Hi

Updating time! I have been playing as usual, but only short sessions so I probably need to pick up pace
to reach SNE for the third time. I have also been dabbling in cashgames a bit but I guess it will take some time before I can master it so I can play it more then the hour or two that I try to put it per day.
I was thinking about playing the Masters in Stockholm but managed to get sick, so no livepoker for me this time.

Other then that not much going on so I have no fun stuff o share. Oh almost forgot started to play Borderlands a bit late but on the other hand got the game cheap so...

Hi

So my trip to Sundsvall didn´t turn out good, lost the main event and the shoot out! But hey that´s poker! EPT Copenhagen started today and I should be there kind of...bubbled a Step G sigh at least I got €3300 for the effort. At the moment I am contemplating playing Nordic Masters of Poker, it is really fun to play live cause of the adrenaline kicks haha... http://www.casinocosmopol.se/stockholm/poker/nordic-masters-of-poker

Other then my live failure, I have started to play a bit longer hours online to grind so much vpps I can before the summer comes.

I have also managed to complete Skyrim after around 120 hours of grind! I still prefer Oblivion cause I thought the world and all was prettier. Skyrim is more harsh and cold compared to Oblivion.
By the way I was a wood elf thief type in the game and managed to loot 300 000 in gold...obsessive!?!?

Nordic Light Poker

Hey

I am a bit closer the norh pole, arrived to Sundsvall a couple of hours ago.
My mission is to play the main event here, buyin 10 000 sek.
It will be fun to play live again, my pulse always go up before and during the tournament.
Hopefully I run good!

http://www.casinocosmopol.se/

New Year and back to the grind

Hello

It´s been a while since my last update my trip to Thailand lasted for two months. I got home 9 days before Christmas and spent the holidays with my family. Then January came and I got back to the grind sigh... I have tried to cut down a bit in my pokersessions and only play about 4 hours of sng a day now, playing higher buyins instead of masstabling the lower levels. It has worked out fine and I got some time to dabble in heads up cashgame.

I also managed to become Guild Master for my thief guild in Skyrim and I am very proud about this, one of my biggest achievements this year. Eventough I am a master I got some concerns and my biggest by far have been which fraction to join the Imperials or the Stormcloaks...this has left me sleepless dozen of nights.

This is obvious not me because I would never ever use steel arrows! But I got this armor in the game.

In 2011 I got 3 - 4 months vaccation traveling the world but also spending time at home. I hope 2012 can be the same.

I have finally produced a couple of videos that are very very boring to see, I ll upload them to SngNerdAcademy later this week.

Done!

Hello!

The grind lately have been tiresome but I have finally reached the million vpp limit so that´s nice. Instead of poker I have been playing some Dead Island with some friends. Your mission is to survive on a tropical island infested with zombies. So every zombie crossing my path fall short of their misson which is eating my brain and doing other despicable things with my body.

Paddletime

Recieved an inivitation from Pokerstars vip in Sweden to attend at a soccermatch with a couple of other grinders from Stars. The event was very successful as Sweden beat Holland and it was a thrilling match. We didn´t have to stand in the cold watching the game because PokerStars hooked us up with a box with no shortage on food or beverages. After the game we gathered in the Radisson Blu lobby and drank a couple of drinks before saying farewell. Stars also fixed hotel rooms for everyone that wanted one sweet. I woke up the day after and went to Casino Cosmopol for a 5000 sek tournament the blind time was 30 min but only managed to get to place 35 out of a 130 before busting but it was fun because it was live.

Finally booked my trip for Thailand I am leaving on saturday and I will return to Sweden right about Christmas. I will arrive in Krabi with my brother that is coming along for the first two weeks.
The plan is to get to the "harbour" and catch a boat of some kind to head to a island and from there do some island hopping. The timing is not perfect as Bangkok is flooded and crocodiles roam the streets there is a 1000 baht reward for each crocodil you catch!  At least the drainage around Bangkok airport is currently holding up. Krabi is situated around 700 km south of Bangkok but even here heavy rain have pestered the area. But I´ll cross my fingers that the weathergods is as kind as the pokergods and lets me enjoy my vacation. Bathing, snorkeling and exploring is on the list of activities to do. 
Before the trip I have ordered a couple of things to ensure my safety haha...

