I guess I'll quote my last post since it's at the very bottom of the previous page.

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Yeah, Northern Europe's definitely got a lot to offer.

3 sessions so far this month,

Saturday (live); +$353 over 5 hours of play
Yesterday (online); -$447
Today (online); +$364

Was really difficult getting myself to go to the casino on Saturday, it was a huge mental battle lol. Figured it would've been pretty dumb not to go though, since I won't be able to play much live poker in July, and I don't know when my next big live month will be.

On Thursday I'll be moving to a new city, much farther away from the casino. This is going to suck obviously, but yeah, couldn't pass on this career opportunity/it would've been career suicide to say no. At least the apartment's amazing, so it'll be a clear upgrade in that respect.

We'll see how things develop, but until I move back here/get a car, the vast majority of my poker volume will be online. Planning on moving back here pretty much asap though, but I don't know when that'll be. Maybe like 6-9 months from now or so, since I need to perform well in my new position over a meaningful period of time for it to matter/be of value. It really really sucks though since I've truly been loving everything about live poker this year.

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On a less depressing note, 'Games Done Quick 2017' is being streamed on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick) right now. Been watching it literally nonstop since yesterday, nostalgia overload etc.

Couldn't stay away from the tables, and I ended up winning another $418 for a total of +$782 today. It's a shame my main site won't even let me access my hand histories, would really like to post some hands. ****ing stupid.

Anyway, since I don't have any online hands to post I'll share the biggest live hand I played last month:

HJ opens to $10 (losing/break-even reg), Hero 3bets AA to $40 OTB (the third 3bet vs him in less than an hour), SB folds, BB (rec) cold calls, HJ 4bets to $160, Hero flats, BB hasn't folded a hand in his life and isn't gonna start now - BB calls

$1200 effective.

Flop (~$483): K62 BB checks, HJ bets $280, Hero calls, BB folds

Turn (~$1043): 5 HJ jams ($760), Hero calls

River (~$2563): 5

HJ sighs and flips over AKo, claiming he was trying to get me to fold the same hand, and I scoop the ~1k bb pot.

I obviously expect to run into KK a fairly decent % of the time here (was basically thinking "**** this world" before calling ), but it's live poker/people tend to make extremely weird plays, and I just can't fold.

Haven't played a hand of poker since my last post. Spent most of the week preparing for the move/packing and then actually moving. Took me forever to pack/unpack etc., but now most of it is done. I'm really happy with everything and the apartment itself is absolutely amazing. I'll post a pic or two once everything's been set up.

Back to work tomorrow, and I'm feeling a bit nervous for the first time in forever. May have risen through the ranks a little too quickly/might not be ready to take on this much responsibility -- but it'll certainly be an interesting challenge. Pray for OP.

Want to get back into poker/set up a strict grinding schedule asap, don't wanna ruin the momentum I've got going this year. But I'm obviously gonna have to see how demanding my new position is first. Roll the dice.

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Starting a new company tomorrow as well haha. Good luck to the both of us.

Beasted through loads of this on my iPad last few evenings haha. IMO Goldeneye the most interesting one, people have been running that game since like 2001

Ashamed to admit I watched an hour long video about some guy documenting the decelopmwnt of speed-running 1 circa 50s level over the course of 50 years lord


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Nice thread / subbed.
I'm guessing you watch CS:GO

Anyway this thread + some others motivated me to try and pursue livepoker harder. Looking forward to more updates.

How in HELA FRIDENS NAMN have i missed out that you're swedish!?!?

Anyways, been following in the dark. Loved the ride thus far. Inspiring journey

Wish you the best of luck

Also a question that just came to mind, which is quite wierd. Cause i shoulda thought of this earlier.

Would i be allowed to bring an ipad and zoom it up whilest playing at Cosmopol?

Glgl! Not planning on giving poker a shot as a full-time thing any time soon?

Haha, Goldeneye's my favorite too, along with the NES/SNES Super Marios & SM64. Coincidentally they're also the games that make the best speedrunning games imo, mainly because there aren't too many RNG-based sequences (so it comes down to actual skill etc. most of the time).

The most ridiculous speedrun at SGDQ this year was prob Final Fantasy 7, took the runner about 8-9 hrs to get through the game. Classic speedrun time.

Haha, I guess the FatRat song gave it away? But yeah, I do watch it from time to time. Not as much as I used to, but as long as NiP's three-man core's still around I'll at least be mildly interested in how they're doing (in other words; I only watch some of NiP's biggest games). When I was a kid and really into CS they were huge, so it's pretty cool that they're still around doing their thing 12-13 years later.

Glgl!

Tjena tjena!

