Let’s cut right to the chase: The Player What kind of person is a player? We can define a player as a person who enjoys taking risks and getting maximum out of anything he does, no matter if it is poker, gambling in general, business, investing, relationships, going out with friends etc. He simply has […]

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64 Squares Robotic grinders make good players, but we’re mostly interested in what makes great poker players. From what I’ve observed, I think it’s mostly openness to new ideas, which translates into intelligence. Combined with hard, deliberate practice of course – too much practice for a normal person to handle! Nobody ever played great chess […]

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Oh boy, the sail is set – King’s of Tallinn, here we come! Less than 14 hours to the departure – hoping we go on an even keel as the Maria storm has hit the coast since the weekend. You can expect the first session report at latest on Thursday noon. (a week goes by) It’s […]

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Song & narration playing in my head: Rounders intro scene It’s Day 15 of live poker in a row. I’m running above expectation, most sessions have been smooth sailing. Yesterday poker was quite fun, and since I haven’t played any interesting NLHE hands for a while, there was one hand with multiple factors that made it […]

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”Practice like you’ve never won. Perform like you’ve never lost.” Song playing in the background: Dire Straits – Money For Nothing It’s 2020 and the theme of the poker year is locked for my poker playing character, that little nerd inside me that wants to figure out everything but has failed in implementing his strategies […]

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“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” -Batty Koda Last night it was the same circus of poker, karaoke & dancing again, except I had breakfast as early as at 4.30 pm and we decided to get some Subway sandwiches before calling it a day at around 6.15 am. I was prepared […]

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“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city” -Charlotte Eriksson Early in this case means before 10 am, and the first train means the first one with business class seats left: So far my track record in a game with 72 aka seven-deuce aka worst starting hand […]

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‘No gamble, no future’ -Anonymous Californian It’s been many weeks since I last had the taste of soft games of London. Now I’ve been mainly playing ok half of the time and playing like shit the other half – the lives games of my home town are a much tougher grind. If they asked me if […]

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”The best is yet to come.” I’m taking the morning run around Chelsea Harbour’s finest areas, as good memories come back to my mind from 2013 when I lived in the Compass house for the summer. At the familiar little park near Imperial Wharf I prepare for my sprints and observe the different people walking […]

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”Now, I wanna see someone who has that much heart!” -Tony G Monday starts off again with a morning run and a late breakfast/early lunch at an Italian restaurant located between the Hippo and the Empire. At Empire we get a game running with an Asian 95% VPIP guy and a cool dude from Canada. […]

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