Happy New Year Everyone

I know! I know! I know!

I’m a bit Ashamed for not been updating my Blog in such long time but i promise i’m gonna do better 2009!

This is the first of many more to come!

Been playing poker of course most every day lately!

Found myself loving it here in England after been here for over 2 months now! Being spoiled rotten!

My heart is right here where i am right now and Oboy what a nice feeling that is! How many can these days truly say their heart and love is exactly where they want it to be! I’m just so happy I had the guts to take the step and travel over here to meet the guy i really and truly love! Even thou the trips took between 20 and 44.5 hours, it soo was worth every second of it!!

Well until next time have a nice time and be safe, remember to have fun!!

Who am I

OK after been running this blog for almost a year now i thought it’s time to reveal a little bit about who i am!

1) Swedish, female

2) Love racing, have my own 6-gear 100 cc gocart and have been racing cars. (speed-junkie he** yeah)

3) Collector of something called micromachines. Have my own little town in my livingroom with houses, cars and a spaceport with spaceships added to it. (Aaaawww toys!!!)

4) The only one who have been allowed into, then escorted back and deported from a european country all in the timeframe of 30-45 minutes. (Hummm, forgot the greencard-insurance on the car back home nicely on the kitchentable and loudly refusing to buy a new one at the border, so forgetful yep that’s me)

5) started playing poker early, some 35 years ago now. Uhmmm knuckle-poker anyone? It’s either 5 card draw or 5 card stud but with high/low where the high gets to punish the low, a red card gets you a burn on the lower arm and black card hit you on your knuckles, all done with the deck. (Painful poker, you have to improve so you don’t have to go around bruised and burned)

6) Hate to sleep (would love if that habit could be gotten rid of)

7) Been hosed with cold water by the working ladies of the night in a european big city when checking where my company went. ( the bouncer dragged my male companions into a uhm uhm “bar” Of course i go check they are ok. Well what a compliment to me if they thought i was competition and nooo i wasn’t dressed for the occasion exactly)

8 ) After driving for some 12 hours, pulled over to get me some sleep just to be awaken a couple of hours later by some angry germans for totally blocking the service-entrance to the restaurant so they couldn’t open it in time. (I come from the land where the sun never sets during summer and in germany it’s pitch-black! Didn’t see the door, sorry! But on the other hand i really believe i was in a totally different land/city ….. Argh missed my ordinary ferry to west-geramany and uuuhm got on another one and landed where i wasn’t supposed too uhuh in east-germany)

9) Got my identity mixed up with an 18-MONTH old male-baby when trying to get back from yet another european country. (Hard to explain to the borderpatrol, of course they tried to say they didn’t do anything wrong at the travelagency but still to be accused of being 18-months when 30-years is a bit too far out even for a female who doesn’t wanna get older. 18 years hmmmmm maybe but months naaaah)

Well that’s a bit about me and more to come later

On with the Poker

Wooohooo getting my poker-mojo back bit by bit.. And tonight i had more luck than i have had the past whole year. Yeah i can admit to that but i changed some small things in my gamingstrategy tonight. Added more aggression to the game and it paid off for me! Before the game i swore i was gonna get paid tonight and i be damned if i bubbled yet another time. Was the chipleader most of the time and got me some very lucky hands there.

One stood out quite a deal and that was my rockets against pp jacks. On the flop i kind of watched my tournament fly out through the window when q j q hitted. But i rivered this time when k ace came up. Still i did the right move wether i won or not, pushing the rockets hard. Well my luck kind of held up through the whole tournament until headsup and i got me a second place.

Congrats to Paulie who won. You earned it even if you too got some very good hands there at the end and I didn’t!

Next time i’ll get you!

For me I’ve had 2 days now with pure fun poker, challenges at it’s best and i thank you all for it!

up against lowstacks and other stuff

Svcmgr has in his blog posted a topic that i do find important! I do believe it’s important to play to win and not to loose, there is a big difference between those two styles of strategy. It is also important to try and take out the lowstacks at the table as soon as possible with any 2 cards but there’s one aspect that’s not mentioned anywhere and you all recognice it, you all been there! It’s when you feel in all of your essence from the hairroots down to the toenails how wrong that hand feels, no matter what it is! You simply know that the hand will bust!

Even after long thoughtful consideration no matter if it is the rockets, any 2 cards, how good the potodds or any other odds are or how high stack you’ve got, you just know deep inside this hand will bust!

In that case i will fold my hand! And don’t come here and say the potodds or your obligation as highstacked dictates that you should call in order to get them out, yes you should i agree but if it feels utterly wrong then fold! Next any 2 cards could feel the other way!