First on the list was to get hold of a electronic spider repellent that you can plug in your wallsocket and it emits sound that keep the dreadful spiders at bay. I also got a spare that runs on battery so eventough I got no electricity I´ll be spiderfree.

Second thing to get hold of was a portable firealarm, don´t feel like dying in my sleep.

I am at the moment not sure how much clothes to bring but after reading on a couple of travelforums and consumed the info that the "backpacker travelheroes" shared. According to them only a couple of tshirts, shorts and underwear is needed. Found a discussion where they competed about how much or to be exact how "little" to carry with you, found it a bit amusing as one guy only brought cash, passport, toothbrush and the clothes he was wearing (Reacher style). Another guy wrote that only 2 underwears, 2 tshirts and a pair of shorts was needed. I will not be that extreme. I found a trolley/rucksack that got the ablility be rolled or carried so that´s nice the name was Epic mammut and the volume is on 60 liters. That should be sufficient for my things. My Acer 3820tg will also join me on the trip loaded with series that I have missed and of course for playing some poker.

I have found a couple of pokerhouses to join in Thailand but not situated where I want.  So I really dont know what to do when my brother departure. I have found a couple of nice appartments that claims to have internet so hopefully I can get a hold on one of those. The internet are probably a bit laggy so I´ll not play sngs here but rather focus to learn some cashgame.
Also a bit unsure how much cash to bring all suggestions appreciated, even tripadvices are welcome!

Ps of course my packlist will appear in my next entry no worry you don`t have to email me about it!

LOL

I found it a bit disturbing reading this... http://mashable.com/2011/09/07/iphone-5-sushi-photo/

Crayfish

Since my last update I have played a lot because the weather in Sweden is turning and the fall is creeping near. I had not earned a single vpp in august but on the 18th I started playing because I ended my vaccation.
I now have earned 100 000 vpps this month so thats good. Sitting on around 700 000 vpps right now and the goal is getting closer, I´ll keep on playing a bit longer hours so that i can earn 10 000 vpps a day and hopefully earn 200 000 vpps in semptember.

Other news I finally found a lazy chair and a desk that is controlled by a small control to adjust the height (from Ikea). Thats remind me of a thing that happend on a table couple of days ago, heads up in a sng I am called "Ikea puta" thought that it was pretty original...anyohow I ended up winning...
The last 100 000 vpps I earned sitting on the floor leaned against the wall! Finally I can start enjoying my sessions thanks to Ikea.

So haven´t you fished anything lately you might ask yourself...I haven´t used a rod but I have used crayfish cages to catch the elusive "kräfta". The catches have been good and we had a "kräftskiva" a while ago.

My flip flop

Short day

So tried to put an effort on the tables today. Managed to play for 6.8 hours and racked up 8806 vpps, +2500 dollars, played my session without breaks and broke a record with 508 sngs in a row. I have played more sngs in a day before but that was with breaks. So now I´ll treat myself with some True Blood! Happy hunting!

Out of EPT (crying and puking on the inside)

I am out of the tournament but managed to get in the money so that´s fun at least. When the bubble came creeping I slowed down a bit and my stack got below average. I had around 30 bb when the bubble bursted and our table brooke down. Found AK utg and made it 2.2 bb and utg+1 decides to go all in with QT, amagad  there have to be a better oportunity for him to push his remaining chips in the middle then against a raise from utg. I was happy until he got a straight...and I was left with around 10bb and got it all in with A6 vs QQ.

That was my trip to Tallinn, I am flying out on Sunday back to Sweden and hopefully nice weather.

Shark dodging

Managed to evad all sharks and in the process gain some more chips! My chipstack is around 140 000 and average is about 134 000 so thats nice. The last two hours of the day was brutal at least for me as I started to get tired, we can say I am not used to play live cause online I can grind forever and ever and ever...

Some interesting hands:
First hand of the day I got JJ and a german made it 2.5xbb and I just called from utg+1 cause I am a girl...
Small blind goes all in for around 15 000 and german folds and I call and get some easy chips vs AJ.

