ante games is fun
remember87, Aug 03 2009
FTP has added ante games now to a lot of new levels, included NL400!  I have avoided deep games before since there is usually only good regs sitting there, being solid and tight, so the value has been on the regular tables. With the ante tables though, I think that will change! The games is a lot looser and very very fun to play! The aggression is at a maximum all the time and there is so many spots you can do so much with So far however I have been running pretty bad in AI situations (lost nearly everyone, if I had a graph for EV in AI situations I can bet its pretty bad) but I am still up a few BI..
Best thing about the ante tables so far: I have lost my fear for deep games and I have improved my preflop game (especially my 3bets, that has been/(is?) a leak in my game.)
I have improved almost every aria of my game last days and I am thrilled about that! Cant wait to improve even more!
see you at the ante tables!
solid month
remember87, Jul 30 2009
I started out July pretty good, grinded a few days at Dusty, had my best day yet when I got home etc. But then I ruined my pokermonth by taking a 2 week vacation in america. So I havnt been able to play near the amount of hands I had set my goal for.
Since I have been playing on my laptop too its hard to give out a graph for the month so I just put it in numbers:
Online: won ~6k$
played hands: around 20k
Live: lost ~1300$
So I am happy about a solid winning month. Even more happy am I for my game though! I feel I have improved tremendously and I am now ready to be a NL400 reg. Its a decent step, they are much better then NL200 regs but I see leaks in most of them so I hope I can get in some serious grindingtime now in August and see how it goes. If I have another solid month before school starts in September that would be awesome!
Now its of to bed so I can drive to Gothenburg tomorrow to see U2 live!
Cheers!
pleasant play
remember87, Jul 27 2009
I have been pretty tired since I arrived home from USA (guess its called jetlag). Therefor I have played very little and the times I have played, I have played pretty bad.
Today however I felt much better and decided I wanted a nice secure boost on my roll, so I went down to NL200 and played 6 tables. It was actually more relaxing then playing 4 tables of NL400
At first I couldnt believe what hands FTP managed to give me. First I won with KK on KKxAx against AA. Then I lost with 22 on 5d4d2d 2 T against Ad3d. Sick setups..
After that however I went on a small heater, got AAvAK like 3 times and I also played really well. I ended up about 8BI so I am pretty happy about that. Next session its up to NL400 again.
I can really tell now that there is a hugh difference between NL200 and 400. People have bad ranges and is overall much easier to read.
Its not like people have gotten worse, I just know I have improved a lot the past month. I think much more in the acutal hands trying to find when my opponents are weak and when there lines makes no sence. Some of the stuff that has helped me has come from CTSs book. Its definitely not worth 1,5k or w/e it costed in the beginning, but now its pretty priceworthy, atleast if you are worse then a solid winning NL400 reg and can spare the money.
end of vegas
remember87, Jul 18 2009
I left Vegas last night. Its such a great city. So wonderful in so many ways, but at this time of the year its a bit too hot. It was over 40'C all the time. One of the biggest disapointments also is that I didnt meet any LPers over there. Next year that will happen guaranteed!
I havnt have time to play too much the last days since we have been so busy. We have been to a hypnosis show, went on a helicopter tour over the Grand Canion and went all around Vegas. I loved it!
The only session I played in Bellagio came with a small win, but overall the Vegas trip wasnt too good when it comes to the results. I think I ended down about 1300$. I am very disapointed with that since the games were sooo soft! I want to come back there and just grind live for a couple of weeks! It would be awesome and a nice boost to the roll!
I am going home on tuesday (after some days in Santa Monica, LA) so the trip is almost over.  It has been 2 excellent weeks and I must say America is really great in so many ways. I might write something later about the differences if I have time. Its something to do for everyone who hasnt been here!
Ivey is so sick
remember87, Jul 16 2009
well I wrote in my previous post that Ivey was bust at the rio. Obviously thats not true since he is one of the november nine. He took a small brake when I was there, he was low in chips so he wasnt on the chipcounts and guys on the rail said he was bust. I was pretty fooled. Happy that I was though. I hope he can win that bracelet! He is probably the best player in the world and to win the ME would just get that into the history books!
At the tables tonight was a lot of talk about Mr. Ivey. He went in at Bobbys room after the game finished at Rio and talked to Antonius, Illari o Co. As usual he didnt show any emotions at all 
After he had shown up, there was a lot of talk about the prob bets he has. According to several people here he bet 10 to 1 after day 1 that he could reach the final table at the ME. At that time he also bet $20k at 100 to 1 that he would win the ME Thats a guy with too much confidence or too much money.
If the bet with Howard Lederer (5M$) is not just a rumour I guess he could win like 10M$ in just prop bets if he wins the ME!
Playwise the Bellagio doesnt like me. I am playing 2/5 and the games are really soft but my hands can never win..
Once again it started out well, I called down a guy 3 streets ip with TT on Q85ss82 and he muched before I even got a chance to show my hand. That was the only big hand I won all night.
I lost 2 flips AI pre, top 2 against a FD on turn etc but it was like the cards didnt want to go my way. It was also a bit hard to bluff since everyone saw me as this young aggressive swedish internet kid and called me down with like 3 pair no matter the board. Guess I have blame myself. I kinda made a joke or two about having pair-outs when I bluffed in a pot and the table didnt believe me one second after that. I wanted to really get value from that but when I even didnt hit a pair for 1,5h I quit and am going to bed now.
I guess I will loose a couple of BI tomorrow too but then its enough at NL500. I really dont have the bankroll to loose too much at this level even if I think these are the softest games I have played in.. they are even softer then Stockholms 20/20 games..
