Troops going into battle - Daleroxxu's Army

A lot of wannabe soldiers applied and less than half made the grade. (Pro tip: don't apply if googling your name brings up known scammer lists, you can't speak english, can't follow basic instructions, don't want to give me your real name, the list goes on).

The following soldiers will be going into battle to kick some enemy ass in the PokerStars Sunday $1/4million

aventura72
BigEckAA
Custo80
DaddyO74
DPenman
ei8hty ei8ht
i_am_plus_ev
Jakejenks
Mr 0rigami
Sp33d D3m0n
tamas_90
The DeadPrez
Tucktornado

Had to take a couple of people off the list after they shipped back buyin. Just the 13 - lucky!

No live stream I'm afraid as I'm very ill right now. I will try my best to rail at some point. Good luck soldiers!

update - congrats to DaddyO74, Aventura72 and tamas_90 who all cashed. Ofcourse I decided to join in about 45 mins into late-reg and outlasted all of my soldiers, pretty standard ;-) wp guys.

The Daleroxxu Army - Going Into Battle This Sunday ($1/4 Million)

This Sunday I will be sending an army of my blog followers straight into the front line of that crazy battelfield that is the PokerStars Sunday $1/4 Million.

There will be a lot of landmines to avoid and while our enemies are very primative, 40,000 of them will be let out of their cages and unleashed upon us. It is going to be a tough battle and only the toughest of soldiers will survive to capture a seat at the final table and earn themselves thousands of dollars.

The battle begins Sunday 7th feb 3:30pm ET / 8:30pm UK so if you are of fit mind and body and of legal age then sign up now! Your Daleroxxu needs you!

Terms:

- Stakeback, then 50/50 cut (you cash for $101, you ship me $11 (stake back), plus $45 (50% of profit) = $56, you keep $45).
- Have less than $500 in your account (if you have more than that create your own army, you don't need to join mine)
- Must be over 18.
- Must not suck at poker.

How to sign up:

write to: daleroxxu_competition@hotmail.com with the following:
(2/3 of the emails i've had so far don't contain half of the required info. Automatic fail for not being smart enough to read instructions imo)

why you should be included in the army:
pokerstars screen name:
screen name on other sites:
forums/commnutites that you're on and your screen name:
aim/msn/skype names:
full real name:
date of birth:
references (at least 2, someone i know or someone reputable):
If you have no references, im not looking to get grimm'd, but if you send me your full address and photocopy of drivers license or similar legit ID I will consider it.
If I look up your screen name and I can't tell if you're a winning player I may ask to see a HH of a mtt you've played, even if it was a freeroll or whatever.

I am officially the "Best Blogger" :-)

I just recieved a nice email from PokerStars thanking me for my contribution to the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker.

They enjoyed my livestream so much that they have awarded me the title of "Best Blogger" as well as crediting my account with $430 in SCOOP vouchers which I will no doubt be parlaying into a 6-figure SCOOP score come April.

Thanks once again to everyone who organised or got involved with WBCOOP. The series made poker fun for me again, and I was glad to entertain the masses.

So I just got home from having 8 hours of private 1-1 snowboard coaching at the indoor SnoZone which just blows my mind how big it is and how real the snow is.

Anyway my body has not experienced anything as physically intense as that since I was 16yrs old and stacking supermarket shelves in Tesco for 10 hour shifts to a monkey-brained boss that over-worked me as hard as he could.

I'm glad to say that it was worth it because I passed my course with flying colours and even did some extra stuff. My plan now is to go sleep, wake up and go for a full body swedish massage, then when my body has recovered I will be back on the slopes. I should have learned to snowboard years ago and I deeply regret it because its just so damn sick. I dont know boarder lingo so I'm planning on using my poker lingo and relating it to boarding, so everything will be "sick", "a bad beat" or "get out of my way you donk".

Thursday afternoon will be my first PLO coaching session with Wazz, after I overslept and missed our session last week.

I will also be making a new video in the next week. My last one has had over 7000 hits on youtube so far so the vids are definitely getting popular.

