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Hello Paul,

What poker do you play over in Spain, is it mainly online or is the poker scene in Spain booming?

With inernet facilities in Spain rising at the highest rate per capita in Europe I think Spain is the next boom area for poker, would that be a good call or a bad one?

The DTD dawn cat suit girls were fantastic and clearly turned heads.

Will we see this theme continue or was the 'sex sells' route just a one off the launch party/week?

I think you are right. Spain is without doubt a fast growing market for Poker. The main issue is the Law in Span and it being different in the reigions.

I hope that Poker grows here and the boom begins as I think it will help the European Poker sceen.

I mainly play Omaha hi and PLH if I xcan get a game.
You will see me on the site playing under my real name pzimbler if I have any spare time.

Look forward to playing with you
PZ

I am unable to revel our marketing statergies on line before the events. What I can tell you is that the DTD GIRLS have only just begun.

You will see a strong presence at each EPT from DTD and also the DTD GIRLS.
We will be holding many parties along the way each one will be a party not to be missed.

Posts will be coming up on here when the release of each event announced and Pictures can be viewed on dtdpoker.com soon.

Ssx sells. I like that.

I would like to say that we made sure that our girls were not showing there assets and had no flesh reveled prior to our launch party unlike our competitiors!
Looking good is an art but being sleasy is easy!
Our gilrs looked GREAT!
I am sure any of you who were there will agree.

One must remember that there is a huge ammount of female players starting to play online. I for one welcome them to DTDPOKER and wish not to affened them with our Girls.
I am sure when the demand is there to save any `posts we will have something for the girls!

We will be in Germany and Polland but our next DTD PARTY will be  in Monte Carlo.

There are a lot of male poker players but not a lot to look at - blondes excepted of course. A bit of male flesh wouldn't go amiss........not fair just to get the girls in ;angel;

Photo on it's way, Tracey.  :kiss:

Would you win a beauty contest against the other pro's.....

Whether the question is to me or Snoops the answer is still no...... >:( ;nemesis;

Was to pretty boy.

Paul was the first person to ever knock me out of a live comp, it was the WHU in 2004 i think, i had a 4-1 CL after the first hand to make matters worse.

Played against Paul at barcelona last year - I thought he looked pretty good next to Nic Zxereminster or whetever his name is.  ;D

Ill take that as a compliment. Thank you
hehe

I remember it clearly.
I sat down to my round 1 heads up match with an internet qualifyer. Thinking this would be easy the very first hand I lost well over 75% of my chip stack. I am not sure how I didn't lose it all but thankfully for me I just called your final raise with 2nd nutz.
Now remember the only hand to beat me would have been 6 9 and I did raise pre flop!
I made a remarkable recoverey and played well to get back into the game. From there I smelt weakness and fear and used it to my advantage.
You played very well and can see that you have come a long way from there.

I love heads up.
In fact I booked a flight from Spain to come and see you finish your record attampt at the GutShot. Without a phone call from anyone telling me it was over I jumped on a plane then into a cab to arrive to see everyone finishing up! WTF. I guess it was not meant to be.
I am sure we will meet again and I would be happy for a rematch heads up whenever you are ready. :)
Be lucky and get playing on DTD 2h 3h

lol yeah i remember that now, you had come all that way and walked into an empty room!

I looked last night and see the dates have been announced from the WHU this year so hopefully we can have a re-match at the final! If not DTD it is!

P.S. Never try to put me on a range of starting hands.....

Paul

You've had some cracking results in Morrocco of late as can be seen here

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=2128

What is it about these "winner takes all" style comps that you think suits your game?

Well. They are not quite winner takes all but basically the rest of the prizes were minimum.

I played in a feild that can only be expressed as weak.
The problem was they were all gamblers so I needed to gain respect. And hit cards:)

I managed to get the chip lead early in the first event and used my stack and agressive play to make sure I remained top of the feild by double the whole way through.
The final table as normal can be tricky but with so many players with few chips I took it as my role to take them on and get rid of them. table captin if you wish!
They all wanted to double up and none of them wanted to go out.
I took a chance when a stack moved in on my BB. I did it to let them know I would call with any 2 cards so that no stole them again unless they had a hand. Of course I said that when I called and got lucky as my 52 floped a wheel.
From there i went on to take 3 others out and when we were 3 handed I had to be carful. Anything can happen and the blinds were massive.
I stole a lot where I could and played a good solid game.
If you can only win 1 prize then that is all I was playing for. no point coming 2nd or 3rd in that event would have cost me money over all.
The second one was easier as people feared me and new I was the champion from before.
In fact I only went there as the fiorst one they did a player I know who at the time was not a very good player won the event.
Well I thought I must go to that.
As you see I regained my title and won back to back.
They have since not had another one but I am hoping soon they will. I would love to make it 3 in a row.
be good but e Lucky!

