Hello all,
I am an economics student and semi-long time pokerplayer. I´ve been playing poker seriously for about 4 years, with decent results. I guess I am sort of the classic young pokerplayer: Always been good at math, not to interested in getting told what to do and just a general search for freedom and being financially independent. When I finished high school in 2013, I had some problems finding out what I wanted to do next. I had decent grades, but could definitely done alot better. These three years had alot of poker in them, and thats was a problem for the general learning curve at school. Me and two other friends, who I met for the first time in high school, started hanging out and playing alooot of poker. We would skip classes all the time, to the dismay of our parents etc. After a while they cooled down on the poker front, but I kept going strong. I decided to not go to UNI the first year after high school, so I enlisted in the norwegian navy. This was a controversial choice for me at first, my father kind off told me, uni or navy.
He has always had high hopes and expectations for me, which has been both good and bad. We have a very close relationship, and I respect him alot, both as a businessman and a person. Anyway, I started the navy grind. I could never hope for a better and more welltimed year at this part of my life. I learned to take care of myself, found myself in new situations with new people and was lucky enough to meet the love of my life. I will go deeper in my navy-year later in this thread if people are keen, but cliffs are: Spent 2 months at "recruit-school" where I learned the ropes etc, got transfered to the HQ of the navy in Bergen, was selected as a machinist to travel from Bergen-Azores-Dominican Rep.-Panama-San Diego-Hawaii on a naval exercise, and met my current gf.
I created this thread to keep a diary of my day to day life, which includes school, poker, trading and just random life events. I will try to work alot on my game this year, and hope to share my results with the guys following this thread. I also do alot of trading, but thats not to relevant here I guess, as most of my stocks is on the norwegian stock-exchange. I think im in the perfect part of my life to give poker a real shot and will do everything to succeed. My current situation is nice and comfortable, I live in a nice apartment with my gf, I go to school 3 times a week were I study economics, and I probably play to much poker. My main game is PLO, stakes from PLO25-100. Last time I checked my HM, I think I played about 500k hands of PLO in 2015. I also play alot of mixed games, up to 5/10. I also like to mix in alot of MTTs when I feel like it, and some SnGs too. I will post graphs, pics of apartment etc later in the thread, kinda just wanted to get this thread started.
Hope all of you have had a good start to 2016, and I hope you will enjoy this thread!
NB: (English is not first language, so sorry on beforehand.)
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