Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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Time for a little recap of my poker success in 2008 ... and it was indeed my most successful year so far.
Although I didn't make money on my first big trip in February I had a decent tournament. I am talking about Drogheda, Ireland and the European Deepstack Poker Championships. I lasted long but not long enough ... I am sure with my current style of play I would have made it into the money here. Nevertheless it was one of the first signs that success is around the corner. And I will be back at the EDPC in 2009 (see below).
Only a few days later I bubbled at the "Oceans Masters" at the Oceans Poker Club near Passau. Another location that gets a return visit in early 2009.
March got me back to Vienna and a result just two places shy of the money at the Spring Poker Festival (CCC). The APAT at the Poker Royale was some kind of a setback (63rd of 188) but it was interesting to play with the later bracelet winner Martin Klaeser.
My trip to the WSOP wasn't a success moneywise but again a great experience. I played my first real WSOP-Event and came close to the money at the Caesars Mega-Stacks.
End of June also saw me bubbling at the Pokertour.at (Landesmeisterschaft Niederoesterreich at the Poker Royale). I was very dissapointed about that result and little did I know that I will make a lot of money at the Pokertour.at quite soon.
July was the start of my work for PocketFives but unfortunately this job didn't last very long. Pocket Fives is a great community but the way they tried to reach the german market wasn't the best one. If they had been willing to invest some money they could have been very successful ... unfortunately they decided to take the cheap road and stopped after only 4 months.
In August I finally made it into the money at the PokerStars Sunday Million for the first time. Not too bad given the fact that it was only my 6th Sunday Million so far.
But the biggest success came in the last three months of the year. I cashed in several smaller live and online events as well as in some big ones. Back to back final tables at the Pokertour.at in Graz and Linz got me two more entries into the HendonMob Database.
And another entry followed shortly after with my personal highlight if the year: My trip to the Dusk Till Dawn poker club in Nottingham was a special experience ... crowned with another great final table finish.
Didn't made it ITM at the Pokertour.at final in Vienna but added some more promising results at other tournaments on that trip (e.g. bubbled at the Montesino).
The year 2008 was a success regarding my tournament play and gave me a lot of confidence for the coming year. Did I play better, was I more lucky this year? I think both. I gained experience, changed my style of play somewhat and now definately have my own player personality. Lucky? Well, at least not unlucky in some situations - but that's part of the game.
Unfortunately it seems that I won't have the freedom to play every event I would like to play in 2009. After I lost my job at PocketFives I tried to find something new in the poker industry. There was a very interesting opportunity but unfortunately these folks seem to be very lazy about the handling of important stuff. Well, while they didn't came through I got another opportunity in the IT-industry and finally decided to accept that position. We will see how this works out...
For that reason I didn't have too many fix plans in early 2009. I will go back to the Oceans Poker Club for the"Oceans Masters" at Jan. 3rd/4th. Not really deepstacks but with a PF=10 and 14 at least playable.
The first highlight of the year will happen again in Dublin. In early February I will be at the European Deepstack Poker Championships again. I plan to play the two side events and maybe try to satellite into the €1,500 Main-Event (not sure yet). As Dublin offers a lot of poker tournament options there's most probably some other tournament available in case I don't make it deep here.
No further plans so far ... but of course I will try to make it to the WSOP again in 2009. Other possible events: Casino Austria Poker Tour (CAPT), Pokertour.at, CCC Springpokerfestival, Norwegian Poker Championship at the Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.
Hope you enjoyed this years blog entries and will follow me through the year 2009 again. I wish you all a great and successful new year!
Hrithik & Priyanka the sexiest in India 2008
ShareHrithik Roshan declared Sexiest man & Priyanka Chopra the Sexiest woman Alive in India -- 2008 has been a year for the record books. We all have our favourite pick of the lot, but on the eve of 2009, After Hours decided to take a look at the year that’s ending and conduct a poll to find out which of the sensuous sirens and hot hunks left a sizzling trail in our minds, earning their rightful position as the sexiest man and woman alive in India this year.
Superstars Hrithik Roshan & Priyanka Chopra come out tops in a special poll on the sexiest man & woman alive in India this year. For this daunting task, we decided to take the help of some experts and picked a panel of five men and five women, all renowned in their fields.
Our panel of women included Monikangana Dutta (a model par excellence in hot demand on international ramps), Shilpa Gupta (the Mumbai-based artist known for her versatility in expression), Mehr Jessia (former supermodel who currently runs a modelling agency), Preity Zinta (the feisty queen of Bollywood) and Sunidhi Chauhan (the voice of the stars).
