I finally had a winning day again, netting a couple of buy-ins I went out with a friend Saturday, so Sunday was never going to be anything other than a day for chillin’ I started the day with a well planned, ice cold Coca-Cola and some Winter sports on TV. Then I had a few sessions throughout the day, with minor food, Call of Duty: Black Ops and laying flat out breaks in between.

Flopped pretty sweet with queens, but I wasn’t actually that happy when he shoved the river. The way I have been running lately, I was expecting 33/66 here He totally misplayed AA instead which was pretty awesome

Full Tilt Poker $1/$2 No Limit Hold’em – 9 players
UTG+1: $221.30
UTG+2: $330.50
MP1: $198.00
MP2: $122.45
CO: $210.20
BTN: $207.15
SB: $639.10
BB: $207.25
Hero (UTG): $207.25

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is UTG with Q Q
Hero raises to $7, 4 folds, CO calls $7, 3 folds

Flop: ($17.00) Q 3 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $9, CO calls $9

Turn: ($35.00) 6 (2 players)
Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $18, CO calls $18

River: ($71.00) 6 (2 players)
Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $38, CO requests TIME, CO raises to $176.20 all in, Hero calls $135.25 all in

Have a great week all, and good luck at the tables and with life

For a long time I have done all my computer work/fun on a laptop, hooked up to a 24” Dell Widescreen. However, I have always wanted a desktop with two big 24” monitors and way more power than a laptop can provide. This week I bought all the parts and went on to build my first custom computer.

It went pretty smoothly and even though I was a bit confused as to were to put all those wires and cables, I got it to work on the first try

So now I have a great setup in my room, and I have a PC that is awesome to play poker at AND other games. I ran Call of Duty: Black Ops on maximum settings the other day, and there was no lag of any sort. Pretty sweet!

I have already gotten to grind for a few hours on my new monster, and it feels great. My poker results aren’t as fine, but whatever, they will be when this little downswing turns
For those who care, here are the specs:

ANTEC MIDTOWER THREE HUNDRED ATX BLACK
SAMSUNG DVD±R/RW/RAM DL 22X SATA BULK SVART
CORSAIR TX 650W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V
BENQ G2420HDBE 24″ WIDE TFT BLACK
SAMSUNG SPINPOINT F3 1TB SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB
CORSAIR 8GB DDR3 XMS3 INTEL I5/I7 PC12800 1600MHZ (2X4GB)
ASUS P8P67 P67 S-1155 ATX
INTEL CORE I5 2500K 3.30GHZ 6MB S-1155
XFX RADEON HD5770 XXX 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E 2DVI/HDMI/DP
OCZ VERTEX 2 2.5″ 60GB SSD SATA/300 MLC

Today I had my first coaching session ever with one of the most successful players at rush at Full Tilt Poker. I really enjoyed it, both from a poker point of view, but also from a coach educational view.

My hopes is that I can use this experience to some day do some coaching myself. However, I feel it is important to plug any big leak that may exist before I maybe coach players on lower limits.

It was a one hour session which started with a little Hold’em Manager review, before I went on two-tabling 400NL with the coach watching my desktop. We had some interesting hands along the way, and used the quiet periods to talk about poker and other life related stuff. I’m looking forward to taking a couple more lessons, the next one just over the weekend. I wanted to share one hand that illustrates to some extend how bad I’m running at the moment. I obviously didn’t call him and he obviously had me

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This week I will finally get my master thesis underway and I actually have something to do when I’m at the office at NTNU. So much better to have some work to do. Imagine if you were to just sit and stare at 4 empty poker tables for 6 hours, without even playing a single hand. Boring? Definitely!

I had a great start to the year with some super 2/4 rush poker results, but last week it really turned the other way around and I became a helpless spectator when the buy-ins just kept dissapearing. I decided to move down to 1/2 again, which is considerably softer, and really focus on my game and get my confidence back. Well, guess what? It’s back

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So it looks like my readers (or at least 6 of them ) all agree that I should start to write in English, and unless something out of the ordinary happens to those stars in the last post, I’ll do just that.

It will probably take some time to rewrite some of the stuff on the site, and I’m not sure if I’ll keep some of the Norwegian content like the “poker-course” online Time will show!

Until next time, good luck at the tables or with whatever else you’re up to

Som i et ledd i å prøve å utvide bloggen min, roter jeg med tanken på å skrive på engelsk. Dette vil selvfølgelig ikke gå utover kvaliteten på bloggen, men derimot kanskje føre til større trafikk som igjen fører til mer og bedre innhold.

Jeg vil selvfølgelig ikke gjøre dette hvis dagens lesere av bloggen synes det er teit, dumt, idiotisk, feil, ødeleggende eller lignende Derfor oppfordrer jeg deg til å stemme 1 ELLER 10 stjerner på dette innlegget. Stemmer du 1 betyr det at du ønsker innlegg på norsk, og stemmer du 10 synes du det er flott at bloggen tar steg mot å bli større og utvider for engelske lesere også

Håper ellers alle har hatt en bra uke. Hos meg fortsetter en liten downswing, så jeg har redusert antall bord for å konsentrere meg mer. Dette tiltaket bærer allerede frukter da jeg spiller 10 ganger bedre

Da ekskjæresten min gjorde det slutt i september 2009 sluttet jeg helt å spille poker. Jeg var rett og slett ikke i god nok psykisk form til å studere spillet, og måtte bruke overskuddet mitt på andre, viktigere ting. Denne pausen varte inn i det nye året, 2010. Ikke før 5 februar begynte jeg igjen, like etter at Full Tilt Poker hadde innført Rush Poker.

På dette tidspunktet bodde jeg i Santa Barbara, California, på andre siden av dammen og mye av pengene mine forsvant på gode opplevelser og moro. Jeg hadde allikevel bankroll til å spille 100NL full ring, noe jeg gjorde i mange måneder. Jeg prøvde meg på 200NL FR i slutten av mars, men hadde helt forferdelig gli! Grafen under viser gevinst (mørk grønn) og forventet gevinst (lys grønn). Det ser ikke noe hyggelig ut nå, og det var hvertfall ikke noe hyggelig da, men jeg hoppet ned på 100NL igjen og grindet videre.

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