Back to school

After a summer with supporting myself through playing poker, I'm heading back to school to do a degree in finance and management.

I'm doing this because I want to have some qualifications in life, and if there's one thing I love, it's definitely money.
So it seems a logical decision to do this.
I'm a gambler at heart, and I've recently increased my gambling a bit by buying more stocks, and I'm looking to trade on a daily basis.

After I'm done with the degree, in three years, I hope to either start a business, play poker full time or be a full time musician.

So right now I'm just concentrating on school, but as I get settled, and get a new apartment in the city, I'll hopefully be able to concentrate just as much on poker.
Because if there's one saying about student life that is true, it's that it's not going to make you wealthy.

I'll try to keep this one more updated on my progress in the coming weeks, but I won't promise anything, I'm lazy.

A Flying Start

It's been a good start to the month.
Especially on Ongame, I've been running really hot, taking down one tournament for the biggest ever win of my life.

So far this month on Ongame my ROI% is at 1100%.
I've not played much, but I've done well in the little I've played.

Also tried some other networks, but the quality of them are so massively different.
Especially Everest managed to tilt me.
The software is bad and the structure is even worse.
The only saving grace is that the players are very bad, but I feel there are so many networks that have terrible quality on the stakes I play.

Poker is really starting to become a good source of income, and hopefully I can move up to mid-stakes MTTs before I head back to school in early September.

Outside of poker life is very good.
Hopefully getting in some travel before school, possibly looking to get in some live play.
Will be going on a little road trip to Sweden tomorrow.
Swedish girls ftw. (As illustrated above. No offense.)

My goal for the rest of this month is starting to structure my play better.
Getting up earlier and not being the lazy bastard I am right now.
Picking a number of guaranteed tournaments to play every day is another key.
The rest of the time will be spent apartment hunting, which I think is a bitch, but it has to be done.

Glory, Glory Hangover

It’s been one of the best and worst weekends wrapped into one.
This Sunday was Norway’s national day, and so the day before is naturally the national drunk day.
We hit the town early and watched United clinch their 18th league title.
In the aftermath of that I managed to buy some horrible, expensive champagne that was actually warm.
Well, it was fun anyway.


After that we hit another pub where we got some food and a lot more beer.
Here we tried to play an alcoholic’s version of “Lodden Thinks”, but no one really managed to concentrate enough about the rules and so we just drank.


After we had been drinking for eight hours, we decided to go somewhere else to… well… drink some more.
We caught the Rosenborg – Molde match, and I had more reason to celebrate as Rosenborg failed to win. I hate them.


The rest of the night was more drinking, and the next morning was more drinking until we all fell asleep.
I of course woke up with the worst hangover this world has ever seen.
I could barely move at times.


Poker wise it’s been good as well, but playing on Sunday was undoubtedly not a good idea, as almost all tournaments went to hell with me being so hung over, but it all became much better on Monday, when I managed to get another final table and some decent finishes in some of the really big (in number of people) tournaments on Ongame.


On the negative side that Rybak twat is all over the media.
I hope all readers are well, and I hope Rybak’s not.

Playing Live, Playing Online and not Sleeping

I'm on almost no sleep at the moment.
I just can't sleep. Don't know what's wrong.
It may be all the energy drinks I've been downing. Wonder if that has anything to do with it?

It hasn't affected my game much, as I finished third in the Midnight Oil yesterday.
I didn't really play well at all, but it was obviously enough in the biggest fish pond I've ever fished in.

On the live side of things I've been playing well, and took down a 6-man SNG today.
It wasn't the toughest competition ever, but some of the guys are good and understand the concepts that I usually talk about.

But my head is fucking with me right now, and I feel like I've been drunk for days.
So trying to sleep now is on the top of the list of my priorities.
Just looking forward to the next few days, and especially tomorrow, as Sunday, well, it's really just the poker day.
Oh, and looking forward to next weekend. National day and the yearly national drunk day, the day before.

PS: Wanted to post a Rihanna picture as this post's picture, but I feel it doesn't fullfill my definition of funny. It's just brilliant.

Good week, better future

It really has been a good week, but a lot of work has limited my poker time.
The highlight clearly being hitting a 4.15 bet on Start today in the third minute of overtime.

Just played about 2k hands with 8.81BB/100, which is good, but I hope to get in that amount of hands a day June, and hopefully 1k hands a day for the rest of the month.

