A lot of sites recently wrote about the sick rumors PokerStars buying FullTiltPoker. If this really happens it will change the market for sure. Let’s just hope players will get some long-term benefits as well beside finally getting paid their FullTilt cash.
If you haven’t read about it yet, please have a look at the page of PokerNews and reviews from Casino.org.

gl guys
Chris

I recently asked them for the switch back from HM2 to HM1. It needed about a week, but – yes: my old version of HM1 is re-activated and I got a full cash back of the $117.50 I paid. No clue if I’ll ever upgrade to HM2 again, but next time I’ll at least not pay that much as I did, again.

Cheers!
Chris

If you just read the title and saw the graph I can appease you, it’s not a bad April fool…

Back to poker, back to grinding. The exams are passed, the great time in Slovenia is over as the very long poker break is. It’s time to finally play some decent(!) sessions next days and weeks again. Recently, I didn’t do very well as you can see from my Sharkscope stats on the right which I reset some weeks ago – not cuz of bad results, but to have a cut and even more motivation to generate a new great looking graph. I failed pretty hard obviously, but let’s see if I can change it back into the black very soon again.
I still grind $60-$200 HU SNGs which just fit perfectly to my actual time, life, skill and whatever is important for choosing the grinding buyin.

I wish you best of luck for today’s grinding and as I just wrote at facebook:
Please rememeber not to cash out more than $10k before starting to play some highstakes HU SNGs if you win the Sunday Million today, which I found at 2+2 and other forums like the Cardschat poker forum.
(–> 2+2 thread about the fish)

There are running a lot of poker promos right now, not only the 1% cashback promo by Skrill, but a lot of others which you can check out at German poker sites.com.

Some impressions of the funny days in Slovenia…

gl Matej, but the only reason I didn’t took any action against you was that I really like you man…

Check out his blog at www.mtdeuem.com!

Seriously, I was just about to write a lame post with the title “1st roundup of 2012″ with those stats at the right talking how great I am beating micros with 6% ROI including hypers and 7% ROI for those turbos… *ZzzZzzZzz*…

…when suddenly one of my students just told me a funny story and that’s why I had to change the title, as well as the main topic of this post:

vladxxxro: i have the canadian mafia following me
vladxxxro: a fking douche sits me everytime and he put 5$ bounty on me
vladxxxro: for every canadian who beats me
vladxxxro: greenbast
vladxxxro: he says he has a hobby to destroy a reg each month
vladxxxro: he wants to make me move down to 15$

Just to point that out: my student didn’t ask me to blog about it, but just allowed I’d do that. I’m sure he could handle that easily himself, beacuse he’s doing very very great and climbed up the limits very fast recently. But… This guy called “greenbast” with average buyin of $47 (lol, even below mine as standard micro reg) is somehow exactly what I was looking for! DON’T TRY TO FK THE FKERS!

Whenever you see “greenbast” sitting in a lobby, please let me know at my facebook-page, so we can have some little fun with this guy. The most epic hands and those who beat him most often will get rewarded with a prize. Please keep track of those games at my facebook-site! Depending on how many going to take part in this, the prize will be one or more free coaching lessons by me – or if some real sharks will join they’ll simply get back their rake back and receive a “WELL DONE BUDDY” at my site.

Gl guys – and don’t take everything too serious! – poker is just a game
Chris

They are starting in few mins, have fun enjoying the show!

Due to my exams I’m at a grinding break at the moment and coach a bit less, but will be back soon.
Stay tuned!

In the chat I quoted in the last post, Martin told me he probably ripped his ligament again during that night. Yesterday he confirmed it is ripped again as it was some months ago already. Speaking about the recent players parties he atteded it’s definetely a lot of minus happyness EV to have so many drinks as he had…

• EPT London: 800£ and a night in prison
• PCA Bahamas: ah, I’m getting tired of quoting myself

The most interesting site is the very recent blog by Frank Op de Woerd, “webjoker”, for PokerNews.nl (original Dutch link), who witnessed what happened that night from the view of Johnathan Duhamel. Every other site just tried to get the best out of what was published in text and photos already.

At two sites the roughly translated chat between Martin and me got even quoted as if Martin would have messaged me in English. Have you ever heard him speaking English?! No? Guess why… here’s the interview after he won EPT Prague…

QuadJacks had an interview with Johnathan Duhamel last night about his stay – and of course the incidents with Martin Finger as well -> check it out at QuadJacks.com – Duhamel’s very short statement starting at min 24!

Here are those bigger sites reporting about the story I saw so far:

• PokerNewsBoy, Poker-red.com, hochgepokert.com, pokerisivut.com, pokeraction.ch, PokernNewz.dk, marca.com, pokerlistings.com, rakerace.com, bankrollmob.com, poker-institut.org, Pokeris.lt, poker-community.at, QuadJacks.com, PokerNews.nl

• 2+2 “News, Views and Gossip” thread

I’ll keep this post updated if more rumors coming up, but it’s about time to get back to business… Ah, btw, does anyone need a VIP Pro Gambler deal at Skrill…?!

