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      <title>Two brutal hands from LAPT Step 3 tournament</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (s0stndrd)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[PokerStars Game #16237379183: Tournament #82198404, $75+$7 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/03/25 - 10:00:01 (ET)
Table '82198404 1' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: s0stndrd (4800 in chips) 
Seat 5: xPopsicleJrx (6285 in chips) 
Seat 7: Canuck_BC (2415 in chips) 
xPopsicleJrx: posts small blind 100
Canuck_BC: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to s0stndrd [7h 8s]
s0stndrd: calls 200
xPopsicleJrx: raises 345 to 545
Canuck_BC: folds 
s0stndrd: calls 345
*** FLOP *** [9s Qs 7s]
xPopsicleJrx: bets 540
s0stndrd: calls 540
*** TURN *** [9s Qs 7s] [5s]
xPopsicleJrx: bets 550
s0stndrd: calls 550
*** RIVER *** [9s Qs 7s 5s] [6s]
xPopsicleJrx: bets 2050
s0stndrd: raises 1115 to 3165 and is all-in
xPopsicleJrx: calls 1115
*** SHOW DOWN ***
s0stndrd: shows [7h 8s] (a straight flush, Five to Nine)
xPopsicleJrx: shows [5c As] (a flush, Ace high)
s0stndrd collected 9800 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9800 | Rake 0 
Board [9s Qs 7s 5s 6s]
Seat 3: s0stndrd (button) showed [7h 8s] and won (9800) with a straight flush, Five to Nine
Seat 5: xPopsicleJrx (small blind) showed [5c As] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 7: Canuck_BC (big blind) folded before Flop

Against villain who had been raising plenty, I decided to call with position and play some poker. I seriously thought I was ahead on turn and obviously on the river knew I was good. God bless one outter perfects.

PokerStars Game #16237394674: Tournament #82198404, $75+$7 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/03/25 - 10:01:09 (ET)
Table '82198404 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: s0stndrd (9800 in chips) 
Seat 5: xPopsicleJrx (1485 in chips) 
Seat 7: Canuck_BC (2215 in chips) 
Canuck_BC: posts small blind 100
s0stndrd: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to s0stndrd [Qh 4s]
xPopsicleJrx: raises 1285 to 1485 and is all-in
Canuck_BC: folds 
s0stndrd: calls 1285
*** FLOP *** [4d Qs 3s]
*** TURN *** [4d Qs 3s] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [4d Qs 3s Td] [9c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
s0stndrd: shows [Qh 4s] (two pair, Queens and Fours)
xPopsicleJrx: shows [9s Tc] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
s0stndrd collected 3070 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3070 | Rake 0 
Board [4d Qs 3s Td 9c]
Seat 3: s0stndrd (big blind) showed [Qh 4s] and won (3070) with two pair, Queens and Fours
Seat 5: xPopsicleJrx (button) showed [9s Tc] and lost with two pair, Tens and Nines
Seat 7: Canuck_BC (small blind) folded before Flop

Just to rub it in some - flop top two and villain makes runner runner two pair.

Say it with me: s0stndrd is a luckbox...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 08 10:06:49 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Stars Australia-only Millions satellite, WSOP Step 6 and misplayed Queens!</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (s0stndrd)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[On the back of my Sunday Million win earlier in the month and being the first Australian to take down the big weekly Sunday tournament, PokerStars last night held a special $22 (ie one in 10 go through) Australians-only Sunday Million satellite with five seats added to the prize pool by PokerStars.

I can’t remember the last time I played an Australian-only tournament, but the event was certainly plenty of fun and held at a great time. Ty Lee Jones indeed! To the good folk at Stars: any chance of running this event regularly? I’m sure many Aussies really appreciated the chance to play a well-priced satellite at a Godly hour. And if you want to throw in extra packages again, I’m sure you wouldn’t get too many complaints from us Antipodeans…

Many thanks to everyone who shouted out to me during the event – whether it was for the score or my “Champagne Comedy” at the FT! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 08 18:55:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>So I logged into PokerStars this evening...</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (s0stndrd)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ [img]http://www.acehighwine.com/wp-content/iamluckbox.jpg[/img] 

A bit of a nice surprise! Bring on Australian Stars Millions winner number #2!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 08 06:53:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Sunday Mills win recap</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (s0stndrd)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[[img]http://www.acehighwine.com/wp-content/TY2.jpg[/img] 

Originally posted on my blog [url=http://www.acehighwine.com]how a luckbox ran like God for 10 hours[/url] as "ty lee jones - the director's cut"

Or the story of ‘s0stndrd’ winning the March 2 edition of the Sunday Million.

I won’t be presumptuous enough to say that everyone wants to win the PokerStars Sunday Million, but I don’t think too many would question the prestige of the event, easily the biggest Sunday major tournament week-in and week-out. In fact, excluding special editions of the tournament, the 8000-strong field that anted up the $200+$15 buy-in for the March 2 PokerStars Sunday Million was the biggest on record, generating a prize pool slowly edging towards the almost unbelievable $2m mark.

From a bankroll management point of view, this tournament was well out of my price range. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 08 00:49:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Splashing around on UltimateBet</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (s0stndrd)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[[img]http://www.acehighwine.com/wp-content/99polrose.jpg[/img] 

Last night after reading up about a few different rooms, decide to extend the s0stndrd "empire" into UB-ville and after downloading and depositing some money, bought into a $5 tourney to get the feel of the software. 

Nice interface (looking down to see life size kings is kind of cool) but still not quite as good as Stars imho. I quickly busted in the tourney and decided to play a $5r to the 200k GTD on Sunday. After taking four rebuys and an add-on and not picking up too many hands, I woke up with Q[c] Q[s] behind a shove and a reshove and hurt my hand clicking call as fast as possible. No surprises vs 10-10 and 2-2 and suddenly I have a stack. Everything goes pretty smooth from there and I eventually take down a seat - nice start! 

If anyone was playing with me, I was apologise at not being very talkative: I wasn't trying to snub anyone, it's just that I had no idea where the chat button was! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 08 19:01:14 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Top five Mills hands</title>
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      <author>admin@tworags.com (s0stndrd)</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well this tworags business looks like a lot of fun, so I figured why not and joined in so I could post my poker ramblings rather than on my usual blog..

Anyhow, a recap of five big hands from my recent Mills score... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 08 22:11:38 -0400</pubDate>
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