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!!

Some pokerfree days

I’m taking some pokerfree days now.  I have to move up north because of my new job requires this! Unfortunately it also keeps me from writing in my blog. But i’ll be back soon again

So until then buh-bye and play great poker!

Been away for a week

OK i’ve been away for over a week in business. Had to travel to the other end of Sweden Gothenburg and work with a colleague! And Man how i love to fly! When the plane made it’s takeoff i laughed all the way up in the air! The flight back where even more fun due to the winds, it felt like the best rollercoaster in the world and the plane came down almost with a broadside and with one wing tilting downwards a bit! The pilot had to struggle real hard with the upwinds and i really felt alive! I’m a adrenaline-junky getting high from all things that can accelerate like cars, planes and some rollercoasters! Been racing gocarts and cars for some years now.

All the landing i was thinking oboy what can top this and came to the conclusion i got to buy me a dragster and drive it so now to my question how to pay for it! It is cheaper than buying a 747 and employing a flight-crew, be a regular on flights just for fun or buy a ticket on next spaceshuttle but still to expensive for me at the moment and my own gocart well wonder if it’s enough

Oboy how spoiled I feel having such a problem… well i’s not a problem but that flight were the most exciting thing i ever experienced

On to poker!

Yesterday evening I really tried to build up my patience in the first tournament a $2.50 limit holdem with 130 registered i went out as number 27 but after that flight i felt kind of bored with poker so after another $2.50 buyin sitngo wich i kind of threw away (yeah i know, i know my discipline went out the window) i decided to shut down the pokergames for a day!

It’s not a good feeling to just give away my hard earned money without a fight and i had a long, long discussion with myself over how stupid that was! Wonder what my neighbours think of me yelling and arguing with myself here! Well lesson learned!

Swedish poker ladies team event

i played the team event this thursday and got 5th! After being chipleader and second for the first hour and 45 min, playing solid and strategic we were down to 5 players! Chipleader had some 11000 and me 3500, I sat in position of the chipleader and should have done much better but my cards went totally cold when the blinds went up to 250/500 with an ante of 100!

That fact kind of ate my stack and when i was down to 1800 i felt i had to do something and went allin with the most deacent hand i have had for a long time 10 j of diamonds, up came 8d-qd-ace of hearts. I had straight, flush and straigh-flush draw but the 2 cards that came on turn and river totally demolished me and my chances when rag, rag came and none a diamond. Chipleader won with a pair of aces and i hit the pavement outside so hard my booootie hurts even today!

Hmmmm kind of disappointed because diamonds usually don’t let me down! But everything has to have a first time!

Well i have 4 more chances in this tournament and next time I WILL take this down!

Buh-bye to next time

Netssons got a new computer!

4 days totally filled with information that are pushed into my mind here! Oh my how blanked out i feel at the moment!

Trying to absorb every detail at this seminar! But soon to be back in the action again so watch out! Oh and i got my new computer yesterday!

Hugs

Netsson’s going away

on a trip until thursday and aren’t sure she’s gonna be able to do some bloging during this time!

Hopefully I will but if it’s not possible then:

 I simply see ya all when I’ll get back

Until then, keep to your strategies, discipline and keep coming back for more of my blogs, feel free to leave a comment to me!

Love you and Hugs

Netsson’s very unhappy now!!!!

OK this is adressed at the stupid asshole who crashed into my car today and not notified either me nor the police!

I Have to move this weekend, are you gonna pay for the extra expenses i now am faced with due not to be able to use the car? You simply left me with all the cost of first repairing the car, renting another car while this one’s in the shop and the rent of the movers wich i would have been able to do myself!

Just wishing I get info on who you are! And when I do…….?

Not a very happy person at the moment!

Won me another one!

OK this is for Svcmgr!

Got some pics and some facts for you

Gosweden link

Facts about Sweden:

• Area: 450,000 km² (174,000 sq. mi.), third largest country in Western Europe
  Forests: 53%
  Mountains: 11%
  Cultivated land: 8%
  Lakes and rivers: 9%
  Longest north-south distance: 1,574 km (978 mi.)
  Longest east-west distance: 499 km (310 mi.)
• Capital: Stockholm
• Population: 9 million inhabitants
• Languages: Swedish; recognized minority languages: Sami (Lapp), Finnish, Meänkieli (Tornedalen Finnish), Yiddish, Romani Chib (a Gypsy language).
• Form of government: Constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy.
• Parliament: The Riksdag, with 349 members in one chamber.
• Religion: 80% belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden.
• Average life expectancy: men 78 years, women 82 years.
• Most important export goods: Electrical and telecom equipment, machinery, passenger cars,  paper,  pharmaceuticals, iron and steel.
• Most important imported goods: Electrical and telecom equipment,  machinery, foodstuffs, crude oil,  textile products, footwear, passenger cars.  

