mystpoker.com: September 2006

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Why I Love Eurolinx

If you talk to anybody who's played for more than 5 minutes on Eurolinx, they will tell you that these are the softest games you will find on the internet. Sure, you will take more bad beats than usual, but you will also get paid off a lot more often. Also, game selection is a very important factor. Find the bad players, take notes on them, add them to your Buddy List, and sit on their left whenever you are able to.

After several months of playing on Eurolinx, I know almost every player on the site that plays $2/$4 NL and higher. Ever since I came back from Vegas on August 15th, I've just been crushing the $2/$4 NL and $3/$6 NL tables. I play 6 to 9 tables almost every day, and I've only had 2 or 3 losing days since I came back.

Also, maybe the most important thing of all, is the rakeback! If you sign up with the 'myst' bonus code, you get 30% rakeback if you generate more than $600 in rake a month, which is not hard at all. (I've done over $1000 in rake in a single day). Also, if you are a serious player who multi-tables, you will get more than just 30% rakeback, they will also give you another percentage into your own 'tournament fund', which they use to send you to play in tournaments around the world.

Why does Eurolinx do this? It's simple, they can't compete with sites like Pokerstars and Party Poker in terms of the number of users. So how do they attract players to play on their site? They have to offer something extra. This is it. You would be a fool to play cash games without rakeback, you're basically throwing money away. Here is my rakeback report for this week:


Eurolinx Support (support@eurolinx.com)
To: marc6044@hotmail.com


Subject: rake week 38


Dear Marc,

Your rake on Eurolinx in week 38 was as follows:

Monday: $ 170,39


Tuesday: $ 308,2


Wednesday: $ 193,45


Thursday: $ 776,01


Friday: $ 426,9


Saturday: $ 990,08


Sunday: $ 278,33


Total Rake: $ 3143,36


Please do not hesitate to contact our support team if there is anything we can help you with!

Sincerely,

Daniel


If you do the math, that's $943 in one week that they are putting in your pocket even if you are breaking even! They are paying you to play, that's better than the average salary! If you are interested in getting started on Eurolinx, please send me an email at marc6044@hotmail.com or add me to MSN.

I'll also give you the names of the big fish. Here are the names of just a few to look for: gubbe04 - carselection - Dr107suited - and here is my all-time favorite - Ricofix

This guy has probably paid for my car all by himself! I have a couple of friends who I have asked to call me whenever they see him online. I will literally leave whatever I'm doing and rush home to play against him, like a doctor on call! Here's a sample from this morning:

#Game No : 156420323
***** Hand History for Game 156420323 *****
$10.00/$20.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Mon, Sep 25, 16:18:29 2006
Table Guava (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: _myst_ ($2089.00)
Seat 2: Pyr ($2000.00)
Seat 3: FatHead ($3589.00)
Seat 6: Ricofix ($2260.00)
FatHead posts small blind [$10.00]
Ricofix posts big blind [$20.00]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to _myst_ [ Th 9h ]
_myst_ raises [$80.00]
FatHead calls [$70.00]
Ricofix calls [$60.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5h 3s Jh ]
FatHead checks
Ricofix checks
_myst_ bets [$180.00]
FatHead folds
Ricofix raises [$400.00]
_myst_ is all-In [$1829.00]
Ricofix calls [$1609.00]
Ricofix shows [ 6h 7h ] High Card, Jack
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8s ]
Ricofix shows [ 6h 7h ] a Pair, Threes
_myst_ shows [ Th 9h ] a Pair, Threes
_myst_ wins $4257.00 from main pot


Yes, I won a $4257 pot with high card Ten. Good luck :)

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Barcelona

I arrived in Barcelona on Monday, ready for the first event of Season 3 of the European Poker Tour. I met up with the team, took a tour of the casino, and we played a little side event which nobody cashed in.

I received a call to my hotel room on Tuesday morning and was asked to meet with the Eurolinx manager and the owner in the bar downstairs. I went down, and it turns out that the owner had flown to Barcelona to give us some bad news. There had been some miscommunication with our whole team's registration, and by the time they realized it, all of the seats had already been sold! So, nobody from Team Eurolinx was going to be able to play in this event. A couple of team members were able to buy a seat from other players on their own, but they were forced to pay € 8000 and € 8500 for the € 5000 seat.

On Tuesday, we went to Nou Camp Stadium to watch the first round of the UEFA Champions League. FC Barcelona dismantled PFC Levski Sofia 5-0. Ronaldinho is just amazing to watch.

Anyways, I'll try not to stray from poker too much. I did an interview this afternoon with European Poker Magazine. It will be broadcast on their website in the near future, I'll post the link when it's up.

I'll be returning to Ottawa on Saturday, and hopefully I will see some of you at Lone Star on Monday night. The first Monday I played, 120 people showed and I finished in 5th place. By the time I was knocked out, I had a total of 10 bounty chips, and the player who eliminated me received $100! This Monday we are expecting around 170 players, so please be there early for registration to make sure you get a seat.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Live EuroLinx Texas Hold'em Freeroll Series




Starting Monday, September 4th Eurolinx Poker and the Lone Star Texas Grill will be hosting an eleven week Live Texas Hold'em Freeroll Series to promote local Eurolinx Pro Marc Karam aka "MYST". The 11 weeks will consist of 10 150 player max. bounty hunter tournaments, and one final V.I.P. tournament with a grand prize consisting of a complimentary buy-in to the CPT $2500 Vancouver event, airfare and hotel. These tournaments will be absolutely free to enter, and guarantee to offer local players a shot to experience poker at its finest!
Date: Every Monday starting September 4th, 2006

Time: Registration starts nightly at 6pm with a 7pm start time

Maximum # players: 150/tournament

Prizing:
1st-$100 Eurolinx credit and a seat in the weekly 25k guarantee
2nd-$75 Eurolinx credit and a seat in the weekly 25k guarantee
3rd-$50 Eurolinx credit and a seat in the weekly 25k guarantee
Each player will have a $10 Eurolinx credit as their bounty, and once knocked out of the tournament will be forced to hand over their bounty chip to their assailant. No player other than MYST will surrender more than one bounty. All players who make the final table of each respective tournament, will be invited back to compete in the 11th week grand prize tournament. There will also be an added incentive to make more than one final table, as we will be awarding extra starting chips to those players who have made more than one final table appearance in the finale.

Location: Lone Star Texas Grill-Ottawa East Location, 1211 Lemieux St. (Right across from the St. Laurent shopping center)

Eligibilty: To be eligible to participate in this promotion all players must be registered with Eurolinx poker www.eurolinx.com and are recommended to use bonus code: MYST to be further eligible for all of the rakebacks and MYST promos. Registration will be available on site, and players must be a minimum of 18 years of age and older. However, neither Eurolinx or Lone Star can guarantee that this age will make players eligible for the grand prize promotion.

For more information feel free to contact me at 613.291.0430 or 613.742.9378.. or contact us via email at marc6044@hotmail.com or at mintenks@rogers.com!

Hope to see y'all real soon!

Niko