The whole event took place at the Cercle Cadet poker room, which saw packed tables for four days and a lot of side events and cash games! Second in the main event was fellow Swede Kent Lundmark for 98,051 euros — and he thus added another final table to his CV, which includes a win in the 2010 EPT in Barcelona:

Here is a list of the rest of the final table finishers:

(3) Daniel Pastor (The Netherlands), 70,595 euros
(4) Giorgio La Iacona (The Netherlands), 54,908 euros
(5) Quentin Lecomte (France), 39,220 euros
(6) David Lichentin-Rubintin (France), 29,873 euros
(7) Dan Murariu (Roumania), 21,048 euros
(8) Franck Tzafa (France), 16,342 euros
(9) Tarek Bouchama (France), 13,073 euros.

And — life is full of coincidences — in the breakfast room of the hotel Concorde Lafayette the next morning, as a couple of us joke about what we would have done with the money had we been the lucky winner or runner-up, two well-dressed British ladies take their seats at the adjoining table and have this reading material with them:

Like I said, life is full of coincidences and ironies…

DAN GLIMNE

When I was co-host of the Swedish “Poker Million” show for five seasons, several of our guests – pros, celebrities and Unibet qualifiers – managed to appear on the show twice. But only one managed to reach the final table both times: the actress Magdalena in de Betou. And on one of these occasions, the psyching-out-operation she performed got my respect.

In one of her semi-finals, as the concluding heads-up is about to commence and just seconds before the cameras start rolling, she turnes to the young online qualifier on the other side of the table and says with an angelic smile: “You realize that when this goes on the air, all of your friends back home in X-town will be watching?”

It does the trick; the only thing the young man from then on has on his mind is I-must-not-look-like-an-idiot-on-TV-I-must-not-look-like-an-idiot-on-TV, and so he he folds in the face of even the cheapest bluffs from Magdalena. At the end he has so few chips left that he is easy prey.

Another of my favourite examples, although perhaps more of the in-your-face-manly variety, occurred during a cashgame in connection with one of the Unibet Open events. Our hero here is Swedish pro Davor Pavic, who came second in the 2011 Unibet Open in Barcelona, and he is in this cashgame up against a young guy who although being technically skilled has little experience of live play; that is painfully obvious.

In one pot the young guy gets lucky and wins a coinflip against Davor. The young guy smirks, lets the rest of the table partake of his opinion that Davor is one lousy player, and rounds off the verbal barrage by saying: “I just want you to know that I play online fourteen hours a day and win big!”

“OK”, Davor replies nonchalantly, “so you don’t get laid a lot, in other words…”

The young online player goes on total tilt. Now it is personal, since Davor has challenged his manhood; and he starts chasing Davor Pavic in each and every pot. Against such a seasoned poker warrior it can of course only end in one way – the young guy blows off his entire stack to Davor, who icily has waited for the right opportunity.

Third example: it is aboard a poker cruise in 2008, and there are only two tables left in the tournament. Swedish player Samir Shakhtoor is moved from table 1 to table 2 to balance the numbers, and straight away winds up in the big blind to the left of German player Strassman who is in the small blind. Everyone folds to Strassman, who raises it up. Samir cooly advises Strassman: “Mind how you hold your cards, when you peeked I could see what you had”, before smooth-calling him from the big blind.

Strassman is obviously bothered by Samir’s comment, and testily replies that he is careful and never accidentally shows his hole cards. The flop is A-2-2. Strassman makes a continuation bet, and now Samir instantly moves all in. Strassman goes into the tank for a long while, eventually folding and showing the table his A-J. Samir gives Strassman a wolfish grin in return, turning over absolute air as he rakes home the pot; and of course he has not glimpsed any hole cards but instead done a wonderful job of psyching out the other…

And here is one of my own: during a tournament at The Bellagio in Las Vegas in 2007 I flop an absolute monster in one pot, and I also have position on my opponent. Another important piece of the puzzle is that after hours of playing against him, I have pegged him as having a Latin-American background and sporting an inflated ego the size of a Boeing 747. My task therefore is to get paid as much as possible for my monster, in that situation.