Everyone that knows me know that i never ever have preached the-follow-your-gutfeelingstrategy and that i everytime anyone bust me nags about how stupid i think they played (only if i’m busted with a lesser hand than i had, i’m not a poor looser) but still the gutfeeling are a force wich cannot be ignored so wherever you see or however you look at it it’s gonna be there for people (me) to get upset by!

How I’m doing in poker?

Well during November i did really good, played the 6-seater $10 sitngoes and often with the result, played 3 – won 2 and made 1 second!

But now? I have had a very long streak of bad luck when i have been carddead the whole december and up until this day. It changes slowly to the better but i can say this with honesty if i get quads first hand i just know i’m gonna bust within an hour and a half! Had it 2 games in a row and was in both games totally carddead almost for 2 hours into the game, didn’t even play my bbs due to getting raised and sitting with q 2, k 3 or 7 2 off. That was the cards i got! And so has it been for more than a month. Looking at the stats shows that i looked at 7% of the flops for 2 hours and won 1% of them. Hmmmm! The stats speaks for itself here. And when i finally got a hand like pp jacks or queens i get busted against ace 5 off and a two pair!

Getting concerned and considering now that i might have fallen back into some of the bad habits i used to have playing? (That would mean that i haven’t made any progress or learned anything past year, can it really be so?) Either if it is not having fun and playing routinely or if the bad streaks makes me play overly tight? But looking at the cards i folded and what came up on the board dictates that i folded correctly and would have been busted more quickly if i played them. So overly tight it can’t be! For the not-having-that-fun playing? Well it isn’t fun loosing or bubble out constantly over a long period of time so can’t argue with that!

Well the christmas week was the first time since late november i actually did see progress when i came in second in a sitngo! I bubbled out in the ofc-buyin but i played better, got better cards and had more fun than i had for a long time! Was in skype taunting Pinkdog when i had more chips than he had and he taunted me about how he was right behind me, coming to get my chips. For a long time there i managed to keep ahead of him until i got pp qs in my sb and i raised the bb (who was way chipleader over me) He reraised and i believed he was trying to steal so i went allin just to find myself up against his rockets, they held and out i went on my ass! That was a very nice hand and win for him!

Read a question on the topic how to overcome bad-beats and bad streaks and the answer is: Practice, practice, practice and patience, patience, patience! Play one game per day for practice of playing/reading people and no-more. The no-more is the practice of learning patience! Know that everyone have these moments (some for short periods and others longer periods of time) but everyone experiences them, everyone feels the unfairness of being outdrawn hand after hand!

As a friend of mine tells me everytime i bitch about my bad luck (and this brings me back to the reality every time i hear it)

-Well you can’t in reality expect to win them all!

(boy do i feel stupid when i’m getting told that!)

But i still have to struggle and fight! Nothing comes easy in this game and it shouldn’t either!

Play smart, fair and have lots of fun!

Big Hugs

I Just want to

wish you all a very happy, prosperous New Year!!!

netsson’s making a statement

I’ve been a loyal member and immensely proud of representing PCS forum, you all know that! I deeply believe that as a forum with all the strength represented by the ppl there we can beat any other forum out there but my concern has been misread.

I as I stated in my blog never had anything against the new rules, i can understand them and as I further stated haven’t got the answer to run a forum, no complaints there either. My concern were all this couldn’t-care-less-mentality that seems to run deeply among everyone. The no-debate nor no-answer on how’s and whys, the lack of interest as it looks when playing to improve and learn. The lack of desire to go out there and promote the forum’s motto as you have stated there “The best place to be, learn and improve”! And if the mentality is just that, how do we mantle the will to promote the forum in the games and win? That is my major concern and that’s exactly the debate i wanted to start!

I also stated that i had no desire to take side thus i didn’t have all the facts nor the desire to get all the facts, that is not my business and that i stand by. BUT as long as a person hasn’t wronged me I still talk to that person, as i said i have no desire to get in the middle between 2 ppl that have different opinions. You guys all are dear friends of mine as long as you show me respect as a person and i won’t stand it to be forced to choose side.

Now i feel that it’s exactly what is forced upon me by a pm I got!

Cannot emphasize this enough Please observe that I’m not saying either party done right nor wrong here not my business just this whole thing has gotten out of proportion!

It’s a shame that it have come down to this fight over principles of who said that and who did what! The real issue got lost and unfortunately ppl get caught in middle (now i feel it’s me), the real issue about how to get the heart and soul back into the game, how to get the members to rise to the occasion and fight for the forum, how to help to get self help to improve the game, to be at our best so we can show everyone else we’re a force to be reckon with here! I don’t wanna be a part of this game of principles! I just wanna be the best i can! I refuse to take side and to choose whom I’m allowed to speak to and those who tries to force that kind of decision upon me, well i don’t feel are as open minded nor a friend who cares about me! I’m sorry but that’s how i feel. Nothing personal nor how the forum’s run.

