I am an Icelandic poker player, who is active on your sister site(52.is) and come here regularly to learn more about poker. I don't really post here much, since most of you are a few leagues ahead of me.
I was wondering about poker games in Norway and Denmark, preferably Oslo or Copenhagen.
I just recently broke up with my gf of 4 years and I wanna follow my dream of playing poker, professionally or much more likely semi-professionally.
Where can I find some good live places to play. I am going to Copenhagen to visit my brother from 1.desember - 4th (maybe play one day) and thinking of moving after New Years, Oslo or Copenhagen.
I am mostly thinking about cash games since I mainly play cash game.
Also if anyone knows of lower division handball team, that might let me practice with them, that would be great as well.
okei guys, so this is so sick ... I came home from a business marketing class and started a session of 1/2. Little did i know 62 hands later i get a note on one of my 6 tables. BAD BEAT JACKPOT has been unleashed and since i was on that table i got a share. The whole thing was over 200 k so the guy who lost must have gotten a shit load of money.
Swedish Championships of Pokerby DustySwedeDude, November 24
Last few weeks has been fairly brutal. Had a ton of stuff to do with various endevours and I managed to fuck up a bunch of things before the trip and thus I arrived to Riga fairly spent. Had a beer with some poker players and then went for an early dinner/late lunch with my girlfriend and the food was really good. This Hotel rocks so far.
Things I've learned so far:
Latvia has their own currency. That currency is not the Euro. I feel I made a mistake at forex before this trip.
Poker players will be poker players.
The game is not dead, and it won't be for long, even tough some legal stuff probably needs to be sorted out before we'll see any kind of new "boom".
Riga is much cooler then I imagined so far.
Anyway, the tournament starts at 1400 in this time zone. That's GMT +2 I think. Live reporting will be up on poker.se as far as I can tell if someone wants to rail a bit.
Anyone here btw? There's a bunch of tournaments here so I guess at least someone should be here.
I'll post updates about this tournaments and the other(s?) I'll play in Riga over at: http://dustyplayspoker.blogspot.com/ because I'm a little bit short on time. If I feel like it I'll just copy/paste them here but I'm not sure.
Thank you for participating.
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It's 4:30am here in Brazil. Gonna sleep now, wake up around 12pm then me and my GF are gonna go to the movies to watch Breaking Down (yeah lol) 1pm (we already bought the tickets). Prommessed her that if I got top 3 on that tourney I would get her a little gift... well 4th is almost 3rd so I'm gonna get her something anyway Gonna be back home around 5pm to start the sunday grind. Tomorrow is one time lee red open
need to share this lol :D
have you ever done something so stupid that you feel embarresed about? most likely yes!
I just did one very stupid thing poker related. Some of you may not know about the PokerStars PCA GiveAway Promotion where they are giving away 100 PCA Packages 2012. There are 2 qualifiers every Sunday each one giving 10 Full Packages. In order to play those qualifiers you need to win a ticket on the fpp, cash or freeroll satelites. Since this promotion started I'm trying to win as much tickets as I can so I'm playing every final qualifier for a higher chance of winning a package. Until know I've won 3 tickets and there is a total of 10 tickets that you can win since there are only 10 qualifiers giving 10 packagers each. OK!
Now I'm gonna tell you about the stupid thing I've done. Today I was playing one of those satelites, it was a 10 cent tourney with about 400 players registred in wich the 20 first get a ticket to a final qualifier. There is 21 players remaining and I'm the 21st, game is hand-for-hand, I have like 2bb. Some guy with a bit of a higer stack than me sitting in another table(I'm observing all the 3 tables) shoves with A7, gets called with A9 and loses. I get happy thinking: "yes got another ticket" and insta-shove my hand and lose the hand. The thing is, the game was FUCKING HAND-FOR-HAND, AND I HAD THE SMALLEST STACK, SO I GET 21st and BUBBLE THE FUCKING SHIT. IF I HAD JUST FOLDED THE HAND I WOULD HAVE WON A TICKET!
omg it actually feels better to write about this here. I know how stupid it was, and the moment after I clicked all-in I was like WTF AM I DOING WHY DIDNT I JUST FOLD THIS OMG.
I know its a stupid ticket and that I can win a lot others in time but I really felt bad for this... damn. Thought about how can I turn this into a positive thing: blogging about it! Writing it here made me feel better, a lot better :D
Now tell us about a really stupid thing that you did :D weeeee
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-I'm playing a 10c satelite to a PCA final qualifiers
-Game is hand for hand, I'm the smallest stack
-A guy with a small stack sitting in another table shoves and loses
-I see that he lost and shove my hand too, and I lose
-I bubble cause my stack is the smallest
-If I had folded I would get the ticket to the final qualifier
-tell us about a stupid thing that you did :D
Sup LP! I came back from Dota caused short hiatus (fuelled by a fat tax refund from the Government ), and this time around I pretty much 80% play 20% watch videos or spend time on forums.
That doesn't mean I can't show you your typical afternoon in Edinburgh does it?
