As the title indicates, I have chosen to participate in Pokerstars promotion for pokerblog writers. In this I need to motivate what I would spend the main prize on - should I win.Therefore this post. As a faithful reader of this blog would know - I have substantially minimized my poker playing do to TWO important reasons.



This being my two wonderful boys Jonathan and Alexander. Being a dad for means being there for them - and thus having a lot less time to one of mine favorite pass times - namely playing the great skill game of poker!

But - I do love my new role as a father and they are my pride and joy!


Having the new Danish on-line gambling legislation and Pokerstars having a licence now means that it can pay for us to actually play at Pokerstars due to the tax exemptions :) Therefore the WBCOOP is of importance to me.

Apart from spending time with these two small wonders - A prize would come in very handy to provide me with the opportunity to actually play fewer but more exclusive tournaments. Which I only could do before, since I could grind my way through qualifiers - something that I don´t have the time for at the moment.

I would love to be able to put myself up against a bunch of my fellow pokerblog writers and with the chance to actually win SCOOP tickets and prove myself against the elite on-line players and see if and old lawyer could teach them a trick or two :)

I also have my goal for 2012 in sight - the great aim for the year (at my rate - maybe also for 2013). Is to be able to give myself my highest material wish - namely the Rolex clock which I have wanted for years and which retails at exactly at the amount of the first prize - if that is not a coincidence worth pursuing - I don't know what is - it is as Pokerstars with this promotion simply had me in mind!!!!

Well, as written before operation "Clean-up" is in full effect - but I must admit that I am not cleaning up - but being taken to the cleaners. Oh well - that is what happens when we talk about the small amounts that were present at the different sites.

But what it is worth - I have now found some new gametypes which seems to fit my playing (time).

First of all I found the CAP games on stars on the 0,5/1 level. That seems to be a good fit for a tours player like myself. I am still adjusting- but I can see some potential in that format for me.

Secondly I have started playing the 30 person SNG's - and that has actually helped my ROI.

Lastly I played a couple of tours over the last couple of weeks - gone OK - yesterday I only lost HU in the Bet24 Bounty tour with 110 particiants - so I am not that rusty.

Well, I will be back with a little focus on the CAP games as soon as I have a sample of hands that is more accurate that the 500+ until now.

TC and GL at the tables.

As most readers would know - the Danish lawmakers have now initiated the new legsilation regarding access to on-line poker and licencees to sites targeting the Danish marked.

This will for most hobby players (as myself) not mean a great deal. I don't chase bonus deals, huge rakeback delas and so on - simply because my playing time does not accomodate that sort of volume (unfortunately). I of course try to target sites which offer rakeback - also for us small time players - but that is not a very big isue for me.

It is more important for me with a site that offers added value in tours :)

One of the big differences from now will for my part be the DNS ban put in effect for none-licencees sites. Since this will require some tech and bending of rules I simply is to small time a player to even begin to work through - so I am just looking forward seeing what sites will be open for me after January 1st 2012.

As I have been playing for a number of years it also means, that I hav accoubnts at a somwhat large number of sites. Usually not with a lot of money in them - but there is some cash in them and ity turns out some of it is "locked" due to bonus restrictions.

So I have begun "Operation Clean-Up".



Menaning I will try to free what ever cash I have at the sites and if neccessary play the required numer of hands. Until now I have targetted 6 sites and the result is - well lets say I haven't been in a position to cash out any ammount yet :)

I will keep you posted on my progress.

Lastly I had tim to pla a little on Sunday with the a added Haloween tour on Bet24 (out in 80'ish) and the EB freeroll Time tour on Stars (out in 888th) and them my little "hidden gem" on Betsafe the "Sunday hangout $2 tour". Theres is at the moment payout to the top 100 and the last three times there has been under 300 participant and I have playced 4th, 76th and yesterday 1st :)

This gave a free seat to Ongames next Sunday tour.

Ship it!

Until next time have fun at the tables and GL

Since my son now has had his first birthday and life somewhat has returned to situation with some routine I also had the chance to put in some hours at the tables.

The first thing I have done was to get an overview over excatly what kind of BR I was operating with. As most of hoppy players now - one tend to have account at a lot of sites and I had to do some autum cleaning in order to figure out which sites weren't hit by Black Friday and still were active.

