Some of you may know that I used to play a lot of poker. Unfortunately that's not the case any more. I really enjoy live poker when I'm in Vegas, I enjoy the major tournaments and I've definitely not participated in my last WSOP. But as for online poker and the daily grind, I've quit it. I just don't find it exciting any more. While the mathematical aspect acquired my interest early on, I never enjoyed grinding as such, it was purely for monetary reasons. Anyways, one of the ways I kept enjoying was by utilizing one of my...

I was asked to make a graph of my most recent relationship, what other way is there to express oneself than UML? My world: My relationship:

One of the few places left that I haven't played at is Caesars Palace. Fortunately I can now cross Caesars off my list. The room is separated from the usual casino area by a small walkway. This separation ensures that the room is very quiet, in contrast to the extremely noisy MGM Grand room. The chairs are great swiveling office chairs, quite comfortable. The felt is absolutely perfect, just the way I want it, just the way the Venetian has it - though it seems to be somewhat older at Caesars. While the Venetian usually has one or...

I wanted to log a lot of poker playing hours today. At about 12 PM I went to the MGM Grand, a room that I'd never visited. After playing there for about 5-6 hours (please don't ask how it went, I got butchered), I've got mixed feelings about the room. The cocktail service is absolutely great. Although they're not the lookers as they are at the Wynn, they're among the quickest on the strip. There's allways a cocektail waitress around, ready to take your order. The tables are among the most sophisticated ones I've seen. Naturally they have automatic...

Since I woke up at 6 AM this morning I decided to just stay in bed and watch The Prestige through the hotel movie system. When I got up I realized that the only power adaptor that I'd brought was a US - EU style, not the required EU - US... Friggin typical! So I went to every Futurama fans favorite electronics store, Fry's Electronics, which is also the largest electronics store in Vegas! I've always spoken badly of the Zune on absolutely no grounds other than my own prediction of it's success. However, when I came by...

Honeeey, I'm home! It's good to be back. After all, it's been about 4 months since I were here last, that's simply too long time! The flight went pretty well. On the long route, Frankfurt - Denver I sat in front a some american family. It was really obvious that they were american, the whole way they talked, acted and so forth, hard to explain, but they where soo stereotypical. Anyways, shortly after taking off, somebody sneezed nearby... "Bless you" the woman behind me almost screamed. Oh well, whatever. Five minutes later somebody else sneezed - bless you!...

Ahh, Vegas, I just can't get enough of that place! I'm leaving for Vegas again on the 6th of January, planning to be back on the 16th of Janaury. Just a short trip to cope with my dependance on the greatest town in the world! I will be participating in the 2007 Internal CES as well as hopefully being able to get a spot at the Venetian Palazzo Ballrom on the 7th when Bill Gates himself holds a Pre-show Keynote Address. Also I'd be rather surprised of myself if I didn't pay some of the greatest poker...

Today we wanted to try a buffet, not something I've done a lot of over here (except the Aladdin buffet which wasn't really that good). Me and three others went to the Wynn, a rather new and very grand hotel to test their buffet. Compared to the Aladdin this one was far superior. Only downside is that their speciality was seafood, which isn't exactly my kinda thing. Anyways, it was great food and a great scenery! After eating at the Wynn we went downtown to Fremont Street to see the incredible lightshows. ...

Today there was to be no gambling... A day I never thought was possible. After I got up at around 5 PM I went with Morten to the Hooters hotel & casino to dine and look around. The Hooters girls are in a class of their own, they're much nicer than most of the Spearmint girls, I simply have to stay at this hotel at some point! Unfortunately when we got our pics taken we didn't switch cameras, so I've got the picture of Sally (our lovely waitress) together with Morten and vice versa, but nevermind, Sally's...

The last $1500 NLHE event was starting at 10 AM, so I really had to get up early. Though I'd never be able to do so at home, I actually managed to get up at 8 AM and get to the Rio at 9 AM. When I registered I was told that the tournament wasn't starting until 11 AM though - it seems I messed up in the dates, the last $1500 event was actually tomorrow, not today. After eating breakfast I still had one and a half hours of time to kill... So I found myself a free...

Today was the second last $1500 NLHE event of this years WSOP. I went to bed at 8 PM the night before and slept all the way until 9 AM so I couldn't blame my performance on lack of sleep today - unfortunately. I had Bill Chen (2-time WSOP bracelet winner in the 2006 series!) and Max Pescatori (1-time WSOP bracelet winner in the 2006 series) to my left, there were definitely a couple of other pros at the table, but those were the only two I really recognized. Also Joe Hachem was sitting at the table right next...

I got back home from Spearmint at around 7:30 AM, pretty wasted to say the least. I know from experience that setting my alarm clock on my cell phone won't help as I'll just keep sleeping if I don't have a life threatening reason to get out of bed, so I'd just sleep until I woke up. I woke up just three hours later at around 11 AM... Hmm, I really did plan to get just a little bit more slep, or else I'd be completely burned out that night. I closed my eyes for a second... When I...

At last I got a good nights sleep before the big day, day three of the 2006 WSOP Main Event! I had my strategy totally planned, I knew all about the guys at my table (as written in an earlier blog entry), knew about the chip stacks, who to bully and so forth. I was prepared. My strategy was to play pretty tight and semi passive up until the bubble (which would probably arrive after 4-5 hours). Utilizing this strategy would avoid marginal situations that could bust me before the bubble, as well as establishing a...

Today was a weird day. Yesterday was the day that the WSOP Day 2B was played. Since we (me and Rune - the only two left in the WSOP ME from the camp) both played on 2A, we had the day off. Today is the official WSOP ME break day before we start on the 5 day marathon beginning from tomorrow, friday, day 3. Neither of us wanted to do anything big today as it's very important that we get our sleep and are ready for the big and long day tomorrow. I got up somewhere between...