Bellagio
remember87, Jul 15 2009
Vegas is so impressive! Just as I imagined! Staying at Bellagio with a view of the fountain and I just love it!
I started out the day with a walk to the Rio and checked out the WSOP just as Ivey busted out. I also got a photo with Dennis Phillips! Then we checked out Ceasars palace before I sat down to play some at Bellagios poker room.
Games were also running at Bobbys room, I think Doyle Brunson played at it and also Patrick Antonius.
The games are really soft and easy at Bellagio. It started of great when I took a fish´s money w Q8 v 85 on J8x8K. I then took down some easy pots w bluffs etc cause nobody could handread. Then I raised in MP w J6hh, fish calls in SB and the flops comes KQ9 all hearts. He C/C my CB, then C/minR a blank turn and we get it in like 200bb deep, he has AAh and ofc spikes a heart on the river.
I rebuy and then another fish sits down at my left, he really liked to show he had money. 10 min in I raise, new fish calls and SB calls. flop comes T63r, checked to me, I bet and new fish calls before I can get my chips in the middle Turn another 6 now with 2 hearts. He insta C/C again. River comes 8h and insta goes AI. I kinda know I am beat but reluctantly calls. He shows 97o..
Since I am hungry I leave the table with a loss of 1100$.. hmm.. new try tonight.
Hollywood and Vegas
remember87, Jul 14 2009
America is like so cool! I love every second of it! Its superhot, always 100% sunny, wonderful beaches, lovely cities and nice people! Since I arrived here I havnt been still a single second and I wouldnt want that to change a bit!
The first day we decided to visit Universal Studios since it would only be 32'C and maybe 2 cloudes on the sky. It was awesome! Pretty cool to see all the studios etc. Especially waterworld was a really good show they had put up.
my little travel company.. me the third person from the left..
The day after that it was beach time, so we moved to a hotel in Santa Monica and went on the beaches there.. they are just so biiig and long! it was really fun to go swiming too since the ocean had a perfect temperature and it was a lot of big waves etc.. Ofc you have to end that with som UFC and a big buffé to become a perfect day!
Yesterday we moved to Hollywood and did all the touristy things you can do there. Walk down the walk of fame, take a tour to see the celebrities houses, take photos of the sign, see some celebrities (most famous Jay Leno) and buy some souvernirs etc. Pretty fun to do ones but I dont think there is much point doing again if you dont wanna really go ballin and spend lots of money on clubs etc.
me with a celebrity I cant remember the name of ... help?
This morning we rented a car and went on a small roadtrip. Stopped at a couple of places (like newport beach) and finally ended up in San Diego. I must say I love this "little" town (bigger then Stockholm, but compared to LA we came from) and even a city I could imagine myself living in. Very pretty!
a very lame photo with the beautiful city in the background..
So far, the trip has been perfect, and the best thing is that the best parts of the trip hasnt come yet! Thats Vegas(!) and the plan is that we will arrive there either tomorrow night or the day after that in the morning.. I will be sooo sick! I have longed for this day now for a long time and now it finally will happen!!
We are planning on staying at Bellagio atleast one night (it will be fun to see Bobbys room), and in some other hotel 2-3 nights, depending on a lot of things. Any recommendations? It would be fun to see a lot of different stuff when we´re finally here.
Except from poker I must visit a show too somewhere, havnt the slightest idea of whats running out there but I guess there are brochures on the hotels.
Hope to see some of you guys in Vegas the next few days!
Cheers!
Los Angeles check-in
remember87, Jul 09 2009
First of all, Amsterdam is a really nice city! All the buildings are really picturesque, the river that runs through the city is nice and all I can say I loved it really much! It was also really strange to walk along on the streets, and in like every corner there is a Coffehouse. It seems to work there but Im pretty shure it wouldnt work at all in Sweden. It was interesting to see the difference!
My travel company concist of a couple of old buddies I have known like for 15 years. They are relly cool and they are a lot of fun. They had already bought the tickets etc but when I heard of the trip and I felt like I described in previous blogentries I decided to get a ticket too. I managed to get on the same flights and change seat so we are sitting together.
After 24h in Amsterdam the flight to LA departured. Everything went really smooth in customs on the american side.. They asked like a thousand questions what Im going to do here, took fingerprints etc. Since we didnt have a hotel we just made an adress up for the trip too But everything went perfect and here we are now in a hotelroom in Los Angeles soon going to sleep. Havnt felt the jetlag at all, guess pokerplayers cant get it since our diurnal rhythm always is pretty fucked up anyway!
So What am I doing in LA? To be honoust I dont know! This is just a nice and very spontanious vacation! Guess Im going to visit sunset beach, sankta monica, universal studios, Las Vegas of course!, Grand Canion, maybe a trip down to Mexico etc.. We are staying here just for 2 weeks so its a quite limited time.
Do you guys have any suggestions what to do? What cant I miss while Im here?
Will be updating here a bit, and if anyone wants to meet up somewhere, either in LA or in Vegas just send me a PM.
amsterdam
remember87, Jul 08 2009
The flight in Stockholm became to late so we missed the flight to LA So now we have to spend 24h in Amsterdam before the next plane leaves. Right now we are sitting here in a coffeshop, me getting tons of water for my friends who is not their normal self..
just saw that FTP finally got there sence back after I had yelled some at them, and they have reinstated my account so I can play at my normal username. Everythings back to normal!
Lifes pretty good!
on my way
remember87, Jul 08 2009
dont know what flew into me a few hours ago (check my previous entry).. best thing however is that I´m leaving sweden in like 1 hour for Los Angeles!
If anybodys there, write a note or something so we can meet up
Cheers!
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