For our men, we turned to Subi Samuel (the management graduate-turned-ace photographer whose eye for detail has stars lined up to be snapped by him), Arjun Khanna (the designer known for his colourful menswear collections), John Abraham (the actor who recently made one of the hottest pin-up pictures in Bollywood history), Milind Soman (Bollywood’s thinking actor) and Rohit Bal (the maverick Delhi-based designer). After careful selection of our finalists, Team Speak Up conducted a poll where 500 men and women of Mumbai voted from our panellists pick. Here you have it…drum roll please…India’s sexiest woman — Priyanka Chopra and sexiest man — Hrithik Roshan. While Priyanka beat the likes of Priyanka Gandhi and Sania Mirza, Hrithik scored over Salman Khan and Yuvraj Singh, amongst others. Hrithik's Wallpapers
Deepika Padukone on the Cover of ‘The Man’ Mag
ShareDeepika Padukone Graced The Cover of ‘The Man’ Magazine -- Eternity Deepika Padukone needs no introduction for she is the girl par excellence who debuted in the smash hit flick 'Om Shanti Om'. Deepika is back with bang, seen quite in media these days as her movie 'Chandni Chowk to China' is about to release next month. She don’t want to leave single piece in the promotion of the movie. She want to live in news as much as possible so that movie also remains in news. She recently did cover shoot for leading men’s magazine “The Man” for December issue. She was seen in only bikini top on the cover, who knows what was there down. Can’t wait to see full photoshoot. Please share your opinion by commenting here.
Aamir khan Ghajini Movie Review
ShareToday Aamir's most awaited movie Ghajni has been officially released and its out here to break the new records. If you had 15 minutes of memory, what would you cram into that terrifyingly short span? The name of your loved one, your phone number, your home? If you were a regular joe, that's exactly what you'd do, but if you are Aamir Khan in ‘Ghajini', you would bulk up your body, tattoo the name of the man you need to kill, and smear your walls with violent graffiti. Short term memory loss means you forget, everything, within a short span of time. And the moment you get back into the zone, re-building the pieces of your life, the clock starts ticking again, for the next meltdown. It's a fascinating premise for a movie, and a few years ago, ‘Memento', made by Christopher Nolan, gave us a unique hero who suffers from short haul amnesia, while he searches for his beloved's killer. In 2005, the Tamil ‘Ghajini', inspired by ‘Memento', catapulted the till-then-on-the-fringes lead pair of Surya and Asin into the frontlines, and turned out to be a monster hit. Aamir Khan's first film this year, is a faithful remake of the Tamil film (with a lot of the original crew , including the director) barring a couple of twists in the climax. It has Aamir doing an out-and-out actioner after a long time (‘Sarfarosh' in 1999 was the last time he went around brandishing guns and decimating baddies). It also has him bare-chested for a lot of the running time, because he needs to display his impressively muscled frame. So is it all good? Not really, no. The thing with doing a film like this is that you have to completely get with the flow of the film, and here Aamir is split down the middle. When he's Sanjay Singhania, the billionaire boy friend of wannabe celeb Kalpana (Asin), pretending to be a broke model himself, to insinuate himself into her good books, he's just fine. The sequence in which he first sees her help a bunch of disabled kids and loses his iron-clad heart to her, is a winner. So are a few others: how many impossibly wealthy men carry ‘chutta' to give the ‘pani puri wala'? He flips him his platinum card, and we crack a smile, as we are meant to. And then the transformation from smooth urbane tycoon, to the damaged violent guy happens, and the film starts to stutter. Not because Aamir doesn't try hard. He goes at this one with just as much effort as he does in his others, but he doesn't fill out this part with as much conviction. It's all his fault--- he shouldn't have done films like ‘Rang De Basanti' and ‘Taare Zameen Par', in which he coasted on his cerebral appeal. He just doesn't look the part of a man who can pulp other humans with his bare hands, despite the wild grimaces and the angry howls. The maximum fun is had by Asin, nicely curved and rounded, very far from unreal size zeroes, making her Hindi cinema debut. She plays pretty much the same role as she did in the original-- loud, warm, emotional, and is the best part of the movie, but even she can't liven up the pallid songs-and-dances. Third lead Jiah Khan, the medical student who studies the amnesiac and ends up first hindering then helping him, is a total loss-- she has to speak Hindi and do an item number, and both are beyond her. The villain (Pradeep Rawat) looks like he's a bit part stretched into something he can't quite handle: is he the only one they could find? Too long, at three hours and some. Too violent. The bad guy goes around wielding a rusted iron jack and bashing peoples' heads in. And so not Aamir: ‘Ghajini' is engaging, only intermittently. Can we please have our old Aamir, the actor-star who's taught present-day mainstream Bollywood to think, back again ? Ghajni ( 2008 ) Review,Aamir khan Ghajini movie new Review and Rating,Aamir khan Ghajini opinion,Asin - Aamir khan Ghajini latestReview,Ghajini ( 2008 ) Review,Ghajini ( 2008 ) Review Shubhra Gupta,Expressindia
Cast :
Aamir Khan,Asin Thottumkal,Jiah Khan,Pradeep Rawat,Khalid Siddique
Director: A R Murugadoss 
Dec 25, 2008 : How do you count eight packs? The question plagues you when you first come at Aamir Khan in his new movie. His rippling musculature has been all the focus, through the past month, in print, in TV, in hoardings. That, and the buzz cut, with deep scars running through, showing the scalp. This is an Aamir we haven't seen before—fronting a frame filling physique, flaunting matter over mind.
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