What is the story with this guy?

I'm wondering why he has not made an appearance in the big cash games on FT. I understand that they are a different kettle of fish but whenever I've seen him play in donkaments on TV he's been incredibly impressive; and by all accounts his cash game used to completely blow opponents away. That was a couple of years ago. It's a shame he seems to be out of the loop somewhat.

I used to love reading his blog when he occassionally posted in English, but he seems to have stopped. He was pretty honest in his blog about his sports betting. Is this how he lost most of his bankroll, or did he have a major downswing? Does he still play the big games on Prima? Where does he play nowadays, at what stakes / sites?

busto

The_terrorist took most of his roll with a trojan.

http://www.theterrorist.org/flashfilmen.html

Fast_Freddie is The_Terrorist? For some reason i thought fast freddie was Freddy Deeb.

"Assumed? Never assume!" Cosmo Kramer

Some people thought that for a while but it's TheTerrorist..

Sad thing he went busto. I wonder how he would do vs. todays HU specialists on Full Tilt, anyone got an opinion? Taylor?

He played 200/400 on Prima early this year on the Tunaeater account (together with Lagerborg). They also play together on Full Tilt poker under the name Helge Larssen.

Whenever he plays these days he plays on Betfair. First on the LOLmenot account but he also has a second unknown account. Since there are quite a few norwegians I have no idea which one is his.

lol @ this film imo.

the terrorist is mohammad kowssarie.

http://www.pokerverdict.com/Poker-Pl...t_freddie.html

Prima should get this guy to advertise for them, that video is better than any marketing campaign I've ever seen/

he even confirmed having gone busto in a danish poker mag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Lodden

he had to get staked by kris85.

pretty obv. he lost a ton at sports betting. read his blog entries and you know why. he had/has no clue what he´s doing. "i lost a big bet, so i had to find another big bet to get even, but sadly i lost", "i bet on that, they were ahead until ET but then ..." (really lol´d when i read that one - he bet on betfair, where you can hedge each and every live bet and still didn´t manage to get that done ...) and the like.

sad story. he´ll always be a legend as he played in the highest games available when online poker reached its peak, but he just didn´t have the (managment) skills necessary to stay there.

Nice video but the first one was better.

if TheTerrorist made that video why are the hole cards not showing until showdown?

He was playing the nosebleeds on Betfair as recently as this summer iirc.

By Martin Grønnehøj, 21-08-2007 kl. 10:55

The rumours are true. The norweigan pokerphenom, Johnny Lodden, confirms that his days of glory are over. The roll is gone, and the fear inducing Bad_Ip account has gone to the grave (err, actually I'm not sure about this sentence, I'm swedish and this is danish).
"I lost it all, and had to be staked by my good friend Kris Kjøndal (Pokerkong1, red.), to get back on track again", Lodden admits.

Today the norweigan is on his way up, but it's a long way back to his workplace of old, at the top of the Prima-network, where he destroyed everyone and everything under his Bad_Ip account at the 200-400 NL tables. Today Lodden is grinding 10/20.
"I can always make money from poker and therefore I never want to have a 'real job", Lodden says to Acemag.

- http://www.acemag.dk/news/item.asp?id=2621

In case anyone wanted to read it.

If anyone was in Monte Carlo ME last year you would have seen him win 2 $40K SNG's. Johnny has an amazing game when he tries.

He was on the $25k buyin poker million on UK tv just this week although its prerecorded think it was done well after that August news report. May be he has a good sponsorship deal for these tv things, but he didnt look like a player down and busto.

Does anyone know how much FastFreddy won from bad_ip? I remember watching bad_ip on two tables playing hu against Antonius and another player and he won over $1.4million that night.

Must be some figure.

My idol has fallen deep. Think I will have to search for a new one

If Helge is Lodden then he has played the big full tilt games, here's a couple of hands.

FullTiltPoker Game #2126984570: Table Canfield (6 max) - $200/$400 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:27:14 ET - 2007/04/03
Seat 1: maxypaxy ($4,597)
Seat 2: jinsokkp ($62,769)
Seat 3: noataima ($65,575.50)
Seat 4: Grimstarr ($41,997)
Seat 5: Helge Larsen ($69,176)
Seat 6: John DAgostino ($42,582)
John DAgostino posts the small blind of $200
maxypaxy posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
jinsokkp folds
noataima folds
Grimstarr folds
Helge Larsen raises to $1,400
John DAgostino calls $1,200
maxypaxy folds
*** FLOP *** [8s Th 9c]
John DAgostino checks
Helge Larsen checks
*** TURN *** [8s Th 9c] [Ac]
John DAgostino bets $2,400
Helge Larsen calls $2,400
*** RIVER *** [8s Th 9c Ac] [Js]
zevs13 (Observer): what place did helge larsen finish in on the ept MC
John DAgostino bets $6,600
Helge Larsen raises to $16,400
John DAgostino calls $9,800
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Helge Larsen shows [Kc Ts] (a pair of Tens)
John DAgostino shows [Qh Jh] (a straight, Queen high)
John DAgostino wins the pot ($40,797) with a straight, Queen high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $40,800 | Rake $3
Board: [8s Th 9c Ac Js]
Seat 1: maxypaxy (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: jinsokkp didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: noataima didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Grimstarr didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Helge Larsen (button) showed [Kc Ts] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 6: John DAgostino (small blind) showed [Qh Jh] and won ($40,797) with a straight, Queen high