He aggressively bets out after the flop. I fake a long and seemingly thoughtful minute, before turning to him and saying: “Let me tell you how this goes down, my friend. I raise. You fold. Nobody gets hurt.” Than I calmly move a small mountain of chips forward.

My comment has put my opponent with the over-sized ego in an absolute lose-lose situation. If he calls me or raises, he is dead and buried; but if he follows my suggestion and folds to my raise, he will look like a total wimp in front of the entire table. He of course replies by moving all-in, and is busted out since I have him covered with my instant call.

Ah, isn’t poker a wonderful mind game?

DAN GLIMNE

The satellites will start on 23rd April. See you in Paradise… and read more about the event at

http://www.unibetopen.com/st-maarten/

and don’t forget that there will be a Unibet Open event in Paris in May, and one in London in September!

DAN GLIMNE

As a consolation this Unibet Open Online was won by a fellow countryman, Swedish poker warrior David Sonelin who picked up 9409 euros and 40 important points towards the 2012 leaderboard list where both live and online Unibet Open placings are scored. That leaderboard list currently looks like this at the top:

(1) Filip Verboven (Belgium), 72 points
(2) Ruggiero Scommegna (Italy), 70 points
(3) Stieven Razab-Sekh (Netherlands), 68 points
(4) Jan Grajzel (Slovakia), 66 points
(5) Gerret van Lancker (Belgium), 64 points
(6) Tomasz Kozub (Poland), 62 points
(7) Hans Sybrandi (Netherlands), 60 points
(8) Dan Murariu (Roumania), 58 points
(9) Flavien Guenan (France), 56 points
(10) Dariusz Paszkiewics (Poland), 54 points

The best Swedes are at the moment in 16th (Goran Urumovic, 42 points) and tied for 17th (David Sonelin, 40 points). Well, there are still a lot of Unibet Open tournaments left!

A record buy-in triple
Poker has always been a game where records have repeatedly been set and toppled, and now it is time for an eye-opening triple: in the coming months, buy-in records will be established on three different continents.

First out is Asia, where the highroller tournament Manila Millions will be fought out in connection with the APT Philippines during April: that buy-in will be an even 1,000,000 Hong Kong dollars, the highest ever on Asian soil, corresponding to almost 100,000 euros. Then, right on top of that, it is time for a repeat performance in Europe: the first ever Super Highroller tournament on this continent, during the EPT Grand Final in Monaco, and with a six-figure buy-in – an even 100,000 euros. And after that, on 1st July in Las Vegas, we will see the most expensive tournament buy-in in the history of the planet: 1,000,000 US dollars for Event #55 of the World Series of Poker, “The Big One For One Drop”… a hundred times as much as it costs to sit down in the World Championship Main Event.

So how are the attendance numbers shaping up for those tournaments? They of course remains to be seen, but according to what we can read so far there are about 20 players signing up for the Super Highroller in Europe; among them the 2010 World Champion Jonathan Duhamel and the current number one on the ESPN World Ranking list, Jason Mercier. Other names already announced include Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius and Swedish online sensation Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom. And the upcoming battle for Manila is surrounded by rumours of former twice World Champion Johnny “Orient Express” Chan putting in a show, alongside megastars Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Ivey.

The monster buy-in tourney in Las Vegas is the brain child of Guy Laliberté, the French-Canadian founder of the enterprise Cirque du Soleil which owns several of the most high-profile shows in Las Vegas. Laliberté is also the chairman of One Drop, an independent charity organization which has as its main goal to fight poverty in Third World countries by arranging access to fresh, clean water. The declared aim of this tournament with its stupefying buy-in is therefore to collect funds, and so 111,111 dollars out of every buy-in go to One Drop… which still leaves 888,889 dollars per player in the prize pool.