Another hand against another german/italiano he raises to around 2.5xbb from hj I reraise with QQ from bu he calls. Flop A x 9 he check I bet out he reraises I call (we had some history I reraised him the hand before and took it down and he didn´t like it I noticed) turn 8  he bets I call. River K I he bets I tank forever the pot is pretty big at this point don´t remeber the exact numbers but anyhow I end up folding, he shows T8 and I puke a little bit inside! And then he says "now the swede is pretty hot/tilted" I sobbed in secret...

Another hand again against the german/italiano (he was german but had a italian dad yadiyada) he raises from late position co calls I am in the bb with 97s and calls flop 9 8 2 german/italiano bets co folds I call, turn A I check he bets I call again river 7 woho! I check he bets I tanks thinking about raising but ends up being a girl again and just calls! He shows AJ and I sucked out on him and it felt sweet and bad, bad because on the turn I should have folded but I played the hand so weak with just checkcalling all the time so... He ends up commentating on the hand afterwards but hey If he hadn´t showed the bluff I probably wouldn´t have been so stubborn with the 97 also he was pretty active.

Hope I can run good on day 3 as well, there will probably be a lot of all ins but I think that I can handle that. At least it what I believe cause that is what I do all day ffs!

One time...

Survived

A quick update managed to survive to day 2 Woho! Landed on 54 000 average stack was around 37 000 I believe. So thats sweet hope I can run good tomorrow....

Today I have been sightseeing and looked at the marvelous "old town" in Tallinn. A lot of old houses and churches as expected. I ate at an old restaurant called "Hansa something bla bla" where I ordered in himalayan lamb and some strange starters. The inside of the restaurant was very cool it actually felt medieval.
I´ll write more detailed at a another time and upload some pictures, the internet is a bit dodgy.

One time....

Checked out of Gotland!

The visit at Visby got a bit off due to the bad weather but we managed to do the most of it. We stayed in the heart of Visby surrounded by the great ringmuren (a gigantic wall).

Mur

At evening when the mist from the sea came creeping in and the howlings from men lost at sea could be heared we opened up a couple of whisky bottles and cuddeled up in a corner.

Also managed to eat at a couple of great restaurants, the food was terrific but sometimes the service lacked a bit and it was hard to find tables. Didn´t visit Gutekällaren because apparently it is a huge huge touristtrap!! So by dodging it we visited a couple of nice and cosy pubs! Ernst would definitely have liked them.

Made a small roadtrip around the island to Hoburgsgubben which is a rock shaped like an old mans face, very cute indeed the view was also astonishing. Saw a couple of "raukar" I believe the iceage created them but who knows (they looked a bit cheap almost handmade out of concrete)...
I am afraid I didn´t geotag all the sites that I visited, so you cant follow me in my footsteps... But I know someone who did and hopefully a map of our trip will be realised.

Hoburgsgubben

On Sunday I shed a tear cause I had to cath a flight from Gotland to Stockholm to catch a boat over to Tallinn where I arrived today. I am here because of the Step 6 ticket that I managed to turn into a win.
Approximately 12 hours from now I will be sitting at a table in the main event buy in €4000 + 250 hopefully I can use my "One time"... Played a €300 turbo tourney a couple of hours ago but managed to bust! But that is ok cause now the luck is on my side.

I´ll report in later for further updates stay tuned!

Gotland?!

The ferry is just about to leave, feeling a little bit scared because every time I put my life in other peoples hand my pulse goes up a bit...also I have watched the last Pirates of Caribbean and the mermaids is scary but also sexy... A little bit of information about Gotland;
1) Visby is the capital
2) Pirates roamed the sea and still do...
3) Medievaldays occurs week 32

I will keep you updated!

Summer with Ernst!

Hi!

Amagad! Did anyone see "Sommar med Ernst" Thursday?
If you are not a citizen of Sweden you probably have no idea what I am talking about. Anyhow some info regarding the show, the show revolves around our "mysfarbror"=cosyuncle named Ernst. He is tall, tanned and really handsome. He prefer beeing barefoot, enjoying the swedish summer.

