Oskar Silow

Unfortunately the adventure is over for me. I wasn’t lucky with the draw of the button which is important for a stack of my size.  I started UTG and the first 3 hands I had to fold.  The 4th hand I was on the button and faced a raise from the highjack to 2100 (blinds 500/1k ante 100). I had A7 and decided to push my last 6700 from the button fully aware that I would get called.  My opponent turned over KT and I was a 58% favourite to double up.  First card is a K followed by an A followed by a T so you can imagine the emotional roller coaster when I saw the board ;)  Turn and river was 6 and 2 so unfortunately I had to leave the tournament early.

As you can see they managed to take the best busto picture ever of me, don’t you agree?

Pic: Erik “Valterego” Rosenberg

Have just returned from the gym where I’ve warmed up for day 2.  Also got the chance to play a little on the squash court with Stefan Matsson who was kind enough to give me some action after an instense 5 gamer vs fotball legend Tomas Brolin.

Now I need to find a rush at the table and go from bottom to top.  I managed to make it to day 2 dead last haha:D  But, I’ve done it before and I can do it again…

Fun fact of the day: LrsLzk works out in Gucci shoes

Random reporter:

“Ramzi who?  Oh Elky is here?  Who’s Freedy Deeb again?  Sumpas ah almost forgot…  Thorsson, Pagano and who? Eastgate ah yes sounds familiar”

WHY?!?  Everybody’s focused on somebody else:

ISILDUR1 IS IN DA HOUSE!!

Today I represented PokerTine during day 1A of the EPT here in Copenhagen.  I was extremely focused and for once almost avoided all table talk in favour of 100% game focus.  It went in both directions initially and I moved back and forth between 25-35 a number of times.  When we went on dinnerbreak I had dropped to 24k from the initial 30k.  After dinner during level 5  I managed to work my way up to 36k without even seeing a flop once.  I 3- and 4-betted alot and managed to take down a lot of pots preflop.  During level 6 I suppose they got tired of me and I got spanked in 2 straight pots and dropped to 20k.  From there on I had to change gears and slowed down.  Unfortunately for me I also got no hands which is not very good when you don’t have much chips.  The only two spots I found with decent enough hands to even try making something happen I got action from the wrong players.  The tightest guy at the table who only played 2 hands the last 2 hours (and not many more the rest of the day) pushed me and I had to fold.   Unfortunately for me I finished the day with only 8500 in my stack.  Not much, but enough for a comeback. I’ve done it before and it’s about time I do it again

The most interesting hand of the day?  With blinds 100-200 I raise 525 with AA from early position.   LrsLzk autoraise as so many times before to 1500.  The Norweigan guy behind him,who have many times pointed out to the Norweigan press exactly how LrsLzk plays makes it 3450 to go.  Definately getting interesting….. I suspect that the Norweigan actually has a hand, and since I’ve been very active with 3 and 4-bets I expect action.  I make it 13450 to go in an attempt to come of as I have AK and that I’m happy to take down the pot right away.  To my surprise LrsLzk goes all in and the Norweigan tanks.  I’m jumping up and down with exceitment inside, but the Norweigan decides to fold (after I’ve snapped call he says he folded KK for the first time in his life preflop):(    LrzLzk also has AA :(  . Too bad Lrs wasn’t fooling around as usual cause I’m pretty sure I would have doubled against the Norweigan then… No miracales and a split pot between us.  At least it was exciting until the card were turned over.. det i alla fall ända tills korten vändes upp….

You can read more about the tournament here: Cardlovers, Pokerstarsbloggen, Poker.se,  Pokermagazine. Cardlovers will put up a video interviewn with me shortly ( in english).

A sidenote which once again might consume the pokerworld and become first page material is that Isildur1 won over 700k last night and will surely battle at the highest stakes soon again.  I for one can’t wait!

Sitting on the train to Copenhagen watching the first episode of GSNs High Stakes poker season 6. It’s been a lot of talk beforehand about the fact that AJ Benza has been replaced with Kara Scott and many have questioned the change.  Why change a winning concept?  One reason is that change sometimes is good or even neccessary, and after 5 seasons of the same show maybe it was about time?  Even if AJ Benza was a great character and I liked the chemistry between him and Gabe Kaplan, I didn’t miss him. Previous seasons the focus has sometimes drifted from the poker to talking. In this episode it felt like there was a lot more poker and a lot less talking.  Another nice change is that they’ve banned prop bets this season, which also stole attention from the game. So how did the game go?  I’m not gonna say, but I was entertained!

In an hour it’s time to make you readers and PokerTime proud when I enter the EPT Copenhagen day 1A! Wish me luck…