Mr. White and Mr. Orange have collected some points in the challenge recently, but it looks like I’m not really a tournament player in the end. Of course, I can make some decent profits in single table sit ‘n go’s, after all I proved that during our first challenge over here. But in the big tournaments you just need a certain dose of luck on several important moments.
Sometimes I’m lucky and I can even make a deep run, but I just can’t make it to a final table till this moment. Just to let you know that I’m still participating in this challenge, I saved one of my sweetest suck-outs of the past few weeks, enjoy:
After all players just call preflop and on the flop, I feel like I have to fire a third decent bullet on the turn. After I get reraised I have to call: mainly because I’m committed, but also because I can still be in the lead against a flushdraw! When I see i’m against A8, I realize I’m in big trouble: I’ve only a 4.55% chance to win this hands with only two outs left in the deck. As you can see, sometimes that’s just enough.
Next time I hope to have the same amount of luck, but on a more crucial moment than this. Maybe I might reach a final table then.
Submitted by Mr. Blue.
This is Mr. Blue over here. I tried to collect my first points in the new challenge this week but it looks like Pokerstars doesn’t want me to win this thing. I faced two cold decks in a time span of four minutes so I didn’t collect any points yet. Positive thing: the other guys also didn’t reach a final table yet.
Let’s not talk too much about this jokes, let’s go immediately to the hands, first one:
What can I say? I raise in late position with 77 after some rock just limped with his 99, and he first needs to flop a set before he raises me. Of course I also had to flop a set… So I was eliminated but no problem: I played at another table simultaneously and was hoping to make a deep run over there. There the next hand was dealt:
Why not see a cheap ass flop with A2? Because you can flop two pair and the villain next to you flops a better two pair. To make it even worse: let’s both make a full house on the turn. I hope I will have some more luck in the following tournaments, for now I say goodbye.
Submitted by Mr. Blue.
Hello poker addicts and other gambling people. Now the PSOP have passed, I started to concentrate on my online game again. The PSOP made me realize I still have to work on my tournament skills, because I want to become the best overall poker player, not only a brilliant cashgame player. So I returned to the poker room where it all began for me, Everest Poker, to play some tournaments.
Pity: the hand histories from Everest Poker are totally disgusting, so not a single poker hand replayer will convert them. So I’ll just paste the hand history over here:
Starting game 5003919898.
Mr Brown69 is at seat 0 with 2,375.
mandrin81 is at seat 1 with 985.
elmelun888 is at seat 2 with 715.
Henry6 is at seat 4 with 950.
sodos is at seat 5 with 990.
fortunafreak is at seat 6 with 1,000.
9hertz40 is at seat 7 with 1,000.
madjumber is at seat 8 with 995.
nicomathilda is at seat 9 with 990.
The dealer is seat 1.
elmelun888 posts a blind of 5.
Henry6 posts a blind of 10.
(Mr Brown69 is dealt 5c 2c.)
Pre-flop:
sodos calls for 10.
fortunafreak folds.
9hertz40 folds.
madjumber folds.
nicomathilda folds.
Mr Brown69 raises 30.
mandrin81 calls for 40.
elmelun888 folds.
Henry6 folds.
sodos calls for 30.
The flop comes
4c 6c 7c.
sodos bets 10.
Mr Brown69 raises 70.
mandrin81 folds.
sodos raises 295.
Mr Brown69 raises 885.
sodos goes all-in for 575.
310 is pushed back to Mr Brown69.
Showdown:
sodos shows: 10c Qc
Qc 10c 7c 6c 4c
Flush, Queen high
Mr Brown69 shows: 5c 2c
7c 6c 5c 4c 2c
Flush, Seven high
The turn comes Kc.
The river comes 6d.
Mr Brown69 shows: 5c 2c
Kc 7c 6c 5c 4c
Flush, King high
sodos shows: 10c Qc
Kc Qc 10c 7c 6c
Flush, King high
sodos wins pot (2,035).
You see, this is obviously a clear case of punishing the good player and rewarding the poker donk. I make a very good raise on the cut-off with an hand which is very easy to play after the flop in that position. Two loose players call this raise BUT I FLOP A FLUSH + THE STRAIGHT FLUSH DRAW! Donk 1 leads out with the minbet, I raise while opening a bottle of champaign. Then I get reraised by this monkeyman as he flopped the higher flush. He’s so lucky I don’t make my straight flush. I’ll keep informing you about my pushes.
Submitted by Mr. Brown.
The Pokerheist Series of Poker have come to an end. It was Ms. Pink who won the deep stack Main Event, her second ‘bracelet’ and a 210€ prize. In the overall classification, Mr. White and Mr. Blue ended up with the same amount of points (20) and as both won one event, the classification of the Main Event was deciding for giving away the 150€ and as Mr. White finished third and Blue fourth, White also won our second ‘challenge’.