The show runs every summer and Ernst with pals "rustar" up a house. Using his magic hands to create a masterpice out of old cottages and house. But wait theres more he´s not only a man that works with wood, stone and iron. He also got a sensitive side and instead of using the hammer he can as easily use thread and needle. At the end of each show he also cooks! Various dishes that I suppose tastes like ambrosia. First week he created a beautiful tray out of some old planks he found lying around. Last week he created some astonishing metal trees out of concrete steel that he welted and bended into marvelous shapes. He proceeded to put ivy in on top of them. All that he creates fits perfectly to the surroundings and the bulding that he currently is working on. Anyhow if you havent tuned in to "Sommar med Ernst" do that! http://www.tv4play.se/hem_och_fritid/sommar_med_ernst

Gone fishing check!

Heading home writing from the car again, trying to kill a couple of hours. Just drove by Hudiksvall and guess what! They had snow in the beginning of July crazy! At least at the side of the road...
The fishing trip was good but no new records! (records hard to beat?)

Day 1 destination Indalsälven:
Weather fine, fishing ok.
Notable: Lil`Patrik caught two fairly good looking pikes weighing in at 5 kg each caught in a timespan of 10 minutes.
Remark: Lil´Patrik would have preferred one pike weighing in at 10kg...

Day 2 destination Lillsjön:
Weather sunny, fishing ok. Beer check.
Notable: Explored a bit to far on shallow and narrow waters.. No big fishes found...
Remark: My brother got a phonecall in the boat from Martin Stenmark, telling us that he had a show in Åre and had hooked us up with a hotel room. Sweet! So we had to ditch the fishing for a night in Åre and all that comes with that.

Lil´Patrik

Day 3 destination unknown
Weather alot of mosquitos
Notable: Me and my friend caught nothing but my brother caught 1 trout and 1 artic char.
Remark: Trespassing in a very small lake. Lil´Patrik had a soare throat and possible fever due to the lack of whiskey.

Day 4 destination Indalsälven:
Weather cold
Notable: Slow start but the fishing picked up after 00:00 when we found a really good bass spot
Remark: We caught a tripple, which means that every one gets a fish at the same time. Totally 89 fishes caught mostly large bass.

Look what I caught a PokerStars fish! Catch and release so I can earn some more dollars ;-)

Road Trip

Writing this post from the car we are cruising at 140 km/h (north of Sweden = no cops and why would there be any, there are hardly any people living here!)... The only important thing to know about this part of Sweden is that the natives only drink moonshine and drives snowmobiles. So why are we going there you might ask yourself?! Of course there is the moonshine on one side but the main purpose is the fishing. At the moment the roadrage is high mainly because of all the caravans clogging the highway. But we are cruising with style in my friends highly tuned Porsche! So at least the overtakings goes smoothly! WOho!

Porsche 965

At the moment we are looking for a good place to dine on and because my friend and I dont want fastfood it will be hard. We are looking for a place with some good swedish rårakor. When we have reached our destination we have traveled about 700 km a long trip but well worth it.

Sunny

The move is finally completed but the most important thing to setup is not yet completed, my office...
Haven´t invested in a desk or a proper computerchair, planning to go for a hunt tomorrow and see if I can hunt either of them down. I would like the desk to have the ability to move up and down with a button or similiar and I want the chair to possess the feature of tilting so that I sometimes can lay vertical.

Found a couple of cool and interesting desks and chairs and a pic of Van Damme:

Also thinking about purchasing some walls so I can build a cubicle similiar to the ones in Office Space. If I only could find a swingline everything would be perfect perhaps to the point where I could hear Milton mumble about squirrels. 

The weather in Sweden is great at the moment! The temperature is at the point where you are able to break a sweat without moving a limb haha... So I have to relocate to Högsjön so I can cool down in the lake.

