Hi poker addicts !

Last week I’ve played the Sunday Millions on PokerStars for the first time. It was by far my biggest buy-in tournament, with a fee of $215, until now at least. I won a ticket for such a tournament after I won a poker league in January. But I wasn’t that successful in the Sunday Millions. I made a nice start with some early pots using the excellent tournament smallball poker strategy but I was pretty card dead after the first hour so I was very disappointed with my early exit and my missed chance on the first step to a professional poker career. But I keep winning on smaller levels so I hope that I’ll have another shot of glory in a short time. Fingers crossed !

For now I’ll show you some strange and funny hands involving the second best starting hand in NL Hold’em, namely King Kong / The Cowboys / pocket Kings / KK . Afterwards you could enjoy the next five songs as usual. The first hand involves myself, raising big with KK in early position and getting rewarded with 2 callers before the flop hits…

So the flop came J J 9 with 2 spades which is a dangerous textured board for my Kings but I still decide to make a C-bet to see where I’m in the hand. I’m a bit surprised to see that they both just flat call  my bet. I love the King of Spades on the turn which gives me the best hand for sure.  Because I’m so strong I decide to play it very tricky and check, so they think that I’m weak and giving up the pot. Player 1 makes a half pot bet and after the other player folds, I decide to ship it as she was pretty pot commited there. I had her big time with my full boat against her straight. The next hand started when I woke up with KK on the button and decided to make a suspicious looking bet to induce some action, because all the other players before me already folded.

I was so happy to see the reraise and I immediately ship it in and I was surprised that he called because we both had pretty big stacks. It was pretty funny to see that he had the exact same hand as me. That was the first time ever something like that happened to me with such a big pair. Of course we splitted the pot, at least that what  the small blind lefted. The next is the perfect example of how you shouldn’t play King Kong. Of course, it wasn’t me that did it…

So I limped on the button with a suited Ace. I could raise but it was very early in the tournament and I just wanted to see a cheap flop. I loved the flop as it gave me the absolute NUTS so I just flatted his small bet. The turn wasn’t that special and I loved his big oversized donk bet so I pushed my small stack in and saw that he was drawing dead with his Kings. What a moron

I hope that you enjoyed my hands and talks, and even more the next five songs out of my Best 21st century songs top-50 list. I leave you for now but don’t forget poker people : Keep Gambling !

30/ Massive Attack – What Your Soul Sings (2003, 100th Window)

29/ Mercury Rev – The Dark is Rising (2001, All Is Dream)

28/ Editors – No Sound But The Wind (2010, /)

27/ Beirut – Nantes (2007, The Flying Club Cup)

26/ Phoenix – Lisztomania (2009, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix)

Cheers,

J.M.