Almost two dozen people have already publicly declared their intention of entering: Laliberté himself, of course, but also Tom ”durrrr” Dwan, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius, Tony Gouga and a few others. And not only professional poker players but also some philantrophically-minded business magnates have put down their names on the starting list, among them Phil Ruffin who owns Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas. Dwan has incidentally let slip the following comment in an interview las year: ”I am buying in; $1 million has a nice ring to it. It’s so sick, and for such a good cause. Now I just gotta win.”

Sick or not, the million-dollar tournament in Las Vegas will be structured as a three-day event. Since one of the principles in play during the WSOP is that the starting stack is always 3x the buy-in (4500 in chips in a $1500 event, 30K in the Main Event where the buy-in is $10,000, and so on), the participants in this monster buy-in – also already known as the “No-Limit Holdem High-Roller WSOP Championship” – will start with 3,000,000 in chips.

That of course is in itself another world record. Amassing 3M in chips usually takes the top players in the WSOP Main Event four or five days, but here it is the starting stack! Furthermore the blinds will start at 3000-6000 with an ante of 1000, so 500 x the big blind is respectable indeed. The levels will be one hour each. The number of entrants will be maxed at 48, which if this goal is attained will mean a prize pool of over 42 million dollars with some 10 million or so going to the winner. That number is throughout poker history trumped only by Jamie Gold’s 12 million dollars, for his victory in the 2006 Main Event of the WSOP which attracted 8773 players. Just a liiiittle fiddling around with the numbers and first prize can be pegged at let’s say 12,5 million dollars, establishing yet another fanciful world record… but, as I have said, this assumes a full starting field of 48 players.

This record triple in buy-ins will definitely put its mark on the poker year 2012. But at a more realistic level you can qualify for both the next Unibet Open in Paris, the WPT in Marbella and the WSOP this summer in Las Vegas – the satellites and qualifiers are already rolling at Unibet!

And don’t forget that the Fast Poker client is now up and running; just go to your Unibet web site, check the new features under “Poker”, download the new client and you are ready for the fastest poker action of your life!
DAN GLIMNE

That feat of course temporarily puts him at the top of the 2012 UO leaderboard – but six tournaments remain: three online, and three more live. The first UO online event is scheduled for 25th March, and the next UO live event will take place in Paris 3-6 May. Sounds like the right time of the year – isn’t “Paris in the Spring” a little romantic song, if I remember correctly?

But one notable development is that the Unibet Open live tournaments more and more turn out to be a festival for money-changing-hands events, apart from the already existing side tourneys and cash games. In fact, three such events took place in Prague.

One was the Million Poker Sit & Go Final, consisting of six players who had placed at the top of the rake race and thus were rewarded with a trip to Prague. There they played a sit-and-go, with Byelorussian player Alex Harbatsevich winning it. How much money he was going to win for that feat was however decided through quite a thrilling procedure: a total of 35 sealed plastic envelopes were placed on a poker table, and Alex was given scissors and told to choose and open one at a time. Inside each envelope was a piece of paper stating an amount in euros, from 3,000 € to all the way up to 1,000,000 €. As soon as Alex had gotten three identical amounts, that would be the money he had won – much like a lottery ticket of the scratch-off variety. (And yes, the higher the amount, the rarer those pieces of paper: the one million euros was stated on three such only, meaning Alex had roughly 1 chance in 5,000 to win this staggering sum.)

The first envelope Alex chose was for 5,000 €; but the second contained a 1,000,000 € piece of paper, much to the excitement of the audience! In the end however the amount first repeated three times was 5,000 euros, which he duly took home. Just to show it was a fair deal, all the remaining envelopes were opened afterwards before the audience, to show that there were indeed three “containing” 1,000,000 €.

Secondly, there was also a blackjack final played out among 18 finalists who had qualified online and received flight tickets to Prague and a stay at the Hilton. Dutchman Kevin van der Hulst was the eventual winner of this for 8,000 €, interestingly coming strongly from behind at the end to capture the crown with some very courageous and creative betting!

