A little desperation in this hand

I did not want him to fold a set or flush or 2pair... He had straight+flush = almost nuts.

TCOOP review

The Turbo Championship of Online Poker(tcoop) had 240,321 tournament entrants, across the series, contributing to a  total $24,036,531.74  prize pool. 

The biggest event was the TCOOP Main Event who had 5,060 entrants pay $700 each. frma1103 won the first price for $326,880.00 after a seven-way deal which saw all seven players win over 100k$.

I played only the first event: TCOOP-01: $27 NL Hold'em [6-Max], $750K Gtd and finished it in 2569/38176 worth 74.97$.

Here are the previews of 6 of the most interesting final tables:

Tips for keeping your poker and banking info safe

After I heard about a couple of players that had their pokerstars account hacked and lost their online balance and the mass psihing attempt on 2+2 to hack everyones accounts I decided to make a post about what I consider to be important for keeping your personal passwords safe:

• Use a separate email adress for your pokerstars and online banking. This way you will not receive any dangerous emails and it will he hard for someone to hack your password if only you, pokerstars and the bank know your email. Probably gmail is the safest email provider because it has a sms  feature, that if you activate, you will receive a message on your telephone,  each time someone tryes to login into your email from a new location, with a special numeric code(even if the guy that tryes to log in has your password he will not be able to access your email without the code that is sent to your mobile phone). 
• Use strong passwords to your email. The password should contain some random letters+numbers+symbols. A common way hackers crack email passwords is by guessing the "secret questions"(these should also be random words, not the actual answer to the question). I recomend you write down the list with all your accounts and passwords and secret questions on a notebook or agenda, so you don't keep it on your computer and don't risk forgetting some of it.
• All your passwords should be different (facebook, emails, pokerstars, etc).
• Do not open any suspicious emails (any email from an unknown that only contains a link in it, or is not really that important to read). I just mark these emails as spam and from that moment if I receive more of them, they will not reach my inbox.
• Don't click on any banners that say that you won something. 99% of the time you did not win anything but you risk losing something by clicking those links :)
• Use a "noscript" addon for mozilla or google chrome. Each time you browse online sites it will block all the advertising and things that popout of the webpages that you visit. This feature will definetly make online surfing mutch safer. I know that torrent sites have a lot of things that popup and my antivirus used to tell me that most popups tryed to infect me with a trojan(after using noscript all the popups are blocked which is nice)
• Use a strong antivirus. The best free ones are Avast and Avira. You should also make sure that they are updated everyday.
• Use a RSA token authentification device for even more protection. Banks and pokerstars offer this option for clients that want even more protection. This device gives you a special code that is required to login into your account and even if someone hacks your password it will be extremely unlikely that he will be able to acces your account if you have a RSA token activated.

bigdogpckt5s reaches the final table of the sunday million 2 weeks in a row

Tournamentpokeredge coach "bigdogpckt5s" reaches the final table of the sunday million 2 weeks in a row, which is a record(just making 1 final table is very hard given the 7000-8000player field and 215$ buy-in)... But the story does not end just here.... Since december 9 2012 he won 417.000$ in online tournaments, including winning the super-tuesday (probably the toughest online tournament with a buy-in of 1050$) and made several other final tables. This is aa crazy run-good period that will probably not take place anytime soon again(he only played 73 tournaments in 2013). Here are his results from 2013 and the coverage of the 2 final tables of the sunday million(they are really fun to watch):

Time to gamble

Today the tables where pretty crazy (First day of the month with good tables). Enjoy :D:

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
TaiSheng (UTG): $62.37
diabolomanso (UTG+1): $14.90
Healthing (MP1): $74.89
lacovo (MP2): $36.70
W1zard2008 (CO): $25.00
the real 66 (BTN): $30.15
SAURO1980 (SB): $48.30
Hero (BB): $40.38

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with J K
TaiSheng calls $0.25, 3 folds, W1zard2008 raises to $1.10, the real 66 calls $1.10, 1 fold, Hero raises to $40.38 all in, 2 folds, the real 66 calls $29.05 all in

