Just read in the biggest Norwegian newspaper that there are concerns that Norsk Tipping (Norwegian Betting) are dangerous for people with an addiction, cause of the secureness they seemingly provide. Dangerous or not, the Norwegian Government (Owner of Norwegian Betting) has the worst double standards ever.

I think they did great when they prohibited slots, but what was the point when they just replaced them with Norwegian Betting’s own slots? They look just as fancy and intriguing as the old ones.

And poker, the gambling game that has the most skill involved is of course illegal in all forms (except minor, minor exceptions), while they introduce games like Keno with commercials all over the place.

Finally, they now have to face these aptly allegations, and I must say I am not really impressed by the bs answers provided. It’s the same old, same old “we have a responsible gambling politic yada yada”, but still they spend around 300 000 000 NOK (50 000 000$) per year in advertising (I think I recall correctly, at least in 2007 it was 186 700 000).

Hopefully, one day I’m actually not a criminal for playing a 100$ tournament in Norway…

/rant

This has been a great weekend! Had some minor businesses in Oslo which i combined nicely with a visit to my cousin, or sister as I call her. She celebrated her 27th birthday AND had an ultrasound that showed a beautiful little boy with an enourmous nutsack;) My cousin and her husband were like “Is that…ehmm” to what the nurse responded “sure is”

When I got home Saturday night I went straight to a small party with some friends. Had my first ever couple of beers at an airplane durng my flight home to make up for my late arrival. An awesome night and altogether a brilliant weekend.

Now I’m at the train to Åre, Sweden, about 20 minutes into the two and a half hour ride. My friends will be waiting there for me with dinner at the table and cold beer in the fridge. Seriously, can one ask for more?

3 full days of skiing in beautiful weather coupled with afterski, tasty dinners and fun into the small hours is the recipe without possibilty of failure!

Poker? Nothing. Nada. Zero. Nienta. Nichts. ничего. Ingenting. You catch my drift. I’ll use this as an opportunity to recharge every single little battery inside, and then I’ll crush more than ever when I get home.

Until next time; Life is way too short to go around being unhappy. Do something you really enjoy, together with the people you enjoy the most!

PS: any tips for a “March challenge”?

As promised, here are the results from last weeks challenge. Since my goal was to regain my losses from my horrendous run at 2/4 early this month, I must say I failed pretty bad. I made the 20k mark with a pretty good margin, but my green line ended up in the red zone.

I’m pretty sure I played very well throughout the week, and I will not let this hold me back. Actually, as we speak I have already had a couple of winning sessions, so I’m slowly getting there! However, I’m pretty sure I will book my first loosing month since, well, I can’t remember But hey? That can only mean that March will be friggin’ brilliant

I really enjoyed this challenge and was planning on expanding it to be 50k hands in two weeks, but I am travelling this weekend and some days next week, so I’ll have to wait. Hopefully, about a week’s break from poker can’t be damaging at all. I have been playing pretty consistantly for a pretty long time

So, Sunday I am leaving for Åre, Sweden, where I will be staying in an apartment for 4 days with some of my closest friends; Skiing, partying, relaxing, enjoying life. I’m really looking forward to it, and I may be able to update with some nice photos and/or stories next week. I spend about 1k$ on new alpine skis so this can’t be anything but awesome

Oh, yes, I’m planning on changing the theme for Deltidspoker.com to something more classy and less kindergartenish. Any suggestions are welcomed!

Until next time, I’ll leave you with the graph for the challenge!

Good luck at the tables and with life in general!

Hey people,

I will be updating with the results of the challenge soon, but I suddenly got very much to do, and I have to keep my grind up, so there hasn’t been any time. Hopefully I’ll find a little slot tomorrow or Thursday. Until then, have a great couple of days Some exciting poker and non-poker stuff coming up

Pål (Paul)

Hopefully I avoided the worst kind of sickness as I am feeling better today. I managed to crawl to the bus stop and go to a friend for the greatly anticipated Manchester derby between United and City. After an early lead, City got back into it with a luckbox goal, but we have Wayne Rooney, and Wayne Rooney knows how to do the old bicycle kick!

I mean, how awesome wasn’t this goal!