And finally there was the Unibet Live Betting Championship, with eight finalists who had also qualified online and thus had been rewarded with a pleasant five-star stay in Prague. The final – with five of the eight coming from Sweden, yayyy! – was played out on Sunday, while the Main Event was going on in the background (or vice versa). Each participant received a Samsung Tablet, an iPad clone of sorts, and was given a certain amount as his starting capital and according to the rules had to place at least thirty bets within the allotted time of a few hours. The eventual winner was young Swede Andreas Karlsson, who walked away with 5,000 euros.

So, quite an interesting development. What will Unibet have on offer in Paris in May? As for the third live tournament, in London on 13-16 September, I am hoping to see them run the new heads-up format I have devised and previously described here – keep your fingers crossed! It is currently under evaluation, so we’ll see.

The fourth Unibet Open live tournament, probably in November although nothing has been officially declared yet, will mark the 5th Anniversary of the Unibet Open Series – and it is rumoured to be taking place in a very exotic locale indeed! Something tells me I should pack my swimming trunks and some suntan lotion, in addition to my card protector and sun glasses…

DAN GLIMNE

I’m going to list the seven most successful blog posts of my two year stint as a Unibet Ambassador, along with some thoughts as to why these were the most read.

I should note that I’m in no sense an authority on this subject. This is merely what I know – perhaps as much for the starting poker blogger than the established one. Two years ago I had never blogged before – merely written a column for Bluff Europe for a year or so – hence, I was literally starting from scratch.

In terms of marketing my blog, I was on my own. Unibet did not explicitly push the blog, rather the other way around – the Ambassadors were expected to push their own blogs and hence drive traffic to their site. My first post got a grand total of 17 hits and although I can’t remember, I was probably not too disappointed at the time.

I realised that grinding the traffic up to a respectable level might take considerable effort. I got myself a twitter account and started marketing on Facebook. After a couple of months I put together a google group of my poker playing friends for a direct email.

Poker forums are another good source of traffic. Unfortunately, as my blog was Unibet branded, many of the poker forums had a conflict of interest (e.g. Hendon mob with Full Tilt), so I had to rely on other people posting for me – which meant writing something that other people would actually read and remark upon!

As time passed, I managed to get posts into the 100+ readership and beyond. This is my hundredth post for the Unibet Ambassador blog, and I now figure to get around 100 readers or so for each post I write. So without further ado, here are the top 7 blog posts (in reverse order, Chrimbo-stylee, of course):

7. Tournament Blogging: A wake up call (399 hits)

In seventh place is possibly my most controversial post. It’s all very well slagging off Full Tilt when half the poker world has money tied up there and might not get it back. It’s another thing critiquing the poker blogging community, of which I was of course a part.

Being the intelligent, diligent and honest bunch they are, I got exactly the response I was hoping for: a far-reaching, intellectual debate with many major bloggers getting involved (Rick Dacey, Barry Carter, Lee Davey etc.).

Having achieved that goal, this blog was always going to be retweeted, linked to in other blogs, and generally talked about. This was the kind of post which marketed itself. It has to be said, however, that this was my pet subject (I had written at least half a dozen evidence-based articles about the luck factor in tournament poker and how people underestimated it). I was definitely shooting from the hip, but with a gun I knew well!

6. My mid-poker-life crisis (414 hits)

The major source of traffic for this one was Twitter. In general, if I got a lot of hits from Twitter, it was usually forum legend KevMath who was the source. When he retweeted my tweets, my traffic would triple.

This was another “straight from the heart” post explaining my thoughts and concerns about where my poker career was going. I think this kind of post does well because it engages so many everyday grinders. Secondly, I also shouted out well-respected but not well-known blogger Lildavefish. I republished a graph from his blog which showed he was running 160 buy ins below expectation. That’s the kind of thing poker players want to know about.

