time stayed out of trouble with my marginal hands even tho I was tempted to make a move more than once lol. I managed to pull myself together every time and just fold my hand. I hope I can keep doing that until I get a better read on the players I'm playing against, and not just assuming they're good even if it seems like it when playing a level or two with them. I know I gotta work on not getting impatient in these big live tourneys. There's so much time to recover if u make a wrong step, that trying to rush things will only make things worse. Hopefully I can follow my own advice in the next tourneys I play in.

I got unlucky to bust in this one when my As got cracked by 8s after we got all in on a 664 flop in a reraised pot.... wp 88 lol. Was a rather big pot too of 55k at 200-400. Oh well. It feels better to bust with the best hand tho, knowing that's all I could do.

The hotel we stayed at (The Crown) was spectacular! It was enormous! I've been to Vegas before, and it was as big as, if not even bigger than the ones they have there. It's very easy to get caught up with everything there and not leave the hotel because it has anything u can imagine. I went bowling with Jon Turner (Pearljammed), Tracey (his gf), Dag Martin (Dmmikkel) and a friend of him called Ygga. I was a little nervous before we started because they all knew that I used to play bowling before I started with poker... I was just praying they didn't expect too much from me as I hadn't touched a bowlingball in 2 years, and I didn't have my own balls and shoes this time lol. Got off to a really good start when I tripped twice because I couldn't slide with the damn shoes, so I just took it off and played with one instead ;). I played like shit, but still scored a 110. I used to avg 160 or so, so the competitive side off me was a little pissed off, but it was just for fun, so I let it go. Felt like we got robbed when we paid for it... was $16/game! (Per person!) Sad... Its not that we cant afford it, its just pathetic how much they can charge for a game of bowling.

We also played arcade games and did sidebets and stuff... was great fun (Even tho I lost money making -EV bets cuz I'm stubborn).

Not so much about poker this time I guess, but I really enjoyed these trips even if the tourneys didn't finish the way I wanted them to. Def ready for EPT Dortmund coming up, and I promise I won't do anything stupid this time!

Annette

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