After i beat Paul i am coming for you.


Well someone is feeling confident!

confidence is good so if you want to keep it I suggesed you delay our game as long as possible :) ;nana; and ;surrender;

Just registered for the World HU, bring it!

Wow good stuff, thanks for the very honest reply!

Some of my family are Morrocan and I didn't even know they had any poker tournaments over there...what was buy in and number of runners?

Let me know where it was held and i'll be sure to check it out next time i'm there

Was in the Casino Tanger.
It was a 1000 euro rebuy.

There has been one on the other side of morroco resently but Tanger is 90 min from my house so easy.
AM not sure what site they will be on but if you check www.marbellakid.com as local tournamnts will be posted on there from March.

Boys and girls we have a photo page set up for you to look at.

http://photos.dtdpoker.com

enjoy

Does being called a "cash game professional" mean you are crap at tournaments?

4 wins over 10K sterling in the last 3-4 years says that your record is not the best either.  ;ifm;
Only kidding, I see you had a good win in Amsterdam, Thank god...........
I never really played tournamnets or understood my faults in the game. Since changing my style of play I have managed to get some nice results locally in tournamnts. So I cant complain but tournys are for fun and unless I win the $ are not great. Hence why I stick to cash games.
Thanks though for your post.  :)up

I think you touched a raw nerve there Keith LOL

Hello Paul I have just been to your your web site looking for the info advertised about the Spanish poker scene and tournaments etc I filled in the boxes but I cannot find the info promised. Am I missing something here I did go through most of the sub sections or has the content not been added yet. thanks

paul, apologies for going off piste with a question, but is there anywhere you can recomend near puerto banus for a decent  NL game? preferably with a few brits (hope thats not to un PC)  i was chatting with alan smurf a little while backwho recomended a club in marbella but thought hey only played omaha?

thank you kindly.

The News Cafe in the Port. they play NL Holdem. Id small ish but gets a little wild.
Say I sent you and ask for Wani.

The info on the local Spainsh poker sceen is not on there yet.
I am waiting for each club to send me tyhe details of what they would like to have on the site.

I have 2 web people working on it all the time and as soon as they info is given to us we will be posting it on there.

If you want to know anything in the mean time just send me a PM

DTD PARTY

31st March. Black Diamond....

Invite on www.dtdpoker.com

See you there. ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;yippee; ;applause; :cheers:

Well Done Paul on making Day 2 in good shape, Good Luck Today to you and all the Crew, Carlo, Kev and Action

My Irish Open.
It has been a long time since I have played a main event. I managed to bubble 11 majours in the past 18-24 months so my feelings for tournamnets were not at an all time high.
I have mangaed in the last year to win 2 smaller events and a couple of top 3 finishes but no quite hit the big one.
Poker is a game. In order to deal with the lows you must understand that.
I went into this tournamnet feeling good, I had high expectations and was feeling possitive.
I had a game plan and I stuck to it.
I was drawn on table 3. This was good news as I would not be breaking tables until the very end which I consider to be amajour advantage in the game.

I built up my chip stack from 10K to 20K in the 1st level/hour. From there I went to 37K at the 1st break after 2 hours and was the chip leader. I had no intention of ever looking back. :)
in Level 3 I played a hand badly QQ v KQ and with a K on the board my oponent was not laying it down. I also put pressure on a nother player who wanted to reraise me and my AQ out of possition had 2 choices all in or pass. I know the pass was the right option but I also didnt believe that he would committ all of his chips pre flop in level 3 with AK, but he did lol.......I was back down to 30K but still in good shape.
I was running all over my table and I had the chips to play the game I love. level 4 was bad and I lost a few hands. down to 18,700.
I took a decent pot down before dinner and went to my room with 26,500.
A light salad for dinner and a freshen up I was good to go for the next half of the night.
The feild was dropping at an alarming rate but that was good for me. A lot of the players were over beting, calling stations and playing to fast for the structure but I was happy to take full advantage of this.
Level 6 I was up to 27K and after a big poy where I lay down 2 pair I finished level 7 with 23,600.
Level 8 it was time to change gears. I played my heart out and went up to 49,400. This was the end of the day and I was 24th out of 250 still left in.
250 from 708 in 8 hours of poker. This is sick and shows how poker has changed.
not that long ago it used to take 3 days to eliminate that many people from the WSOP. Strange!