Average temperatures

	JANUARY	JULY
Malmö	-0.2° C (+31.6° F)	+ 16.8° C (62.2° F)
Stockholm	-2.8° C (+27.0° F)	+17.2° C (63.0° F)
Kiruna	-16.0° C (+3.2° F)	+12.8° C (55.0° F)

Daylight 

	JANUARY 1	JULY 1
Malmö	7 hours	17 hours
Stockholm	6 hours	18 hours
Kiruna	0 hours	24 hours

And then About the poker

With the winnings the other night freshly in my mind i hitted the omaha h/l table again. And ended up between what we call fish or monkeys, I strongly told myself stick to the discipline! Stick to the strategy! Let them monkey around and they’ll get knocked out.

 I noticed there were 2 players at the table who played a solid game so I leaned back and let them battle it out, one disappeared pretty early. second got knocked out and then i got a hand! ace king 2 of hearts and 3 of spades! the fish to my right did what he ususally does when i simply called he tried to scare the rest out of the pot by raising from 40 bb to 480 but this time we were 3 who called. on the flop came ace jack 10 so i got toppair, flush and straight -draw! I betted pretty hard 500 and all called!! Boy! They can’t all have the straight! on the turn came 8 of heart and i caught the flush so I betted them all in! all called???? Wooow! River came and it was a 7 of spades wich gave me both high and low! The guy to my right got knocked out and the others were left with 45 and 135 chips and gave me about 7500 chips so early in the tournament!

Eventually when we were down to 3, me with 7800, second with 3500 and third with 1000 chips aprox we did some rounds just trying each other out! the shortstacked didn’t last that long due to the blinds so we were down to 2!

Earlier in all the excitment i yelled to pinkdog -Come watch me kick some ass here! and he told me to calm down a bit and focus not in those words but somewhat more diplomatic! So I got a grip on myself and started focus again! This guy caught both quads and straight flush but he didn’t chip up so much! I did get lucky on a couple of hands and he was down to some 1000 chips!

And there kicked the arrogance in! I started to think – like a piece of pie or a walk in the park! Oboy i’m invincible here! I tell you all if dog hadn’t pmed me right there and then I probably wouldn’t have snapped out of it and gotten second without a fight! Just a simple -Hey Netty nice hand and nice bet got me to think again -what the frikken …… are you doing my mind asked and I actually manage to focus! The last hand I have to say I really got lucky, it wasn’t any skill behind the fact i won there! He went all in 1000 chips preflop and i simply called with ace 2 3 4 rainbow and caught the low straight, he had ace k k 10! So I did win the tournament there and then!

Wooohoooo!

Didn’t play anymore that evening due to being to tired, unfocused and went to see a film instead!

Last night!

I did play 3 tournaments! First I found the good Kbvital (member of the league) in skype and we agreed on playing a sitngo at Vegas, unfortunately the table we or me thought of playing he didn’t find before it started and therefor I played it alone! We did agree on a small omaha h/l $0.60 buyin and we found a table that started about 10 min later so I did 2 omaha sitngo at the same time. Nothing I usually do because I do wanna focus on one at the time!

 Game no 1 I really did good at and won. Oboy could for once totally dominate the table and I had it under control, bullying and scaring the others out of the pot! Felt pretty nice to have gotten that respect from hand no one wich I really hitted off and knocked out 2 in one single stroke! got Hi and no lo wich the other 2 chased!

Game no 2 Hmmmm did pretty OK there and got third so I did the money in both in total of aprox $3.30 (Not much but still better win small than loose big)

Game no 3 Oboy shorthanded nlholdem $3 buyin leaguegame!!! And I say noooooo did not good there at all came in 11th! Had some pretty awful hands and blinds ate my stack!

Every time I did get something that was somewhat playable I was either out of position or raised but that’s poker and I shouldn’t complain at all. Did breake even  when i comes down to monetary questions and it could have been worse. I could have lost money!