FullTiltPoker Game #2127004864: Table Canfield (6 max) - $200/$400 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:30:16 ET - 2007/04/03
Seat 1: maxypaxy ($4,597)
Seat 2: jinsokkp ($64,769)
Seat 3: noataima ($64,975.50)
Seat 4: Grimstarr ($41,597)
Seat 5: Helge Larsen ($48,976)
Seat 6: John DAgostino ($61,779)
Helge Larsen posts the small blind of $200
John DAgostino posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
MJRader59 (Observer): i would like to
Grimstarr: wow
Grimstarr: noatima
Grimstarr: what the $$# did u do the full tilt connector
Grimstarr: connection
maxypaxy calls $400
jinsokkp calls $400
Grimstarr: my connection just died when i had aa
Grimstarr: and i blkame it on u
MJRader59 (Observer): owned
noataima calls $400
Mister MudFlap (Observer): ouch
Helge Larsen calls $200
zevs13 (Observer): lol
John DAgostino checks
*** FLOP *** [9h 3h 2h]
bren2820 (Observer): sucks
Helge Larsen checks
John DAgostino checks
maxypaxy checks
jinsokkp checks
Mister MudFlap (Observer): dont worry Grim, u prob saved money
noataima checks
*** TURN *** [9h 3h 2h] [2s]
Grimstarr: what happened last hand
Helge Larsen checks
Celia_Fate (Observer): HE OWNS CIRQUE DE SOLIEL
John DAgostino checks
Celia_Fate (Observer): HE WILL OWN UR AZZ
MJRader59 (Observer): kathy leibert is in your interwebz
ALL IN BPM (Observer): ft doesnt have allin protection?
Grimstarr: my comp wont even let me check hh
Try it213 (Observer): could someone lend me 10 dollasrs?
maxypaxy bets $1,200
Grimstarr: can someone on rail tell me what happened last hand
jinsokkp calls $1,200
John DAgostino: it went raise call reraise to 11k
Grimstarr: when i was bB
John DAgostino: then u folded
MJRader59 (Observer): everyone went all in preflop
Grimstarr: shut up
llchubzll (Observer): sure ill send u 20$ i sec
noataima folds
Grimstarr: ace hit flop too?
Helge Larsen raises to $6,800
John DAgostino folds
John DAgostino: lol
maxypaxy folds
i hug trees (Observer): Jink raised to 1400 hundo
Grimstarr: did it get folded to me?
dazzlewoof (Observer): no flop everone folded grimster
i hug trees (Observer): everyone folded
jinsokkp calls $5,600
*** RIVER *** [9h 3h 2h 2s] [7c]
Grimstarr: woww
theochuck (Observer): john.. throw me a few dollars..
Mister MudFlap (Observer): no flop im pretty sure Grim
Helge Larsen bets $14,400
Grimstarr: such bS!!!!!!
Grimstarr: im on sik tilt now
llchubzll (Observer): JD had AA
bren2820 (Observer): lol
Mister MudFlap (Observer): sorry bro
jinsokkp has 15 seconds left to act
Try it213 (Observer): lend me 10 dollars before u go on tilt and lose it all
synovia (Observer): tilt then .. let it affect you
jinsokkp calls $14,400
nish001 (Observer): call it
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Helge Larsen shows [9c 9s] (a full house, Nines full of Twos)
jinsokkp mucks
Grimstarr: obv no flop
TomAce2024 (Observer): u would have been suked out on
Helge Larsen wins the pot ($45,597) with a full house, Nines full of Twos
i hug trees (Observer): dude he probably raised you with 84 s and the flop would have came K84 so consider yourself lucky sir
Grimstarr: i was in bb
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $45,600 | Rake $3
Board: [9h 3h 2h 2s 7c]
Seat 1: maxypaxy folded on the Turn
Seat 2: jinsokkp mucked
Seat 3: noataima folded on the Turn
Seat 4: Grimstarr (button) is sitting out
Seat 5: Helge Larsen (small blind) collected ($45,597)
Seat 6: John DAgostino (big blind) folded on the Turn

Lodden has been playing quite a lot of mid-high stakes tournaments and sit and gos recently.

Check out the William Hill Grand Prix Season 2, episode 2, (2006) for some great poker by Lodden. In particular, an amazing laydown against Colclough.

lol @ grimstarr at 200/400...