recommended sports book

Those who want to follow my bets but dont have a bookmaker offering my odds, or in general dont have any bookmaker with asian odds, should try the following book.
Pinnacle Sports is one of the most reliable books and their odds are great. Kind of exactly the same like IBC in asia offers (IBC is a big asian sports book).

sports bet

Atletico Madrid - Valencia OVER 2,75 goals @ 1,98

(we win half stake when 3 goals are scored and full stake with 4 goals).
Those who only bet at european books without asian odds can take over 2,5 goals @ 1,72+ instead.

The setup of this game is absolutely overish in my eyes. Both have their big strenght in offensive. Results like 3-3, 2-4 etc wouldnt surprise me. Atl key striker Aguero was a doubt but made it into the squad. Hopefully he will start from the beginning.

Is the fish dump?

Yesterday and today there was huge action at the no-limit TGF tables. I didn’t play exactly successful and lost about 20k. But that is no the topic of this post.
The games build more or less around one so called fish who plays an unusual style. He calls a reraise with 46 offsuite, hits two pair on the river and beats pocket aces. The other players usually are calm in chat but some railbirds start shouting how dump he would be etc.
I am sure the “fish” doesn’t care about this but it still is a quite funny one in fact. All the other players at the table adjust their day according to him. They chancel meetings or sports to play with him. When the “fish” sits out the other pros wait with big eyes for him to come back. This is a guy who can afford to loose many thousand, ten thousands Euro a day. Who obviously is so rich that money doesn’t matter for him anymore.

This “fish” reached something in life, didn’t he?
While the other pros (including me!) go to bed with a satisfied smile when beating him for 10k, he probably earns twice this amount while taking a nap.

Time for some culture

Something for the evenings loaded with beer.
This evergreen is named in English something like "only when I am drunk".

Some more Poker and betting (yes my topics are creative!)

I was waiting on a 10-20 Omaha table on Tuesday when some guy started laughing at me. Kind of “LOL big Hell, where is all your money. You are playing so low??”. I was like “wtf do you want from me, this is 10-20 OMAHA. This is very comparable to my old 25/50 nolimit games.” Then I realized I was sitting there with the minimum 400 buyin. Hmm strange, I still don’t understand how it came I buyed it for so low but I understand the guys point. (I have a sick bad memory, otherwise I wouldn’t call you guy but label you with a name).
Some minutes later I got the chance to prove I am real Hell and not just some old-school hero in his last drug contaminated days. There was a 50-100 Omaha game going on and I immediately jumped in. Not the best choice though: I was completely card dead and quickly lost 10k. But I proved I still play high limits!
Quickly after I played 25-50 Omaha hu but the result was similar. Well not completely similar. This time I received good cards – but still lost another 10k.
Enough is enough. Some hours out-time followed.

In the evening some nice holdem games were going on. I just don’t remember much except that I won most of my losses back! One key hand developed vs some player who might not be the most skilled super star in the poker world. He plays quite loose and is the reason some big waiting lists occur. Well whatever, I was happy when I flopped bottom set on a 28A three spades board. We both were 5k deep. I bet out the flop pot and he called. I bet out the turn 9 pot and he called. “Please river gods, don’t make him fill a one card flush on the river”. The river was another Ace. Not bad although I kind of feared the usual A9 now. The guy now bet out pot himself. Hmmm weird spot but no way I can fold vs THIS opponent. So I called with my fullhouse and he turned over … KQ of spades! Bloody Hell, I was really lucky there!

Yesterday I was watching and betting on the champleague game Inter vs Chelsea. It was quite amazing to see how Inter after their quick 1-0 wasn’t interested at all in doing anymore for offensive. They just defended, defended, defended. It looked like no one explained them this is a two-leg game. Winning first leg doesn’t guarantee next round!
If Inter coach Mourinho hadn’t already won uefacup and champleague with Porto I would say he just doesn’t know about two-leg but as he did … well maybe Portugese have just a better vision than Italians.
I strongly believe in 2nd leg Inter will like always loose and early end CL adventures. (This is NO bet, just a feeling).