Also; the Ducks beat Red Wings, lovely.

Blogging will become better with the amount of time becoming better, so if I were you, I'd be looking forward to some long, horrible blog posts!

Poker, Poker, TV, Poker

When I play poker, I always watch something or listen to something while I play.
Right now I'm watching "Ross Kemp On Gangs".
Not for the entertainment value, but it's really a great show.
If anyone got any shows they think I should watch, please tell.
But be aware, I've watched a lot of different TV shows the last years.

As for poker I'm waiting for money at the moment, but the grinding hasn't stopped.
I've had some experimental sessions with good success, so I feel my game is as good as it's ever been.

Played live yesterday, but finished in third after losing a flip.
It annoyed me a bit, so I got drunk, that's more fun.

The plan for tomorrow is to grind out at least 2k hands, and get some training in, hopefully some tennis.
I'm sorry if this blog post is boring, but I just haven't done anything fun.
If you don't call losing 7 out of 8 football bets fun.

Summer's Coming

Will you be plundering this summer?
I'm hoping to do so at the tables, but I'm not sure it would be very socially acceptable if I got a ship and started plundering the local beaches.

It's been quite a meh day with just some 3-a-side football, which was a pretty good reminder of what horrible shape I am in.

Other than that I've been doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Which I guess is good enough for now, but in the long run, not so much.

Still waiting for my bwin money, so I can start really grinding NL50.
3 days for withdrawal through Moneybookers is a really long time, right?
Mega-tabling NL10 is a bit fun I suppose, but the hourly rate doesn't really excite me.
I still haven't quite decided where to grind this summer, but Stars seems the best alternative just due to the massive player pool.

Things to do this summer:
- Learn to play golf
- Grind for a living
- Become a better tennis player
- Drink more alcohol
- Get to a stage where I could be called "somewhat fit".

The last two may look like they are not combineable, and that's probably right.

Long time, no blog

I bet my zero readers have missed me.
The last few weeks have consisted of mostly some serious soul searching.
What will I do this summer? That's the question I've been pondering.

A: Should I keep my job and work every single weekend before I start university?
B: Or should I quit and play poker for a living and doing whatever the fuck I want?

I landed on B.
I know it's a slight risk, but what do I have to lose?
I'll be leaving my job after May, so I'll have the money I need even if the poker playing doesn't go as well as I'm hoping for.

So, per definiton; this summer I'm a professional poker player.
Who knows how many chances I'll have to say that.

This also gives me more time to get in shape for the tennis bet.
There's just no way I'll lose that. Just too much prestige involved.
Oh, and I said I was going to stay sober for a while back in March.
I did.
It lasted well over 40 hours

FIFA Prop Bet: Loss

So the first of our series of prop bets ended with a loss.
The guy has played hundreds more matches than me, so I don't feel it was unexpected.
I regret that I didn't get odds on it, evens was not right here.
I lost three matches clearly, but I managed one 3-0 win, which pleased my little ego.

I'm now in the process of figuring out what the next prop bets will be.
They will undoubtedly be of a bit bigger stature.
Things being considered are:
- Track & Field
- Marathon
- Triathlon
- Golf, perhaps extreme golf

Something like this, although not as extreme or for those sums:


All will be well documented of course.

Any prop bet suggestions are welcome.

Preparation for Tennis bet underway!

I've finally decided to start doing something about my physical form for the tennis bet I've been talking about.
This lump I call a body really needs to improve quite a few notches before it's even in an acceptable condition for taking another man's money.

I've purchased a lot of bananas, which in hindsight may not be such a good decision, since they rot pretty quickly...
No more alcohol for a while or (insert drink containing lots of sugar).

Since it's impossible to play tennis outside yet, I have been playing lots of Wii.
I know it's not ideal, but I don't think it's such a good idea to use one of the walls inside to practice against.

Mark my words: I will win this, no matter what it takes.

Another Uneventful Weekend (Sort of)

Alcohol, football and gambling.
Those are the things I've done this weekend.
On friday I started working after my holiday and I realized that the only bad aspect about my job is mostly working weekends.
That's basically everything that happened on Friday.

Saturday was an entirely different ball game.
Working from 10am to 10pm, then going out drinking.
Special is the word for this night.