On Friday I am planning to go to Östersund with a friend to see my brother. The trip will most likely consist of fishing, so I hope the weather continues to be good. I think that most of our fishing will be in Indalsälven where big pike is our goal eventough I find it more rewarding catching a big bass! My bassrecord is 1.4 kg measuring 54 cm. The only thing about swedish fishing versus other countries say USA, is that you often knows what you got when the fish strikes because there arent that many species in Sweden, so you learn theirs moves and tendencies. My friend phoned me a day or two and sounded anxious after talking to my brother, he proceeded to tell me that he had visited the local fishstore to buy heavy line and leader...because my brother apparently have catched some big ones and last year my friend lost a really and I mean really big one (his estimation) due to a bad leader. For the record biggest pike from that trip belongs to me...thithi around 8-9 kg don´t remember the exact weight as pike is no favourite of my but still.

Done!

One time!

I even stopped loading sngs to focus! AMAGAD!

Midsummer Eve

Hejsan!

I have once again acted carpenter to get my parent's summer cottage to be in the best condition before Midsummer Eve at the end off this week. The second part of the pier is finally finished, so now it´s soon time for sunbathing all summer long.

My home is in a total mess. I am about to move to a another apartment, where I finally get my own workspace! Have placed boxes from the floor to the ceiling, but at least I don´t have to carry them myself. I hired some company to fix the job. So meaningless to move all these furnitures when you can hire people for that instead. But I´m a little bit worried about the removal company, because I heard by repute that they wanted 1500 dollar to move from a one-room apartment to a two-room apartment! A bunch of money for no work at all.

By the way, I sorted out all the alcohol I had in the kitchen cabinet. This was my harvest.

To the weekend, as I mentioned before, it´s Midsummer Eve, and here in Sweden it´s a tradition to celebrate it every year. You gather a bunch of friends, get them to a sweet place hopefully by the sea or a lake,
boil some early potatoes and open some cans with herring, start with "snaps" and the celebration is started! If you really are in to the traditon you also should get yourself a garland of flowers to put in your hair, a maypole and sing "Små grodorna" while you're jumping around the maypole the alcohol procentage is usually pretty high! We usually just do the first part, and end it with some barbeque later. I hold my fingers crossed to get great weather, the last couple of years have been a pain in the ass, windy, rain and cold.

As icing of the cake I also got a cold, don´t know if it´s because I stood in cold water all morning to finished the work with the pier or if there´s someone else who has infected me!

Vpps

Hej!

I have increased my vpp pace the last couple of days. Because the weather in Sweden is getting better and better! And I want vacation! Of course Ill grind at least 50 000 vpps each month to retain my SNE..

My schedule looks something like this:

09:00 wakes up
09:30 first session starts
12:30 first session ends when i got 150 sngs under my belt
13:00 gym time for 2 hours
16:00 second session
20:00 If I am up for it a third session, a kingdom for Vpps!

Here and there I eat something and perhaps shoot some zombies!

Last couple of days:

6681 vpps         329 sng
5902 vpps         383 sng
5816 vpps         367 sng
5276 vpps         294 sng
9923 vpps         585 sng
10325 vpps         476 sng
8653 vpps         477 sng
5965 vpps         221 sng
7884 vpps         477 sng   

I have been trying a couple of times qualifying for the WSOP Main Event but havent managed yet ;(
Mainly through Stars steps, I currently got two step 6 tickets in dollars and one step 6 ticket in euros and a bunch in the $700 and $215 and the lower ones.

Amagad!

To all of my followers there have been some problem with blogger to send messages to followers.
So to get your invitation just send me an email at sngnerdacademy@hotmail.se. with your alias and I´ll reply and you are in the grid.

Important Recipe!

Ingredients:
1 part Kahlua
1 part Cointreau
1 part Dooleys/Baileys
1 part Vodka
4 parts Pucko (chocolate milk)

Tastes like Romerska bågar, chocolate orange flavour.
I guarantee you´ll be hammerd, taste sweet but stings like bee!
Almost forgot, alot of ICE! or like Kajan would have put it
- IS FÖR I HELVETE!

Magnificent

Howdy ho!

Some updates for the interested, fallen a bit behind SNE pace but nothing that I cant handle. One of the main reasons is because the summer has started to arrive here in Sweden, after being "forced" to stay inside cause of the cold. I am now able to set my foot outside the door without dropping dead. Sweet!

