Vincent’s Poker Blog

I’m a huge fan of this champagne — and the only reason I am is because this Armand De Brignac bottle has the beautiful Ace of Spades on it!

GOTTA LOVE A POKER ADDICT!

I’ve decided to enter the next European Poker Tour event to hit the calendar. Why? Well, I got extremely lucky, and I’ve decided it’s time for my first big tournament.

How did I get lucky? Well, I was playing a 5/10 live game (No Limit Texas Hold’em), when the game started to die. My $1000 starting stack grew to about $7000, and we ended up 3-handed. Two guys both had about $3k, when I picked up KK UTG. I raised it, and saw a re-raise and another re-raise ahead of me. I kind of knew one of them had Aces, thought about it, but decided to push none the less. I can’t fold KK pre-flop in a cash game. I just can’t. To my surprise, both players called and when the cards were flipped over, I kind of got it. Both players had pocket Aces.

The flop came J4T, not looking good. The turn was way better, an off-suit Q, giving me a straight draw, giving me an extra two outs (now I didn’t want a King, I wanted a 9).

Well, you guessed it. I hit the nine on the river, scooping the $9k+ pot.

Sick beat, but hey, I can’t fold KK pre-flop in a cash game.

I’m investing part of that money into a try-out-buy-in for the EPT, and hope to do as good as Belgian semi-pro Jonathan Abdellatif, who cashed in his first EPT (this year’s Deauville). Fingers crossed!

I’m not a regular anymore at Pokerstars after I cashed out on their Sharkscope debacle, but now that I’ve seen the Pokerstars Leather Jacket up close in real live I’m convinced — I want one!

I’ve taken $2000 back from my Full Tilt account and shipped it onto Stars for some high stakes heads-up action hoping I can make those 10.000 points in no time…

I’ll keep you posted when I get it!

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Just saw the Episode (19 I think) of Poker After Dark’s season 4 and JEZUS FREAKING CHRIST Clonie Gowen looks so hot wearing those glasses. Her breasts look very very nice too in that lovely little white top she’s wearing…

I’m so looking forward to 4 hours of poker, hope Clonie doesn’t bust out first…

On the same note — if you want to see Clonie Gowen naked — check out that post and get your bid in!

PS. Pic is NOT clonie’s look in the show, the only pic i found with glasses though… Bleh, I’m off to the online tables at 888.com — anyone want to go heads-up, medium stakes?

The famous Alosta Rounders have recently launched their own official poker blog over at Alosta-Rounders.be — and being a big fan of every single member of this infamous poker crew killing the Belgian poker scene…

I can’t wait for Jonathan A.’s stories… Bookmark it (site’s in dutch, big deal)!

Blog reader Gert sent us a screen shot of his winning Royal Flush on the microstakes tables of Unibet, a European gambling network with a booming poker community…

Way to go Gert, keep up hitting the monsters, and keep sending in the screens!

Click for full size image!

Haha I love Gabe “Kotter” Kaplan in High Stakes Poker and I loved the article about Gabe on My Poker Heroes… Quick excerpt below!

Even when Gabe Kaplan was very active at his acting and comedy career, he wanted to become a poker player badly. So, he soon started taking part in poker tournaments all over the country and became known for his poker skills in the professional circles in the country. He first appeared in World Series of Poker in 1978. Soon, he got addicted to poker tournaments and started appearing in them regularly.

Photo thanks to pokerwire.

… with a ridiculous call holding T8s. Gus Hansen makes the call for almost all his chips — I know he probably thinks this is funny afterwards but seriously — this is no fun for Antonio Esfandiari, right?

Anyway, looking at the numbers this is one of the best calls in hold’em, EVER. But seriously — is it?

We were playing the seven duece game at private game in The Netherlands a couple weeks ago (blinds €5/€10 NLH) and the extra €10 from every player was really making a huge difference (lol, it’s so about the ‘macho’ness of the 72 isn’t it)… Anyway, I picked up 72 utg and decided to play it. I raised it up to €50 pre-flop and got two callers behind me.

The flop came:

752 rainbow.

Good flop for me and I decided to bet right out (€110) as I probably would most of the time with AA or KK in that spot. The first guy behind me folded and then I got raised to €250. I made the call and turned a seven to fill up. I checked to show weakness and the guy behind me quickly moved all-in for his last €600. I made the call and chuckled when he turned over two fives…

The guy obviously didn’t like it (and neither would I in that spot) but I dragged the pot and took an extra €80 on the side.

Awesome!