Cheers
Chris

Martin Finger, “0Piggybank“, who won EPT Prague and became top4 at the PCA 5k HU Event just told me the most recent story of his funny and weird party-life… After he had gone to prison at EPT London’s players party he got into trouble again:

Last night at PCA Bahamas he got kicked out of the players party after Duhamel has been asking for trouble. Duhamel was totally wasted and spoiling for a fight, Finger told me. Finger wanted to pass by when Duhamel instantly started bitching to Finger without any reason, he said. It was still Finger who got kicked out by the securities, not Duhamel. In front of the club Finger, who normally hates to fight with anybody, took his chance and beat Duhamel in his face before the security avoided a real fight between both of them. A lot of other players were there as well when it happened, so let’s see if we’ll find more details reported by them soon.

Duhamel got robbed and beaten in December already. It’s not just bad variance anymore..?!

Martin in front of London's police station (I took the photo after Martin went to prison at EPT London, October 2011)		Duhamel beaten (the photo was taken after Duhamel got robbed and beaten by home invaders in Dec 2011)

If you were there or heard any rumors please let me know, so I can add them…

Skaiwalkurrr: i had to leave before the punch
Skaiwalkurrr: but i did hear piggy swear he was gonna get duhamel

rubenrtv: It was pretty funny when they ran into each other in the customs line at the airport afterwards

Donnie Peters, friend of Jonathan Duhamel twittered: “Even tho you didn’t win, you won the contest for ‘most drunk person in the club’.“

Jonathan Duhamel twittered:
“Just landed in Montreal, head still hurting after an amazing nigh out yeaterday! Really happy to be home for a few days and see my people“
“thanks for everything my boys… Indeed sick night yesterday“

“hahaha sick, I was aiming for the tittle since I was so pissed at myself about losing the HU“

Frank Op de Woerd, “webjoker”, who was with Johnathan Duhamel by coincidence when he got attacked just blogged about it very detailed as well (link to original dutch site).

Here’s a part of the chat between us about last nights incidents roughly translated into English:

Piggybank: wus up
Piggybank: wanna hear a sick story
PlauZee: sure
Piggybank: players party
Piggybank: i’m drunken
Piggybank: duhamel is drunken
Piggybank: he started talking trash
Piggybank: i was thrown out of the club
Piggybank: even i ddin’t do anything
Piggybank: i waited for him in front of the club
Piggybank: he comes out
Piggybank: i hit him in his puss
Piggybank: nice line
Piggybank: imao
PlauZee: was it a hit-and-run?!
Piggybank: kind of^^
Piggybank: i think i ripped my ligament again (what he indeed did!)
Piggybank: but i’m still too drunken, to be sure
PlauZee: omg. can i blog that?!
Piggybank: sure^^
PlauZee: give me some cliffs [...]
Piggybank: he was soooooo drunken
Piggybank: pissing me off, even i just wanted to walk by
Piggybank: really getting on my nerves
Piggybank: i just chill
Piggybank: he was kinda aggro
Piggybank: security
Piggybank: busting me
Piggybank: i’m out
Piggybank: waiting the whole time
Piggybank: with isildur
Piggybank: then duhamel showes up
Piggybank: i walk towards him an hit him directly in his face. security intervene
PlauZee: how sick is that?!
Piggybank: believe me
Piggybank: i’m peaceful
Piggybank: but that had to be

..and the original German chat:

Piggybank: was geht
Piggybank: willst du sicke story hören
PlauZee: na aber immer doch!
Piggybank: players party
Piggybank: ich drunken
Piggybank: duhamel drunken
Piggybank: er macht mich blöd an
Piggybank: ich buste ausn club
Piggybank: obwohl ich nix gemacht habe
Piggybank: warten auf ihn vor dem club
Piggybank: er kommt raus
Piggybank: und hau ihn auf die fresse^^
Piggybank: nice line
Piggybank: imao
PlauZee: war’s wenigstens nen richtiger hit n run?!
Piggybank: so halb^^
Piggybank: hab mein kreuzband frisch gerissen dabei glaub ich
Piggybank: noch zu drunken um das atm einzuschätzen
PlauZee: omg. darf ich’s bloggen?!
Piggybank: gern^^
PlauZee: gib mal noch nen paar facts
PlauZee: wer war noch dabei, was hat er im club gemacht etc
Piggybank: er war megaaa drunken
Piggybank: macht mich an obwohl ich nur vorbei wollte
Piggybank: geht mich richtig behindert an
Piggybank: ich chill
Piggybank: er macht streß
Piggybank: security
Piggybank: busted mich
Piggybank: ich bin draußen
Piggybank: ganze zeit
Piggybank: mit isildur
Piggybank: dann kam duhamel raus
Piggybank: ich geh hin und hau ihn direkt in die fresse und security geht direkt danach dazwischen
PlauZee: wie sick ist das bitte?!
Piggybank: glaub mir
Piggybank: ich bin friedlich
Piggybank: aber musste sein

(Piggy allowed me to blog the story, but I’ll maybe edit or delete some details later)