After a short party we decided to hit the road with nowhere to go.
We drove to the local ski resort, so now I can say I've been there.
But I don't ski.
A mate wanted us to pick him up, and we took some "reverse shortcuts".
He turned a bit crazy and he still hasn't talked to me.
I don't really care right now.
At the same place that the above mentioned mate was, another friend of mine almost got beaten up because he decided to tell a Manchester United fan how much they sucked, smart.
He apparently managed to talk himself out of getting beaten by saying that United would win the league.

Today has been all about gambling.
Playing the ridiculous $200k and some other tournaments with decent success.
Cashing and finishing in 2000th place is a very strange feeling.

In other news:
The FIFA prop bet has not yet been played.
I will do a huge write-up about it when it happens.

Light training for the tennis prop bet has also begun, playing 1 hour of wii tennis today.
That's how the pros do it, right?

So there was not much adventure this weekend, but I promise things will improve on the adventure scale by summer.

Plans include building a pirate ship.
Now that's fun!

Fighting Australians

I have recently found out that I have one week off in July.
And I need to travel.
Can't stay in Norway all the time, it's not that great here.

So I'm considering where to go.

I've found out that there is a Michael Jackson concert that week in London, and I'm thinking I'll have to go before he A: dies or B: get's caught again.

The same weekend there is the Ashes in London, a cricket match between England and Australia, a heated rivalry.
But I don't really care much for cricket.
Because when you realize just how little televised cricket there is on TV here, you wouldn't think that it's strange that I don't care.

But I guess a cricket match is something I'll have to see.
Drink lots of beer and fight with Australians, that's always fun, isn't it?
And with experience I've come to see that anything can become interesting if you have had enough alcohol. (Watching curling while drunk makes it a great sport, would love to try it drunk).

This builds on my theory that every sport will be better if played drunk.
Could you imagine the drunk javelin or the drunk orienteering?
Dangerous, yet hilarious!
Who wouldn't like that?

Midnight Madness, literally

Last night I had what so far is perhaps the longest poker session I've ever had.
I think I played for 20 hours straight.
All through the session I was crippled by bad beats, but I knew I had to play through it.
I was rewarded by getting the 15th place in the Midnight Madness.

And that tournament is really mad.
I saw several all-in calls with hands like T5o, K6s etc.
And they all got further than me, donks.

So the next day and a half will be cram packed with work, some poker and some FIFA practice before the big prop bet final on Sunday.

I'll post my Tippeliga predictions as soon as I'm done with them.
As usual it will be incredibly tight, and hopefully Rosenborg go down, although I doubt it.

Back to back final tables

I've been running both very good and very bad the last few days.
Highlights including a guy calling my all-in on the turn, hitting his gutshot straight draw on the river.
AA losing to 36o was another favourite of mine.

But when all came to all I had two final tables.
One on Full Tilt, that gave me an 8th place for $258 and the one on Stars right now for $587.
I went out with QQ vs K5 on Stars, so that kept me away from the $3,4k first prize.

Not much else to report, and I just hope the good times keep on coming with the Irish Open satellite coming up on Sunday and the final $250k satellite on Cake on Saturday.
No doubt will be a pretty sober weekend.

Also looking into going to some big events this summer, perhaps the Jacko concert.
Let's face it, he won't be going on many more tours, if any.

Sports I don't care about: Orienteering

What makes people run around in the woods, trying to find posts before returning to the same place they started?
It's probably the worst sport for the audience that there has ever been, and probably ever will be.
Perhaps only beaten by underwater biking.

At the same time it's horrible for TV.
It's like the person created the sport was a part of some secret society or something, wanting no one to know where he was going.
So let's just hope the deforestation continues so the sport goes extinct.
Do something that is more fun, perhaps cutting off your legs or watching paint dry?

But if we can't kill it, we could take these steps to make it watchable:
- Change the posts with shots of Tequila
- Lose the map
- Lose the compass

If that doesn't work, just have some search and rescue people ready for the morning after.
Good luck finding the drunk orienteerers!

The Scamming Incident

So the 4 nights in Riga have passed.
And I'm proud to say we were drunk from the time we lifted off from Trondheim on Monday until we arrived back this Friday.

It didn't exactly get off to a great start.
Well... It was fun, but we lost a guy.
Fortunately we found him again before we headed to club.
We found out there were no people there, so we got the brilliant idea of heading next door to a shabby looking pub/club.