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico help!by Fujikura, November 18
Alright guys, so after a long poker hiatus, I have decided it's time to move to another country. Canada is out of the question because it's too damn cold. I've settled on Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I already know some poker players who are currently living there and say it's fine and safe. However I was wondering if anybody has been there recently, or maybe some Mexican LPers who know it for its reputation, and I guess I just want some reassurance that I won't get decapitated or something rofl. Please post in here if you've been there specifically or have heard things specifically, even if it's something short like "ya it's safe" or "Don't go you'll die."
Spoke with advisor today at my 4 year, and it turns out if i want to graduate with B.A. in my major i could be done with only 2 more semesters. This is my first semester at this school, i spent 4 years off and on at Junior college before getting enough classes done to transfer here.
Catch is i don't have a minor currently at least i haven't declared one. The idea of only spending 3 semesters here to finish sounds really nice, but i'm not sure if it is the best option.
Should i spend the extra semester declare a minor in what i was planning on doing, or does having a minor attached to the degree not really matter? advice from college graduates is greatly appreciated, or obviously people in a position of hiring college graduates as well
in bali indonesia atm, been here for 2 weeks and we are haveing big internet trouble
internet sux but i love it here, but its to tilting to not be able to get better internet anywhere, we been through some hotels and tryed the best mobile internet shit aswell like telekomsel and three 3G but it seems like its not possible to get better here
we are thinking of going to thailand instead, probably phuket
any1 been there, any recommendations of ~4 star hotels with good internet? how is internet overall in phuket?
I wrote a new blog explaining some history and rules of the upcoming kickboxing match between me and Elky. This might be nice information for people following it, as well as useful information for people wanting to bet on it. If you like Elky's side shoot me a pm and we can discuss details.
Okay guys, time for some brain foodby Mariuslol, November 14
Hey
I often just assume the stuff I'm into most other people are too, but that's not always the case. So tonight I felt like sharing.
There are many hidden gems all over the internet, I will talk about one of those gems, for those who's already indulged, appreciated this particular gem, do not fret. I put up the best of the best, and this shit you can re-watch indefinitely.
To make it cooler and more relaxing, I put up a description to each clip, what it's about, details and some other stuff like that.
Drive
The Truth about what really motivates us, most people think (and rightly so). The more money, the more motivation. Nuu UHHH!! Not the case, only if the task involves mechanical skills (Platinum/Gold and lower maybe).
Once you get above rudimentary cognitive skill, everything turns upside down. And I know a lot of passionate Starcraft gamers can attest to that, AMEN. (Ps, I'm not religious, hate that noob shit). + Show Spoiler +
Changing The Paradigms Of Education
This one is a lot more awesome than what it might sound like by the tittle. It's one of the most wonderful speeches I've ever heard about learning, growth and people's potential and more awesome stuff along those lines.
The speaker is Ken Robinson, which probably a lot of you already heard or know about from TEDTalks, but in this speech you get the essence in much more detail, and it's not added stuff to make it more entertaining as "a show". (Sex for your left hemisphere so to speak). <--- I just made that one up on the fly, yay + Show Spoiler +
The Secret Power Of Time
Talks about the 6 main time zones that people live in, 2 focus on the past, 2 focus on the present and 2 focus on the future. It also seems like, if you live around the equator, people are mostly focused on Present.
In in these categories, we have people who mainly focus on the positive (the good old times, nostalgia, so forth). And the other kind seem to focus a lot on regrets, failures and shit like that. Past positives and past negatives. And the same for the other categories. + Show Spoiler +
Empathic Civilisation
It doesn't get much more awesome than this. It seems like all the primates, especially the humans, we got mirror neurons. We're soft wired, so if I am observing you, I can feel the same as you're doing, the neurons in my head is lighting up at the same place as your neurons.
We are actually not soft wired for aggression, violence, self-interest, utilitarianism and shit like that which some poop heads have been feeding us. + Show Spoiler +
The Divided Brain
This is my favorite, I feel that most of what's being said is awesome. But I don't get half of it, if there's going to be any discussion about these, please talk about this one. I'd love to broaden my understanding of this.
New, fresh, cool information of the brain, discrediting a lot of what we "used" to think and know about it. Things that now has been proved is entirely false.
It's not true that one part of the brain does reason, and the other does emotion. Both are profoundly involved in both. Not true that language resides only in the left hemisphere, it doesn't, a lot of important aspects are in the right. It's not true that visual imagery is only in the right hemisphere, lots is in the left. + Show Spoiler +
21st Century Enlightenment
We're very very bad at predicting what will make us happy. We're even worse at describing what made us happy in the past. And stuff like "It's only by understanding that conscious thought is only part of what drives our behavior..... That we become better able to exercise control & distinguish our needs from our appetites..... And our amazing human potential from the hubris of individualism.
It's no wonder I find this one awesome as well. + Show Spoiler +
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Gonna be back home around 5pm to start the sunday grind. Tomorrow is one time lee red open 
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