Questions and myths about swedes

1. Yes we do run around in cloggers (although if the dutch or scandinavians invented them i don’t know?)
2. No we’re not the one famous on chocolate (that’s switzerland, the alps)
3. yes we do jump like frogs on midsummerseve, singing hyms to them
4. Yes It happens we fall asleep drunk under a table at midsummerseve (and on other occasions too)
5. Yep fistfights do occur on numerous occasions during these festivities!
6. Oooh and we do sing a hymn dedicated to a preachers crow and how he/she/it can’t stay on the road and slides down a ditch on this festive night (Oboy how stupid is that?)
7. yep some do run around in the woods drunk as hell (Either believing they seen a nymph or believing they are one)
8. Some do actually believe they’ve seen “the evil spirit of the water” sitting there naked playing his violin or they try to scare children with it! (or maybe not so much anymore but they used to)
9. Nope not every girl here’s a pornstar, sinful as hell (that i think belong to the 60s)
10. Nope we don’t have polarbears running loose in the streets (although we do feel like polarbears during the winter sometimes)
11. No no no not everyone’s driving Volvo
12. No I don’t know in person the members of ABBA nor am I related to Henke Larsson (don’t know why ppl ask me that?)
13. yes we do eat fermented baltic herring, at least up in northern region (the southern region can’t stand this and turn up one’s nose at that fact)
14. yes up in the northern region we do have more fun waiting on to get into the nightclub than we actually do have inside the nightclub (sometimes)
15. No Not everyone’s homedistilling booooooze, although some of us do wanna!
16. No old Viking-way of living exist here anymore hence no more hijacking women, looting other kingdoms nor burning villages!
17. Not every girl are blonde with blue eyes!

So now you learned some bit about us swedes in general hope you still like us anyway!

Now i’m gonna find me a nice pokertable and win me some money so until next time buh-bye

Todays event got me thinking!

About mentors and mentoring! Having 3 coworkers sitting around me listening and learning made me think real hard about that thing mentoring! I did everything right instinctively into slightest detail almost anticipading all questions in advance. Not from the coworkers but from the CEOs and marketmanagers now!

Had especially one call with a CEO of an international company who every time tries to make things as hard for me as he can and afterwards I was going through every detail of the conversation in my mind and found to my surprise that nothing at all had been that hard. It went smoooooooothly and I had all the answers not matter how hard he even tried to test me! That guy always tries to take all these calls to it’s ultimate test to make out how serious you are and I can understand he’s not taking any bullshit! But this time it was as if I knew in advance what he had! (Picked up every tell and sign he put out there) And it felt great! The same thing I feel every time Pinkdog or Blagger mentoring me at the pokertable so my biggest question is

Why do we perform our best when mentoring someone or being mentored?

It can’t be insecurity because I really don’t feel insecure in my work on the contrary I do feel very secure in my line of business and know I’m good at what I do! I have the paycheck and stats to prove it! So why then? Do we really need to be monitored to perform our best and why isn’t it enough monitoring ourself?

Could it be sloppyness? We don’t think we need to be coaching and mentoring ourself anymore? Could it have come to this that it isn’t enough to compete with ourself anymore?

If so I think it’s a shame that it has come this point that we sometimes forget to stop and think of our own need of mentoring! We are so busy thinking of what others think of us we forget to tend to ourself

Could it be so?

I’m not preaching selfishness here! We shouldn’t skip helping others who need help at all! It’s great to be needed and you learn more by mentoring others! I’m just saying we shouldn’t forget to take a moment to ourself and just breathe, mentoring ourself a little bit

I made the sell by the way to that CEO!

When I started to blog

I thought i’d only have material for a monthly, weekly or tops tvice per week but it looks more like a daily now!

Today i’m keeping myself from playing poker, not really up to it and then I shouldn’t and I have to get up real early tomorrow for work! Have to mentor 3 new coworkers tomorrow who will be sitting around me listening and learning how to! OK what i do for a living have a lot of similaryties to poker actually cause you don’t sell the product (doesn’t matter what it is) you play the other person at the other end of the line! Phsycology! So I do have a great opportunity to look for and study signs and tells in the opponent! (I call them opponents and/or players, oboy am I competitive! I wonder what dr Freud would think?) The only differences between my work and poker are I don’t get cards and I can’t see the other players wich makes it even more fun to try to pick up the tells or signs! Have to listen hard and now I mean really listen to the pitch in voice, how they respond and not so much to what they present to me and say! Have to learn how to trust instincts and gutfeeling!

So it’s not just at the pokertable you learn how to become a successful winner at poker, it’s everywhere in everyday life! I find myself to be amused by trying to find situations where I can relate to poker and practice! (How fanatic can a person be actually?)

What I do for a living? I book salesmeeting between my group of salesreps and companies! And who are my opponents? CEOs and marketmanagers at some very large and  awesome companies, could be scary if you allow yourself to be intimidated!

This is a little bit of me and how I do to build up my mentally stage to win in poker in an easy way! In both situations I do bring home a bigger pot than if I do a flat call or fold believing them on what they say

Until next time