Entering the world of live tournaments

August 31st, 2010 Kent

A lot of people dream of becoming a professional sportsman, but in many sports this is something that is almost impossible to obtain. If you play for example football, basketball or golf the percentage of the players who actually become professional is very low and it takes a lot of sacrifice and dedication.

In poker this dream is more obtainable for many people and if you cannot become a full time professional, you can at least have a taste of it. In football or basketball your chance of playing against some of the best in the world or just the best in your country is not very high and if you actually play against them, they will beat you very bad.

Playing poker against the best is possible by entering a tournament you know they will play and you might get seated at their table. This is a great experience and you might win a hand or even knock out one of these players. I played against a professional that I had seen on TV in my first big live tournament.

Let me tell you about my experience. We were three players who

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Vacation in the north of Sweden

August 15th, 2010 admin

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great summer;I have been able to enjoy 2 weeks of vacation in July, enough to gather energy and escapa from the heat of Costa del Sol.I went to the north of Sweden in a place surrounded by forrest and lakes, where the sun shines 24 hours a day and very close to the polar circle. Hiking, canoing, rafting, saunas, lots of barbecues with 20 degrees and the big wedding of my brother and sister in law with a great bachelor party as well.

We I came back I of course played the 5th event of the Marbella Classic where I obtained 8th place out of the 124 participants. On day 1 there is not much to tell, I struggled a lot and was

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Ernesto on the final table in Russian Poker Series Riga

August 9th, 2010 admin

Ernesto Jiménez, “Grischuk”Tonight Ernesto is playing the final table and we will post updates in this blog entry.

Alexander Cooperman – 363 000
Murat Ghana – 361 000
Evgeny Zaytsev -356.000
Garik Yaroshevskiy – 490 000
Joao Miguel Rosa Kandeyras – 1027000
Arthurs Egorovs – 1392000
Mikhail Rudenko – 289 000
Ernesto Estevez – 463 000
Martin Merseyr – 829 000

1st update 16.30 cet:

Final table has started. No news about Ernesto.

There has been a couple of all-ins, but nothing involving

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Will Gus Hansen stake me?

August 6th, 2010 Jeppe Bech-Sørensen

So yesterday I was just surfing around on the internet and looking through all the different pokernews sites. Something caught my attention and it was an article about Gus Hansen and the Partouce Poker Tour that are being held soon. He was looking after Danish players to stake for that specific tournament and he was looking from this list. I’m on that list, so I have a chance of Gus contacting me, but I guess my chances are pretty slim, I haven’t made any good live results and there are lot of other good Danish players on that list.

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Is summer your favorite time of year?

August 4th, 2010 Kent

Summer down swing

Summer time is equal to sun, beach, beer, cocktails, vacation and spending a lot of time out side. At least this is the case where I live. This is the same for many countries, which results in that poker players do not spend as much time in front of the computer and the traffic on most poker sites drop during July and August and this is also the case for LiiPoker. If you have logged in during the last couple of weeks you might have seen there are fewer active tables and the SNGs take longer to fill. No need to worry, in September the traffic will start to go up again, when people come back from vacation and start spending more time in front of the computer. I hope you are enjoying your vacation and hope to see you back on LiiPoker soon.

New software

I mentioned in June that we are working on a new software and this is still the case. Once one

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Why does losing feel extra bad and winning only good?

August 4th, 2010 Jeppe Bech-Sørensen

Jeppe Bech SørensenIt’s always nice to win in poker especially if you are playing well. But as many of you probably know, you can’t win every single time you play.

When I book a nice win after a session it’s all good, I have won, maybe been lucky, or I have just been getting the right cards at the right time and made the right decisions. If I then go on a winning streak for a 4-7 days period, I get tired of winning. I play less and my sessions are often really short. This is the period where I should be putting in TONS of hours and hands. You have to strike when the iron is still hot.

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Moving down to NL20

August 3rd, 2010 Donk Alert

Since I was staked $1000 by a friend I started playing nl100 and did ok for a while and actually managed to win almost another $1000, but then it was the usually bulls, where I got out drawn a couple of times, a couple of 3 outers and other hands with some bad luck and I was back down to $1000 again. Actually I was at $900 at one point.

Then I talked to Jeppe and Ernesto to get a bit of advice and they told me that with a $1000 bankroll I should maximum be playing nl50 but it would be better to play nl20 until I made it to $1500. They also correct a bit of my game, when to value bet and when not and some hands I should not play out of position and a couple of minor things.

So I have been playing nl20 for a couple

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MCP #4 and others things

July 4th, 2010 Sergio

Sergio Ríos "patXYpot"In regards to the Marbella tournament, I managed to get to the finals and end at the 10th place, bubble +1. It served to get some cash and continueing getting points. Halfway through, I am still leading. At this very moment it seems possible to get to a top 9 and get the pack to Las Vegas, though, it will be tuff, shreading swet and tears on the last events for those who are up there. It has been a couple of weeks since I played the tournament and I hardly rememenber any hands, playing tight was my moto, some luck at the flips and one or two resteals to get chips. This time, my adventure ended when, if my memory doesn’t fail, with 95.000 points and as small blind, when a clean hand comes from the dealer, the good Cesar Ordoñez with almost 300.000 points, raises to 30.000 with big blind at 12.000. I put him in a big range of hands as the big blind had about 100.000 points and both of us were poor in chips at the final table (ideal to get stolen), so I went in with A5 and all-in with minimum fold-equity to resteal, yet with

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Major down swing!!!

June 25th, 2010 Donk Alert

Well, the last couple of weeks have been very bad for my bankroll. I have actually lost all my money. After losing about $1000 of my bankroll I decided to move up to higher stakes to win it back.

I know I can beat nl200 so I started up 4 tables with $150 on each table. It started out well as I was all-in preflop with KK and the other player had AK. But then I was hit by some bad beats. There are some very bad players on nl200 on LiiPoker and they are very difficult to play against because you never know what they will do. Take a look at this hand for instance. The other player is very bad

NL200

I have $254

Hero [ J J ]
Villian raises $7 en Cut off
Hero raises $24.00 in BB
Villian calls $24.00

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Very little time

June 25th, 2010 admin

Since I started working as doctor a couple of weeks ago I am practically not doing anything else. During the day I see patients, in the afternoon I study pathologies and protocols and cook so I can eat a little. Every six days I have a 24 hour guard and still have to find time to spend with my girl friend, friends, family etc. Now that the summer is here it is also mandatory to go to the beach and go out some times. To sum up, it has been about 20 days since I have seen “any two cards”.

I am not unhappy about the situation on the contrary, because I am dedicating myself to the job that fullfills me and does not bore me after studying so many years. But poker is also a part of me and I am not taking care of it.

A couple of weeks ago they played the FullTilt Series in Torrequebrada, a few kilometers from mi house. I did not go because of work. I had to choose between

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