One of my roomates is turning 20 tomorrow, so today she’s gonna have a big ass party here. I was planning on taking part, but I don’t think my body can handle it. I have to be fit for an awesome ski trip next week, to Åre in Sweden.

I have already grinded about 2k hands today, and am about break even. What an awesome river(!):

Full Tilt Poker $1/$2 No Limit Hold’em – 9 players
MP2: $244.80
CO: $103.55
BTN: $122.35
SB: $78.00
BB: $39.10
UTG: $65.50
UTG+1: $230.20
UTG+2: $209.10
Hero (MP1): $202.00

Pre Flop: ($3.00) Hero is MP1 with T T
3 folds, Hero raises to $6, 2 folds, BTN calls $6, 1 fold, BB calls $4

Flop: ($19.00) J 5 4 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $10, BTN calls $10, BB folds

Turn: ($39.00) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $20, BTN calls $20

River: ($79.00) T (2 players)
Hero bets $88, BTN calls $86.35 all in

Final Pot: $251.70
BTN shows 8 7 (a straight, Jack high)
Hero shows T T (three of a kind, Tens)
BTN wins $248.70
(Rake: $3.00)

Have a great Saturday!

I didn’t have the time to post anything yesterday, so I’ll combine it all for a big as post today

February 10th was started with a little hope of finnaly winning something again, but fast turned into Grand Canyon. For a while there I actually believed (again, what a stupid prick I am )that I had somehow overcome the downswing, but I had to face the facts and eventually book another loosing day.

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For some reason I don’t feel that bad about this day. Obviously, I continued loosing monies, but the way the session switched gear about halfway was inspiring Ended the day with 2917 hands, 6999 in total , so a little over 300 hands ahead of pace!

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Managed to play 4082 hands today, so I’m ahead of pace which is good. I didn’t win anything though, but hopefully this will turn as I move along. I posted the biggest hands I had today, some of them a bit exciting

Winning hands: Pretty sick call from BTN in hand 1, I was actually thinking he had KK. The big table fish binked a Q in hand 2, but fortunately the river came to the rescue for me Very lucky flop for me in hand 3. UTG+1 isn’t really that good of a poker player, haha

Loosing hands: Nothing I can do differently in hand 1 nor hand 2. Maybe, a call on the flop in hand 2 since I am in position, and then shove any non-heart turn. Hand 3 is probably a fold. However, I talked myself into calling since he easily could have put me on a flush.

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Moving up to 2/4 has been hard, and I don’t have the confidence yet to stay up there. I feel that my play is solid, especially after the few coaching sessions I have had, but I can’t seem to win. Let’s just state that this sucks

So, what shall I do? It’s not really a money problem, cause I have a healthy bankroll for 2/4, but I have elected to move down to 1/2 again, at least for this week. The goal is to grind up the losses from February (rakeback and bonuses are excluded).

I’m fairly confident that I can beat NL200 for about 3ptbb/100, so 20k hands should more than make up for the downswing under normal circumstances. I will try to update as often as I can, hopefully each night when I’m done playing for the day. Posts need graphs, so I’ll try to provide that too

Feel free to join me and set your own goal for the week The challenge will end on Sunday 23:59:59 ET.

Let me start by telling you one thing: I was feeling awesome the first few days of January ! Like I wrote in an earlier post, I stayed at nl200 for the rest of December just to grind up some confidence after a failed attempt at 2/4. January 1st, I moved up again and run super-duper hot! Every hand hit and every all-in held up. I celebrated the Christmas Holidays with my family, and spent the late evenings in our basement livingroom, grinding on my dad’s brand new 46 inch LCD screen .

Of course the run-good had to end, but I was hoping for a less swingy turn of events. Eventually, I had to move down again to nl200 as in December to regain confidence and plug some leaks. Also, I contacted slowlane123 on Deucescracked and arranged for a couple of coaching sessions. As we speak I have had 2 hours with him and he has already spotted a couple of big leaks which I am in the process of plugging. An awesome experience!

So, for February I will continue to work on my game together with slowlane123, and I have also talked to another coach that I will do a few sessions with. It is very important to be able to look at your game from an objective standpoint , and a coach is the perfect person to do just that.

Feel free to post comments or your own graph

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