MasterofLaw

Played a 4.5hr long session at the casino yesterday. Played a pretty cheap donkament for 600 SEK (about 90 USD) and busted out on 2nd level 50/100 with QQ vs AA...coold. Then went to cashgame and lost 0.75bi with flopped flush (87) on A106 board vs J2s...There were 8limpers, 1bet 100 one call, he raises 400 I push all in 1800, K high calls behind but J2s holds up and I lost...

There after I made a rebuy to 2k again...played pretty solid but didn't get any cards..however I got 10 4 about 12times...preferably in EP. Had to fold QQ once, was up against KK and QQ...and all in all I lost 0.5bi in cashgame...

However, I played a lot better than the day before..feel I have gained a deeper knowledge and feeling for the game very quickly, in like 25hrs of livegames. Do better analyses. But when you're totally colddecked my philosophy is just to keep the losses down...

Will probably go tonight again....If i win I will play more this week if I have a losing session I won't play until this weekend, because it's payment day on friday and there will be a lot more juicy games then right now...

Over and out
MoL

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So now its sunday night again and time to hit the pillow. Have been a pretty ok weekend I guess. Friday it was casino and some hangout with friend at some bars. Yesterday we had a great party for a friend who is going to move away from sthlm for 1.5yrs or lifetime..only time can tell..was nice ended up with some decent clubbing.

Today I have once again played 20/20 at the casino. Like on Friday I wasn't really amused of playing and I had almost talked myself into a loss today. Thoughts like you can't win everytime and its time for a losing session crossed my mind. Said and done..lost 2bi in like 3hrs after some spewwy calls...But I'm proud over my decision to leave the table and stop the donations and not return until I'm really in the mood for some poker again...have been playing almost 20hrs of live poker this week which is a huge amount for me, considered I have a full time job also...

This week I will try to find the right spirit again and if so I aim att playing 2-3, 3-4hrs sessions again...think it's payment weekend coming up so the tables will be extra juicy =)

over and out.

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Fishes at the local casino. Yesterday I played my 4th session since saturday. Had to quit after 2.5hrs due to a killing headache...eventhough I managed to make a profit of 7.1k SEK (20/20, 10max), which is 350bb+...It is incredible soft and players call for everything possible all in...like gutshots and openended straightdraws...so sick! It is softer than NL2-4 I think, eventhough the limit matches up to EUR NL200, lolz.

One thing that confuses me is that I sometimes don't want to play all-in pf...like yesterday I had AA (after two straight pushes on flop respective turn) and made it 160, one caller than villian raises to 700. I first thought it was a squeeze..but then realised that he also had a monster considered his game-style. So I kindly asked the guy how much he had..he was not inclined to tell but I managed to guess that he had like 6-7k in his stack. I made it 3.1k...he went into the tank and during that time old badbeats started to haunt me...like the last time I went in deep with Aces vs kings and lost 5.5k...Suddenly I was not that eager to play for stack and risk to lose due to variance...I knew I was so much better than the rest of the table and decided somewhat to protect my stack and kill them off bit by bit as I have had earlier during the session..so I started to talk about showing one card (eventhough you're not allowed), looked strong put him on time and so...he folded. Today I regret that losing decision but I got a baaaaad stomach feeling which I not really can explain...But I won a couple more small pots then went home...

Now I have a big problem...have a decent amount of hard cash at home...but I have left my reciepts behind at the casino...may be a problem to deposit them into the bank, mainly by two reasons...1. The bank finds it suspicious 2. The Tax Authority will hunt me down because I cannot prove where the money comes from...

Update: Problem solved..thanks to my hot 30ish personal banker =)
Over and out
/MoL

Red->Wasn't sure if you had left for UK yesterday, but now I know you're there. Hope you having a great time.

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So in my last post I discussed whether I should change from online to live poker...

Actually I took a paus and went on a nice and unhealthy vacation. The vacation in the end (mixed up with a lot of fun) only brought problems. Have been screwing around with too many girls at the same time and in the end kinda lost the control over the whole situation ending up with me having a girl(1) (living 300kilometres from Stockholm)living at my place just to duck another girl(2) and have something to blame on to easier break up with the latter one...Have been a lot of fun, have travelled alot within sweden (think I drove my car about 250kilometres in total) visit great hotels with nice women and so. But lesson learnt, never be dishonest to women (and if you are for godsake master the art of bluffing first)

Last week however, I decided that the uncontrolled rollercoaster (a.k.a my life) needed to be taken control over by myself once again. I kindly asked the girl(1) living with me to go home, called a third girl(3) (not mentioned earlier in the post)that I have been dishonest and not want a relationship with her but we can still do the honkytonky on weekends. The second girl was at first kinda pissed because when I was on vacation I told her that I missed her and longed for her, just to get the phoned hi-jacked by girl(1) who kindly told girl(2) that she actually was my gf and that I have been doing her for two weeks...But I have climbed my way back to girl(2)to the honkytonky on weekends-stage..once in the circle of trust you can always get 'em back..However I have no serious intentions with her but she has kinda accepted it =)

At this stage I feel that I once again have gained control over my life, no known babies made, no known STD:s recieved, just great summer memories created and saved...Now I'm back at the lawfirm again grinding work...Have a new prospect (girl 4) and this time it feels pretty good. However, I decided to start taking poker more serious and switch to live-games solely. Have had 3 sessions at the local casino and over 11hours I have made a profit of 11.5k SEK (blinds 20/20). Feel I have a huge edge over the addicts, fishes and retards playing there. Think I'm a good live-player...So I will try to build a live-roll instead of online and only time can tell if I get back to play online again...