By winning the Main Event, Ms. Pink was the only player who won two events. Just like in the real Main Event, the best players were knocked out first, with myself finishing in sixth place. Ms. Blonde was eliminated next in fifth place. What followed was a very long period of play between the other four players, mainly due to the fact that both White and Blue knew that if one of them was eliminated next, the other one would win the overall ranking and the 150€. In the end it was Mr. Blue who was knocked out by Ms. Pink, when they both turned a flush: 8 high vs. K high.
White played like real nit meanwhile to avoid elimination and had become very shortstacked and that’s why he was busted in third place. Then it was between Ms. Pink and Mr. Orange, both already owner of one bracelet. Ms. Pink had about 14500 chips, Orange about 9500. This hand decided everything after twenty minutes of heads-up play:
Ms. Pink (button, sb 200) KsJd
Mr. Orange(bb 400) 3c3s
Pink raised it up to 1000, Mr. Orange made it 2500, Pink called. Flop came Js8s3d . So top pair versus bottom set, a flop which would create some action you would think. But Orange slowplayed his set and Pink checked behind. Turn came 2s, so Pink added a King high flushdraw to her hand. Then Orange bet 3000, and Pink moved all-in, putting Orange all-in. Orange made the call and river came… 7s, making Pink a flush. This challenge was a new succes, we’ll see about a third one!
Submitted by Mr. Brown.
Yes it’s all over 
. I made a big cash-out of $351 just a few hours ago and that resulted in a bankroll of $1102, being the first one to pass the 1k-border! At that moment, Mr. Blue had $886, ending up as the runner-up, and Ms. Pink finished third with $202. They have the honour to deposit me $100, together with the 200 Mr. Brown-dollars^^.
So what happened? I decided to play a $24+2 Knock-Out sit and go with 90 players. KO means $20 of your buy-in goes into the prize pool and the other $4 is a bounty everybody receives each time he eliminates another player, so 90 in total. I played a very solid tourney and ended up heads-up, which was the point I knew I was gonna win the battle . Anyway I deserved to win the $576 for first place instead of the $351 for runner-up.
My final opponent played very loose-aggressive and I was just waiting for the right moment to trap him. This moment finally arrived on the next hand:
So I flop quads, which is nice , and I immediately knew I would be able to extract some chips from my aggressive opponent here. This happened right away on the turn when he moved with his flushdraw. Unfortunately, the moron got lucky a few minutes later:
I just move all-in for all my stack because I knew he would prolly call any lower raise and then I would have to make a decision on the flop if I wouldn’t hit. Of course he calls right away with AQ and catches one of the three Queens… Anyway, I’ll go treat the other players on some beers, I think I have some pocket change left 
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Submitted by Mr. White
You can see a clear evolution by yourself on the chart: since they decided to play beyond their bankroll, two important things happened. Mr. Brown ($489)is totally back in the game and only $47 behind the glorious leader, Mr. White. In contrast, Ms. Pink blew up half of her bankroll and needs to get very bizzy to win the challenge.
Ms. Pink played some $30 tournaments of all kind, but wasn’t able to make them profitable. Conclusion: she’s a nice person and an above donkey-level poker player, but will never make a lot of money with it. Mr. Brown on the other side made his $33 turbo hu’s very profitable. Conclusion: he’s a nice guy and an absolute donkey, but because his opponents don’t know this, he’s able to make some money now and then. Catching ALL your outs helps too:
So he puts his opponent all-in and is a 27% underdog with his A8. Of course the flop helps him, but the calculator still says he’s a 40% dog. Luckily for him, the dealer saved all his possible outs for him. Mr. Blue is now slightly behind him with $487, so he lost more than 15% of his bankroll since last update. I wasn’t able to enlarge my bankroll neither, but at least I …
…CAN DODGE BULLETS BABY!
Submitted by Mr. White
Yes, we got ourselves a steamer in our middle . After weeks of solid play, Mr. White got on tilt yesterday and blew away 25% of his total bankroll. This results in $204 and only third position in the challenge. It all started with one particular hand.
He was playing a tournament with 45 players on FTP, when the following hand was dealt:
Yes, I know ^^. He imported the hand into the calculator and on the flop he’s a 92,93 % favorite. Even on the turn, when the board paired, he’s still a 90,91% favorite. That hand crippled him in the tournament and was the starting point for a period of steaming on other $10 tables.
Meanwhile Mr. Brown climbed to first place by continuing his very good run at the tables. He mainly played hu-games and six handed tournaments. I was also able to move past Mr. White in the standings, without making much profit. Luckily I was able to win a 9 handed tournament thanks to this hand:
Finally, Ms. Pink is carefully making her way back towards $200 again, ending up at $184 yesterday.
Submitted by Mr. Blue