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I advice you to read my last blog to get a relation to this here and to
know why I call it the "DEJAVU" :-) so here is my latest blog b4 I wrote this:

http://www.pocketfives.com/abakus73/i-finally-got-it-4823832

Ok - wednesday as normal with some soccer games on in the "DFB POKAL"
german league cup - not the normal 1st division or 2nd division games.
It's a mixed league cup - so teams from different divisions play eachother.
So I went to a friend to watch the games and played some MTT's beside
it. In the 20kR, the 18kR (former 15k rehab), a 6kSH and the flagship 50kR
it all went fine and I was on my way to cash every of those tourneys.
Don't remember the exit in the 18kR exactly but it was close to money and
it was a coinflip vs an aggressive donk - got 135th of 737 where 90 got paid.
"Not that much pain" I thought and was still relaxed coz I was still on a good
way in the other games. The 6kSH came over the bubble and I flopped a nice
nuts flushdraw on a Q high board which I raised preflop already. Opponent
checked to me and I made a c-bet that he called. Turn was a blank and he
checked once again to let me try to get him off the pot with an ALL IN.
I had still flushouts and could hold AQ but he couldn't fold coz he held the AQ
and I quit 23rd from 171 for I guess arround 87$ :-) It was ok !!!

Meanwhile soccer was over (once again bavaria munich won with an storng 4-0
vs frankfurt - looks like they get into winning league form back) and I went home
sitting out for some minutes at the tables and taking game over in my living room.

NOW SOMETHING PRIVATE: I really love electronic music mixed with nice guitars
and deeper going lyrics. So the new RAMMSTEIN album was a MUST HAVE for me
theese days and I decided to take a sneak into the whole 16 titles while playing
on. *this could may have some impact on my game later on - we will see*

First the 20kR came to the bubble and I managed to get the bubble boy due to
bad timing. Limped 89s in clubs to flop flush with Q53 and got action from the
opponent and flat call to see a blank turn. He bet again and I raised him all
in due to the fear of getting caught by a bigger club and he insta called to show
me nuts flush :-( SO I WAS THE BUBBLE BOY :-( 201st of 1663 !!! RARE !!!

Now a little resume to the 50kR so far as it was already in the 2nd hour: My start
into the tourney was as bad as on monday - facing a really nice suckout with holding
AK. I raised pf and he called: flop xxA rainbow and I bet 3/4 pot he called... turn
was a blank and I decided to go all in and let it look like a bluff and he called with 99
to get his 2 outer rivered :-( .... what a giant call on flop and river that was !!!
Ok - as the rebuying hour ended I was at 2.8k stack and made the addon. The second
hour was absolute amazing getting 2 middle pockets 66 and 99 on to cheap raised
flops that made me sets and after check-calling the flops I reraised them on turn and
got fully paid by two big stacks to get into top 10 :-)... nice bounce back...
till the bubble nothing special and I slidly got down with my stack to place 35 as 50
paid players were left. Was moved to a table with King_Dirk (normally a nice german
pro) but he tried to make moves on me every time I was in the BB and he was SB
and had me well covered. So I waited for a hand and reraised him all in after one of
his permanent preflop raises and took a big pot :-) (sorry man.. I had to post it - hope
you don't mind). After surviving two coinflips that I had to take we were sitting on
the last 2 tables and my new RAMMSTEIN CD showed first influences on me... 
I played more aggressive (maybe due to the aggressive music?) and collected some
blinds to get easily to FT with a top4 stack at arround 200k - DEJAVU - it was
nearly the same amount as on monday :-( THE MATRIX GOT YOU !!!!

Ok - this time I got the same hand KK on the table as we were down to 9 and this
time I got a raise from the button and reraised him all in. He tanked for a while and
let it go. As we were down to 7 I raised a middle pair and got reraised from the BB
to all in - my feeling told me to fold and I did. The opponent told me I was surely
beaten so may AA but not sure.. 3 hands later I pushed with A9s and got reraised
from CL to all in and I couldn't fold it - was too much commited already and may
my rammstein CD overpaced me a bit here but I had to call :-(
he has AA and quietly I quit ... FINALLY NOT A BAD BEAT :-)
This was may the only difference to monday.

A nice 7th place for 1500$ and I DO NOT WHINE.....  

But I promise: If I come to the FT a third time this week I take it DOWN - My
rammstein CD will help me now so take care - I got more aggressive :-)