You got to be able to have a debate, discussion, embrace different opinions, to criticize and take critique to rise with the task otherwise it’s just a bunch of people hanging out but that seems to have been forgotten in the heat here! Hell yeah i feel immensely sad about the request of removing the link to my blog even thou stated it’s nothing personal. The “request” is undoubtedly a request to either remove my blog link in the forum and choose a certain side or remove the link in my blog to choose the other side or where will it end?

I WILL NOT CHOOSE OTHER SIDE BUT MY OWN!

I just wanna play poker at my best and improve to be even better!

So I’m putting my membership on ice now, taking time out at least until the new year and maybe, maybe i just stick to playing the 2 games per month if or when this whole matter blows over and the objective again is to become the better, more skilled poker player? I still have wonderful friends in the forum and I still feel i wanna be proud of the forum i started to care so much for.

If someone feel I wronged them then I apologize not my intention here and if you feel i shouldn’t come back well then thanks for a wonderful time and the friendship!

I will play the OFC for PCS both games but after that? Well hell i don’t know anymore i just feel such deep sorrow over the whole thing! I need to think of what I want!

commenting forum transformation

OK I wasn’t gonna respond to the debate regarding the forums transformation but there are a few pointers that i think hasn’t been said in this matter. I can understand the feeling of not be able to speak your mind in a forum-post! Sometimes there is this feeling of running through a minefield when posting something that resemble a complaint, it’s not easy to satisfy everyone but to hear I couldn’t care less if ppl stay or not, well that really doesn’t make ppl feel welcome to stay nor join or push for the forum!

A forum where all sides cannot be heard is not a forum, there has to be a multiple-way-communication to be a forum where everyone has the right to speak their mind. But i’m not gonna judge in specific situations due to not been present at times and not having all facts in my hand. I’m not saying this side’s right or this side’s wrong. The terms i could easily stand up for since i’m already playing the 2 games per month that’s not the issue ppl! It’s when ppl feel obligated to enter a game i.e just to boost the numbers so it get pointscoring you never get ppl who really wanna play at their best. hence you don’t see skills improving either and you will not see the boost in numbers of new members improving and winning for the forum. This forum have exceptional good quality-players who should beat any other forums anytime but we’re lacking the desire to do so! That’s the issue that should be solved!

What i’m more thinking and turning against is when you get the same 15 ppl playing it inevitable ends up with routine and no chance of improving your gameskill. It doesn’t matter if the buyin is free or up to $50. You still get your monsterhand sucked out after raising preflop 5-8Xbb by ace-rag or any facecard-rag. That is what happens playing daily same ppl who say either “that’s poker” or “I only play with friends for fun” NEWS-FLASH that’s not poker and definately not a fun game with friends, it’s a crappy-job! Those who really wanna improve, working on improving their skills with odds and strategies are getting sucked out by ppl who just enters a friendly game who think their any facecard-rag is a purrrrdy hand! We loose interest to play these games and if these complaints gets unheard or you can’t speak them outloud cause of hurt feelings or terms like “relax it’s a game with friends!!!” then i find something else to do, don’t wanna throw my money away even if it is to friends.

Still as i said I know it isn’t easy to run clubs or forum and satisfy everyone and i’m not the possessor of all the answers on how to! But how do you expect the members to feel the desire to fight for the forum if you lost it yourself?

I’m reconsidering a fullstop of playing poker from new year and find something else to occupy my free time because i just wish for a game where luck takes the backseat and skill is what determines the game and that is nothing i can see in near future. To me the forum lost it’s objective and transformed to well more of a kindergarden where ppl hang out and i lost my interest in the process! That was not what i signed up for!

I play the ofc and i will do my very best to win as much as i can but frankly i couldn’t care less anymore about the money the forum might get. I’m taking time-out!

Long overdue

OK Gofer you’re right! I know i’ve been abscent and that a post here is long overdue so here goes…..

How have i’ve been you ask? Well i’ve moved to my new apartment and it’s soooo sweet to have all this big space around me here. A big kitchen to cook in and many new dishes have been created there.. Love to cook so there i’m in heaven!

Poker you ask? Well i’ve been playing a lot at Ultimate Bet lately with someone very very dear to me from whom i’ve been learning a lot. Been given some real valuable advices on what to improve and i’m really grateful for that.

honey! I owe you big time……Tons of kisses and hugs!!!