Well yeah, I suppose you're allowed to, technically speaking. You'd (obviously) be the least popular person at the table though, so there'd certainly be additional social pressure or w/e. Plus I mean, whenever you're in a hand you're not even allowed to look at your phone, so I guess that'd make multi-tabling on an iPad pretty much impossible.

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Ok so, bleh, work. This week was the worst. Would get up at 7 am every day (the horror), stay at work until 5/6, get back home, eat something, basically just be too exhausted to do anything, and then eventually I'd pass out and boom welcome to 7 am again. Really gotta sort this out/try to optimize my time etc. or something, because I really don't wanna live for the weekend like an amoeba.

As for poker, I've put in three online sessions since my last post. Two on Friday (one before going out, and one after having been out (standard )) and one yday;

-$349
+$459
+$418

So this means I'm somehow up $1241 this month. Pretty decent considering I've barely played a hand. Really missing the live grind atm (or just the grind in general, lol).

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Something a little different -- if you're into comedy, I would recommend one of the most recent stand-up specials on Netflix ("The Standups"), but only the first episode with Nate Bargatze. The other comedians are either super mediocre, or they're just women (turns out there are literally 0 funny women in the world apparently). But yeah, the Bargatze episode is pretty amazing.

I also played sometimes at casino cosmopol in sweden. Which of the casinos do u play at the most?

Time for a quick update.

I didn't play much more after my last post in July, but I lost a bit and ended up winning ~$800 in total. Extremely tedious/non-eventful poker month overall.

This month I've been playing more, maybe ~20k hands in total atm. Results on my € site:



Sadly I haven't been doing as well on my main site, where I'm currently down $1100ish. Plenty of time left to turn things around there though. Should be able to hit 40k hands this month.

A couple of random hands:

Put in a short session just now,



I also downloaded OBS and recorded the entire thing with live commentary. A pretty fun way to play, especially since it forces you to articulate your thought process. As for what I'm actually gonna do with the footage, who knows. I just wanted to give it a go basically.

Will probably hop on later and play another ~1k hands or so.

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Figured I'd share a pic of my new/slightly improved setup:

Do you play on two screens or one? I've tried two but my neck hurts from turning so much

Two usually (occasionally three if I'm playing tournaments on the side or w/e). It's not a huge problem since I just place the tables along the very edge of the other screen(s) I'm using.

Standard stuff,

Really nice set-up man; also lol at the 94dd hand vs JJ haha

Sick month on the euro site!

What sight you playing on? Seems ridic fishy lol

Sometimes you've just gotta get it in...

Currently peaking, so now's obviously a good time to update ,



Still doing/running horribly on my main site though, so even though I'm up a decent amount this month I don't feel great about it lol. #mentalgame

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Considering going to Estonia next weekend for the Swedish poker championships. There's a €500 ME, and cash games will be running 24/7, so it could be a lot of fun. Plus I'd get to play live again, which would be insanely refreshing at this point.

I heard Estonia is the up and coming place to be in Europe. Let us know the trip goes!

So, apparently I've reached my weekly limit on the € site lol, which hasn't happened before since my monthly average has been <10k hands (and this month I'm at >20k with a decent bit of NL200, and I've pretty much played every day this week). Super super annoying since the plan was to play all night, but yeah, I guess I'll play some video games or something instead.

At least I got to play this hand before I was told I couldn't continue ,



Could certainly be true. Tallinn's always been alright, and there are definitely some very high-end/modernish areas in the city.

Since September 1st the team I'm managing has been handling a new business area, and since then I've been working for 9-10 hours a day. Fun times. Never went to Estonia either (obviously, since I didn't post about it).

Anyways, I put in a ~10 hour session yesterday, so that's something at least. Booked a ~$700 win. A few hands,

Vs whale



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The biggest of lols etc



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Classic play followed by classic runout



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A final update for the year.

This month I finally got to play some live poker again. I booked a hotel from the 25th until today and managed to put in close to 60 hours of live poker. The final result ended up being ~+$9k, which is pretty ridiculous when you think about it (about 1200 hands at €2.5/€2.5 (even though it plays more like a €5/€5 game due to stack depth and constant straddling etc.)). Super fun to be back, loved every second of it.

I also managed to play a decent bit online this month (100z),



This puts the year at ~+$40k while working full time and barely playing at all for 4-5 months.

Seriously considering quitting my job to focus on poker full-time, at least for a while to try it out. I'm pretty certain I'd be v happy with a 60/40 split between live and online and probably much happier with things in general since my current situation is awful (working insane hours due to having put myself in a spot where I'm essentially irreplaceable while living in a truly horrible ****hole of a city lol, 10/10).

We'll see what happens in 2018. I need to figure things out in January.

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Wp for the year mate. Give it a crack imo but make sure you give it plenty of consideration beforehand!

All the best for 2018!!!