Huge Paradisepoker Pots

February 27, 2006

Yes, it is true that I took several huge paradisepoker pots when the opponent chased the other half and caught it on the river card. I still believe I was too loose, and that was down to weariness. Tiredness promotes hazy concentration and decisions start to be made on hope and to hell with the consequences. I must avoid the element of craving a paradisepoker game. Maybe it was down to withdrawal symptoms from the previous week! In my 20's started playing games anywhere I could find them. I would play two or three times a week. I didn't care whether it was blackjack or poker, I just loved to play.

I was involved in several paradisepoker pot games where there were computers, guns, etc. in the pot because someone had come up short. It was a great time. I would hit the pubs often and usually find a game or two there. When playing these you had to be careful, because you really didn't know the online paradisepoker people you were playing against. There were a few tense situations, but I came out alright. I could run pretty fast and had a hopped up Nova. In one particular game, when I was 33 years old, I won a 1966 Mustang coupe. I had four 5's in my hand, and had all my money in the pot. The opponent ran out of money and couldn't match my raise. So I agreed to the car. It was a little rough but definately restorable. I won, beat his 3 aces, and I still own the car, unrestored still.

I started playing online paradisepoker about two years ago. I had pneumonia and was bored to death sitting around the house for 2 weeks. I downloaded Paradisepoker at that time and have since left it for Pokerstars. I have lost more money online than in the previous 2 decades. It is a tough go, this online poker. I read that 99% of the online players lose money in the longrun. I believe it. Somehow, for this one day, I dumped my expectations and focused on giving myself the best possible chance to win. In my mind, all day long, I kept thinking that a champion should sustain that approach, as consistently as possible. I believe I played my best game that fateful second day at this poker major. I was never all-in on that second day (and therefore couldn't go broke). And somehow, I had moved into the paradisepoker chip lead.

Two hands after I lost with the Ad-Qd, the Frenchman slid in on his Paradisepoker small-blind $10,000 and I called him from my big-blind $20,000 for about $200,000 with A-10. He had K-J and the flop came down J-Q-6. Then an ace fell on the turn, to give me the best paradisepoker hand and a lot of hope. But the river runs erratically some days in no-limit Hold 'em, and an unwanted ten came up to make me two pair and the Frenchman an ace-high straight, with a final board of J-Q-6-A-10. (By the way, this was one of those weird hands - fun to watch, but difficult to be involved in - where there was a different leader on every street. I had him before the flop, he had me on the paradisepoker flop, I had him on fourth street, and he had me on the river!)