Drunk as we were we got talking to some decent looking women, well the only women in the club.
This one girl asked my mate to buy them a bottle of wine.
Well, that was the beginning of the end of that night.
He drank the wine, I got a sip and we though it was great.
We knew it was a pretty cheap wine, so we had no issues with that.
It wasn't until we had to pay our bill that we realized how fucking shitty that hole was.

In Norway the bottle costs about €10.
At that club we had to pay... wait for it... €250
That's right! And if we hadn't paid, I'm sure we wouldn't have had all our limbs in the right places.

So after all that fun two of us decided to head back immediately, not including me, so we kept talking to these girls.
After all, when you pay €250 for a bottle of wine, you have to finish it.
So I was talking to one of the girls, but my drunk mind convinced me that she was in on the scam.
I really don't think she was now, but I was 100% sure right there.
And when she asked for my number I pulled the old switcharoo and left the place immediately.

That was the second mistake of the night.

I got into a white taxi.
Now, all the state owned and more secure taxis are red.
And I was alone.
After driving for a short while the taxi driver started asking me if I wanted some company tonight.
I thought to myself: "What? I'm not gay"
I said: "Nooooooo"
"You not want girls?" he said.
I brightened up a bit, but I'm not the biggest fan of prostitution either, as both my left and right hand can do that job to a decent standard, and I know I like myself.

As we closed in on the hotel I just threw some money, way too much money, at the guy and ran.
And as if this city hadn't fucked me over enough that night, I woke up with the biggest headache ever and had to throw up 15 times before it calmed down and I could restart project drunk Latvia.

PS: If you're ever in Latvia, never visit the shit hole next to Roxy.

Prop Bet Dos - Tennis

In June, me and my earlier mentioned friend will play a tennis match for the ages.
We've bet on a per set basis, so if I get crushed I will lose a substantial amount.
But I just won't let that happen.
Now I'm going to work really hard, because this is as much about pride as it is about money.
I can't really afford to lose my pride, it's too costly.

And as I also have nothing against getting in better shape, this would really help as I can't wait to get back to playing tennis.
Now obviously there are no conditions to play outdoors when it snows, but I have my ways of getting some practice.

One thing I'll do is brush the dust of my Wii and play some Wii Sports.
It's not the best alternative, but certainly better than playing tennis indoors and destroying windows.

Prop Bet - FIFA 09

I've now faced the facts.
I suck at FIFA.
I can blame my horrible luck as of lately, but that's not something I can do anything about.
What I can do something about is my skill, and I intend to do so.

So me and my mate Finni decided to have a little prop bet.
On Sunday the 8th March we'll play a best out of 5 series to determine who is the best.
And seing as I just got my ass wooped, I need some hard practice.
I won't disclose any details of my plan here, as Finni is sure to read it.
But it involves both mental and physical work.

I will not face being worse than him at anything and I will be the worst loser ever if I don't win this.

(Tickets will not be sold for this match)

Those A-ha guys were Norwegian, they didn't even know what they were singing!

Currently I have the worst sleeping pattern in history.
Like Norwegian band "The September When" sings: "I sleep all day and stay up all night".
Very good band, but lyrically strange (and not very deep).

Anyway, now I'm up all night, and sleep far too long.
But I can't seem to stop it.
It started with long poker sessions into the early morning, but even though I'm no longer playing until morning, I can't sleep!

It's so annoying, and it really needs to change when I start working again in March.
Even more so when I start school.
It's not so cool sitting up until 08:00 watching TV shows I've already seen before while downloading even more shows I've seen before.

Right now I can't complain though, as there is some A-ha at the beginning of season 2.

So follow my efforts on trying to get my sleeping pattern back... and wish me luck, because I need it.

Going to Latvia

So I'm going to the largest city in the Baltic states with some friends.
We're going to drink, play poker, watch hockey and just have a brilliant time, as I know these guys really know how to party.

We'll be looking to teach the local poker mob a few lessons in the tournaments at the Olympic Voodoo Casino.
Hopefully we won't get killed by the locals, but just to be safe I'll post and fold if I get heads-up.

In the meantime I'll be looking to log some serious poker time, hopefully playing 30+ SNG's every day, as I've now realized that they are my bread and butter.
Even though they are my bread and butter, sometimes I want something else, because let's face it; Bread and butter is boring food.

To round of this post, I have a movie recommendation for you all:
Religilous.
A documentary about the world's religions, made by a man who does not believe in anything, Bill Maher.
It's entertaining, and it makes believers into non-believers, and that's great!