Carbon Poker $100K GTD results

$100,000 Guaranteed tournament on Carbon Poker with 2 rebuys and 1 addon.

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Congrats to DADuhWEEwah on finishing 3rd for $8960.

Best online poker setups 2011

Chair and Table:


It's very important to feel comfortable while you're playing. The best chair I've ever seen (and probably the most expensive) is Embody by Herman Miller.

Embody chair

It's looks weird and ugly but it's very comfortable and good for your body. If you can afford to pay $1600 for a chair, then it's a must for you. Read more about this thing here.

Well, we have a chair now - what about a table? Another creation of Herman Miller: Envelope Desk.

This beauty costs $1200-$1450 but some sites offer it for $1100. I prefer bigger desks because I need some space but I had to choose the Envelope Desk since health is one of the most important thing in the world.

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Computer and monitor:

I decided to choose this combo: 12-core Mac Pro ($4999) and a 27" LED Cinema Display ($999). Very powerful PC with one (or two) big monitor with high resolution.

Two 2.66GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” processors
6GB (six 1GB) memory
1TB hard drive
18x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5
Additional configuration here >>>

/Windows is running on Mac OS X too/

These should be the part of your grinding station :)

If you have any ideas to share, please feel free to comment. 

EDIT: Check out this monitor!

36,4-inch monitor

36,4 inch monitor with 4,096 x 2,160 resolution. 20 full size PokerStars tables can fit on this screen! It's price is $36,000. Read more about it here.

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Micro stakes poker

I started to play NL4 on Carbon Poker - again. I'm familiar with these tables because I used to play a lot and now I'm back! I requested a $50 Account Add-On on PokerSpace. Check it out, it's pretty cool to have this option.

I decided to play micro stakes ring games because I would like to improve my cash game skills. It's not a challenge, it's an attempt to develop my thinking process and have fun.

Also to get $50 rakeback and reach VIP status on PokerSpace - 18 days left from this month, $2,7 in rakeback/day playing NL4.

I'm going to post a few things about it here too but I'll cover it mostly in my other blog (http://www.juniormontana01.blogspot.com/) which is in hungarian.

Bankroll Management:

Is XBLINK the next Isildur1?

This story is incredible but is true. It's the story about a 20 year old who gors by the name XBLINK, deposits the minimum $20 into UB Poker and plays a $11 tournament. He wins that tournament for $750 and then moves to Omaha and starts playing low-limit ring games.
He plays low-limit Omaha ring games for a day, finishing that day with a bankroll of $4k. The next day he starts playing slightly higher stakes. He plays away for a few days moving from $1/$2 to $5/$10 and his bankroll also moved up from $4k to $16k. For the next 2 days he moved between 20k and 60k before again moving up stakes.
By the 5th day of play he had hit a bankroll of 6 figure's and was playing $25/$50 PLO. A week later and he has a bankroll over $800k and is playing $200/$400 PLO and playing No Limit Holdem at higher stakes as UB Poker don't support PLO higher than $200/$400.
So to sum up.

Day 1 = Wins $11 tournament for $750 and then starts playing low-limit PLO
Day 2 = Starts playing slightly higher stakes and runs $4k upto 16k.
Day 3 & 4 = Moves from playing $1/$2 PLO to $5/$10 PLO and also takes his Bankroll from about $16k to $60k
Day 5 = Breaks the $100k mark and starts playing $25/$50 PLO.
Day 6 and On = Moves from $25/$50 upto $200/$400 PLO and higher NLH stakes and takes his Bankroll to over $800k

So is XBLINK the next Isildur1? Maybe. He might even be better. So the next question everyone will be asking is, Who is XBLINK?
- PokerNewsBoy 3rd January 2010
(According to 89blist's 2+2 post, he cashed out $1,000,000 and will try to rebuild his bankroll)

The article is more than 1 year old but still haven't heard about it from the bigger poker news sites.

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WBCOOP Main Event was very good. I finished 17th out of 872 players and won a $215 SCOOP ticket. Here is my last hand:

PokerStars - | 4000/8000 NL (9 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

UTG: 125,020.00
Hero (UTG+1): 114,280.00
MP: 464,435.00
MP+1: 122,200.00
CO: 87,936.00
BTN: 133,547.00
SB: 185,914.00
BB: 65,762.00

UTG posts ante 800.00, Hero posts ante 800.00, MP posts ante 800.00, MP+1 posts ante 800.00, CO posts ante 800.00, BTN posts ante 800.00, SB posts ante 800.00, BB posts ante 800.00, SB posts SB 4,000.00, BB posts BB 8,000.00

Pre Flop: (18400.00) Hero has Q♣ Q♦

fold, Hero calls 8,000.00, fold, fold, CO raises to 87,136.00 and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 79,136.00

Flop: (192672.00, 2 players) 6♥ 8♠ K♣

Turn: (192672.00, 2 players) T♦

River: (192672.00, 2 players) A♠

Hero shows Q♣ Q♦ (One Pair, Queens) (PreFlop 70%, Flop 86%, Turn 84%)
CO shows A♣ Q♥ (One Pair, Aces) (PreFlop 30%, Flop 14%, Turn 16%)
CO wins 192,672.00

The table was very aggressive. The big stack (MP) raised every hand and if he didn't raise, the CO moved all in.
If I raise, CO moves in, so the money gets in the middle in every scenario.

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Sick jump from 10th to 9th place..

I'm going to write more in the near future. Yeah, I was a bit lazy. But look what we have here:

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