CARDRUNNERS

I'm back.

That's probably the longest break I've taken from blogging since I started a few years ago. I just felt like I didn't have much to say. I know that isn't necessarily true, because I passed on blogging about the playboy mansion, some crazy HU plo sessions, etc. However, I just got tired of airing out my life all the time and I felt like my blog wasn't very good as of late. I also knew that when Vegas rolled around, I'd have plenty to write about. Well, I'm leaving for Vegas tomorrow, so that time has come.

The main reason I wanted to get a blog up today was because of an experience I had with FreeCreditReport.com yesterday. That site is a scam and I wanted to get the word out. I've had my credit pulled a few times lately because I recently moved offices, I'm about to move my apartment, and I rented a house for a month in Vegas. This got my interested in what my credit rating actually is. Everyone knows the freecreditreprot.com commercials. They obviously got to me, because I decided to use their site. During the sign up process, they asked for a credit card, which seemed totally reasonable since they probably need it to pull my credit. Luckily, Kevin informed me that the site was a scam, so I looked into it more. When you check your credit there, they secretly sign you up for a $15/month service. It's also a pain in the ass to cancel. I spent about 30 minutes on the phone yesterday cancelling. In the end, it only cost me $15. Don't use FreeCreditReport.com!

After Caroline told me that the Strangers was a good movie, I decided to go see it. It wasn't any good. This is like the 3rd time shes recommended a movie that I didn't like. I won't listen to her movie advice going forward. Basically, the movie was very predictible and just not scary. Then again, most "scary" movies are not good.

As I said, I'll be in Vegas tomorrow. I'll be playing a lot of poker and going out a decent amount. That means I should have some good things to write about.

Sorry I have a bad blog.

Oh well. Either I have a serious, but yet to be defined leak or I just run cold. I dont know, seriously. It´s not fun.

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The ol 52.

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I just dont give guys with 70BB stacks much credit, which they usually dont deserve.

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One of the hands I actually managed to win.

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This is so dumb, I can not put him on T9s when he somewhat min-raises me pre-flop with 50BB stack. Flop might be mistakish, but as I said how to put him on that hand I dont want to loose him and his stupid Ax.

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N/C.

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"So bad."

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HAND OF THE DAY. To his credit he had 30% equity on each street. It´s not that I dont make hands. Oh boy.

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Stupid halfstackers. Beautiful.

I guess I now watch today´s video where peachy is looking for leaks in 25/50cent. I´m still on the lookout for my own errors.

l8er,

KK

The weekend has been great although I was a bit disappointed that there was no live online broadcast of the November Nine. I guess I have to watch it on ESPN on Tuesday as I cant stand listing to it on radiob. Looking forward to it and am really rooting for Craig as I played against him a couple of times on FTP and he seems like a decent guy.  I think it will be a very tough and long final table.

I played lots of poker this weekend and continued to run hot. I played a a very long session last night after watching W in the cinema. The movie is pretty rubish as nothing really new comes to light about Bush and Oliver Stone is just playing on all the funny moments Bush had during it presidency. Definitely cannot recommend it, my fiancee even fell asleep during it. Next on my list is James Bond, I have heard different opinions about it. After coming back from the cinema I loaded up a couple of tables and played from 10pm till 6 in the morning which turned out to be great although it was a bit too long.  I really like to play longer sessions against the same opponent and on Saturday I played around 1500 hands against the same opponent on 2 tables simultaneously and winning 4 buyins in the process. This way you can really get your reads right and adjust appropriately. I read him almost perfect and have a good grasp how he plays. I definitely think I have a big edge on him and since he is a regular I played him again today on 2 tables and got him on tilt pretty quickly (through my reads) ending the session up another 5 buy ins. I am not going to post hands today as it is almost 1am here in London and I have to hit the sack to be ready for work.

Overall I won another $4.5k this weekend and am up almost $10k since getting back into poker. This is a very good result given that I only got back into it 10 days ago and played aroun 7.5k hands. I however also played a long session on 3 tables against another regular who is a bit more LAGish and ended up down around 4 buyins as we played quite aggressive and I made some thin call downs that turned against. me. Definitely have to go over that session and analyzw how I can improve my game against that opponent as I take pleasure in challenging myself and hopefully beating him up next weekend.

Otherwise, I had some after work drinks with my colleagues on Friday and it was good fun as everyone from the office showed up. Normally only the secretary and maybe one or two associates showed up. I showed off my drinking skills as 5 Long Island Ice Teas couldn't get me down. I however had to leave around midnight already as my fiancee was waiting at home and she was already a little bit upset that i stayed out so long without her :)

I had lunch with friends of mine on Sat and Sunday which was great fun as we haven't seen each other for a couple of weeks. We went to some really fancy restaurants and you can definitley feel that the credit crunch has an impact on retail and consumer businesses already as they were much emptier than normally.  A taxi driver even told me that his revenues are down 25% already this year, largely due to the credit crunch / recession.

Pokerwise I really believe that I have the skills to play as high as 10/20 profitable and just have to make sure to keep my BR management in check and not move up to quickly.  I want to have at least 25 buy-ins for any level I am playing and if I drop below that I will have to move back down again.

GL to you all and have a good start into the week.