This is a Blog Journaling Elky's progress to become a Pro Poker Player. Currently he is the reigning Pro Gamer Champion at Pokerstars and has participated in the EPT. This blog is for those gamers who are interested in what he is doing and where he is going.

Saturday, March 12, 2005

Elky Mannered by Lady Luck & some balding fat guy

Well, I talked to Elky on-line right after he had gone to his room completely pissed off about his loss.

Well out of 290 odd players he came in 35th place, not bad, except that Elky got mannered pretty hard core by this guy, Pascal Perrault who calls himself the PP Bandit. Thing is that this guy gets lucky, so lucky he eliminates 3 of the top poker young guns, Elky, Justin Bonomo & Noah Boeken. I got a description of the event off the EPT poker blog.

"Perrault is a murderer. Check that. He's a serial killer. I've seen the victims in the morgue as proof.

Victim: Elky
Elky held JJ. The Bandit held KT. The Bandit wins. That's where the serial killing began.

Victim: Justin Bonomo
Perrault raised pre-flop to 7000 (a little more than 3x the BB). Justin Bonomo made it 17,000 to go. Perrault pushed all-in and Bonomo called. The Bandit showed KQo offsuit. Bonomo, who had built his stack back to a respectable level was happy to show pocket kings. Enter: carnage. A queen on the flop and queen on the turn sent Bonomo home. I can't describe the look on his face. Later, I suggested he go get four drinks at once. His eyes, still glazed from the beat, swept the room and settled on nothing. I decided it was an inappropriate time to break out the ever-trite, "That's poker" and let Bonomo wander on.

Victim: Noah Boeken

It seemed as if no one could stop The Bandit. Just a few hands after nearly doubling up with a set of twos, Noah Boeken raised the pot by 3x the big blind to 9000. The Bandit pushed all in and Boeken almost immeditely called. The Bandit showed a pair of nines. Boeken slammed his pair of tens on the table.Seconds later the dealer laid out the flop. Right in the middle of it sat a nine. Boeken was out and The Bandit stole another players chips.All the other players at the table muttered in unison, "Unbelievable. Unbelievable."I can't count the victims. And I have a hard time counting the Bandit's chips.I've seen so much blood. So much blood..."

You can read the full story on-line at the Europeanpokertour.blogspot.com and check out other EPT related stories as well there.

Thing is about no-limit holdem poker is that there really is this element of lucky that you just can't get away from. In tournament poker, the trick is to continually take advantage of your small advantages and gains and the occasional winner; but to maintain your stack till you can get to the final table....well, thing is with no limit holdem, its no limit, so at any time some guy can just place it all on lady luck. And this PP Bandit did just that 3 times and cleaned out 3 top 'young guns' players.

Well, Elky was so pissed off, he couldn't even type properly; then it was one word curse words for about 5 more minutes; and yeah he was unlucky as well as the 2 other guys who quickly followed him.

He did make it to the end of the regular day 2 and was in it for the final fight to get to the final table; he says that he played some of the best poker of his life and was so completely focused, but sometimes lady luck helps the fat old parisian rather that the young sexy one. Don't worry Elky, you still have your great looks!

I think in a couple of days Elky will be posting his thoughts on the entire event as well as starting to contribute directly to this blog on a regular basis.

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