5. No More Heroes? (547 hits)

The first of three articles in this list inspired by or reflecting upon Full Tilt’s fate post-Black Friday. The poker media was swamped with articles describing what had happened. I pitched my tent as one of the commentators on the story.

Having had a run in with Full Tilt in the past, and having had a friend of mine in the industry warning me for years that Full Tilt were dodgy, I was in a position to say “I told you so” with gusto.

This post may have been popular because of its attempt to dispel a few myths about poker sponsorship and in particular its most high profile beneficiary, Phil Ivey. Most notably, the biggest source of traffic for this post was a Romanian poker forum. This was the thanks to the efforts of a colleague at Unibet. But it just goes to show that blog posts can be well received anywhere.

4. Here Lies Full Tilt (630 hits)

This post was written early enough in the timeline of a story to actually catch some mainstream readership looking for the details. Hey, I wrote a news piece!

The story of just how in debt Full Tilt was (complete with figures) was perhaps the biggest of the year. Combine that with reports of the ineptitude of the FTP management and you have a great story.

Once again, I put my own commentary on the piece (read: anger and despair), but I think the major driver of traffic for this article was the many links within to other pieces: cliff notes, interviews, and so on. I basically wrote a one-stop-shop article about the story and got it off the press in a timely fashion.

3. Et tu Ivey? Then Fall Tilt! (649 hits)

The third and most popular of the Full Tilt posts. This is where I laid bare my story of having found a bot on Full Tilt poker in 2008 and them basically refusing to do anything about it. It’s the closest I’ve got to writing a piece of investigative journalism, but it’s delivered in a much more flippant style.

All three of these posts I’m sure sold themselves through word of mouth and by the popularity of the subject matter. The major source of traffic was Twitter and I suspect that this is largely down to KevMath (who many poker players on Twitter turn to for their updates).

And even though I say so myself, this blog had a pretty cool title

2. The Dark Side (813 hits)

Once again, the major source here was Twitter, but in this case countless Twitter mavens retweeted this post. I even had retweets from people outside of poker with 50,000 followers, plus it got listed on bluffmagazine.com and cardplayer.com.

Somebody wrote that it was the “best facts-based article about poker”. That’s very complimentary, but I think it’s more a “tell it how it is” article rather than presenting any facts. I’ve always attempted to talk straight about the negatives in poker, despite the potential conflict of interest.

Historically, people have wanted to play down the dark side of poker, as if it’s the proverbial elephant in the room (if you ignore it, it isn’t there.) Well, it is there, and the more we talk about it, the more we are likely to be able to do something about it. Who knows, maybe poker will become more acceptable and we’ll make MORE money if it does?

I hope the popularity of this post was down to the fact that many people in poker agree with me on this sentiment.

1. A Christmas Cracker of a Hand (1151 hits)

Way out in front is a post which didn’t get tweeted by KevMath, yet managed to be my only post ever to get over a thousand hits. It’s a simple one, written in a histrionic style about a poker hand between two of the most well-known poker players in the UK.

It might have helped that this post was put up a couple of days before Christmas last year, when everyone was off work, but the major reason is that it was retweeted by Vicky Coren who, with over 60,000 followers (at the time, right now it’s almost 90,000), is a pretty significant connector in the poker Twitter world.

So there you have it. I hope you enjoyed reading my blog as much as I enjoyed writing it. I’ll be back in the New Year with a blog related to poker but with a more general interest theme. Please email me at picklemanpoker@gmail.com if you would like to be added to the mailing list for that blog when it goes live.

All the best,

Alex Rousso

Sometimes those risks don’t pay off. The £1k Monte Carlo at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham was the last major tournament of the UK calendar and given that my sponsorship with Unibet was shortly coming to an end, it was one I had to play. I had an Academy to teach in London on the Saturday, which would be during day 1B. No problem, I thought. I’ll play day 1A and drive back to Nottingham on the Sunday if I make day 2.

