myst joins Team Eurolinx

I am pleased to announce that I have been sponsored by Eurolinx Poker. I have been in touch with their management for the past few days, and have found them to be very well organized and highly motivated to expand into the Canadian market. They are located in Norway, and are part of the Tain network, the largest poker network in Europe with over 6,000 simultaneous real-money players at peak times.

If you think the players at Pokerstars are weak, you are in for a big surprise. I'm not just saying this because of my affiliation with Eurolinx, but the players on this network make low-limit Pokerstars players look like pros, lol. I will probably still play on Pokerstars for their Sunday tournament, but for my day to day cash game, sit and go, and tourney play I will be spending most of my time at Eurolinx. There is always full tables from $0.05/$0.10 NL up to $20/$40 NL and a full range of tournaments and sit and go's. They also have WSOP qualifiers and Pyramid tournaments similar to Party Poker's step tournaments.

Now for the perks of signing up at Eurolinx through me. Normally, they give a 100% matching bonus up to $200 in which they release $100 for every 2000 FPP earned. Through me, they give a 100% matching bonus up to $500 and they release the bonus twice as fast, $100 for every 1000 FPP earned. I played for a few hours at $0.50/$1.00 NL and I earned about 300 FPP so it doesn't take very long to clear your bonus. Also, if you generate over $600/month in rake (about 1800 FPP), you get 30% rakeback which is deposited into your account on the 1st of every month.

As part of Team Eurolinx, I will be travelling with them to the WSOP in Las Vegas and all of the EPT events around Europe. I am very excited about this opportunity and I hope we can work together to give Eurolinx a strong presence in Canada.

If you want to try them out, click here and to recieve the bonus and rakeback deal, you must enter the bonus code 'myst'.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a comment or email me at marc6044@hotmail.com

Back Home... For 3 Weeks Anyways

Vegas was unbelievable. I was unable to post daily updates because the Bellagio had no wireless internet access, and our room was quite a distance from the poker room.

I had planned to play quite a few tournaments, but I only ended up playing in 2 of them. The cash games were extremely soft, and I just couldn't stay away from them. The second day of my trip, I played in the $1500+$70 event, and I busted out early when my pocket kings were cracked by pocket tens. On day 3, I played in the $2000+$80 event which had 285 entrants. I ended up busting out in 26th for a payout of $3165. That was the last tournament I played, I spent the rest of the trip playing $10/$20 NL.

Out of the 6 days I played poker, I didn't have one losing day. My worst day was the first one, where I only made $300. The best day by far was day 5, where me and Galen destroyed the $10/$20 NL game. We each bought in for $5000, and by the end of the night Galen had $9000 and I had $21,400.

This is a $10,000 pot I won from a rich whale named John. He has been raising every pot that comes to him, and has been making huge bluffs and showing them every time. I didn't want to get involved in too many hands with him, so I just decided to wait in the weeds for that one hand where I could take him for everything he had. (Well, except for his $90,000 Rolex).

I have $15,000 and John has around $5000 left. I'm dealt KK in the BB. There are 2 limpers when it comes around to John on the button, and he makes it $120 to go, like he has been doing all night with any 2 cards. I make it $360. Limpers fold, John calls.

Flop comes J54 rainbow. I bet $500, he calls.
Turn 4. I bet $1000, he thinks for a few seconds, then he says "all-in". I say "call" about one nano-second after him.
River 6. He shows J8 off, and he leaves the table.

My final stats were:

Day 1: $5/$10 NL, +$300
Day 2: $5/$10 NL, +$1700 - played in the $1570 tournament and busted out
Day 3: $5/$10 NL, +$1500 - played in the $2080 tournament and finished 26th for $3165
Day 4: $10/$20 NL, +$2100
Day 5: $10/$20 NL, +$17,900
Day 6: $10/$20 NL, +$1600
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Total: +$24,615

I loved Vegas so much that I am going again with my cousin in 3 weeks, from May 5th to 11th. We got ringside seats for the De La Hoya-Mayorga fight on May 6th at the MGM Grand. That same week, there is a bunch of WPT events at the Mirage. They should have the weakest cash games so I will probably spend most of my time playing over there.

I haven't been playing any online poker recently, with all of my travelling. I'm also enjoying the nice weather outside in my new Infiniti G35 that I bought two days ago.