Peace
-Daleroxxu

WBCOOP Main Event & Sunday Tourney wrap-up

Sunday night was the World Blogger Championship Main Event and the tournament and live stream kicked off sharp at 3pm ET / 8pm UK time, a whole 7 minuts after I woke up.

So I proved that poker is a skill game when I became the 2006 WBCOOP Champion but I had been hearing a lot of nonsense recently about how poker is all luck and no skill. So my plan was to win it again in 2010, this time doing it live so all these guys watching can learn how to win.

To make the evening even more fun MI_Turtle ran an "outlast the turtle" promotion for the event. He has escrowed $1000 with me which was to be distributed between everyone that outlasted him in the tournament.
I told everyong "If you plan to knock him out I suggest you wait til you're heads up." Not only because the latter you knock him out, the more money you recieve, but because I didn't want to sit there and do 2000 player transfers if he busted out in the first hand.

Since it was Sunday and I was playing an MTT anyway I decided to also play the Turbo Takedown and the Sunday $2,000,000 for some added fun and I had a last-longer with the turtle, last longer in 2 out of the 3 tournaments = ship $100.

So the WBCOOP was all about the ownage of a fish to my right. Mr.Foley88. He'd limp into every pot and play as bad as he could so I told everyone watching the live stream that I'd be taking every chip he had and I'm sure he was watching as he just seemed to play even worse after that.

Finally a pick up a beautiful hand and outplay him rather beautifully, it really was a thing of beauty.

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $60)

FOLD panolko, FOLD ptparty, FOLD uhgi, FOLD carlosenriqe, FOLD ELRENOPOKER
CALL playerstar99, $40
CALL Mr.Foley88, $40
RAISE Daleroxxu, to $200
FOLD PAXCS, FOLD playerstar99
CALL Mr.Foley88, $160

Flop: (Pot: $480)

BET Daleroxxu, $280
CALL Mr.Foley88, $280

Turn: (Pot: $1,040)

CHECK Daleroxxu
BET Mr.Foley88, $400
RAISE Daleroxxu, to $1,800
CALL Mr.Foley88, $1,400

River: (Pot: $4,640)

BET Daleroxxu, $82 and is ALL-IN
CALL Mr.Foley88, $82

Showdown:

SHOWS Daleroxxu

SHOWS Mr.Foley88

Daleroxxu wins the pot of $4,804 with two pair, Jacks and Fives

Now, as you guys know, when Daleroxxu doubles up through a fool in the Bloggerment he googles a link to the guys blog so that everyone on the live stream can get an insight into how the guy thinks.
Unfortunately I couldn't find Mr.Foley88's blog but I did find this http://www.pokerforums.org/poker-newbies/14853-does-anybody-know-how-get-sponsored.html Looooool

 

Wonder if he ever got that deal he was looking for............. C'mon son, **** outta here.

Half an hour later i see the fish minraise when I have AK. Now I am famous for just shoving my stack in with 72o, perhaps too famous, so I level these 1st level thinking clowns by stalling, announcing on my live stream that it's "hammer time" and shove with my sexy ace king. Mr.Foley 88 snap called, like insta ninja super-fast SNAP called and turned over the old T9o. Yes, he called 53 big blinds with T9o! Someone sign this guy up and give him a deal!!!!

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $135)

CALL ptparty, $60
FOLD uhgi, FOLD carlosenriqe, FOLD ELRENOPOKER, FOLD playerstar99
RAISE Mr.Foley88, to $120
RAISE Daleroxxu, to $3,804 and is ALL-IN
FOLD PAXCS, FOLD panolko, FOLD ptparty
CALL Mr.Foley88, $3,152 and is ALL-IN
RETURN Daleroxxu, $532

Flop: (Pot: $6,739)

Turn: (Pot: $6,739)

River: (Pot: $6,739)

Showdown:

SHOWS Mr.Foley88

SHOWS Daleroxxu

Daleroxxu wins the pot of $6,739 with a pair of Jacks

The flop brought him 20!!!!! outs, unbelievable, and even more unbelieveable justice was served for once and he bricked turn and river. OWWWWWNED, bing blang blaow blasting out at 110% volume on the live stream and celebrating owning a fool. Good game son.

