Hi guys, this is gonna be a long one so get your coffee cups/popcorn/TLDR rants.

We are back on the interwebs after living it up in the real world for a couple of weeks. We first travelled to Oslo to play the Norwegian Championship of Poker. Was planning to play a couple of tournaments there, the deepstack 6max and the main event. Ended up un-regging the deepstack to go out for some beers with some friends in Oslo. Not the most +ev decision but definitely the best +happiness decision. We went to this retro gaming /craft beer bar in city centre called Tilt (legit name aswell). They have an amazing craft beer selection, and tooons of arcade games. They have old school flipper games, street fighter arcades, shooters etc. Also got quite a few shuffle board tables and a really cool atmosphere. ANYWAYS, we played the main event a couple of days later. The main event of this event is huge, and had over 2000 entrants, which is amazing since it's for norwegians only. Had an OK table and was building a decent stack early on. Then in the middle of day 1 we got into a huuge pot holding AKo. UTG shoves for like 13 bigs utg and we flatcall utg+1. Folds around to the bigblind who shoves for like 35 bigs or so after tanking for a long time. We call and he shows JJ. The guy who shoved UTG had KTo, which is obv way to weak to be jamming in this spot. Anyways, JJ holds up and we lose a pretty substantial pot. We struggle to regain momentum and a couple of levels later we reshove AKo over a raise, the guy makes a marginal call with 55 and the board runs out all bricks. GG us. Big congrats to my mate Preben Stokkan who took down the event for $173k. Just a week later he also placed 6th in the WPT Prague main event for $25k. Bosses gonna boss.

Next event was Unibet Open Bucharest. Was stoked to play this event, and to get to meet alot of the people from the community, alot of them who also frequents the stream. We managed to draw a pretty rough table. I was chatting it up with the two people to my direct right, and they told me they were NL400 and NL200 regs from Sweden and Romania. Not what I wanted to hear. After a couple of hours of play we also got placed on the feature table, which was fun. I always enjoy playing feature tables, just cause it doesn't bother me while it might bother others (in terms of making suboptimal plays because they don't wanna look stupid etc). Played some interesting hands, first one being AJo on the btn at blinds 150/300/25. Swedish reg opens the HJ for 700 and the Romanian reg 3bets him to 2k from the CO. I think we had approx 26k-27k effective with both players. The Romanian guy had been playing a 3b or fold preflop strategy, so we expected him to be pretty wide in this spot. We had seen him 3betting suited connectors etc earlier. The Swedish guy is also gonna be fairly wide opening it up from the HJ with two unknowns in the blinds. So we decide to pump it up a bit, 4betting to 5125. In retrospect this 4bet is too big IMO. We could have accomplished pretty much the same thing 4betting to 4500-4600. Anyways the Swedish guy jams on us and we have to fold. Meh. Checking the stream later the Swede had KK and the Romanian 3better had A6s, so we were correct about him being wide atleast. We played another interesting hand where we open 96s in the CO, into 3 fairly straight forward players. BB defends and we see a flop of K43sxx. He checks and I cbet small for 525 into 1700 ish. He checkraises to 1600. In this spot his valuerange is sooo narrow, and I felt he was the type of player to give up on the turn if he got called on the flop. So I take a few seconds, before hitting the imaginary call-button. Turn brings the 5x, which is interesting. First off it gives us an open ended straight draw, second it also helps his range quite a bit, as I imagine alot of his bluffs on the flop will be A2/A5/56/67 variations. He keeps betting, which leads me to believe he caught a piece, or that he actually had something on the flop (since from his perspective we are not bet-calling alot of hands on the flop that we are folding on this turn). However, he bets small enough that we have to call with our openender, so we call. River is a 6, so now we got a pair, but the board is quite scary being K3456. He makes a very value-looking bet for 30-35% of the pot. I think for a while and pitch my hand into the muck. In retrospect this might be a call, seeing how this guy kept playing. He was making some very unorthodox bluffs/plays later in the tournament, and was not as straight forward as we thought. He is also the player who ends up busting us from the tournament in the end. We open KK utg to 1675, he 3bets to 4000 straight, we jam for 14k or something like that and he calls with TT. Flop QT5ccc and we hold the Kc. Turn J so we pick up additional outs, holding a flushdraw and open ender. River brings another Q however and GG. Fun tournament though, and there was alot of interesting spots. Also surprised how good the players at my table was playing. From what I heard there was some tables where people basically needed hand strenght charts to play. Meh, in London I am getting one of those tables for sure, I can feel it! All in all a very enjoyable experience though. Was fun to put some faces to many of the people from twitchchat / unibetforums.

SO, what's up next? I spent some time yesterday editing my twitch layout, to fit the new Unibet tables. So we are all ready to get back on the twitchgrind today. The stream will commence around 16.30, and I think 16.00 will be my new standard starting time going forward. As many people pointed out, there is more people playing from 16.00 and forward, and also more people have time to watch, after school/work/whatever. So we'll see how that works out. Excluding this first saturday and sunday I will stream every day until I go back to Norway for christmas (19th of December). So, alot of grinding and streaming the next couple of weeks. Let's get a hold of some golden tickets! Would not mind winning a 28 day trip around the world with business class airfare and 5 star hotels tbh. Would not mind at all actually. So LET'S DO THIS! (Also I will be hosting a twitch-viewer freeroll in a few days, with some cool prizes and bounties. So stay tuned for that!)


TL;DR: Lost money in Oslo, but had a lot of fun. Lost money in Bucharest, but had a lot of fun. #Worthit. #Whoneedsmoneyanyways? Gonna be grinding it up hard next 2 weeks. Back on the twitch streets today at 16.30. Viewer freeroll coming up, stay tuned!