Beside the sun, that has received most of my attention, I also had to contribute my magnificent body to manual labor (for all of you out there craving a pic of  my body, send me a dollar on Stars and I can make it happen!). I have crafted a pier and a flight of stairs to my parents' summer cottage. Though I can´t take all credit because I just helped my uncle. But still a poker player who can work manually without collapsing from exhaustion is a rare commodity. 

The last few days I have been doing some reasearch on New Zealand, Australia and Thailand because I cant stand another swedish winter. I dont know at the moment which country I will go for, because they all got their own charm.

Also watched Jerry Seinfeld tonight as he performed in Stockholm, all in all it was a great show!

SCOOPING

Woho managed to get 5th place in the SCOOP- 26-M: $109 NL Holdem $150K guaranteed for $18466 and 64th in the SCOOP- 26-H: $1050 NL Holdem $300K guaranteed for $2288 so in all a very good payday. When we were 5 handed I was in the big blind and the small blind shoved T6 or T4 and I called with A9 but he got a straight. That hand was a bit frustrating cause the prices increase so much at the end.

Sightseeing

Last night was spent on Las Ventas, Spain national bullfightarena. Three matadors and six bulls would meet their faith. The arena was grand and very beuatiful itself, but I didn´t like the bullfighting.
No sportmanship at all, the bulls were very confused, stressed out and most likely starved and injuried from the moment it all started. The bull stood no chance. Nothing I would do again, the arena itself was the good part.

Today I bought a ticket for Madrids jump on and off tourist buses. Madrids buildings are very beautiful and big. Almost every building that I saw had some kind of decoration in form of sculptures. Only thing that is negative is all the traffic, alot and I mean alot of cars driving right and left.
I also got D-vitamins from the sun while on the busroof.
Last stop of the day would be Palacio Real but as I got there it was closed! Oh well strolled in the city looking for a good place to eat and got the tip of Botin apparently the worlds oldest restaurant. But upon arrival it was also close but have made a reservation for tonight. Botins suckling pig is supposed to be something special so pig it is.

Deed of the day was when I gave away some food to a couple of beggars, I had bought some dishes of tapas in a covered market and as I walking out a man approached me and wanted money but I thought that food is better to give away. The other man was sitting at the busstop and looked very sad so he got the other dish that contained escallop

So so sad and lonely

I have been crying allday long, got knocked out of the main event after I pushed Q7 in bigblinds A9.
Had around 15 000 and the blinds was 800-1600 with 200 ante so I couldn´t resist pushing.
One thing that was fun is that I had Azntracker and MartynasD at my table and I didn´t even talk to them haha...I wanted to keep a low profile and later exchange a few words with them but I got knocked out.
I don´t know at the moment which more tournaments I will play here in Madrid, I need to take a look at the schedule.

Calamares de huerta

Just arrived at the hotel after eating tapas at Estay, the food was very tasty but the service was a bit slow.
The last tapas dish that I ordered was called Calamares de huerta and I thought that it would be some good squid, but no I got fried sweet pepper instead! Oh well that´s part of the fun ordering when all the menus are in spanish.

Second report: Survived day one

Hello!

After 11 h and 20 min of play day 1A stopped, out of 302 participants 132 is still left.
I got 24 000 in chips but the bb is 1000 with 100 in antes, so tomorrow I´ll need to push a lot.
After the dinnerbreak I had about 60 000 but managed to lose a couple of hands down to 30 000 and have hovered around there the last hours of day 1A. Funny hand, managed to get it all in with AA against another guys AA...yeah. Day 2 is going to start in about 13 h and I am still nervous even though I have played and survived.

PokerStars giftbag

First report: EPT FINAL

Couldn't find any nuts in the minibar?!
WTF Stars, better hotel untill next time!

Painball

Hej!