With a nice stack I was coasting along nicely, it was rather nice. Then I picked up two jokers, otherwise known as the hammer, otherwise known as 72o. As you know, Daleroxxu plays that 72o shit like it's poket aces. I've played it every time I've been dealt it this week and I haven't lost a single pot.

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $315)

FOLD oCosteira, FOLD Bahtijar K, FOLD Obie34, FOLD WanM, FOLD mentauk205
RAISE Daleroxxu, to $360
FOLD LTUvaidas, FOLD gobears
CALL normalis104, $240

Flop: (Pot: $915)

CHECK normalis104
BET Daleroxxu, $686
CALL normalis104, $686

Turn: (Pot: $2,287)

CHECK normalis104
BET Daleroxxu, $1,680
CALL normalis104, $1,680

River: (Pot: $5,647)

CHECK normalis104
BET Daleroxxu, $4,436 and is ALL-IN
FOLD normalis104
RETURN Daleroxxu, $4,436

Showdown:

SHOWS Daleroxxu

Daleroxxu wins the pot of $5,647

A sexy pot won with the sexiest hand in poker and I played MC Hammer over the live stream full blast for all the viewers that were in awe in the power of the hammer to win pots in texas hold'em.

Not long after I doubled up in the Sunday Million, or 2 million, or 3 and a half million or whatever they call it now, when I took a calling station down to valuetown. Watch as he snap calls my over-bet shove on the river.

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $225)

CALL BÉBÉCAS, $150
FOLD LukaD33, FOLD Aztiki, FOLD arnaldo61, FOLD mullaaaaa FOLD henrique137
CALL 2Pokermad, $150
FOLD mrvogt
CHECK Daleroxxu

Flop: (Pot: $525)

BET Daleroxxu, $300
CALL BÉBÉCAS, $300
FOLD 2Pokermad

Turn: (Pot: $1,125)

BET Daleroxxu, $900
CALL BÉBÉCAS, $900

River: (Pot: $2,925)

BET Daleroxxu, $6,930 and is ALL-IN
CALL BÉBÉCAS, $6,930

Showdown:

SHOWS Daleroxxu

SHOWS BÉBÉCAS

Daleroxxu wins the pot of $16,785 with a full house, Jacks full of Tens

So MI_Turtle busted out of the WBCOOP in 634 place and I wasn't looking forward to making individual player transfers to each account. Thankfully PokerStars stepped up to help out, by distrubting the $1000 between the players and sending them an email to explain. I've already seen guys tweeting about how they've started to run the money up, which is awesome.

I busted out of the Turbo Takedown losing 12bb all in pre 33 < AKo, at that stage it was even in the lastlonger between me and the turtle, but he quickly lost AA twice in about 10 minutes in the sunday mil so I shipped.

Ofcourse I was to experience bad beats of my own which would see me bust out of WBCOOP and Sunday Mil before the money.
WBCOOP AA < Zomg flushdraw http://www.pokerhand.org/?5141495
Sunday Mil AK < KQs http://www.pokerhand.org/?5141986

Sucks to get clowned. Pretty much got screwed over in everything I played this week, but.... wait for it.... "THATS POKER"!

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the live stream and the live chat box, it was waaaay more popular than I could have expected. And thanks to the organisers of the WBCOOP forputting on the series, it was a lot of fun and I'll send you guys an email with feedback and suggestions for next year.

Just about to go learn to Snowboard with an intensive 8 hours of training. Who says online poker players never leave the house???

WBCOOP Live #6 No Fold'em Hold'em 30/01/2010

It's was more of that no fold'em hold'em that we're all familiar with tonight.

Yes, tables full of 80%vpip/5%pfr and 65%vpip/40%pfr clownfish displayed their skills (lol) in yet another bloggerdonkament in a fight to decide who would get a bunch of tickets to play in SCOOP event's that they will be dead money in.

Best quote from the live-stream chat so far: "I would love to see some of these guy's blogs" think it was PartyScout that said that. So everytime I saw someone do something stupid I'd google a link to the person's blog to try to get some kind of insight into their crazy thinking haha. To be fair most of the bad player's blogs were non-poker blogs.