LOVE YOU dearly!

 

Continuing on the topic about omaha Hi/lo pl

A very easy way to understand how to play this game is to picture you playing nlholdem with 4 cards but with an extra escape-door (your high hand bust you can go for the low)You get your four cards and the thing you begin with is to count how many playable hands you can get from it. Nothing less than 3-4 hands toss the hand in the dumpster, no idea to get involved. and by 3 hands i mean i.e ace, 2 spades and ace, king of diamonds. There you can count ace, 2 suited for a flush or low straight! ace , king suited for another flush or High straight! ace, ace paired and some. there you have at least 3 playable hands.

ace, 5, 9 10 rainbow next example? well i would count that as 1 plausible but not even a good hand and would toss it.

7, 8, 9, 10 is a tricky hand even suited…. you could hit a straight but pray that i would be a 10 high and that there’s no 10 on the table for anyone else to get a jack high. I would toss it. Calculating with 7, 8, 9, 10 high flushes is just throwing your chips away! (Have heard wining about why a guy’s 7 high flush didn’t held and that he was badly beat)

You have counted how many playable hands you’ve got and descide to play? OK now what?

You’ve of course marked the opponents how they play and what! You can bet that at least 99% of the others will chase the low hand 99% of the time.. Bad move and a big don’t! You risk to be splitting the 50% in worst scenario 4 ways and best scenario you get the whole 50%, Hence go only for the high pot and be selective! Look at the low hand as the icing on the cake, some bonuse you can get with the high hand and watch how the others rage when you scoop 75% of the pot

My absolute best recommendation is to fold as much as possible your way down to 4 ppl left (9 ppl sitngo). That stratey have taken me to many winnings! I mean preflop-raises with 9 ppl who cheaply calls your hand is just bad play and can so easily bust in omaha h/l. It just eats your stack until you’re bound to monkeyplay and hope to get lucky. Choose your battles in this game. And when left with 4 players and just one or 2 in every hand is where you can pull the trigger with preflopraises as the ppl then tend to tighten up closer to payout. But carefully study the opponents is the key here…

Omaha h/l is a very fun and challenging game when you do choose your battles and study the others carefully it do gets more understandable

Oooooh and Scvmgr there was a woman last standing

 

neener neener neener……

 

in both the leaguegame AND the sitngo!

 

More sidebet-wagers…Come on i’m ready!

omaha hi/lo

Last night i decided to play a $5 omaha pl h/l tournament, 113 registered and the game began. First 2 hours I did real swell. In fact real super, i’m so proud of myself. Was chipleader for a long time and when we made the money 18 ppl paid i was swinging between top 5 all the time. I really disciplined myself to get to finaltable and made it. Then all of a sudden i lost control! lost a big hand and when i say big hand i mean it. It cripled me from number 1 spot to last spot at 8 and 2000 chips left. I lost over 42000 chips in one hand……. boooohooooo. I took timeout and nagged, bitched, argued and spitted at myself out smoking and went back ever so focused again. managed from my position to gain control over the table again and after some 30 min i was chipleader again. We were down to 4 ppl playing when it happened again, i snapped out of control and out on my head i went as number 4. i wasn’t very proud of myself regarding how i played these 2 last hands. Me who swore to never ever chase lo with ace 2 or wager my whole stack on trip aces to win but that is what i did three times this tournament geeeeeeee how stupid i felt and still feels, the some $45 i won feels bittersweet when i could have done so much better if i had stucked with the strategy. And of course i’m proud of making the finaltable, the money and my game, it’s those 3 hands i’m bugged about.

Now to a different thing… Ok answer this thing… why chase a lo hand when there’s a high probability you have to split it 2, 3 or 4 ways? hmmmm? Let’s say i have the optimal high and lo hand and raising you? Stop! Think! You really here risk loosing 3/4 of what you bet or call! When i play omaha h/l i only play hands that bring me either the hi or both hi/lo never only the lo because it’s not worth the risk of splitting it with the hi hand and some more players! Except in above described cases and yes i’m blushing now and bowing my head in shame.….

A wise person once told me to never play an omaha hand that gives you less than a high flush cause 2pairs, trips or even a straight are in danger of being beat by higher hand like (higher)flush or boat. (I actually overheard one guy who was soooo ticked off by the fact that a 7-high flush wasn’t good enough to win at vegas. He was sure that the site were corrupt and after him for not winning with that hand, geeee how stupid can a person be?) So betting hard in potlimit on 2 pairs is a no-good thing to do! So what is a good startinghand in omaha h/l? Well it’s like playing nlholdem with 4 hands at the same time! My favourite hand is among others ace 8 suited and k 9 suited or ace 3 suited and k 2 suited. there you have a hand with good odds! You can get flush in 2 suits and you can get high or lo straight or 2pairs, trips and boat, so the probability of this hand is very high. but i would not play this hand if i didn’t have the probability to win the high hand!

