I just came back to home after few days travelling and playing (hard
life of the poker player :P) I was playing at Amsterdam and then in
Marbella, the Spanish Poker Tour. (I really love this circuit!)
So, after sleeping my 16 hours in a row after too much travel, I´m ready to write! Let´s see what I did in Amsterdam...
Amsterdam is amazing, a very recommended city to visit. I was knocked
out on the first day so I had some days to make some tourism and see
the city. Really loved it! Very beatiful city, so relaxed, and quiet,
and it seems like it has a good standard living... dutchies are always
happy!
I loved the bikes everywhere... the city is made for bikes and
they have priority on cars and even pedestrians... we, the tourist, must
be a great bother to the bikes, you can always see some lost tourist
standing in the middle of the bike lane looking at a map or doing some
photos, so is quite normal that you get almost run over... ;)
(yes, it happened to me... several times) the city must be so beautiful
in summer with all the terraces near the channels... mmm... I´ll
definitevely be there this summer!!
But let´s talk about the tourney... 
Welcome to the game
I know it´s not a great excuse but... my table really were the hellish table! there were so many pros that even them were kind of shocked with the draw... I was at my table alone and I could saw Sorel Mizziapproaching to it... oh no! not you again! lol (he knocked me out of
two tourneys -three now!). I was complaining on my fate when I rise my
head and found Elky and Freddie Deeb
sitting in front of me. You have to be kidding me! (I´ve been said the
the player at my right was a pro also, from sweeden, but I din´t knew
him).
I get doubled up on the first hand and one players gets knocked out. I
can´t remember well the hands I played on this tourney, I didn´t took
notes when I ended and I played other tourney -SPT- just days latter..
my memory is this bad... but the hand was something like that I limped
a suited connector like J10 or J9, other guy called, and the player on
the buttom raised getting called by the two of us. I get a straight
draw on the flop, check, number 2 checked and bottom raised. I
checkraised him, thinking that maybe he´s playing the bottom and doing
the continuation bet... maybe I can get the pot right there... he
called. On the turn I get my straigt done, bet, and he raised me all-in
with QQ at his hand. I won the hand ang get my stack doubled up.
So we have a new seat now at our super table plus one other that still empty... and guess what... two players are coming. First Tron Eidsvig and then Danny Ryan The_Dry. LOOOOL
Ok... where´s the hidden camera? What kind of nightmare is this?
With all these pros at the table I hardly managed to keep my
selfconfidence on a healthy levels... so I got quite confused and play
like I want to commit suicide.... Doesn´t matter that I just doubled
up. I lost a very important hand very soon. Freddie Deeb doubled up
against me: he must noticed how crazy I was and praying that nobody
gets my chips before he can do it. I get KK on middle position, raised
it to 350 (blinds are 50-100) and get called "only" by Freddie. Flop
came 987 with two spades. Great. Beautiful flop. (did you noticed what
a great use of irony?) I make the continuation bet to 500 and Deeb
reraised me to 2000. Oh man!... tell me he didn´t hit! it can´t be
true... maybe he´s taking advantage of me, playing this "beatiful"
flop... I hear voices in my head: raise! raise! lol and I did, but in a
way anybody could smell the fear on me I bet 5500... and Dibb moved
all-in for his 12.000 points. oh ****! I put half of my stack in this
pot with top pair! what I am doing? I´m starting to think that I´m lost
(I´m not that dumb!) but I thought that maybe he can do this same move
with a draw... or maybe he has something like top pair with straight or
flush draw... so, I called with my kings and Deeb showed his flop-made
straight with J10. OWNED! It seems like I AM that dumb!...
My stack now is 8000 and for a while I´m not able to get more chips...
I win some pots, lost some others... and then I have a curious hand:
With 6 limpers at the hand I call in the sb with 94o. Flop came 99x,
two hearts, I check, somebody bet, I raised and get called only by one
player. The turn is the 4 of hearts, my opponent has the higgest flush
possible with a8, so the hand ended all-in and I doubled up to 16.000.
Later I have to fold some hands after investing money on them so my
stack gets down to about 14.000.
In one hand Elky raises preflop (miniraise) and Dibb calls. The player
at my right, shortstack, in the small blind, moves all-in for 6000. I
see JQs in the bb and i think this hand has a great chance against the
range of the shortstack... who, bytheway, had made that same move like
two or three times before... I want to play this one, but just me and
the raiser, so I move my all-in. Both Elky and Freddie folds. Somebody
asks me ¿aces? well not even close... just gambling with JQ. The other
guy shows AQ and I lost the hand. What a bad read!!!
On the last hand I´m playing with KQ (don´t remember the preflop, but
I´m pretty sure i just limped in when I should have raised becouse
there were many players at the hand). The flop came K 10 9, I bet my
top pair, everybody folds but Imper1um reraises me. I use to think that
everybody is stealing me (yeah, maybe I should take it easier...) and
Sorel´s range is quite vaste, so I assume he wants to take the pot away
from me. I reraised and start to feel commited to the pot. So, unless a
bitchy card appears on the turn I would move all-in.A blank appears, I
moved all-in and he instantly call me. Ok, I´m out. He shows JQ´s
-straight- and, again, knock me out of a major! grrrrr...
Well, my play on this tourney was awful!!! It had a perfect structure
and I get more risks than I should and played like a loose maniac who
wants to give all his money as soon as posible... Having too many pros
at my table, didn´t help. I don´t play the same when I feel confident
and with control of the table than when I know that most players at my
table are better than I. Every experience makes you wiser, but I´m
stating to feel pissed that this continues happening to me... I have to
work on my attitude and confidence, and try to correct these stupid
things
Matter of time. I´ll beat them all some day! :P 
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