Tournament was very uneventful for me. I did win yet another (thats 4 out of 4 now) pot preflop with the hammer (72o) and yet another chance to play Hammertime over the livestream.
But with 28BBs, when I looked down and saw AKo and realised that I had already spammed a link to my blog/stream in the table chat I thought it would be a good idea to shove over someones open range, hoping they'll put me 72o and snap call with some garbage. Obv get called by JJ and obv lose 2 pair to a boat fml.

Again MI_Turtle tried to steal the show by deciding to make an effort and go deep in the tournament. I've never known anyone with more confidence than this guy. With 3 tables left and big chipstack he was so sure that he would win that he told me "If I don't win this I'll put up $1000 on tomorrow's main event to be split between anyone that outlasts me".

No sooner than people had flooded into the live stream to watch him take it down he got nitrolled by a nitrolling nit with middle set to lose half his stack. Then lost a race for the rest of his chips against his own student. Owned by your own student Nick, dunno if you should be proud or embarassed haha, it's like Daniel-san beating the shit out of Mr Miyagi.

gg

WBCOOP Live #5 Teh 8-Game Mixaments 29/01/2010

After way too much holdem monotony the bloggerment became a mix of 8 different games that I and no other blogger in the community had a clue how to play!

The games were: 2-7 Triple Draw, Limit Hold’em, Omaha 8, Razz, Seven Card Stud, Stud 8, NLHE and PLO. All 6-handed tables.

I was excited to be taking a break from only NLHE because the most fun we've had before this was in the PLO event where tables full of clueless bloggers got over excited at seeing 4 cards infront of their eyes.
Chips went flying everywhere and bad beats were handed out quicker than those Mexican guys hand out stripper/hooker cards when you walk down Las Vegas Boulevard.

So I dug out those dusty old copies of Super System and Super System 2, watched a 2-7 triple draw video on cardrunners, got really prepared for the tourney. Ofcourse I just go and donk off half my stack in the first 10 minutes haha.

My table was pretty weak though and I grinded back and went deep into the final 20%. I really started owning some clowns at games I was reading the rules for only hours earlier. Watch as I scoop the Hi and the Lo in Stud 8 against a fish called SpartanFox http://www.pokerhand.org/?5135405
But when I own and then publicly humilate on my blog a fish like this; I at least like to balance that out by doing something nice like linking to their blog http://spartanfox.com/

Oli Banks was in the live stream chat screaming at me to get his table up on the screen.
Oh what a sight, he played the 72o hammer beautifuly, shipping a deep stack over a reraise.
He gets called and is drawing semi-dead on the flop. But I knew the suckout was coming, "seven deucey never loses ", bink bink runner runner flush and it was time to celebrate with another round of MC Hammer's Can't Touch This.

So we had a guest appearance from Nick 'MI_Turtle' Rainey on the live stream and what a fucking jinx this guy is. The minute he starts talking I lose 2/3 of my stack to some fool with JTo that rivered a T in LHE.
The VERY next hand this happens http://www.pokerhand.org/?5135516
KK, loses to ace-crap once again.
Seriously, the only 2 hands I play while talking to him and I get crushed, such a feckin' jinx. I have made a note never to play and talk to him at the same time ever again and also (very important) never ever travel on an airplane with him.

gg

Back to just the non-minbet holdem for tomorrow's bloggerment.

WBCOOP Live #4 NLHE 28/01/2010

So we had more unlimited holdem action at WBCOOP #4 tonight.

But before that I was supposed to have my first PLO coaching session with Wazz at 2pm.

I had 2 previous 4-5 hour sleeps where I had to wake up for the Orthodontist, then had to wake up the second time to do the Live Stream. So I decided I'd go for a little nap at 8am to feel refreshed and just incase I overslept I set my alarm clock for midday.

Now I have this problem where if I'm too tired and the alarm goes off I wake up, switch off the alarm and go back to sleep, with no knowledge of what I just did. It's the same problem that makes me practially unemployable in the real world.

I wake up and I'm feeling great. I wonder why I'm feeling so great after just a nap, look at my phone and it's 2:25pm, f@$% !! So yeah coaching didn't happen.

