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…in poker that is. Another nice deepstack tournament on Pokerstars and contrary to the tournament last time, I had a very good start on this one and I was able to build a big stack early on in the tournament.

I was convinced of the fact that luck was definitely on my side this time when I received the pocket cowboys in the following hand:

I was of course very happy to see the raise in early position. It was a decent raise (four times the big blind), so I put him on a very good hand. This is perfect for me, unless he has AA. But he only calls my reraise, so I know he doesn’t have the rockets. BUT: the guy on the button also calls my strong reraise, so he must also have a good hand. So I definitely don’t like the Queen on the flop, as QQ is within range of both players now.

The button calls my continuation bet and maybe I must have figured QQ is prolly the only hand he can hold on this dry board (AQ would have been a loose call preflop). So maybe I make a mistake by throwing it all-in on the turn. Maybe the Queen just didn’t have to flop…

Let’s conclude with another great movie I saw this week: Beautiful People. This movie was released in 1999 and is all about one of the most cruel wars we have witnessed in the past 50 years: the Balkan wars. Brilliant thing of this movie that it actually doesn’t show much of the war itself, but the story is brought from the point of view of all kind of different people living in Great-Britain. Go watch it!