A stranger is being shown around a village that he has just become part of. He is shown a well and his guide says "On any day except Wednesday, you can shout any question down that well, and you'll be told the answer" .

The stranger shouts down several questions, and all are answered. The stranger is impressed, and after thinking a minute he shouts down: "Why not on Wednesday?" and the voice from in the well shouts back "Because on Wednesday, it’s your day in the well".

I used to be a fairly active poster here over three years ago, and then I kinda just stopped. I'm having trouble with my sleep schedule at the moment, so I have the whole night ahead of me with not that much to do beyond studying and reading a book, so fire away!

Quick cliffnotes on me for those of you who don't know me very well:

I started playing poker when I was 18 with a free $50 I got from a Party affiliate that was handing out free moneys at the time. I played 6-max NLHE all the way from 0.01/0.02 to 10/20, after which I become almost exclusively a heads-up specialist. Mind you, this was a while back when playing heads-up was still considered cool! I have played up to 100/200, though I'm down a lot life time at that stupid game. At present moment I play mostly 10/20 and 25/50. I have played poker for five and a half years, though the past few years I've struggled to put in much volume.

I'm living in Bangkok, Thailand, and have been for close to 2.5 years now. I don't have any plans of leaving here anytime soon, but then again you never know what the future brings with it.

whats ur sn?

I only really play on the European sites for tax reasons. I won't divuldge any of my screen names, and besides there really wouldn't be a one screen name that a lot of people would reckognize as I've played on many networks and changed my screennames often, which is the standard in the Euroworld.

Do you think Raveneye was a good player in ET?

I am not amused, I thought this was Blotkis' well.

Lifetime graph or as close as you can get to it?

Top 5 hu players you have played?

What bankroll rules did you use from getting to 1/2 to 100/200.

Biggest shot you ever taken? What % of your bankroll was it?

blotkis is not concerned

1) Do you coach, what is your hourly rate?

2) If I open the button in 6 max to 3x, how do you break down how often the SB and BB need to defend to make me indifferent to open raising in the first place?
i.e if they both fold approx 80% we are indifferent to raising ignoring the equity we have when called but does the BB need to defend more than the SB etc and how much more?

What do you think of free markets?

Why did you go to Thailand? How easy was it getting in? How is it?

Oh yeah something I forgot to mention on the OP is that before poker I used to play multiplayer computer games competitively. Yeah he was obviously good, though I have the impression that I had already quit the game before he started making more name for himself.

#1 Sorry this is impossible. My hands are spread between many computers and I've lost a big chunk of my life time hands due to hard drive failure :/.

#2 Blom would be clearly the number one. I feel like listing players by their screen names on the euro networks is kinda futile as people change them all the time, and this they don't really even stick to my head that well. I remember RoySpern being good from the old iPoker days, and going even more back Snake8484 was really solid.

#3 I've always been really conservative with my bankroll. Up to 1/2 I would play with 20-30 buy-ins, and then from 5/10 up I always had more than 50 buy-ins. I'm not sure what my biggest shot percentage wise has been. I do remember calculating that I once lost 7% of my net worth in a day playing 50/100, and then there was one day where I dropped 100k on one of the first times I was shotting at 100/200, which was prolly even bigger percentage wise.

1) "aha-moments" in your pokercareer?

2) biggest strenght/weakness u see in yourself?

3) best advice you could give to msnl players trying to get into hsnl? (this may be vague; not restricted to HU, just curious)

Not really. ezdonkey recently made a good post about coaching that has been my view for a long time. I have given one off lessons every now and then, usually to someone I've known personally, or through a friend. The last time I did coach was when I was proposed $800 by a friend of a friend, and the coaching format was very convenient for me.

I wouldn't know, sorry. I never tried applying this type of reasoning to 6 max, as by the time I got enough into it, and this was a while back, I was already playing 95% heads-up.

Why do you think you are winning at HU. What is it that you do so much better then your opponents?

At what point in your career did you stop counting your money and start weighing them?

There was a time, right before the global financial crisis blew up, when I was interested in economics and I was doing a lot of reading on the subject. I think the free'er (sp?) the markets, the more productive the society is going to be, but I don't necessarily agree that society would be best off with this idea taken to the extreme. For one thing, people don't really care that much about absolute wealth as much as they care about relative wealth, and free markets tend to make the differences in wealth more extreme obviously.

I had a friend traveling here (also a poker player), so as I was bored in Finland, never having really travelled by myself, the obvious choice was to join him and see the world. Then I met more and more people here, and now the majority of my friends live here, so I'm pretty well set. Thailand is kinda nice in the way that it's pretty exotic to us westerners, but yet it's really easy to access due to the huge influence that tourism has on the countries economy, for both good and bad.

This was me wheeeeeeeeee

I'm still experimenting with a totally new style that I learned from a double lesson (will be back in contact soon kotkis)! I still dont know how much of a theoretical approach I can take onboard, but am trying.