As for the bloggerment well I lasted all of 37 minutes before running AK into AA. Before that though I called a guy down to the river with bottom pair, beating his scrubby ace high and oh how we laughed as he tilted his entire stack off a couple of hands later.

I didn't want to end the live stream so soon so we got MJCACE's table up on the screen and he promised to show off for the camera, loads of check-raise bluffs and showing his cards, was an epic performance son.
After he busted Seo1990 was asking for the limelight and I told him that I would only bring his table onto the stream if he could match MJCACE's performace. He assured me that he could and it was no lie as we watched him take down a nice pot by 3-betting the flop and showing the 5-HIGH to the guy he just owned!!!! Nice hand son :D

Anyway enough of that hold them nonsense, next game up is 8-game mix, hands up who knows how to play them all?

WBCOOP Live #3 NLHE 27/01/2010

Another live stream ruined by a clown sucking out on me!

Those unlimited texas hold them pokers will drive you bonkers at times.

At least I got to show off the power of the hammer. As all bloggers know, the 72o hammer should be played hard and fast with a preflop all-in as it has the power to either win all the blinds/antes/limps preflop but if called it sucks out beautifully and puts your oponent on tilt.

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $135)

FOLD katifloripa
FOLD ErsterAlles
CALL Timpz18, $60
FOLD norbenjamin
CALL fasteddie969, $60
RAISE Daleroxxu, to $2,875 and is ALL-IN
FOLD DonCorleoPT
FOLD Tiger-rudd
FOLD dafalenangel
FOLD Timpz18
FOLD fasteddie969
RETURN Daleroxxu, $2,815

Showdown:

SHOWS Daleroxxu

Daleroxxu wins the pot of $315


The live stream went wild as I showed the hand then proceeded to play Hammertime, you can't touch this!!! You fools can't touch my seven dooooooss!

 But then it was time for some real skillz. Watch as I win a 5-way pot on the river with the nut low. THE NUT LOW. The absolute worst hand and I win, how does that happen? Because I own their punty souls at pokers that is how it happens.

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $210)

FOLD DonCorleoPT
CALL Tiger-rudd, $80
FOLD skeeze666
CALL katifloripa, $80
FOLD ErsterAlles
CALL Timpz18, $80
FOLD norbenjamin
CALL fasteddie969, $40
CHECK Daleroxxu

Flop: (Pot: $490)

CHECK fasteddie969
CHECK Daleroxxu
CHECK Tiger-rudd
CHECK katifloripa
CHECK Timpz18

Turn: (Pot: $490)

CHECK fasteddie969
CHECK Daleroxxu
CHECK Tiger-rudd
CHECK katifloripa
CHECK Timpz18

River: (Pot: $490)

CHECK fasteddie969
BET Daleroxxu, $99
FOLD Tiger-rudd
FOLD katifloripa
FOLD Timpz18
FOLD fasteddie969
RETURN Daleroxxu, $99

Showdown:

SHOWS Daleroxxu

Daleroxxu wins the pot of $49


So with 3000 chips I was in decent shape. There was a guy open shoving like 1/3 of his hands pre for deep stacks and one of the guys on the live stream had a huge war with him in the stars chatbox.  The first I noticed was when I seen the moderator in the chat then I scrolled up and read all the hilariousnes hahaha.
So the open-shover keeps up his anticts and I finally pick up a hand to call him with.

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $210)

RAISE Timpz18, to $9,082 and is ALL-IN
FOLD norbenjamin
FOLD fasteddie969
CALL Daleroxxu, $3,040 and is ALL-IN
FOLD DonCorleoPT
FOLD Tiger-rudd
FOLD skeeze666
FOLD katifloripa
FOLD ErsterAlles
RETURN Timpz18, $6,042

Flop: (Pot: $6,290)

Turn: (Pot: $6,290)

River: (Pot: $6,290)

Showdown:

SHOWS Timpz18

SHOWS Daleroxxu

Timpz18 wins the pot of $6,290 with two pair, Aces and Jacks


Well played Timpz18. Try not to choke on a burnt piece of toast while you're having breakfast this morning.