You got to at least have three probably winning hands of your four hands to even get involved in the pot
i mean i have seen people chasing with 2 4 6 8 rainbow and asked quietly to myself if they really would have chased with either of those hands in nlholdem? 2 4 off? 2 6 off? 2 8 off? 4 8 off? 4 6 off? or 6 8 off? chasing? Complete waste of chips wich gives no right to complain about bad beats

In rating the best startinghand is Ace Ace 2 3 in two suits!

Another thing about omaha h/l as in every other pokergame you have to thin out the number of players to increase your chances of winning the pot, i mean why get involved in hands with 8 other players

To be continued

hugs and have fun when you play otherwise get out and do something else

Sort of back

Sorry i haven’t been writing much lately but i have been so sick of poker i couldn’t care less about it. Now i’m sort of back again and gonna talk a little about bad beats.. Slowly i started to enjoy playing again.

I hear a lot about bad beats. People get knocked out of a tournament and starts nagging about how badly they got beaten by monkeys, chasers or whatever that had won! I did so too but started to examine my stats, hand history and what have happened in the game and discovered that i had none else but myself to blame for the “bad beat”. First why had that person gotten into the hand in the first place that had beaten my i.e. pocket kings? Ok did i raise it enough to send out the signal i had a hand, what position and stacksize did the person have? Nope i didn’t, i raised it but not enough and sometimes the person that called had enough chips that it didn’t matter much if he/she lost it! Before you start shouting bad beat and monkeys, try to analyze a little how you played them hands yourself! OK there is some of you who played accordingly by the books and still got beaten by someone who had nothing to do in the hand from the start but “gutfeeling” so no need for being offended by what i write here. But truthfully now how many times did you get badly beaten and how many times didn’t you read the table or your opponents right?

Truthfully? i have been badly beaten about 2-5% of the times i got knocked out and the rest of the times i have misread the table, my opponents or just got stuck with what i have had in my hand not reading the others at all, blind for what’s going on at the table so to speak. That happens a lot guys, you just have to acknowledge that to yourself otherwise your gameskills will never ever grow or be better…. I can truthfully confess to that after been thinking hard about what went wrong with my games. And those times i’ve got a bad beat i have really gotten myself far in the game close to or in the money after fighting for a long time so i have been satisfied with my strategy and how i played it anyway and the bad beat have not gotten to me! Now i have tripled my bankroll just by doing so, analyzing my games, how’s and why’s. Playing less games and winning more.

One of the reasons for me bringing this up now was what happened the other night at a sitngo i played were one guy really acted out at the table in a way i never accept. His 2-pair got beat by a full house and he could not believe this and started abuse the guy who won, he was a monkey, a donk and a lot of other things! If you can’t handle loosing then get out of the game, you will either loose more to people who will take advantage of these situations or you will breakdown! This winning guy was in the hand just by his sb, it didn’t cost him more than 25 cips to call. He had the stack to call the bet on the turn without cripple his stack much and the allin at the river he already knew he had the winning hand so there were nothing to complain about that strategy. I would have played it exactly that way and i bet so would the complaining guy too if he just would have stopped, thought about it and so would probably everyone else. To bet your whole stack on 2-pair winning in omaha hi/lo is a risky stupid move when there’s a potential trips or higher on the table so why complain when it fails

People are so very quick to shout bad beat as soon as they get knocked out!

Well for now good luck in your games and don’t forget to enjoy and have fun playing the games

Hugs

Pokerfatigue

Recently i hit the wall!

The famous what’s-the-use-and-why-do-i-do-this-wall! I ended up registerring for tournaments and the fun was gone, just wanted to get out as soon as possible. But in my mind i thought oboy another 3 or 4 dollars spent i just have to get them back so the style were more get the money quickly than fun and that’s the worst possible strategy you can have when in onlinepoker tournaments!

So at the momenti have only played 3 tournaments in one week, 2 freerolls where i ended up as 13th and 35th of aprox 400 and one sitngo where i actually ended up secon! in these 3 games i did made money about $15 but lately i actually lost more than $25 in total and that’s not good at all!

I had to stop playing and now i have taken timeout for oooh i don’t know how long, i will play some freerolls this weekend and maybe one or two sitngoes over next 2 weeks but that’s it!

I have to find the joy ofthe game again! Otherwise i rather just throw away the money on the competition instead! Well it’s the same and i don’t wanna do that!