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August 2009 Graph

Back up to a respectable amount of hands this month, partly due to a rake race for  Killarney package that I thought I had a chance to win initially. Clearly this month was great, and very satisfying to win a lot while €3.5k down against all-in EV – previously my best months have also involved [...]

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Unlucky river card

Just complainging about a bad beat really, but since the pot is over twice as big as usual and he only had 6.8% equity it seemed worth posting. (BTW, note that he has hands like QT here, that’s why I think its OK to call the flop and shove turn cards with some equity; hearts, [...]

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Don’t tap the glass!

The summary: Shinta, KalleKanin, and _Iverson_ are idiots. Please pass the message on if you know any of them. What this image shows is the above 3 players sat out, and that “jumboshrimp” in the top centre seat then left the table. Jumboshrimp played a creative 57/44 style, and was the reason this table was [...]

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Biggest winning day so far…

Got off to a bad start, but came back strongly €5600 beat my previous best of ~$5300 by almost £2k when converted to sterling. Seems even better because it was all at €3/6, whereas the previous effort was at $5/10.

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