Hello people of the internets, long time no see!


Yesterday we finally made our way back to the twitch streets, after too long of a break. The plan was intentionally to hit up streaming again asap after christmas break, so 5th of january or so... That plan failed however, as I found myself having fevers, severe headaches and all the other good stuff around that time. We are however BACK, and we had our first stream yesterday.

The session kicked off with us losing, losing and losing. I decided not to check bankroll while playing, and from now on I will rather be updating after every session how it went, instead of checking during play. But it was easy to tell we were losing, we just didn't know how much... A few hours in however, things started turning, and towards the end of the session I felt pretty confident we were winning a decent chunk. We had a lot of good tables during the last few hours, and people were just paying off with any two cards there for a while. SO, finishing up the session we checked the account balance and found that we made 7 buyins, for a nice €2800 score. Great way to start 2017!

We also had a new viewer record of 580 ish people watching, which was awesome. Much due to the fact that we hosted a viewer freeroll though, which tends to attract alot of viewers. But hey, I'll take it! Guess we are gonna have a rough time maintaining high view-numbers going forward, as Jason Somerville, Doug Polk, Staples and Tonka will be streaming alot. Hopefully I can attract some viewers who enjoys seeing some midstakes cashgames though, as most other big streamers stream tournaments. We'll see!

Anyways, thanks to everyone who tuned in yesterday! I hope to see you all back in the coming days. I'll be streaming thurs, fri, sat and sunday this week, and I think that will be my main schedule going forward. Start and end times are still to be decided.

P.S. I also just made a facebook page + instagram account. I realize that many of my viewers don't have twitter accounts, but most have facebook accounts. So throw me a like/follow on those media platforms if you want to know what's up! (I've yet to start posting on the instagram, but I'll start posting there soon.)

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Alright guys, this is already TL;DR so let's cut it here. Peace!

What's up boys and gurls!

Just came back to Budapest last night, after a few days of the live pokers in Vienna. I was there with 7 friends of mine from Norway. I've known most of these guys since 2006 or so, and it's for sure a fun group to travel with. I travelled there by bus, which was nice. It actually saved me time, hassle and money, compared to flying there (it took about 3 hours and cost me €28 in total). Also no waiting in line for security check etc etc. Will definitely travel by bus again to nearby live stops.

We played the €550 main event on friday. Didn't take it too seriously in terms of preparation, and could for sure have skipped the 2-3 last beers on thursday. We felt ok going into it though, and not in bad shape/super hungover or anything. We had a really nice start of day one, and doubled up pretty early with AJhh vs 78hh on 26Khhh flop. From there I chipped up nicely, without taking too much risks or showdowns. The field was very soft, and accumulating was not very hard at all. I think I peaked at 110k or something, before losing a couple of big pots to bring us back down to 75k ish at the end of day 1. Day two I was completely card dead, tried to steal some pots, with varying degree of success. About 10-15 places before ITM I picked up JJ and utg opened for 2,5x. I had about 15-20 bigs or so, so only play was really to shove allin. BB woke up with AQ and isolated us. Board ran out AQ79Q or something, so not really too much of a sweat. Oh well.

The "highroller" (€1100) event was next. Only 24 players registered the tournament, but I would classify maybe 7-8 of these as recreational players. I did not have an amazing start however, and lost a few pots early by 3 betting AK a couple of times and jacks once, and losing all 3 without getting to showdown. At 250/500/50 level I am sitting at a 11k stack, and I look down at KQo.
Generally a fairly easy shove with 22 bigs from the CO here, but I had weak players sitting both on the button and in the SB, so I decided to raise it to 1100 instead. Both btn and sb calls, before BB (who I perceive as a good player) jams all in for 11k. I think it might be a close spot with KQo here, but seeing how this is an excellent rejamming spot for BB, I will assume he is gonna jam all pairs, all Axs, all broadways and a bunch of suited connector type hands. We call and he has AJs. K on the turn and we now have about 25k. From there it was pretty much smooth sailing into the final table. Not too much interesting stuff happening at the FT until we are 5 people left (4 people gets paid). At this point I am third in chips, and the chipleader has heaps. This ofcourse makes for a tricky situation, as the chipleader can just abuse the medium stacks, since they pretty much have to fold everything to avoid bubbling. Prizes was €9k - €6,6k - €4,4k and €3k. We played the bubble for 3,5 hours, which was the longes bubble I have ever played, and the bubble bursted around 6.30 in the morning. So in the money we only get the chance to play a few hands before I pick up A7o on the button. The stacks were as follows: CO has 90k, I have 75k, SB has 120k and BB has 195k. I was really unsure in the moment if to minraise and fold to a jam, or just to jam myself. As I am mostly a cash game player, these are definitely spots I need to do more research on in the future. Anyhow, I ended up jamming, feeling that A7o was right on the border of profitability. BB ended up calling with A9dd and board ran out 22Tdd, 2x, Jd giving him the nutflush and busting me out in 4th. After I came home I checked the hand in Hold'em Resources calc, which gave me the following range for shoving: 22+, A2s+, A9o+, K7s+, Kto+, Q9s+, Qjo, J9s+ and T9s... In other words, my shove is way too loose. It might not seem way too loose, but the above-mentioned range is 21% of hands. For me to include A7o in my shoving range there I need to shove 29,1% of hands. Sooo pretty big mistake there I guess. Atleast we cashed and profited on the trip as a whole.

That will be it for now, I'm gonna hit the gym and continue to progress towards being healthier and fitter in 2017 than I was in 2016. Feeling and seeing the changes already SeemsGood. After that I'll be back streaming today, probably around 17.00. Had a bit of connection issues yesterday, so I hope we manage to stay connected throughout the whole session today!