Diamonds aren’t only a girl’s best friend…

It’s been a while, I know. Busy times means almost no time for poker and no time for writing posts here. I played poker only twice in the past few weeks. Everything has been busy with work and holidays. I played two cashgames in the past few weeks. The first went bad, the second went good. › Continue reading

Buckle up kid!

With this post I would like to react to some of the things Mr. Thomas Vanbrabant posted in his last challenge post. I’ve won some nice titles and consider myself to be rather lucky to have done this all. But is it all luck? › Continue reading

Player of the whatever. Play me boy!

For the third time in a row, my good friend Mickey C has become the Home Series of Poker Player of the Year after winning the big final last week. He also won the first FCOOP Player of the Championship title, so has gathered some nice accomplishments. Congrats, but also: yeah whatever. Most of these things have so much variance that luck in the end determines who takes it down. Even if you win ten more of these, which you won’t, I’ll still play you every day. And I hope you will play me too.

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HSOP 2011 Final: A bumpy ride to victory!

Yesterday the long wait was finally over. The final 8 players sat down to compete for the title of HSOP 2011 Player of the Year. And this is how the stage looked like:

Niels Blommaert: 23.000
Dimitri Van Rooy: 14.000
Cédric De Caluwaert: 24.000
Jessica De Roeck: 26.000
Michiel Maes: 32.000
Thomas Vanbrabant: 37.000
Michiel Clippeleyr: 28.000
Jeroen Van Acker: 26.000

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Q&A HSOP 2011 Final: Michiel Clippeleyr

In this series of Questions & Answers I’m going to ask the 10 competitors for the title of HSOP Player Of The Year what they expect from the last event of the year and how they did during the entire year. Today it was up to Thomas to ask me a couple of questions for the upcoming HSOP Final. › Continue reading