It turned out that a lot of the sites blocked payouts due to bonuses - so these acoounts have been designated "rocketpads" which means I will se what I do with it at the cash tables.

My new main strategy is to enter some tours when I have the chance and to play some steps - I still want to have a chance to get some live experiences again.

On this note I decided for one a whim to enter a $ 5.000 GTD RB tournament. It was a turbo structure wich suited my rusty playing style and the time I had to play extremely well. A little over 950 entered and after 3,5 hours I looked blankly into the computerscreen with the magic words:


That you can call a comeback to the tables :)

Dear readers of my blog - the ones that remain.

As you have noticed I haven't had the time to up-date my blog for a while.

The reason is quite simple - my little family got an extra member - the most wonderfull little creature:



This also means that my pokerplaying has been at an absolute low - and therefore nothing interesting to write about in that regard. However, I have resently had the urge to reaquant myself with the wonderfull game of poker and therefore I can expect new life to this blog.

I hope that you all - in my absence - have had a lot of success at the tables.

Well, not a lot happening on the pokerfront at the moment. I am gearing up for the two leaderboard tours on BWIN on Tuesday and Thursday where there the prize is a travelcertificate worth $4.500.

Played two tours last night. The monster freeroll on NordicBet and the OFC buyin tour. The freeroll went as most of these do - out to some maniac who hits a three outer for almost all my chips.

The buyin event was a little more fun and when we were down to 20 I was CL. However I went totally card dead and my steal attempts got met by a AI so I had to let them go.

However, we reach FT and the money and it is somewhat quite at the table.

I now have a stack under average (all but the top 2 has under 10BB). I raise 3BB utg+2 with KK. One caller who has me covered, but not by a whole lot - flop comes 3 5 Q - no flush draw. Opponent goes AI and I dont expect a huge play from him (Have him on AQs or so) - I call.

He turns AKo (sweet) - turn 10 (arghh more outs) - river J - (%&#¤) - bye bye Lawyer.

In my cash game I threw (and yes, trew would be the correct word) over a BI.

Then FC Copenhagen lost, Spurs lost and Madrid lost.

Not a whole lot of fun this weekend....

As most of you my readers know I have started a small cash project and it is know time to do a short status on my progres. It has been pretty steady - until the month of March where it really has been taking off and my profits has soared.

I have put a pretty lofty goal for my BR for 2010 and I am really trying my best. It is my goal to add 50 % to the BR and I plan in not doing this by any other means than playing my usual stakes.

I will update with more in depth numbers soon - but for now, tc and play well.

Well, with playing just one hand (where I folded Kings) I managed to squeze myself into winning enough Leaderboard points to finish on top - and therefore one BWIN Real Madrid package is on its way to me :)

https://www.tipsbladet.dk/nyhed/poker/dm-i-poker-superliga-fanklubber-hvem-har-vundet

Well, tonight is my first chance of securing a prize package to see Real Madrid live as part of af BWIN leaderboard tour.

I am playing in "DM for fanklubber" arranged by Tipsbladet and BWIN and is on the top of the leaderboard before the last round tonight:

FCK
1 Lawyer73 18 point
2 lestar87 16 point
3 casbar11 15 point
4 AweZum1 11 point
5 PokerHabitus 11 point
6 Emilie007 10 point

So wish me luck :)

Well, we are know well into 2010 and it is time for a little status up-date to this blog.

As one would know I did not qualify for the EPT here in Copenhagen, and that probably mostly had to do with the fact that I didn't try that hard :) I played a couple of steps on stars but didn't get anywhere close.

For my cashgame progres I have started up on a new site and invested a little $ in the project. With a small bonus and my rakeback I have in 2 month made it 4 times bigger. Its sounds like a lot more than it is, but I really feel that I am getting better at the ring games and that specific synergy.

For the MTTs I only play a couple of value-added tours - here I participate in DM for Football fanclubs on BWIN and the DM for Pokerklubber on Everest. The last onbe I only made 5th place while 3 got a seat - so I have to look at the jokerheat on Tuesday to see if I am getting futher in that tour.

My SnG game is however not doing very well - still is is a small sample of plyed tours but the result is not funny and has meant that my BR has been hit. It makes me wonder - it seems like I have a tendency to loose in the first couple of months and then a profit in the last 3 months. Maybe I should just play ´these months :)

TC, and play well.