Albert Sapiano told me about the traffic on the M1 on the way up to Nottingham (I had come up that morning from North Norfolk). There was apparently a huge contraflow around Luton and it was murder.

I doubled up on the last hand of day 1A (what a spot to pick up Aces!) and made day 2. Being careful, I checked the other ways of getting to Nottingham from London which avoided Luton. I could go via the A1(M), but it would add another 20 mins to my journey. With my stats/economist head on, I concluded that my expected loss going through the M1 contraflow would be less than 20 mins, so I should take the M1.

Damn. If only I’d been to that lecture about risk averseness. Sure, perhaps on average the journey time via the M1 will only add, say, 15 mins, but when the contraflow goes wrong, it goes catastrophically wrong. Using a different economics theory, it’s sometimes worth a guaranteed penalty of 15 mins to make certain that you don’t suffer a disproportionately worse outcome.

So there I was, in the gridlock, a hundred miles from Nottingham, thinking my ETA was around 1.10pm, or 70 mins into day 2. What does a poker player think in those circumstances?

Being the maths bore I am, I punished myself by working out how much the traffic jam was costing me. So here it is:

My stack was 84,500 and the blinds for level 11 would be 800/1600 with a 200 ante. There would be 9 players at my table, and for the sake of argument, I’ll say that 27 hands would be dealt per hour. Level 12 would be after 60 mins and would be 1000/2000 w/200.

(Oh, and by the way, you can forget about the hope that – as with many places – they’ll actually start at 12.15pm after some general faffing. The DTD is a tightly run ship and they’ll definitely start on time.)

So that’s three rounds at 4200 (800+1600 + 9 x 200), which is 12,600 and around half a round at 4800 (1000 + 2000 + 9 x 200), which is 2,400. All in all, the traffic jam would cost me 15,000 in tournament chips. The buy in was £1000 (+£90 – but the juice is not in the prize pool) and you get 30,000 in chips starting stack. Since we had not reached the money, the tournament chips were still worth their initial value. So that 15,000 cost me £500.

Or £7 a minute.

Monte Carlo Košice

Pred nejakým časom sa v nadupanom košickom poker klube Monte Carlo konal ďalší turnaj z česko-slovenskej poker série Celebrity poker tour. Tento turnaj bol výnimočný prítomnosťou Leoša Mareša ako hlavnej mediálnej star. Turnaj bol vydarený, 120 hráčov v live poker turnaji vo štvrtok je naozaj skvelé číslo keďže poker online teraz vládne svetu. Leoš po spanilej jazde počas prvých levelov turnaji keď sa dostal okamžite do čela, svoju pozíciu opustil až aby vypadol v jednej obrovskej hre a všetky svoje žetóny plus bounty na svoju hlavu daroval šťastnému proti hráčovi. To, že Leoš svoju účasť na týchto turnajoch neberie ako povinnosť ale je to pre neho hlavne zábava sme videli následne keď si pri našom stole stihol dať jeden drink a okamžite sa vrhol na cash game. To ale ešte nevedel, že zajtra ho čaká veľký deň s neobyčajnými zážitkami v Humennom.

Atlantik Humenné

Ďalší deň šéf Monte Carla vymyslel, že sa pôjdeme pozrieť do Humenného na miestny väčší turnaj. Priznám sa bez mučenia, že ešte v aute som spolu s Leošom a Davidom – riaditeľom Celebrity poker tour spriadal plány ako sa vyhnúť ceste na už skoro slovensko-ukrajinskú hranicu Nakoniec sme však do Atlantik poker klubu v Humennom dorazili a bolo to naše najlepšie rozhodnutie aké sme len mohli urobiť. Po skvelom privítaní Leoš hneď naskočil do turnaja ako neúnavný hráč. Keďže po čase na nás prišiel aj hlad padol návrh či by sa nedal spraviť obyčajný bravčový rezeň s obyčajnou zemiakovou kašou. Čakali sme síce, že to bude dobré ale úprimne nie až tak. Spolu s Leošom sme sa zhodli, že to bol jeden z najlepších rezňov ak nie najlepší aký sme kedy jedli. Skvelý začiatok večera.