A day with poker, beer and betting ( day in the life of Hellblood)

Yesterday developed into a quite typical day. I woke up with an ugly smell in my mouth and immediately went to the coffee machine for some wake-up power. Next step on my “every morning must do list” obviously was the computer. While it started the coffee was ready and I ran back into kitchen for the lovely taste of life. Then I ran back to the computer starting Outlook. Boring stuff, no interesting mails. Why the heck is no one commenting on my blog!? Bloody hell, bloody lazy readers! (Nooo I didn’t post this, did I !?).
After some surfing around and watching porn (now THIS is a joke!) I took a quick shower. When smelling good again I went out to buy some pretzel and more important, “kicker”. “Kicker” is a German paper writing about the German soccer games. At home it was working time for an hour: Reading Kicker, writing down notes, chances, results and all this from the weekend 1.BL games. The following hours were quite uneventful. Some boring poker games, blablabla in the chat and just easy going on the sofa with a good book.
In the evening I went out drinking with a friend and watching the first half of the 2.BL evening game. During halftime I went back home (yes this is very early – but I have job. Yes I have a job and cant spend my life drunk in the pubs. In fact I was drunk but still have to work!). At home I continued watching the 2.BL game and in addition turned on the Spanish Monday night game. I also looked at the odds, of course. Odds for the away side in 2.BL looked high. A friend agreed in 2nd half it would be an open game. Easy going, quick bet on St Pauli when being 0-1 down. Sadly this ended 0-3 and I lost my stake. Bad life.
Spanish game Valencia – Getafe had quite amazing stats close to halftime. Valencia was solid favourite and score was 0-0 – but the possession! 57% ball possession for Getafe. Strange stuff. Well before halftime Villa still scored the 1-0. I really liked the odds after it and bet on Valencia -0,25 and over 2,25. 2nd half started perfectly with another Villa strike. 2-0! Jesus this is fucking cool!!!
Later Valencia received a red card for nothing. REALLY for nothing. Odds obviously changed after this red but suddenly Valencia dnb @ 2,3!? Heck this looked sooo high for a strong counter attacking site like Valencia. Hell wouldn’t be Hell if I skipped such odd. Value is value and beer is beer. I am on it. Fulltime 2-1 and I am lost. Sick shit. Next topic to follow.

Oh in between I also played poker. Some 25-50 Omaha fun with some creative player (noooo he wasn’t a fish, he just played some unusual style) where I made some Ks profit. At least this. I guess I did better than Bjork. Bjork wanted to play good poker. What he fool he is. Twice he moved in preflop for a stack with Aces vs hands like AJT4. Of course he lost. Aces suck in Omaha. He knows it, I know it – and he still believes in odds. LOL.

Sports bet

Good morning, quick one for the betting freaks:

Werder Bremen - Bayer Leverkusen HOME WIN -0,25 @ 2,05 (we loose only have stake in case of a draw).

Bremen inbetween euroleague games and Leverkusen still unbeaten this season. Thats bad, yes. But looking at the squad these teams are quite similar. The big point in addition is Leverkusen misses KEYKEY centreback Hyypiä. This guy is a monster at the back.
I make Bremen the small favo on this line.

Rushpoker (a general view on poker environment)

Reading a nice comment about rushpoker at the ramblings of a mad man blog I would like to add my thoughts as well.
The fishes have an easier life in rushpoker compared to the normal games. No more fish hunting and way more important there are way less reads on fishes anymore. All this pokertracker stuff and detailed note taking is so horrible. What the sense if a fish plays with five other guys who have detailed stats about any tendencies and mistakes the fish does. In the end the fish will anyways loose his money but if one can give him more playing time for his money that’s great.
The poker sites, or better to say Full Tilt, obviously profits from this. A longer living fish pays more rake and more hands per hour in rushpoker are equal to more rake.

The only one losing by the rushpoker trend is the pro, or better to call him the semi pro. A real pro should like rushpoker. He needs to find different strategies and might have a lower expected value per hand – but the way increased rate of hands per hour must always more than compensate for this.
The bunch semi pros grinding for low hourly rates using some dump pokertracker stats system might not beat rushpoker anymore. They don’t have the class to adept to the new game. They aren’t able to find new tactics. That is a problem? Why, why, why?
The same happens every time again and again. Guys (like me lol) who belonged to the top online pros six years ago cant beat todays top games anymore because there are other new better pros. People who loved to play one fish in holdem might have found out he started to play Omaha only. Should one forbid Omaha now? Nooo of course not. But for the same reason there is nothing bad about rushpoker either.

I called this topic “a general view on poker environment”. Let me explain why.
I believe everything a poker site does to help the fishes is great stuff. The big majority of the poker pros don’t help the game at all!
This might sound extreme but lets face it: Without fishes whole poker would be dead. There would be nearly no games running anymore. So if you help the fishes to have more success and possibly make them stay longer this helps poker.
The real big pros like Doyle help poker a lot by bringing in publicity and all this. Some pros waiting at the tables for fishes aren’t wrong either I guess. After all the fish wants to play and if there is someone waiting to give him action he likes it and it increases chances he comes back.
But the tendency of having six pros hunting one fish looks way too imbalanced to me. Get out half of these pros and we have a better game for everyone. Rushpoker might help doing just this. At least one could get this impression when hearing so many “pros” moaning one couldn’t beat rushpoker, it would be pure gambling.