The weekend that was, I spent in an abandoned fortifications, in a mountain where I and our "gentlemen's club", played paintball. It was the first time I played on this particular place and it was little bit different from other courses that we have visited. One thing that always happen when playing paintball is that the mask is "fogging", again and again and again and again! So fucking sick of it! And in combination with that, the track was so ill-lit so you couldn't see more than five meters! Oh well! One of the rounds played, one person  in each team got a yellow reflective vest and was the VIP, and their mission was to escape the premises! Because I am a ninja from birth I managed to dodge and evade my opponents simply evaporate and flee to safe grounds! Skill game!

Before the paintball I was told by a friend, who plays on Full Tilt, about FBI's "crackdown" on Pokerstars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker. I immediately began to withdraw money, but apparently Pokerstars has relocated and it's open to European players and will continue as usual. Of course this will affect the number of games played, but alot of the regulars is americans and they are now excluded from playing so thats good.

Started to play some mtts during my regular games and managed to finaltable and get in third place twice! WOho! I seldom play mtts but if I am going to Madrid and the EPT Final I better practise, as I am a pushbot and a rb whore.

Tips on similiar movies as Ninja Assassin  much appreciated!

Long time

Hejsan!
Its been a long time since my last update. Besides poker, Left 4 Dead 2 has been taken up alot of my time lol...
I also got a visit from my brother and his kids, they stayed for a week. We managed to finish Resident Evil 5 in coop mode, a bit tricky to aim with the Ps3 controller as I prefer mouse and keyboard but it was still a lot of fun.
Watching a lot of movies was also on the agenda, so a nice week in perspective.
This last week have been a hell, been in bed with 40 degrees fever so it sucks and because my Addison disease I have to increase my medication so I dont die.Oh well starting to feel a bit better.
A bit boring to get sick as I have been training 4 days a week the last 3 months, but I´ll try to see my hiautus from the gym as something positve. Hopefully I am stronger when I get back.

Used my last SNE package to book a seat to Madrid and the EPT Final, looking forward to Spain and their tapas that I love. I was aiming to get 2 million vpps but I am behind and I am planning to take two months holiday in Summer. So hitting the 1 million mark will be fine for me.
I have also started to play on a European site and on Svenska Spel (only swedes). It is very fun to play against other swedes.

Would like to start playing some more 9 mans but I am in need of a coach for that. Help needed!

Back from the dead

I have played alot of cashgame the last month and I am still in the red sigh! So I have decided to start play SNGs 80% of the time and cashgame 20% and not the opposite as I have done. I need to earn some more dollars, although Stars $4000 bonuses are sweet and cover the losses. Sad thing is that the pace you earn VPPs in cashgame compared to my usually grind of 18 man is big. I dont want to play 18 mans all year long as I did last year, managed to play around 70 000 SNGs last year! So if I want to avoid going crazy, I must learn 9 man better (in need of a 9 man hero that can coach me!)

Anyhow played 200 18 mans today in my "comeback" and stayed away from cash. Focused on my game and also checked for new "regs" I colournoted a few that I had not seen before.
Managed to escape with 2390 dollars but only 3796 VPPs, I´ll probably be forced to pay the dollars back in tomorrow´s games as variance is a bitch.

Sweet

Played the last few days without looking at the result and it feels very nice.
Almost like the image below ...

I will continue the week like this. At the moment the day starts with cash game and ends with SNGs. The sad thing is that I'm losing in cash game. So even before my SNG session start I´m in the red. 
However, I am unaware of the result this week...it will be exciting to take a look in the cashier on Monday.

Skill game?

Only managed to earn 62 000 VPP in January. But the PCA and the cruise was a pleasant and well-deserved vacation. I have played a lot in February and has so far recorded 94 000 VPP. Have not played as many SNGs as I usually do, I am trying to get into cash games. At the moment, it´s not going the way I want but practice makes perfect. I've played around 80 9 Mans buyin $ 215-1000 have been trying to tableselect. I have played 5 $ 1,100 dollars 9 man, the result was two first places, a third place, a bubble ... and an eighth place. My attempt at these have been very successful!  The $550 9 man have not treated me as good...

But I earn VPPs so I'm happy anyway. Would like to  try these stakes for a week but the swings would probably kill me ....
I do not possess the same skills that Azntracker got. So before I attempt a try I´ll continue to tableselect.

