Sick

No, i didn't get a sick beat - not a bad beat story in here, i promise! ;-)

Altho, i'm sick. I have the flu. And to play poker when you're sick isn't a very good idea... But i did it anyway earlier today. I should not have done that.

For your information, it's not that easy being focused on playing good poker when your nose is running 24/7, you're sneezing, and your body temperature changes constantly.

I decided to stop playing, unfortunately, i didn't stop before i had lost some money. I ended up losing almost -€600. I should have used them on buying Kleenex, tea and blankets, instead i spewed them to one of the best PLO regulars on 24hPoker, but hey, revenge is coming!... when I'm healthy.


That's all for today, sorry for whining, but please bear with me, my body temperature varies between 200000 degrees and -400000... 


- Kristian

World Series Of Poker Main Event live stream!

Here's the link for WSOP Live stream!

http://www.wsop.com/2011/live-video/default.aspx?TID=11497

It should work, works for me :)

Poker site reviews comming up!

The article on game selection will have to wait. I decided to do a poker site review first, i think i'll start with my favourite site, 24hPoker!

I'll post this later this evening.

- Kristian.

Small losing session

I was playing a few hours on 24hPokeryesterday, after the first hour i was up solid €23! But then i started getting unfocused, and people started hitting their draws a little better than they usually do.

Nothing special there, it happens from time to time that you have a unlucky day.
Fortunately, when things were going bad, and i getting cold cards, my Hold'em Manager decided to crash on me, which made me think i'd better stop for the day. I ended the day in -€733. Could have been alot worse :) 

Besides that, there's not much to say about the events of the last 24 hours. I'll probrably be playing some more on  24hPoker tonight, and I've been considering writing an article on game selection, since people liked my Bankroll Management article, i thought i might as well cover all the most important areas in poker.

I think that's all i have to say right now.

Remember to follow me on twitter, and check my blog for updates :)
Thanks
- Kristian

The "monster" session

So yesterday i decided to do a "monster" session, where i would just grind my ass off.

I did that. And it worked out pretty well. I played approx. 2.9k hands, on 4-6 tables, playing for 8 hours, mostly on 24hPoker's €1/2, €2/4 and €3/6 tables, and ended up booking a €1674 win for the day! I'm pretty happy with that result. I'm very happy with my results since i opened this blog ;)

I know, 2.9k hands, 8 hours of grind, i know some people out there can do triple that, but i'm actually pretty lazy when it comes to poker, so it's a pretty long session for me.

I don't think i'll be playing much today, if anything at all, i got some stuff i need to do, go to the gym, etc etc, but later today, or tomorrow, i'll be posting my thoughts, and a little guide on a very important subject, if not the most important (drumroll please...) :     BANKROLL MANAGEMENT!


I'll call the article "Bankroll Management 101", and i'll give you a basic look into my opinion on the subject. I can't call it the correct opinion, since everyone has a different one on the subject, but ofcourse, i believe mine is the right one ;) 

Read that later. 


As for the hand i posted yesterday, here goes my thoughts, and result: 

I actually ended up flat-calling, after i thought about it for a while.
My decision was based on: I don't think we would have a problem getting paid off
if improve on the river. We have a decent number of outs, and i think our implied odds
are good enough to just call here. Altho' i think you could argue for a shove...

The river was, lucky for me, the ace of spades, which gave us a full house, BB ended up betting again, i shoved, and he folded, unfortunately ;) 


Thanks for reading, remember to check back again tomorrow, and follow me on twitter! 
- Kristian
 

Interesting hand from the session

As i mentioned on my Twitter ( https://twitter.com/#!/365pokerblog ), i would have a big grinding night this evening. I'm in the middle of it, i've decided to take a break to refresh, and evaluate.

I played ~1k hands, i'm up €984, i would say that's a good result for now, i hope i don't lose it all back when i start playing again later. :)

The most interesting hand of the session was played on 24hPoker, on PLO400. Villain is a tight aggressive player, with donkish tendencies, altho we haven't played much yet. Only like 100 hands all in all, but here's the hand:

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
PL Omaha €4(BB) Replayer
SB (€542)
BB (€483)
UTG (€1,143)
HERO (€526)
CO (€487)
BTN (€229)

Dealt to Hero AhThKsTs

fold, Hero raises to €12, fold, fold, fold, BB calls €8

FLOP (€26) 2s Kd Ad

BB bets €20, Hero calls €20

TURN (€66) 2s Kd Ad 5s

BB bets €50, Hero doeeeeeeeeeees?



Discuss in comments, if you want to, i'll post my thoughts and result tomorrow :)

Thanks.

A little bit about me

Hey guys.

So i started up this blog yesterday, basically just to tell my friends and familly about my life, and how i was doing, pokerwise.

But since not all know me personally, i thought i would tell you a little bit about myself.

I go to business school, but on the side i play poker for a "living". I usually play pot-limit omaha, or PLO, i play mostly on my favourite site, 24hPoker, i play the stakes €.25/.50 (PLO50€), €0.5/1 (PLO100), €1/2 (PLO200), and finally €2/4 (PLO400), yet i do take the occasional shot at PLO600, but i just can't seem to break through. Those guys are waaaaay to though for me ;)

In the next few days i'll tell you about what my favourite site to play on is, why that is, and i'll probrably put up and interesting hand or 2 from my sessions.

I also play alot of Multi Table Tournaments, or MTTs. Actually, as late as yesterday, i finished 5th in a pretty big tournament, on 24hPoker - it paid 744€, so not life changing money, but it still made a break-even day, a winning day, which is always nice :)

I've been lucky to have some okay MTT scores in the past, but i do not consider myself a good MTT player, at all. I'm just sometimes good at getting lucky at the right times, but well, you need a little luck to win, right?

In the past, before grinding the PLO games, i was playing no-limit cash games, but oh'boy did i suck at no limit. I was probrably the biggest fish the sites have seen, i could'nt fold a hand, i was sure everyone was bluffing all the time. Then i luckily found PLO, and haven't been looking back since.

I was winning at the lowest stakes from the start, i don't know why, i just think i had a feel for the game. Altho' i could'nt break the higher stakes, i was playing a little money scared, i think... My bankroll management was'nt the best at that time ;)

Then i joined a poker training site, and watched alot of videos, actually a few every day, where i was informed of the importance of aggression, position, bankroll management, game selection, and analysing you, and your opponents game with tracking software, all of these are subjects, that i will try to explain and learn you guys about later on.

It was first when i started winning continuously at PLO100€ i decided to quit my half-time job, it does'nt seem that attractive to go to work at 6 in the morning and work for 8 hours when you've won 8 times the pay online the previous night. I was making alot more in a month than i ever could working half-time, so i decided to quit the job and focus a little more on poker.

After that i got alot more time to analyse and work on my game, which is never a bad thing to do :)

Since then i've kept on moving up stakes, slow and steady, 'cause we all know that slow and steady wins the race!

Thanks for listening to my story, in the next few days i'll tell you how my days have gone, poker wise and real life wise, and i will also probrably put up some information on some of the important strategic things in poker.

- Kristian.