What do you guys think?

Various blablabla

Yesterdays Hertha bet won with a 1-1. Good as first sight, maybe good for the readers. I still lost money cause I bet live on Hamburg after the 1-0 to win higher than 1-0 and on over 2,5 goals. Well I didn’t came in. Lets see what the games tonight bring in. I took an early bet on Gladbach +0,5 @ 2,25 but that odd is long gone.

Yesterday poker was quite unspectacular. I didn’t play much and ended in a small minus. There happened one weird thing though:
I had about 9k euro in my account yesterday morning (yes lol I know 9k is little for 25-50. But I am just restarting!). I was quite sure to have lost only 2k so that’s 7k. VERY interesting, isn’t it? I bet you cant think about anything more interesting. Well the weird part comes now.
At night I closed my open tables, wanted to log out and suddenly see only 4k euro at my account balance. I had some beer in but still. That looked very strange. I checked hand histories but couldn’t find any bigger loss. I thought about it again. I closed down an Omaha table with 2k euro and a holdem one with 5k usd. Heck that alone is more than the 4k euro acc balance. I logged out and in again. Still 4k. WTF is this.

Well, now you are longing for the big “ahhhh”, the point I guess. Sadly there is none. I just went to bed and slept. The next morning I immediately checked it again and had a 7k euro account balance. Some bug in system I guess. Strange stuff at least.

Did you see the video on the right? This is my motivating song. HELLS BELLS !!

Sports bet

First the disclaimer: I wont pay back any money if the bet looses, I wont come down to solace you when it looses, neither I will feel with you if you jump out of the window after a loss. Well, maybe for a minute, but not longer!

Euroleague: Hertha Berlin vs Benfica HOME p0.5 @ 2,0 (this means we have a full win in case of a draw)

Hertha is table last in German 1.BL and faces a damn damn important relegation battle this weekend. It is kind of their last chance, playing away at Freiburg. There also are rumours Hertha would rest players tonight. I am mad to bet on them? Yes lol I am kind of, I know.
But the odd is just sick high. Even if Hertha rests two or three guys it should be value.
Anyways to be save you should check yourself for the line-up. In case of resting the whole first team (what I really cant imagine they do!) this bet wouldn’t be good. So, check out, be careful.

Btw this is a good moment to write something further about what you can expect about betting in this blog. I will occasionally post a bet like today. But this is something out of line and wont often happen. I also strongly propose you only take it as a guideline. Don’t blindy follow me! I wont keep detailed track about my results, neither I obviously can promise you a profit.

The TGF poker comeback

I just deposit and gave my comeback at TGF. I didn’t play there since a year or something. It was a very short comeback in fact.
The game was Omaha 10/20 vs fishfork. I thought he would remember me and be as thrilled as myself about the comeback but … no he ignored my euphoric greetings.
Golden idea: Is there still chat banning going on at TGF like at my old days? Yeahhh it is. I proposed him to sit out if chat banned what he immediately did. When I again expressed how happy I would be to meet him again he did another short sit-out. Well, that’s also some kind of chatting. Nice one sir.

The game itself was quite unspectacular. We played ten minutes small pot shit. Then he won a bigger one – and immediately left. Hmmm yes. Nice game. Nice to have met you again. Go to hell – but not to MY hell.

I just finished writing this and was about to publish when he came back! No hit-and-run, nothing wrong, my mistake. We played for another 30 minutes.
I was running really hot. Some small pots for me but more important all the big ones went good. The final hand of the match ended this way:

Back again, yeahhhhh. Back again.

Did you miss me? Here I am again: The infamous Hellblood!
I am becoming quite old and I was quite calm the last years, so I guess many wont know me anymore. Well, here we go with some quick introduction:

My name is Hellblood and my age is a secret, next point.

I am playing poker since, hmmm, eight years ago!? My god what a long time is this. I only played nolimit holdem the early days but nowadays I more and more prefer Omaha instead. It is such a nice gamble, I just love it. You can be sure to read some Omaha stuff soon.

What can you expect from this blog, or better for how long!? Some will remember my old blog where I was very active for half a year and then got silent and more silent each week. And finally it was gone to nirvana. Well, no empty promises, but I hope this new one will last way longer.
I wont only concentrate on poker topic cause this looked quite tough. When there are no interesting hands or one is on a loosing run there is just no motivation to post poker stuff. So my plan is to mix this blog a lot with betting and “money burning shit”.
What is “money burning shit” lol? I call life style this way. So everything interesting one can buy for money.

I am still testing out the blog environment. The design doesn’t look any good yet. When I have changed it I will go on with posting.