Also Dusty, Remember87 and Pinball....wish you all luck in Unibet open starting today(?)!

Over and out!

/MoL

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...on NL10 6max. It is insane! I first started out winning 16bi:s and now I have went
straight down to -28,5bi:s...must be some kinda record,

However I'm still up thx to HU games mainly NL50-NL100 but also NL10,NL20 and a shot at NL200.

Still have to learn online 6max I guess...LOLZ

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SO since I redeposited on 22 July I have been playing, for me, a shitloads of hands on NL10 6max. This level is really tilting me and right now I'm a huge loser...

I have been playing about 15k hands of NL10 6max and over first 5k hands I was up 16bi:s but now I have dropped to DOWN 19bi:s!!! It's sooo sick. I run about 4-5bi:s below EV but anyway. Don't know what I should to, have no confidence left on this level, maybe I still play a to highvariance game for this level. I often shove TPTK or nice combodraws to get loosely called by 2nd pairs and TP:s vs combodraws, problem right now, I don't hit or hold up.

However, I have doubled my roll since 22 July. Thank you God for giving me HU-games. I have been playing NL10-NL100 hu games in which I am a winner in all of them.

But I wanna learn 6max...Have no problem with 6max live but when it comes to online I just don't seem to be able to win in the long run. Any tips anyone how I can improve my game on lower limits?

/MoL

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So I have continued to run really good live pokerwise. This weekend the regular players, i.e me and two friends played a 1/2 for like 3hrs. Won 450bb this time around and is up about 1000bb in two sessions against these players who plays NL50 on a regular basis. Have strong confidence in my live game now, makes nice plays, pick up tells, call down bluffs etc.

Online have been more rollercoaster like as usual...I have played 4-5sessions of NL10. I was up 16bi:s at most but have managed to drop that to 4...lolz. However I know for sure this will be a + month due to rakeback and I think I have to adjust my game a bit more to show more profit. Don't know really why I suck so hard at online games but almost never lose in live-games...Gotta figure this out. Would be nice to build up a roll online so I can player higherlimits live where I think I would do really good.

That's all for now.

/MoL

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So I've managed to stick to my retirement from online-poker a month or something...however the evil forces that's now within me due to poker dragged my ass back to the tables (or was it just my friends nagging!?)..

However, as I said I longed to play more live and so I have done. Not so much but with some success. Finished 2nd in a MTT (30entrants) at the casino last week and have won like 500bb or something in cashgames (1/2 SEK).

Have read a little articles and so on poker and with two monthly installments too spend I decided to deposit 200e just to play NL10 to start with in order to build confidence and structure my game (would like to thank Gumster and TheGuru for their recommendations in a earlier post). So I deposited 3days ago, have played about 3k hands, running 9bb/100hands and is up about 8,5bi:s after a 5.5bi loss yesterday. This time around I use pokertracker and it is really a nice tool. I also play fewer tables, 4 at once, which implies me making sounder decisions...Also I don't wanna chase money anymore as I did before. Have raised my income a little and in 6months I receive a huge salary raise so no need to chase pokerwins really. Poker is a hobby for me and I just want to get comfortable with playing for "ice-cream money" as the TheGuru stated it.

Wish me luck...(btw anyone up for a propbet on me not writing something like "poker is rigged, me quit" in like 1month!? =))

/MoL

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I'd really like to play some home-game in Stockholm. Would be really fun to play like 1/2, 2/4 SEK. Plz tell me if someone up for one, I've got a really central apartment in sthlm...

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NO, first i'm not quitting poker for losing 200BB.

I'm quitting poker because:

1. I obv suck at it, haven't made profit in at least 6months. Don't have discipline to apply BRM long enough.

2. Poker is evil, it eats your soul and slowly everything that surrounds you. Sometimes I think poker, play poker or longing for poker 24/7, not very sound imo.

3. Tired of loosing streaks which affect my well-being in a negative sense. Have a great life otherwise so why degenerate it with lousy plays and a lot of lost money. I will obv. never be a pro so maybe it's time for a new hobby.

5. I'm just sick and tired of the game, however, I will gladly play again someday but at the moment I hate it and also, the summer is here! A lot of parties,girls and other funnier stuff imo is coming up, why sit inside in front of your CPU when you can go out and meet people! Seems stupid, now poker is for the winter seasons!

Finally, all you guys that show big profits, live on poker and so on, congratz! In some way i'm sad that I'm not one of you. It seems like a nice way to spend your youth. But I have met several people how earned a lot on onlinepoker and they don't do jackshit with their money or possibilites that their grinding gives them. They just stay home in front of their cpu and play all and everyday. Of that i'm not jealous, it doesn't appeal to me at all. If I have been a pro I would first of all leave this cold country, maybe go to west indies or thailand, and grind from there. Why not having fun when making such a shitloads of money. I think I would grown restless only by staying home, meeting noone, and play online.

So my natural talent for tilting which results in a lousy BRM is major factors that make me quit along with my deep insight that I never will go pro or earn enough in relation to time spent at the tables. Like live-poker more, so maybe I'll change for that since I live very near the casino.

But here comes the break!

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