My Year in Review Podcast
December 19, 2007
This is my podcast which went on Betfair Radio. Happy Christmas.
EPT Prague
December 13, 2007
Got to Prague on Monday. Didn’t do much the first day. Checked in, and went down to the poker room to check out the action. Jumped in a 200-500 plo game (CZK currency)… think it was like a 10-20 Euro game…
Sat with 80,000 and lost it all in about an hour when I got it all in with 8×9xTdJd vs 77(Cant remember the last two cards but lets just say)A2 on a 7×9x4d flop, diamond on the turn so had a ton of equity vs his hand but bricked the river. Had some left and lost that too when I flopped top two vs As and got counterfeited on the river. Oh well.
The next day I registered for the main event. I started out really well. Didn’t play any big pots was but raising quite a big in the beginning to establish a good laggy image so I’d get action on my good hands. I hadn’t reraised anyone at this point until this hand comes up: 75-150, I have about 8500. The sb is sitting out and the bb just got back to the table to see his hand getting mucked cuz he wasn’t sitting down. Was very easy to see that utg+2 picked up on this as well and decided to raise to 400. I’m in the CO with J4o. I had pretty much decided to reraise before looking at my cards so they were kinda irrelevant. I made it 1150 fully expecting him to fold. I knew he was a decent player cuz he was playing pretty aggressively, not doing anything stupid and he was also talking to a really good internet player earlier that day, so if they’re friends they might have discussed strategies etc with eachother online, so I just assumed he knew what he was doing. He surprisingly calls my raise and the flop comes JJ9 with two hearts. Dream flop for me. He checks and I make a big bet of 2050. I’m pretty sure he’s gonna put me on a hand like AK, AQ here not wanting action because if I had an overpair id prolly bet smaller to induce a check/raise shove, but by making this bet it looks like I’m committed when I’m really not. I was right and he ships it in with KcQc and misses the four outs. I’m up to about 18000 after this hand.
About an hour or so later and 3k chips shorter from having to fold a lot to reraises and missing a lot of flops with my strong hands, this is how I bust: A guy in the 40s limps in the CO for 200. Don’t have a very good read on him yet, but 90% of the time when someone limps in LP they have trash and just wants to see a flop. The button, who is a very very good online player makes an isolation raise of 800 trying to get the pot HU with the limper. I’m pretty sure his range there is prolly about 50% of the hands, so this is free chips for me. I reraise to 2800 with 95o. Again, the cards don’t mean anything because I know pretty well how he plays and he’s never gonna just flatcall this without a monster hand. Maybe JJ+AK. If I do get called by him I’m shutting down completely. What really threw me off was that the limper cold called! The reraise and the raiser folded as expected. I didn’t really know what to think of this since I had already put him on a weak hand. Figured maybe he had a hand he wanted to see a flop with like QKs cuz ppl never fold that hand. Maybe even AK, small pair etc. No way I put QQ+ in his range playing the hand the way he did. The flop 8c2×2c. I check with the intention of check raising all in if he bets or trying to represent a big pair slow playing on a dry flop. If I bet I’m giving him a chance to push me off my hand with something like 66-TT which will fold to a check raise for sure. So I just decided I wanted to have the last word here and try to make my hand look very strong. He checks behind. The turn is a J. Good card for me to bluff at so I lead for 3800 leaving myself with about 10,000 behind so I have a good stack to shove river if he calls. He does call rather quickly which again really smelled like a draw to me cuz I had no clue what to put him on. The river was a blank 3 I think. I ship in the rest not wanting to give up on the pot after putting in that many chips, and all draws missed so he’d have to fold a fair amount of the time. He calls and flips KK and I just mucked and left the table. The whole hand was just weird and his line made absolutely no sense to me so I can honestly say I got owned really hard there lol. I’m not the type to sit around and grind at 10k the first day just hoping to make it to day two so busting early isn’t necessarily a bad thing as long as I do good when I do make it deep 
Went up to my room after this and played some online tourneys. My tournament on Betfair went to hell again as usual haha. Don’t know why I can’t cash in it. Prolly because of the bounty and the fact that I haven’t adjusted to the play on the site yet. The dynamics and type of players are way different than I’m used to and I haven’t quite figured out how to deal with it I think. Hopefully I’ll get it right soon!
Will be doing some damage in the 2k side event tomorrow! Looking forward to it 
Annette
(Annette’s special $20k GTD $212 buy-in deep stack tourney is on Tuesdays and Fridays at 1930 GMT. Click here to sign up.)
