"Operation Clean-Up"

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

Autum is here

Well, "finally" it seems that autum has come to our little part of the world again and gone is the days of sitting outside in the warm glow of the sun enjoying a nice cold one.

As you will know my summer has been blessed with a quite substantial amount of great moment - all in no way related to poker.

Firstly, I had the great pleasure of being married to the most beautifull woman in the world.

Secondly, summer is a period for my new found joy in golf.

Thirdly, the rest of the days were spend buried in work.

So all in all - not many spare minuts to play my most favorite sport.

However, shorter and colder days means more time indors and more time to spend at the tables. I am at the moment trying to plan for the tournaments I want to try to qualify for and will keep you posted on the progess.

I still have my goal set in being a winning player on all the networks I play, and I am slowly but surely (jinx) trying to dig myself out of one of the biggest holes - I will shortly show my progres in that respect.

BRM

Time is as always short when yoou have a lot to do at work, however I have had time for some small sessions online and I am happy that my downswing seems to have ended.

I only lost the usual amount of times when going in as a 75/25 to 95/5 favorites - but that is part of the game.

I have started a little experiment by playing smaller stakes on one of my accounts, trying to treat that as my total BR - that is both fun and frustrating at the same time!

Futhermore I saw this article about BRM which I would like to share with all of you, it holds a lot of good advice:

http://www.pokerlistings.com/strategy/five-rules-to-save-your-online-roll

TC and play well.

Januar, ferie og Super Bowl

Ja så er januar måned allerede forbi og deter tid til en lille status. Grundet en kæmpe bunke arbejde og ferie i varme Thailand i 17 dage så var der ikke meget tid til poker.

Jeg fik logget et par timer på dog, men det betød dog et mindre tab - men det går i procenter op i et næsten break even - så det er bare op på hesten igen.

Under min ferie fik jeg atter en gang gennemlæst Collin Moshman's "Sit 'N Go Strategy Expert Advice for Beating One-Table Poker Tournaments" og det er altid rart at få set lidt på andres opfattelse af spillet og den bog er (stadigvæk) en af de bedste omkring mit favoritspil SnG.

Jeg nåede lige tilbage fra min ferie til at opleve et af årets højdepunkter på sportskalenderen (udover mine FCK kampe) og det er jo Super Bowl - denne gang atter med mit alle tiders favorithold - The Steelers.

Og hvilken kamp! Atter engang i denne sæson havde jeg en puls på 120 helt til sidste spil. Simpelthen en helt fantastisk medrivende kamp.

For jer der ikke har set det så er der chanchen her:

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80e93513

Det er jo så vildt det der sker til sidst.

Nå, men februar er startet i samme dur som januar - spillede et par steps på stars nu da der åbenbart ikke er nogen friruller til EPT'en i København - men det gik ad HT - ligesom min deltagelse i Ace Mags $5000 freeroll - men det skal nok vende :)

Håber at spillet er med jer derude.

Nye mål for 2009

Som så mange andre i denne tid har jeg set lidt på de mål der skulle stilles for pokerfronten i 2009. Dette har så betydet en nærmere gennemgang af resultaterne fra 2008 og set lidt på spillet.

I det forgangne år har pokeren været noget i baggrunden, dels grundet arbejde, men også et væld af andre arrangementer. Det samme vil formentligt gøre sig gældende i 2009, hvorfor jeg ikke lige pludselig kan frigøre 30 timer om ugen til pokeren - men det er jo også blot min hobby og en fornøjelse, ved siden af alt det andet.

Når det er sagt, så er det min opfattelse, at man er nødsaget til at sætte sig nogle klare mål - gerne skudt lidt over det realistiske således, at jeg hele tiden holdes til ilden.

Mit primære spil er forsat SnGs og jeg vil i år forsat fokusere på $11/$22 niveauerne, men holder selvfølgelig forsat en streng BRM på hver af de spillede sites. Således vil der blive rykket ned i limit hvis jeg kommer under 50 BI's på et site. Tilsvarende vil jeg rykke op i limits (til tider) så snart jeg har mulighed derfor (over 100 BI's af den tidligere limit).

Dertil kommer jo så de MTT der giver ekstra value (i form af added sæder/freerolls mm) - det har altid givet mig sjov og en masse oplevelser - senest EPT'en i København - noget jeg gerne vil gentage.

Dette er der kommet følgende mål ud af:

1. BR skal forøges med over 50% set over hele året.
2. Der skal forsøges kvalles til (mindst) en stor live event i 2009.
3. Gå i plus på alle spillede sites (inklusive tidligere sites - dog med bonus/rakeback mm.).
4. Være vindende på de nye limits.

Så nu må vi se om dette vil lykkedes - jeg vil jævnligt vende tilbage til disse mål - der er selvfølgelig lagt budgetter og delmål ind over året.

God vind til alle i dette helt nye friske pokerår.