Today I got up relatively early at about 1 PM. Before I knew of it, it had somehow become 7 PM, and several of us were starting to become quite hungry. We weren't really in the mood for the usual fast food, and neither of use were turned on by the local sushi bar. Instead we went a couple hundred meters down Eastern Avenue to a local placed called 'The T-Bird'. The scenery was a classical 60's highway truckerstop place. It was kinda sad as it really looked like it was stuck in the 60's. When our...

I made it! Before starting on day two, I made myself the promise that I would get a good nights sleep this time, last time I only got about four hours. So I went to bed at around 1 AM that night, falling asleep very quickly while watcing South Park episodes on my laptop. Perfect. I woke up three hours later at 4 AM. Dammit, this is just not happening. Luckily I fell asleep again. One hour later I woke up for good. I tried sleeping, but everytime I was close to sleeping, someone made...

... happened today. I got up early (around 2 PM) as I really needed to be able to go to bed early tonight. Tomorrow is the second day of the WSOP Main Event tournament. They're expected the day to last around 15 hours like the first day, so I will need to be well rested, unlike on day one. I went to the New York New York tonight for a dinner party arranged on the 2+2 forums. We met up at the ESPN Zone and got a couple of beers, some above average fast food and then...

I got up at my usual time today, around 6 PM. We were headed to Ballys to get drunk and maybe play some drunk poker. We got a seat in their 1/2 NL game pretty quickly. I didn't really like Ballys poker room. It didn't consist of more than 6-7 tables max so it's a small room. The chairs were very good, a lot better than at the Rio. The tables on the other hand, I hated the felt. It's hard to describe, but it felt a lot softer than at Rio, meaning that cards were more often sticking...

After Santana I went to Rio with Abuello to see if we could get an update on how Mika (Miwala) was doing in the Main Event, and Danes in general. While we didn't find Mika (later on I found out he busted earlier on to a nasty rivered flush vs. rivered full house hand), I did meet Hostrup (Carl) waiting for cash game entry. I signed up for the $2/5 NL game also. After about 10 minutes I got called over the speaker, my seat was ready. Luckily I got a seat at Hostrups table, in fact I got...

When I went to bed yesterday (after the Main Event) at around 7 AM, I didn't think of setting my clock. I mean, I didn't have to get up before around 5-6 PM, I'd be long awake before that. Anyways, someone knocks on my door hard while I sleep. I look at my cellphone to see the time, my eyes are all hazy. Hot damn, it's like 6:25 PM, yikes, I guess I really needed that sleep. We had to be at the MGM Grand at 7:30 PM since we were going to see Santana live that night. ...

Today was the big day. Today was the day that I was going to play the WSOP 2006 Main Event with a $10k buy in! I guess it was a bad "decision" to only sleep 5 hours that night. I woke up at around 6 AM and couldn't sleep any more. Not because I was overly nervous, though I guess the excitement might've played in unconsciously. I got at my table at about 11:50 AM, pretty unknown table, no one I recognized, I suppose that's good. I quickly took the lead at our table, I was...

So today I got up a bit earlier, at around 4 PM. At about 9 PM I took a cab into the Rio together with a couple of the other guys to pick up my Main Event registration, this time there were no problems, thank god. I decided to sit down for some cash games since I was nowhere near ready to head for bed, so I bought into the usual 2/5 NL game for $500. Today I got a somewhat worse table than last time, worse in the way that people were a lot better. Most of the...

So tonight I woke up at 7:30 PM for some reason. I have no idea how I could sleep that late, I mean, it wasn't more than like 6:30 AM when I got back from the Rio last night. But whatever, it was great to get some sleep. At around 10 PM we went to the Pokerteam DK party at their house on the other side of the strip. Great party, lots of danish poker players, cool to have a danish gathering. Norsemen were holding their own party in a house right next to us. It was also cool to...

So I finally got into my first ever real poker cash game at a casino. My main game is without doubt tournaments, I rarely play cash games as I don't think they're nearly as interesting, also I'm far worse at cash games than at tournaments. When I do get into cash games online, I usually play the NL25 games at Party, I've had lots of problems beating even NL50/100. I was planning for playing the NL1/2 games in Vegas, but the Rio has 2/5 as it's lowest, and i didn't really want to travel further into the strip as...

Finally the day arrived, I've just turned 21! At four minutes past midnight I registered for my WSOP Players card at the Rio, while being registered I got a good chat with the girl behind the counter, she laughed a bit when she saw my 'I support single moms' t-shirt - she said she liked it. I also got an application made for my ITIN number, just in case I make a major cash in one of the tournaments, it would be a serious bad beat if I were forced to leave behind 30% of my winnings...

So today we decided to take a trip to the Grand Canyon just outside Las Vegas. I've been to the Grand Canyon once before on an earlier trip when I was seven, but honestly I couldn't remember it that well besides it being hot as hell and, well, grand. We took the large package consisting of a 40 minute flight in a small plane that took us over the Grand Canyon to a small indian run airfield on top of the Grand Canyon edge, a busride along the edge of the Grand Canyon, a helicopter trip into...

So I finally arrived at Vegas! Lack of space After a grueling trip of about 24 hours I finally arrived at our house in Vegas. As expected the overseas flight was a living hell due to my size and the lack of space in tourist class. To make it even worse, since I last flew with SAS, all passenger seats in tourist class now has their own little TFT monitor. Why is that bad? That is bad because these monitors run off a computer placed below one of the seats in the foot area. Naturally i...