Day 2
Feeling pumped and ready for action I set off to my table. Good thing was their was no re-draw so I knew all the players at my table but more important is that they now new me!
Towards the end of level 9 I made a standard raise and was called by a rock and then reraised all in by a nother rock! I thought and thought and decided to lay this down as the bet was big enough to hurt me and I did belive I was behind. I finished the level with just over 50K.
A nother hour passes and I didnt do to much. I was in no hurry but I increased slightly to 51K.
The next level hurt me as I lost a few pots. 1 in Particular was where I raised on the button with  8c 9c the man in the small blind who is new to the table and not played to many pots calls me and the BB moves all in. The bb is a bit of a rock but the raise is only another 25K approx. with the blinds, anties, my raise and the call in there I was hoping I was live. I had to think for a minute as I had several optoons. I could call and hope the sb flat calls. I could call and see if the sb moves all in in which case I have to decide now before I call if I call the reraise. Of I could reraise myself and force the sb out and go heads up with my hand or I could fold.
I thought for a while and decided to flat call. My thinking was that the sb will also call for the value and I have a shot at a huge pot.
I called but the sb folded. The bb had  Js Jh and with a  Td Qc 5s board I needed him to hit a set. It wasnt to be but the sb got angry with me.
Por que! I pushed him out of this pot which he would have won! Well I did not poush him out I let him in but he didnt know me and I didnt know him. He thought I had a monster raise on button call in sb re raise in bb and flat call on button! he would have beaten the bb but he didnt call. I explained I only called as I thought he was defenatly calling to give me the odds.
Never mind on to the next.
level 12 was a little nerveracking I went down to less than 9K when we were approx 90 players left. I am on the button when I look at my cards.  9h 9c. the cut off made a weird raise and it was time for me to make a dessission. Well most people think there is no dessission here but I am not a player to call of my stack just because I am a 50/50. I thought for a long while and desided that this was not the spot to try to double up. I had a whole round, maybe I would not find a hand as big but I can get my chips into the middle first and hope to double up or to steel a few blinds which were now 2000, 4000 with 200 antie.
A few hands later my TT held up v 66 and I was on the way up again. By now I had a huge crowd behind me and on the rails supporting me. (always nice). I then take a few pots uncontested and finish the level with 26K
I manage to find  Ahrt Ad at the right time. He bets 12K 3xBB and I move in for the remainig 13K more. He calls me with KQ and with a Q on the flop I had to sweat it out. Back to 50K+ now and not looking back. Just glad I folded the 99 as I coul be out. I ended the level with 72K.
As if this wasnt enough we were now aproaching the buble and I was playing well and on a rush. Players were moving all in and I was calling. The scandi Peter who was playing very well moved in UTG for 50K I decided to call my  9c 9s and he reveled his  4c 6c. The flop was all high but 2 clubs, the turn brought him a pair but I managed to survive. He was gone and the dealer pushed me a load more chips. I couldnt stack them quick enough before she was pushing me more as the sb moved all in on me and I looked down to see  Ad 4d. I know he was making a move as at this stage I could have been happy to give up my BB. He was wrong though I decided to call him and my  Ad 4d beat his  9d 7h and I finished the level with 268,000.
As the new level started a new player came to the table to ruin my parade. He came with over 350,000 chips and was not afraid to use them. I raised with 99 and folded to his reraise. I then have my BB and am raise by a solid player and am facing a reraise from the chip leader. My hand!  Jd Jc. What do you do. I know if I move he has to have a real hand to call me but the origional raise only has 40K left and has to call. Am I beating him or even getting a raise with 2-1 on my $. Could I be walking away from this event if the new guy has QQ KK AA or even AK I do not know how he plays he might just call me. I thought for over 5 min and decided to pass. The raiser calls his reraise and they are onb their backs. 88 v TT WOW and no help for anyone and the new player takes it down. I needed to re group and tell myself I made a good lay down. I thought to flat call and hope to check it sdown to the river but dont like this play with JJ.
I ended the day with 275,000 and was in 4th possition with 41 players remaining.
Day 3
TV TABLE