Peace

WBCOOP Live #2 PLO 26/01/2010

After a bunch of fun playing and live streaming the Pot Limit Omahahahaha WBCOOP event I finished 48th out of 1634.

We started with 5 people sitting out at my table and ofcourse the rest us battling over their dead blinds. I couldn't hit a flop and lost half my stack.

But these clowns were so bad I just waited til I flopped the nuts in a limped pot so I could get a chump to donk-dump his stack to me with an overpair http://www.pokerhand.org/?5126706 thankyaverymuch

It obviously seems like a mistake to have the registration for this open a week in advance because people just sign up regardless of whether they know they can play or not and dont give a crap if they just blind out because it's not costing them anything.

Eventually it was just me and one huge stack at the table with 7!!! people sitting out. He would open limp every hand to steal and I was just limping behind him trying to hit a flop. Obviously he doubled me up then doubled me up again
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5126720
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5126726

So eventually all the sit-outs blind off and the table breaks. I get sat next to TheWookie "don't call me son" Way, always nice to have a loose passive fish beside you :D He says PLO isn't his game so I'm sure he's much better at holdem, son.

Stacked 2 fishbags in 1 hand at the new table. Damn they were so bad. http://www.pokerhand.org/?5124940

Then some guy at my table, jacquesprado, tells me he's watching my live stream. 1 minute later he clowns me like the clown that he is when he gets it in with 2nd pair and a gutshot on the turn and counterfeits my 2 pair + flushdraw.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5125226
It was awesome having him watch the live stream as he clowned me because it ment that I could berate him in style lol YOOOOU MUPPPET.

So after that I ended up bluffing my stack off on the river of a hand where I missed like 30 outs or something stupid against this guys 2 pair. With 5 tables left I was left with 40% of a big blind and trippled up 2 hands in a row, the chatbox was going wild shouting for the biggest comeback in history, but it wasn't to be :(

gg guys and thanks to everyone on the live stream, it was a blast.
-Daleroxxu

WBCOOP Live #1 NHLE 25/01/2010

Streaming live from WBCOOP#1 with audio. Jan 25th 5pm ET / 10pm UK.

Game over - live stream will be back tomorrow.

Did well to get it in with the hammer twice and take down the blinds :D

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5120982
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5121101

Taught FUJItheFISH not to steal my blind with 73o, c'mon son f@(% outta here with that bull$H17£

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5121025

And ofcourse the bustout hand has to be a sick beat. Dude snap calls with the old K9s probably putting me on 72o, nice fishhhhh.

Seat 1: NickL75 ($2,120)

Posts small blind $125

Seat 2: IgorSerIv ($9,302)

Posts big blind $250

Seat 3: fixkiss ($5,727)
Seat 4: Morganhell ($5,622)
Seat 5: TMFS11 ($19,319)
Seat 6: BenkiQB ($15,148)
Seat 7: Daleroxxu ($1,882)
Seat 8: sh@kira ($12,516)
Seat 9: Life_Luckily ($3,880)

Dealt to Daleroxxu

Preflop: (Pot: $645)

FOLD Morganhell
FOLD TMFS11
FOLD BenkiQB
RAISE Daleroxxu, to $1,852 and is ALL-IN
FOLD sh@kira
FOLD Life_Luckily
FOLD NickL75
CALL IgorSerIv, $1,727
FOLD fixkiss

Flop: (Pot: $4,224)

Turn: (Pot: $4,224)

River: (Pot: $4,224)

Showdown:

SHOWS IgorSerIv

SHOWS Daleroxxu

IgorSerIv wins the pot of $4,224 with three of a kind, Kings


Honorable mention to Nick 'MI_Turtle' Rainey who was in a heads up pot versus a fish. I brought his table onto my live stream and he said "this guy is so bad I can tell him what I have", so the fish minbets a 983 flop, and minbets again on a 4 turn, nick says "I have KK" / "you are so bad I can tell you" and check raises the fish, the fish jams his stack in and nick calls.
Obviously gets OWWWWWWNED by top set of 9's hahahahaha, that was the funniest hand ever.

Next live stream is PLO 26/01/10 lets gogogogo