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Valencia a paradise of sun, sea, and yes, those delicious oranges! And of course a weekend that will be long remembered by this gang of PokerRoom.com players! Some top notch Poker action on the Saturday evening saw DoggyP75 win this round and a shot at some serious cash in Vienna later on in the year.
DoggyP75
So how did the weekend go down? Well it’s slowly coming back to the blogger but after meeting all the players at the fabulous Hotel Vinnci, it was time to whisk them away for a serious good time. We hit La Pepica whose customers have included Hemingway and Spain's royal family, can’t be a bad place to start huh? following it off by some serious clubbing at Discoteca Animas till the wee hours of the morning.
La Pepica
Moegusta enjoying the paella
Discoteca Animas
Discoteca Animas
The next morning with some being more tired than others it was off to the races. The famous Circuit Ricardo Tormo would be our stop this time on the WTCC calendar, located just outside of Valencia the players were again treated to some very very special treatment thanks to our friends at EuroSport and of course the great folks at WTCC.
Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Once again the whole gang got to enjoy themselves with their very own special VIP viewing section, here they could kick back, enjoy the open bar, and savor the gourmet buffet and take in all the excitement of the racetrack.
A short walk from the VIP area was the awesome PokerRoom podium where the poker school was all set up. The players could mingle with other race goers and a few games of poker soon sprang up thanks to our friends over at PokerMania.
The whole gang at the PokerRoom tent: Arrumador, Tamariz, Grinch1974, DoggyP75, Swinney, Marky_Crash, Jockdave, Moegusta
So you get two cards each...
Next for a few laps the guys instantly became pro race car drivers that is in the virtual world and raced it out against each other in the official branded WTCC racing simulator game. Exciting stuff but to be honest probably best to stick with the Poker guys!
Keep rolling...rolling...rolling...
Jockdave "erm where does this bit go?"
Next up was a quick tire change challenge, where the players got to see what it was like to work in the pit lane by changing a tire on a real WTCC sports car. Just like on the poker table the guys got to go heads up against each other seeing who could swap his tire the quickest.
Marky_Crash pro poker player and part time mechanic
Arrumador: "I will f**!@ crush Marky_Crash!
Then it was time to hit the track and take in the ‘Green Mile’ that’s where the cars get placed into their starting positions. As the teams are frantically working on the cars before the big start we got the chance to be right there in the thick of the action right on the track getting some pretty cool photos with the teams, the drivers and the pit crews and they loved it…
The Green Mile
A real pit stop!
Jörg Muller
Just like DoggyP75 another winner this weekend!
The Green Mile staring : DoggyP75, Swinney, Jockdave and Arrumador
Thumbs up to PokerRoom.com!
After a hard day at the tracks it was time for dinner again. Again no expense was spared by PokerRoom.com taking the players to the Submarine Restaurant at Oceanogràfic which is like something out of fricking James Bond villain’s secret underground lair, with the restaurant placed in the middle of a giant basin of the Aquarium at the Oceanogràfic museum. Yes that’s right it’s underground, underground and with walls of glass, so that you can see the fishes, stingrays and baby sharks swim by!
Outisde the Oceanogràfic
Submarine Bar at Oceanogràfic
Submarine Restaurant at Oceanogràfic
Club Picadilly...wow what an eye opener....
In da club...
A fantastic meal later, some singing and dancing, and some merry singing on the way home, the hotel Vinnci was happy to tell us that Marky_Crash’s missing luggage had arrived!
Oh well better late than never huh Mark?
Start playing the race trophy today!
DoggyP75
It´s seems like a night of repeats, we just saw Arrumador holding A8 and Tamariz.with A7, both go all in and heres what happened next: K7J29, sevens have it of course and now it´s heads up.
Arrumador
Well we´re losing them thick and fast now guys. One more down and this time it´s Jockdave turn. He’d been looking a little light on chips for a while now and push came to shove for him when he had to push with 98 and arrumador had AJ and no one hit.
It seems that we´re repeating the same story over and over again and AREZ_ONE raises an interesting question, should we report in a live manner where we give regular updates, hence a live blog, or would you all prefer just a regular review of the tournament? Neither is right or wrong I believe but this blogger finds the live blog solution dynamic and exciting and hopefully entertaining, what do you guys think? Do we understand blogging, what could we be doing better?
And now we have to say bye bye to the Grinch1974 the second woman of our of grand tournament.
Being only her first live Poker tournament it has to be said that Grinch1974 did very very well, but alas it just wasn’t to be when she was beaten in a very similar situation to our previous knock out. This time it was between Grinch with a J10 and DoggyP75 with K10 and that´s the only difference between the two. Oh well, just like Grinch said in her post exit interview “I had a lot of fun” well we´re sure glad you did!
Oh dear oh dear, everyone’s favorite is out, yes that’s good old Markey_Crash. Taken down by DoggyP75 with nothing more fancy than a pair of 8´s compared to Markys AcKs, back and fore they went with nothing coming on the flop, the turn or the river to help either of them. A real coin flip and DoggyP75 winning big. Oh well that´s poker, thanks for making it a great weekend Marky hey we might even see you in Brno though right?
Marky_Crash
Here we go....
Marky_Crash: 8675
Grinch1973: 5000
JockDave: 4375
Arrumador: 6600
Tamariz: 8025
DoggyP75: 7325
Well we just lost another one, this time it was between the two ladies swinney and Grinch1974. It went down like this with Sweeney with 97offsuit on the small blind of 200. Mia with AQ raises, pushing Sweeney to be committed and makes her go all in pre flop, we 10, 6 and X come up with Sam having the gut shot and ten outs but just not getting there. Swinney we hope you had a good time and hope to see you in the near future.
Swinney
Just to explain that this is being written as a blog in the NewsRoom Blog section…and not as a forum discussion hence why every time a new post is commented on it starts a new thread. Writing it via the blog system is the best way to report but we are sorry if its annoying that you can´t all reply to the same thread like you wished for...but hey that´s the point of blogging. Hopefully you’re enjoying it as much as we are.
Anyway meanwhile back to the game just saw a very very nice hence played out between Arrumador and Swinney. Arrumador is holding 77, Swinney calls with AK, the flop 7 xx, Arrumador bets 1500, Swinney goes all in and Arrumador quickly calls. Turn gives us nothing and so does the river letting Arrumador double up very nicely indeed.
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