Ok I have not been so successful on TV before normally a bad beat or big bluff but this was going to be different.
I ended my session on the TV with 415,000 in chgips and respect from my table. we were down to 25 players and I was still in good shape.
I knocked out a player in my bb when he raised to small for me to pass. I had QJ and decided to bet the flop if no A or K came. check fold if A or K came and check call if the Q or J came. The flop was 443 so I srt him in he called me with AK and I spiked a J on the river.
From there I didnt have to show my hand once. I reraised with AA hoping to get a push and then raised my BB with 5 limpers and no callers. I also played a few hands and wom them with no show down. This was a good session.
moving on and down to 19 players. I make a raise with  2h Ahrt am reraised from Sorrel and the shory stak moved all in. I called and with only a 30K side pot and 180K+ main pot we checked it down J66 3 J My A high rivered the lot and I was up to 580,000. We were now at 16 players and were redrawing for seats.
Back to the TV table and in possition of Roland who had 1.5million chips.
I made a great read and lay down with my 77. There was an early limper and my raise was called by him. He was an agressive on line qualifier. The flop was 9 high 943 and I called his bet of 140K on the flop. I didnt want to move in as I could either get a free card on the turn or bet if an A came out as now I have to think he has TT or JJ. The turn paired the 3 and bought 2 hearts. He thought for a while and moved all in. I went deep intot my think tankls and felt I was behind so I laid it down. I was damaged but still had time. A few uncosted pots and an hour later we were 6 handed per table and intot he last 12. I could smell it..............
I am in the BB when the short stack made a raise. the blinds were 10K 20K with 2K antie. 42K a round. I needed to find a hand soon. He made it 60K to play and look down at  Aspades Th I moved all in and as I had been playing tight I thought I would juat take it down there. He went into think mode and now I am thinking I want the call. I start to talk to him and encourage the call. I know he has live cards but I need a double up and I prefer to get my money in when I am in front. After a little talking and a lot of time he calls me and revels  Jd Kc. WOW the flop was Q high but the turn brought trouble. The J gave him a pair but I was left still with 6 outs. Any K or any A it wasnt to be and I was crippled. Down to less than 50K This hurt.
The next hand I was in the small blind and knew I had 5 hands to wait. I also knew I needed chips and that maybe others would be knocked out before me making a final table of 9 which could help my situation. everyone folded and the BB Sorrell annoced he will call me blind with his 1 M chip stack. I look at  Ahrt 7d and am called by a blind  4s 4c His Fours hold up and my tournamnet was over.
I played well and know I got my money in ahead. This is all you can do but it still hurts.
I had a great time and picked up some spending money for my time.  I miss the feeling of playing big events but am now involved with work on DTDPOKER so have cut down on playing time. I hope to be at the WSOP lets see!
Thank you for all of your support, the emails, texts, phone calls, forum posts etc.....
Good luck and remember dont hate the player.........hate the game......... :cheers:

hi paul
i see u didnt get as much mails as the others perhaps they have more tourny success but i think u r better player than them i realy think u r    therefore theres so much to learn from u   i need more time to do that perhaps it s better when i see u  to ask     u play more comp u ll win more than any1 else   i m sure

Thank you for your message.
I also know how difficlut the poker world is now and to win an event well a major event requries a lot of luck.
As you know I prefer the cash games. They are the way forward.
The big events are like taking a shot for the big pay day.
To many times I play for days and come either just outside the money just in the money 10th or 11th or make the final and miss the top 3.
Ireland as an example. 3 days poker to come 11th. It is sole destroying if I had AA cracked or walked into AA the result is still the same. Just for some reason feel better if it was the later. lol

I am not at the WSOP this year. It is the first time in many years I have not gone. I have decided as much as I want to win that braclet that with the time that I would need to be away from the office (min 2 weeks) with 9 hrs time difference that I would end up doing hardley any work, playing non stop with partying inbetween and a week to recover when I got home. What would i need to win to make this trip worthwhile?
I wish you good luck and I will see you soon that I am sure and I look forward to playing at the final table with you and getting heads up.  :cheers: