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February 5, 2009

After my disappointing tournament results at the annual Dom Classics, it was time to focus on some new stuff. (Disappointing, because also in the last tournament I was unable to cash - despite being the chipleader all throughout the event, even with just 22 players left.)

Either way, this new stuff obviously included some new articles / columns at Pokercity, like my bi-weekly column or my weekly, gossip-style e-mail correspondence with a poker buddy. In addition, I have handed over my PokerCity Unibet Player of the Year 2008 trophy to the New Champ Pieter de Korver.

Of course, in the previous days I was mostly busy with setting up my new Twitter account. More than anything, this account was created to promote my latest Dutch poetry blog, where I will be releasing one new poem every month. Not all that surprising, in the end the Twitter bug really caught me, and now I keep myself busy every day with updating, gossiping, spamming and needling. What a life! ;)

Obviously, everybody is free to add / follow me. Just click on the Twitter button at the top of this screen.

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DAILY UPDATES DOM CLASSICS 2010

Day 6, 7 & 8 (Jan 29, 30 & 31)

No good tournament results from the Dom Classics. My last three tournaments, including the Main Event, I was unable to cash - through a combination of some questionable decisions & bad luck. So, only one tournament to go this week: tomorrow's closing event, the €200 limit hold'em (where I defend my title).

Despite no cashes yet, I am still having a rather good time here in Utrecht. Yesterday night, we had a nice cash game in the hotel lobby with some friends, and every day at 1 p.m. Nicky & I host a live edition of our talkshow Poker Inside. Tomorrow the last broadcast at Pokercity, with as special guest Bart Spijker.

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Day 5 (Jan 28)

My first piece of good news from the Dom Classics tournament series: I have won the supersatellite for the €1500+90 Main Event. There was just one crucial pot I played, getting my 17BB shove with TT called by 99. For the rest, it was just grinding & maneuvering, and in all honesty it was a rather easy qualification - despite the fact that I never had a lot of chips.

Tomorrow is the €1000+80 NLH, and then the day after it's the Main Event. Wish me luck!

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Day 4 (Jan 27)

A rather uneventful day at the 2010 Dom Classics. I booked no result at the just-100-entries-and-lots-of-good-players €300+30 PLO / PLH mix, getting eliminated after a slightly overplayed marginal holding. I then switched to the cash tables, and was in a nice and very deep-stacked €5-5 PLO game, with a decent result.

Tomorrow: the supersatellite for the €1500+90 Main Event.

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Day 3 (Jan 26)

No results at day 3 of the Dom Classics. In the €200+20 NLH with one rebuy, I was quite unfortunate. With 100BB deep, I got everything all-in preflop with KK vs an overplayed JJ, only to see a horrible jack come on the river. I lost another pot when I called a totoal bluff on the turn from a no-pair-no-draw J4, to again see a jack on the river improve my opponent. I then had to lay low in order to even make it to the add-on, but the consequence was of course that I was shortstacked throughout the event. No problem for me, because that's just the way I like it. But in the end, all I won in this tournament was two uncalled shoves, and the fist real all-in was an all-out for me.

Following my regular pattern of moving into the cash games later, I couldn't find a really good one. Settling for a €5-5 NLH, I made two big folds (one time TPTK and one time an overpair to the board in a three-bet pot), but in both cases I didn't know whether I was right. In the end, I took a decent loss to go home early and write a new column from my hotel room.

And of course to prepare for tomorrow's tournament, the €300+30 PLO / PLH mix... a tournament that I am going to win.

Just so you know!

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Day 2 (Jan 25)

A rather exact copy of day 1, this January 25. Just like yesterday, I went off to a very good start in the tournament. I had a twice average stack early on, and had collected two €100 bounty's. But once the blinds & antes got substantial, I was fairly unlucky. So, after a 29th place out of 220 yesterday, I was now 55th out of 210 - and again, no official prize money. (Except for the bounty's.)

But as before, the live cash game went well. In a rather tough €5-5 PLO game with some of Holland's biggest players, I had a more than solid win, despite two fairly unlucky pots where a) my decent draw couldn't improve against dry and announced-too-early aces, and b) where I flopped top full rather than the AA than people probably read me for, only to see an ace come on the turn to kill my action.

So, at this moment I am up quite a bit for this week, and that is nice. But I hope that tomorrow I am going to reach a final table at the €200 NLH + one rebuy & add-on. Because performing at the tournaments, *that's* the reason why I'm here.

Wish me luck!

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Day 1 (Jan 24)

The opening event of this week was the €250+25 NLH freeze-out. For once, I was off to a very good start, making a great play to raise all-in on the turn as a semi-bluff after my opponent responded to my flop raise by flatcalling and then betting into me on the turn. (I got what I wanted: A fold.) I was twice average early on, but it didn't matter much in this crapshoot opening event. I made a bad call with AJs against a light three-bettor (failing to outdraw against KK), and was in trouble from that point on. In the end, I got eliminated just before the money, shoving with garbage and getting called by KK.

Playing some cash games afterwards, I plodded for four hours in two rather bad games. (€5-5 PLO and 5-5 NLH.) Once the game suddenly got good, I quit my shortstack approach in favor of a full buy-in, and I got rewarded with a very big win - after some remarkable plays by my opponents.

Tomorrow: the €400+40 bounty NLH.

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January 23, 2010

It's time for my first major live tournament week this year. Starting today, I will be in Utrecht for the annual Dom Classics. Seven days of poker, including one €1500 and one €1000 tournament, both with an estimated 200 entrants. Last year, I won the €200+rebuy tournament at this same Dom Classics event, so I've got something to 'defend' if you will.

Daily updates will be provided here, and live updates as always at www.pokercity.nl. Here, you can also find the most recent episode of Poker Inside (guests: reigning European Champion Pieter de Korver & Holland Casino Player of the Year 2009 Thijs Wessels), and part III of "De Week met Rolf & Gerthein", my weekly e-mail correspondence with Gerthein Boersma.

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January 14, 2010

I have a new blog! At my new "Rolf Slotboom" weblog I will be publishing one Dutch poem every month. It's going to start out as a small blog, again (just as this site) an ad-free environment. And obviously, the information there is a lot more 'personal' or even 'senstitive' than all the poker information you can find here on rolfslotboom.com - but I sure hope you guys like it. I will be starting the promotion of this blog only next week, by opening up a Twitter account. Either way - kind responses are appreciated!

Also, the second part of my weekly e-mail correspondence with my buddy Gerthein Boersma is online now. In this piece, I discuss my remarkable online results from the previous weeks, gathered in a mishmash of online PLO games - varying from games as small as $.5-1 to as large as $100-200.

And if you don't happen to speak Dutch... well, time to start learning it, I guess! ;)

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January 6, 2010

It's a New Year! Looking back, I can only say that 2009 was a pretty good year for me - say, at least 7 or 7.5 points out of 10. I signed with my new sponsor Holland Poker, won no less than five tournaments (including a rather inportant one, the $200+15 6-max PLO with rebuys medium SCOOP), relased two new books (Secrets of Shorthanded Pot-Limit Omaha and Pokerface II, a collection of my Dutch columns), hosted an online talkshow (Poker Inside) and had my third consecutive WSOP Main Event cash. Not bad!

To start off the New Year, Pokercity & I have agreed on a new article series: a mail correspondence between me & the guy who is so good at impersonating me, former editor-in-chief of the site Gerthein Boersma. Our first piece of art is available here. Also, I still have my regular column over there, and the latest one ia a recap of the previous year, including the things that were not so good. Of course, everything is in Dutch. But as this may be the language of the future anyway, it may be time for you guys to just start learning that. ;)

Enough for the chit-chat. Time for the only thing that is truly important: Best of luck at the tables - I wish you all a great year!

Rolf

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