Flop: ($61.75) 8 4 K (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: ($61.75) T (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($61.75) K (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $61.75
the real 66 shows 5 J (a pair of Kings)
Hero shows J K (three of a kind, Kings)
Hero wins $59.75
(Rake: $2.00)

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 Pot Limit Hold'em - 6 players
Buta82 (BTN): $50.00
Hero (SB): $50.25
Midogo777 (BB): $50.00
eddycarp (UTG): $115.32
Gazvezir (MP): $127.13
iG.ErlinGho (CO): $52.08

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with A K
eddycarp calls $0.50, 3 folds, Hero raises to $2, Midogo777 calls $1.50, eddycarp calls $1.50

Flop: ($6.00) Q 8 3 (3 players)
Hero bets $4.01, Midogo777 folds, eddycarp raises to $17.76, Hero raises to $48.25 all in, eddycarp calls $30.49

Turn: ($102.50) 7 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($102.50) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $102.50
Hero shows A K (a flush, Ace high)
eddycarp shows K J (a flush, Queen high)
Hero wins $100.00
(Rake: $2.50)

 Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 8 players
TaiSheng (UTG+1): $40.93
Undertake (MP1): $26.70
keeebart (MP2): $38.63
3betKiNg 888 (CO): $10.53
h00h00 (BTN): $24.65
the real 66 (SB): $21.38
SAURO1980 (BB): $15.90
Hero (UTG): $25.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is UTG with K A
Hero raises to $0.75, 3 folds, 3betKiNg 888 calls $0.75, 1 fold, the real 66 calls $0.65, 1 fold

Flop: ($2.50) 4 8 K (3 players)
the real 66 bets $0.25, Hero raises to $1.75, 3betKiNg 888 folds, the real 66 calls $1.50

Turn: ($6.00) T (2 players)
the real 66 bets $18.88 all in, Hero ... IS CONFUSED BUT...TANKS AND calls $18.88

River: ($43.76) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $43.76
the real 66 shows 7 J (a straight, Seven to Jack)
Hero shows K A (a pair of Kings)
the real 66 wins $41.79
(Rake: $1.97)

It was almost a fold

This videos does a good job of representing what the villains did in the hand below. Th flop was a marginal spot, given the fact that both villains where 50VPIP, passive postflop fish(usually at least one of them has trips). This time I called:

 

Pokerstars Team Online acoimbra attempts to turn 100$ into 100k$ in 2013

Pokerstars Pro acoimbra will try to turn $100 into $100k until the end of the year playing Multi-Table Tournaments only! He will be donate the winnings to charity and the challenge either ends when the bankroll grows over $100k or at the end of the year. He plans to start with MTT SNGS (45,90,180) to build the bankroll to play the scheduled tournaments.

He asked PokerStars to downgrade his Supernova Elite account to BronzeStar so that he wll not get any special advantage during the challenge.

Here are 2 videos about the challenge and about acoimbra:

I wish him good luck in this challenge!

Update on results

Sorry that I did not post in the last days. But I really did not have mutch to say. I hit a really big breakeven strech that really screwed me up. I am playing my A game but losing everything at showdown. Pretty insane stuff. Yesterday I moved to 10-25NL, where at least I can crush the games even if I run terrible. Here is the graph and a funny hand that I somehow managed to win today (LOL):

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
Marioest88 (CO): $10.17
3a_6eJIapycb (BTN): $32.24
Hero (SB): $32.35
nevs170 (BB): $21.98
rasteeboy (UTG): $25.00
gabitz_no1 (MP): $25.00

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is SB with A A
3 folds, 3a_6eJIapycb raises to $0.62, Hero calls $0.52, nevs170 raises to $1, 3a_6eJIapycb calls $0.38,  

Hero raises to $4, nevs170 calls $3, 1 fold

Flop: ($9.00) 9 5 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.75, nevs170 calls $2.75

Turn: ($14.50) K (2 players)
Hero bets $7.25, nevs170 calls $7.25

River: ($29.00) T (2 players)
Hero bets $7.50, nevs170 calls $7.50

Final Pot: $44.00
Hero shows A A (a flush, Ace high)
nevs170 mucks 4 7   (WAT IS THIS??? - gapped straight???)
Hero wins $42.02
(Rake: $1.98)