Čo sa týka pokru tak Leoš bol samozrejme hlavná hviezda večera. Treba povedať, že s každým kto mal záujem sa veľmi ochotne fotil aj keď musím dodať, že to bol veľmi zvláštny pohlaď keď stáli chlapi v rade aby sa sním mohli odfotiť Leoš nakoniec prešiel celým turnajom ako nôž maslom a zapísal si svoju prvú výhru na pokrovom turnaji vôbec, v rámci Celebrity poker tour. Radosť to bola veľká a nefalšovaná a tak na oslavu správne po východniarsky padlo aj pár drinkov. Leoš sa opäť na východ Slovenska vráti v prvej polovici roku 2012.

Унгареца продължи да ме бие и останах с 14К…
На другата маса Румен Нанев имаше към 60К,и отидох да му се оплаквам че само ме надиграват…

На блинд 300-600 унгареца рейсна на 1400,двама платиха,СБ се вкара за 4К,аз ги бутнах всичките 14К с АQQ9 с един цвят купи до дамата.Унгареца и той плати…
Направих цвят на купите и почти се утроих.Победих унгареца за първи път…
Румен Нанев дойде от другата маса да види как съм се утроил и да ме попита дали вече ги надигравам.Казах му:Да,бутам им ги префлоп:) …

Останахме за ден 2 9 човека:аз,унгареца,чех,руснак и 5има финландци!!!Имах стак 138К на среден 115К,бях доста добре…

Започнах ден 2 доста агресивно и успях да загубя доста ръце.Паднах на 66К…Руснака отпадна и седнахме на финална маса,бях най-шорт…
Всички се зашиха около 2 нива и чакаха да отпадна,ама на мен не ми пукаше и аз ги чаках те да отпаднат(само 6 бяха в парите)…

Най-накрая един рейсна от средна на 7К на блинд 1500-3000,трима платиха и аз се престраших от големия блинд да си доплатя с 10 10 9 3 с един цвят-кари…На флоп 10 5 4 с две спатии чекнах,бутона бетна пода,аз се вкарах ол-ин и той плати със сет 5тици.Удвоих се…
Малко след това успях да перна малко и чип лидера,един побъркан финландец с АА77 и ги докарах към 200К…

Финландците полудяха всичките и много бързо останахме 6ма.Чип лидера успя да устиска до 6то място и останахме 5ма-аз,унгареца(много се държи),чеха и двама финланци…
Единия финландец прибра унгареца и камък ми падна от сърцето.Дигнах чеха с ААхх и останахме трима-аз с 460К,единия Ф с 410К и другия Ф с 170к…
Вече бях чип лидер!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Една ръка след това ми идваше да си пръсна мозъка,единия Ф рейсна от бутина на 16К на блинд 4К-8К,и двамата платихме.Аз имах 10 10 7 6 с един цвят спатии.На флоп Q 10 5 с две кари двамата чекнахме,бутона бетна 27К,аз ги направих ПОТ(129К),шортака се фолдна и другия ги бутна(400К!!!).Помислих малко и платих,падах само от QQxx.Той показа ККQ9 с две кари,на търна пристигна 8ца каро,ривъра не ми помогна и човека прибра пот от 860К!!!!!(всичките чипове бяха 1 040 000).Останах с 44К…Ама се удвоих два пъти…

Накрая чип лидера прибра шортака и останахме Heads Up-аз 170,той 870К…

След неравна борба около 2 часа и половина човека накрая ме прибра.Бутнах се с АК88 с цвят кари,той ме плати с ААхх и отпаднах…

След тоя турнир мога да ви дам само един съвет:
Не играйте омаха,ако не сте добре с нервите…

А за мен този турнир беше един доста добър успех,един добър край на една лоша година…

NASKOXX