Paris!
December 8, 2007
Soooooooo, I’m in Paris now. Got here two days ago. Was awesome driving in the taxi on the way to the hotel. Driving down the champs elysée all covered with blinking blue neon lights on both sides of the road and lot and lots of decorations. Real christmas spirit…
Was a good start of the trip. The second day here consisted mostly of interviews and press. Got time to do some shopping as well which was cool, but the weather was real shitty so it wasnt too exciting walking from store to store. Today I went on a boat trip with some french tv crew that were filming me for some kind of documentary… wtf, who the hell would wanna watch me anyway? I didnt really see the point but i went along for the ride. At least we got to see a lot of the tourist attractions and the other side of the city. Also played in a 5k euro buy in at the Aviation Club (which is amazing btw… such a great athmosphere) I screwed up in that after taking a beat early on, but whatever… I’m in paris so i couldn’t care less.
The European Poker Player awards were tonight as well and I was nominated in three cathegories:
‘Rookie of the year’
‘Leading female player of the year’ and
‘Best performace of the year’.
Ending up winning the last one. Kinda surprised because thats the one i least expected to win, but hey! At least I won one
Now I have 3 days off to just spend money and check out Paris. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Untill then…. gtfo.
Annette
P.S. Dont forget my blog tournament - Sunday Night at 1930.
Annette’s Blog Tournament:
When: Sunday 9th December 1900 (GMT)
What: $1 entry No Limit Texas Hold’em freezeout tournament with $1000 guaranteed (2000 starting chips)
How?
You need to open an account by clicking here, download the software and look for Annette’s Blog Tournament in the tournament lobby.
The password for this week’s tournament is: BB1101
$1000 GTD Tourney for blog readers only woo hoo!!
December 5, 2007
I have been pestering Betfair to give me my own tournament for my blog readers and they have finally given in. For lots of people my $200 freezeout tournament is too big of a buy in so I have got a $1 tournament set up with a $1000 guarantee from Betfair…
This is good value for the lower stakes players. If I can get more than about 400 players then we might have the tournament every week. I will be in Paris at the European Poker awards and the Euro Finals of Poker when it is on but I will try and play if I can.
It all happens this Sunday so check out the details from Betfair below to find out how to get in =>
Annette’s Blog Tournament:
When: Sunday 9th December 1900 (GMT)
What: $1 entry No Limit Texas Hold’em freezeout tournament with $1000 guaranteed (2000 starting chips)
How?
You need to open an account by clicking here, download the software and look for Annette’s Blog Tournament in the tournament lobby.
The password for this week’s tournament is: BB1101
A little of everything…
November 28, 2007
For those who dont know… PLO is the most addicting game ever. I’ve been playing a lot of 5-10, 10-20 on various sites and doing fairly well…
Not up a whole lot, but feel like the games are beatable, so I will definately keep playing as long as I dont hit a major downswing (which can easily happen in plo lol). If anyone has seen me play please chime in with positive or negative criticism as I’m always trying to learn as much as I can.
I just got to Oslo today. Had a meeting with my manager and my other manager from Betfair. Talked some about upcoming stuff. Will be heading over to Finland (Helsinki) tomorrow to do some promos and interviews.
Had a deep run in both the Sunday Million and the 750k on Fulltilt on Sunday but managed to screw up with 100 left or so in both. Still pissed about that as I’ve never gotten that deep in any of them before. Hopefully it wont be the last time.
Looking forward to EPT Prague and will post a lot from that tournament when I get back and hopefully some before that as well.
Take care folks,
Annette
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A bad day…
November 17, 2007
Ever had one of those days … where u just wanna bang ur head against the wall and wish u were somewhere else?
When u get frustrated by every single single negative thing that happens around u even if it doesnt affect you in any way? I’m usually very mentally strong and it takes a LOT to make me blink, but something happened today, and I dont know what. Got plenty of PMs and stuff and I just wanted to say GTFO to everyone and all the silly questions, but managed to pull myself together and give them a polite answer at the end. The LHE FTOPS tourney on fulltilt didnt make things better. Lol seriously, I’ll happily sign a petition for LHE to be removed from all poker sites forever. Hope the $2500 tomorrow treats me better. If not I’ll probably end up taking Sunday off just to make sure I dont play when im not motivated.
Whatever…
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My Dublin Interview
November 15, 2007
The guys from SikTilt did an interview with me in Dublin. You can watch it here.
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