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teubsch's Poker Blog

November 09, 2008

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.

Entry Tags: ftp, session, credit, london