VPP count: 156 586
February: 94 442
January: 62 144

Hmm....Caribbean design?

By the way, forgot to mention. To the left is the t-.shirt I got from Pokerstars to use in the mainevent, and the one to the right I found in a shop in Roatán, Honduras on the cruise. Same designer or what?

Home again

Arrived yesterday after traveling and staying awake for about 28 h, again sigh! Even though I can stay awake long hours to grind, it's awful beeing up so long and travel.

Before I left on the 6th of January I played a lot and managed to earn about 26 000 VPPs, so I only have 24 000 VPPs to earn until the month is done. You have to earn 50 000 VPPs every month except one to maintain your Supernova Elite-status, and I didn´t want to use my free month in January. Because here in Sweden is it cold and snowy. I rather use it i July when the weather is great here and don't want to sit by the computer when the sun is shining.

As I mentioned earlier I played some SNG's at PCA after I had busted out of the main event. I think I played around 10-15 SNG's, mostly $220-$640, and managed to escape with around $3 000 in winnings. A $3250 SNG went off when I was in the pokerroom, but I was too much of a nit to play it. The payouts were $25 000 and $6 000. Moneymaker took the last seat. I probably should had gambled and played the SNG but I didn´t recognize any of the other players. Next time I'll give it a shot!

Pieces of eight

After the Bahamas I went back to Miami and took a cruise with NCL in the Caribbean sea. The ship made stops at Roatán, (an island of Honduras), Belize City, Costa Maya in Mexico and finally Key West. The places were great and I have now seen a little bit more of the world. The cruiseship was really nice with lots of stuff to do on the ship and many restaurants. Some of the restaurants were for free, and other you just payed for a cover charge around $10-$25. Best restaurant was with the french cuisine who served escargots!

Guybrush

It´s comfortably to travel by a cruise ship, you have everything of a lenght of ten steps away, the gym, the spa, the sundeck, the lounge, the casino etc. The tours arrenged by NCL was also ok. A little bit crowded some times, but overall ok. We went snorkling in Honduras, Cave-tubing and jungeltrack in Belize, visit old ancient Maya ruins in Costa Maya and finally went to see museums in Key West that told about the shipwrecking that went on in Key West. I bought some "pieces of eight" with me from the Mel Fisher musuem, I really like my "pieces of eights" like Guybrush Threepwood, mighty pirate!

Sit & Go time

Sit & Go sign up

The alarm clock is set to 10 every day,  I then go down to the sea to swim and sunbathe. Here we enjoy our breakfast that consist of wraps, burgers and other delicacies. Not healthy but tasty. After the beach I´ll go up to the room for a shower and change clothes to go out to eat. After dinner I proceed to the poker room, where I sign up for various SNG buyin range $ 220-640. I really should play the $ 1000's because the resistance is relatively weak, they can´t push fold strategy. But I am afraid that the variance would not be on my side if I decided to play them. In addition, I only have time to play 3-4 SNG per night.

PCA 2011

Purchase: $ 10,300 Number of participants: 1560

Photos taken by Rankin of famous pokerplayers

As an SNE you can choose two live events around the world. I chosed this tournament, for obvious reasons: that the purchase was one of the major and the sun and sea is available, who can say no to that, when it's -20 C degrees and full of snow in Sweden. At the registration desk for Pokerstars I obtained as follows: SNE card (this would be my new identity, was I told by the girl at the counter), 2 cards for massage, and a nifty "PCA 2011" t-shirt. Also got some general information from PCA Staff and went on to the registration desk for various tournaments to get my game ticket. I was placed at table 26 seat 3. A player at the table was Jarad Jaffer who was sitting directly to my left. He managed to get all in with AA vs. KK twice with 70 BB's deep stack. The last was against Greg Raymer. For me, it was exactly the opposite in the tournament. Got no cards worth mentioning, but managed to stay afloat by various steals. I was knocked out after 11 h and 20 minutes of play, including breaks, 77 vs QQ, about 40 minutes before day 1b would be closed, so it was rough. I only had 17 BB left, so it was a easy decision.