Wednesday 4 June:Nowadays I'm playing online poker at Pokerstars.com. My favorite levels range from 200NL to 600NL. I usually play the big tournaments each Sunday and the freerolls available for Supernova players but I haven't scored big lately. You can check my Tournament Performance Gallery.
You can find me playing in the Poker Rooms using the following aliases:
Having returned from holidays (read more here), I took a shot at foreign exchange (Forex) trading the EUR/USD pair. Upon looking at the picture below, you might think that I was watching the market for over 3 hours. That's not really the case, as I woke up at my girlfriend's apartment and traded for about an hour from there and continued trading for 30 minutes when I arrived at home. I more or so applied a couple of ideas I read in the pdf's and books I read during the past week, and as you can see I did pretty ok, losing just one trade. The amounts are in US dollars and for the time being the important thing to mention is that I close half position at a certain level, while I leave the rest for trading. When the stop loss is hit, the whole position is closed obviously (as in the red P&L). I'll share more details in the future.
Hi all! As you probably guessed, I've been on holidays lately and couldn't update my blog. This month - my best ever regarding poker - is due to its end and I
spent the last days of it at Porto Carras Grand Resort in Chalkidiki with my
girlfriend.
We stayed at "Meliton" and we had great time. Although internet was available where I've been, I didn't really want to go online. I'm spending over 10 hours on a daily basis throughout the year and I needed 1 week off the net. However, I did have my laptop with me since I was studying some books and pdf's mainly about stock and financial trading. I have received a couple of interesting emails and some nice comments during this time, which combined with my batteries fully recharged will make me publish a couple of new articles that I hope will be useful and innovative.
I can't remember last time I was so unlucky at the poker tables. I mean pushing my money at the right time at the right place, and not getting paid! That is surely frustrating. The graph below shows the hands that I was all-in, showing the expected winnings with red and the actual winnings with blue.
Now, tell me that isn't unlucky! Here's a remarkable hand without comments.
Results:
Jimmakos has Ad As (one pair, aces).
MP has 8h 8d (three of a kind, eights).
Outcome: MP wins $6514.
I have also stopped publishing my daily profit or loss in the right top column since no one was really interested, considering the clicks on those links.
I finished in 4th place in both of today's Pokerstars.com VIP Sit and Go tournaments featuring WSOP Champion Joe Hachem . That meant $400 for me although the 30,000 points used for entry fees are equivelant to $450. However, I managed to win the bounty for eliminating Hachem when the following hand happened:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed)
Preflop: Jimmakos is UTG+1 with A, K. 1 fold, Jimmakos raises to t300, 2 folds, JoeHachem raises to t1125, 3 folds, Jimmakos calls t825.
Flop: (t2400) A, 7, 5(2 players)
Turn: (t2400) T(2 players)
River: (t2400) Q(2 players)
Final Pot: t2400
Results in white below:
Jimmakos has Ah Kd (one pair, aces).
JoeHachem has 7s 9c (one pair, sevens).
Outcome: Jimmakos wins t2400.
Email from Pokerstars: "[...]Congratulations on eliminating Joe Hachem from the VIP 1-table match, Tournament #90607251. A credit of $250 has been made to your PokerStars account.[...]"
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