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How I met treezer in mid of January 2010 at the $57.50s. A story to inspire:
In December ’09 after few months of playing 115s-345s I decided to block myself from playing for 2 weeks and to cash out the rest of my roll after I tilted pretty hard and lost all my December winnings within some days. It was the 2nd of January 2010 when I reloaded my account for $600 and started playing the $57.50s willing to climb the ladder again, as fast as possible with a very aggressive “Bankroll-Management” (see “Cashing Out and Moving down” for more).

It was the 12th of January 2010 when I played against a pretty big fish on the $57.50s. A fished called “treezer”. A fish who often is called one of the luckiest persons ever. A fish who wasn’t that much a fish and who would become one of best high stakes HU SNG grinders and one of my closest friends in the scene just some months later. And that’s how I met him:

PokerStars Game #38054155371: Tournament #231446144, $55.00+$2.50 USD Hold’em No Limit – Match Round I, Level I (10/20) – 2010/01/12 13:28:46 ET
Table ’231446144 2′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: treezer (1450 in chips)
Seat 2: PlauZee (1550 in chips)
treezer: posts small blind 10
PlauZee: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PlauZee [6h 6s]
treezer: raises 20 to 40
PlauZee: raises 100 to 140
treezer: raises 1310 to 1450 and is all-in
PlauZee: calls 1310
*** FLOP *** [5h Th Js]
PlauZee said, “…“
*** TURN *** [5h Th Js] [8s]
*** RIVER *** [5h Th Js 8s] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PlauZee: shows [6h 6s] (a pair of Sixes)
treezer: shows [5c 5d] (three of a kind, Fives)
PlauZee said, “wp“
treezer collected 2900 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2900 | Rake 0
Board [5h Th Js 8s 2c]
Seat 1: treezer (button) (small blind) showed [5c 5d] and won (2900) with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: PlauZee (big blind) showed [6h 6s] and lost with a pair of Sixes

PokerStars Game #38054182930: Tournament #231446144, $55.00+$2.50 USD Hold’em No Limit – Match Round I, Level I (10/20) – 2010/01/12 13:29:19 ET
Table ’231446144 2′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: treezer (2880 in chips)
Seat 2: PlauZee (120 in chips)
treezer: posts small blind 10
PlauZee: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PlauZee [5h 8h]
PlauZee said, “keep sitting me and shoving 55“
PlauZee said, “lol“
treezer said, “keep calling with 66“
treezer said, “ur good“
treezer: raises 140 to 160
PlauZee said, “lot of EV i guess“
PlauZee: calls 100 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (40) returned to treezer
*** FLOP *** [6h Jd Kc]
*** TURN *** [6h Jd Kc] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [6h Jd Kc 7d] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PlauZee: shows [5h 8h] (a straight, Four to Eight)
treezer: shows [Qd 6s] (a pair of Sixes)
PlauZee collected 240 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 240 | Rake 0
Board [6h Jd Kc 7d 4h]
Seat 1: treezer (button) (small blind) showed [Qd 6s] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: PlauZee (big blind) showed [5h 8h] and won (240) with a straight, Four to Eight

We played some more games afterwards until we realized we were pretty much equally – not only in our game strength, but in our gaming style (and chat-tilt) as well. We changed msn adresses and start messaging almost every day.

Some months after we met on the $57.50 HU SNGs we both reach Supernova Elite, we both made decent money, not only in HU SNGs but in MTTs as well and both climbed the ladder faster we ever could imagine.

If someone is talking about sicko treezer and “wanna-be reg” PlauZee , there is just one song people should mention:

“mbn to be treezer” – “mbn to be PlauZee“

“Johan – treezer says:
in the beginning of the year i had 90 days without losing one single day, sicked? yaaah lol“

“Chris says: do u use holdem manager?
Johan – treezer says: nah i dont
some players play with programs i play with feeling”

A story to remember.
I’m looking forward for our Sweden/Vegas/Bahamas-Trip