MTT's and Playing with Marcel Luske

Hey, so i'm back from Europe and i've played about 10 - 12 tournaments and cashed in 3 or 4. I got one good finish in the 20$ Deep stack with 200 peoples. I didn't play taht great in the HU and made a bad call that made me crippled. I finished 2nd for 800$. Its not bad but not great. I had a 3 tournament run where i was chipleader for most of the tournament, i got 15th in 10R, 2nd in 20DS and 19th in 30$ - 5K G.

I haven't played cash since Amsterdam. I played there and after playing for about 1 hour on the first night, who else but Marcel Luske comes and sit's next to me at the 5 - 5 NL(in Euros). There was this donk at the table taht said he lost 7 millions Euros in the last 3 years playing poker, and after playing with him for 1 hour, i believed him.(I went tap on my first buy in and he was asking me to come back becasue he thought i was a donk ... lol) He doubled me up after i went to get more money.

The donk raises to 30 from early position, Luske calls, i got Qd Qs on the button and make it 110$ to go and i have 255$ behind. They both call. Pot is about 340 Euros. The flop comes 10h 8h 5h. Great, i have no heart, the Donk bets 300 Euros(he would always shove on flops. Luske took out the 300 and then asked how much i had, when i said i had 250, he decided to fold, i assume because he thought i had him beat but he thought he had the donk beat. I called, Turn was 2d and river was 10s. He shows As 8s for a pair or 8's.

The next night, this was the highlight hand of the night. I got crippled and had to reload after i had 8 3 in the BB and flop was A 3 3 only to see hearts come and folded. Marcel Luske was again at the table and we chated for about 45 minutes. We actually talked about Myst abit. He really didn't say much and didn't seem to remember him at first. I'm not sure if he did know who he was, seemed like he just said yes and didn't really remember him. Was cool, we talked about his recent tournaments (he told me Bad beat stories and for some reason i enjoyed listening to them ... lol)

This is the big hand of my second night. I raise to 20$ late position with 9c 9d, button calls and BB calls. Flop comes Kh 9h 5c. I just lost abit the pot before and i'm down to 235 Euros. First player checks, i bet 30, button insta calls, BB raises to 80. The guy on the button was a station and i didnt think if i shoved that he would fold his FD so i decided to just call, if a heart comes on turn, i can get away from it. He calls behind. Turn is 10s. Also when i called the 50 more, i knew that if no Heart came on turn, that the check raiser would fire again for sure and i would get my chips in ahead.(This guy was a pro and i was pretty sure he would have raised pre with KK and wouldn't check raise with 10 10 on the flop. He bet out 110, i shoved for 155 and the other guy insta called called and BB called also. So now i just want the board to pair. River is a nice 6h. The pro in the BB checks, Donk shoves for 300 euros. I'm like FUCK .... the pro folds and the guy says, "i got nothing" he shows 8 5. LOL

That was pretty much it.

Later