Quick update

It's 2 weeks since my last update, so time for a new one.
Not much happened though, still on target for my goal of 40 to 50 cent per hand this year (I'm on 42 cent so far this year).

Want to post one hand, which I played perfect given my read.
Key in this hand is that I know he donks mediocre hands and no draws as far as I know, so I can 'safely' check behind on the turn (he is drawing to 5 outs most likely) en valuebet the river.

EverestPoker Game #2857888444: Table Nassau-1 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:11:49 - 2008/02/22
Seat 1: morpheo ($600.00)>> 25/17/3 (not a very good player, note: donks TPWK hands and calls raise)Seat 2: galley ($631.60)
Seat 3: DronpaUK ($912.27)
Seat 4: BRILLORM ($677.30)
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ($948.11)
Seat 6: TAITAITAI ($116.10)
TAITAITAI posts the small blind of $3.00
morpheo posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Qc Qh]
galley folds
DronpaUK folds
BRILLORM folds
BldZwtTrn raises to $21.00
TAITAITAI folds
morpheo calls $15.00
*** FLOP *** [3d 9h Th]
morpheo bets $30.00
BldZwtTrn raises to $99.00
morpheo calls $69.00
*** TURN *** [3d 9h Th] [Kd]
morpheo checks
BldZwtTrn checks
*** RIVER *** [3d 9h Th Kd] [3s]
morpheo checks
BldZwtTrn bets $160.00
morpheo calls $160.00
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc Qh]
morpheo mucks
UNKNOWN ACTION - GAME #2857888444 - Jd, 10d
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [3d 9h Th Kd 3s]
BldZwtTrn collects $560.00

Best midstakes players on Everest

In the comments someone asked me the following question:

"Could you make a top 10 list over the most solid players fra N400-NL1000 at everest. Should include players that have been there for 4 months+
That could be super cool!"

As I like to make lists I'm gonna try to make a top5 of the players who I think are the most solid NL400/NL600 players (don't play NL1000 enough to rate those players).
When looking through my database of the last two months I noticed that there were only about 60 players with who I played more then 1000 hands....
And even with 1000 hands on somebody it's still very difficult to tell how good someone is. I also noticed that a lot of good players haven't been around the last two months as much as before.

So I'll select my top5 by the ~60 players I played the most the last two months.
So when you're not in the list it could mean two things...you're not good enough or you're avoiding me at the tables ;-)

1. Bigspender80 (24/21/6): Very tricky player, can mix his game very well and is not easy to read and very agressive. Haven't seen him for a while, but last month he seems to play more.

2. Sebboss (24/21/3): Good agressive player. Have seen him make some sick calls/plays, not easy to play against for sure.

3. cRaZyahm3D (20/17/6): Played the most hands by far against him the last two months. Maybe a bit too agressive, but definitely not nice to have him left of you.

4. Ze_Gnome (20/16/3): Plays a shitload of hands every month (100K+) and while he's not one of the best, he still is a lot better then most guys who play so much hands and he surely is one of the three biggest winners on NL400 ($$-wise).

5. Niwle (21/17/3): Another player with who've I played a lot of hands. Around for a very long time on NL400 and from what I've seen he's very decent and one of the very few players who I've never seen on tilt and thats a quality as well.

Kickstart

February is starting great. Only played for 5 hours but I'm up over 10 buy-ins.



Posting one kind of interesting hand. It's probably a very standard hand, but the key point is that raising the flop here is not the best option. By calling this flop I'm repping JT+, 99+ and he has a hand like 44-88 (+bluff) almost always here.
The turn is a good card, not because I hit a pair, but because the chance of him having 44 is very small and when he checks I'm obviously bluffing him off his 66 or something. But he knows I'm playing AJ+/QQ+ exactly the same.

EverestPoker Game #2764878697: Table Nassau-0 - $3.00/$6.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 12:12:49 - 2008/02/04
Seat 1: merwin ($600.00)
Seat 2: koelitski ($594.00)
Seat 3: BldZwtTrn ($1,038.60)
Seat 5: Walkinwild ($1,665.65)
Seat 6: bifffeno ($663.00) -> 23/14/3 (5000 hands)
bifffeno posts the small blind of $3.00
koelitski posts the big blind of $6.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BldZwtTrn[Ad 4d]
BldZwtTrn raises to $21.00
Walkinwild folds
bifffeno calls $18.00
koelitski folds
*** FLOP *** [Jh 3s 3c]
bifffeno checks
BldZwtTrn bets $39.00
bifffeno raises to $96.00
BldZwtTrn calls $57.00
*** TURN *** [Jh 3s 3c] [4h]
bifffeno checks
BldZwtTrn bets $160.00
bifffeno folds
Uncalled bet of $160.00 returned to BldZwtTrn
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BldZwtTrn mucks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Jh 3s 3c 4h ]
BldZwtTrn collects $238.00