The Greatest Dane

Day 1

I had no enormous cashes, but I ran deep in 2 out of four of my tournies and overall very pleased with my game at the moment

$3.30 2.5k$ GTD - 12th/1.031 runners, $32.47 cash
$3.30 2.5k$ GTD - 45th/1.036 runners, $9.94 cash

I certainly need to work on my late game, usually I get way too spicy when the MTTs are down to 3 tables.
Probably going to look into some late game strategy and maybe start playing some SNGs to get more experienced playing tournaments with few players left.

Ah, GL to you! Def interested in following another MTT blog! and ofc, will support as a fellow scandinavian!

Originally posted by vonki
Ah, GL to you! Def interested in following another MTT blog! and ofc, will support as a fellow scandinavian!

Thanks Vonki, always good with some fellow Scandinavian poker players

oh the new Gus have arrived , good luck from me also, as i am Swedish i will also follow you

Day 2, 3 and 4

My volume the first couple of days have been poor, but my motivation and results are doing very well. So far I only played 13 tournies the last 4 days, but min. cashed a few and got one final table

Probably the first FT in my career where I have been the favorite going in to the last 9 man in a MTT. Even with very little experience at late game MTT, I felt like Phil Ivey against the rest of the final-9 - with some of them never cashing for more than $50. I didn't managed to ship it though, but all in all i'm pleased with my 6th place.

$4.40 Progressive Super-Knockout 18k$ GTD - 6th, $490,81 (cash + KOs)

Starting bankroll: $1.150
Current bankroll: $1.653

Some hands from the last few days:
$4.40 PSKO - JJ fold pre?
$3.30 - KK on Ace turn
$3.30 - A6 Defend blind vs Big Stack

Originally posted by rompas
oh the new Gus have arrived , good luck from me also, as i am Swedish i will also follow you

All the swedes arriving hejsan Sverige

No update without some golden Gus quotes...

Knocked out of the 2013 WSOP Main event, Gus be like....

Gus Hansen: "People always think that I am crazy and going all in with J4 off suited"

"So you got it in with the best hand?"

Gus Hansen: "No, I had 94 off."

Day 5 - 8

I didn't have much time to play poker this weekend

I decided to go back to the NLHE cash tables for one day though, because of Pokerstars promotion: the Silver and Gold Challenges.

Usually I am a losing player at NL5, but because of the promotion (I assume) the NL10 tables were really soft yesterday, so I ended up winning: $33,12 + $5 and a ticket in rewards for completing the challenges

Starting bankroll: $1.150
Current bankroll: $1.692

Lets wrap it up with a classic Gus Hansen moment. Gus fired at the end of the video @4:55

Week 2

Just had around 10 days away from poker... great start to my blog

Atleast I am motivated to play a lot now and yesterday I played 11 MTTs running deep in two of them.

$3.30 2.5k$ GTD - 6th/1.042 runners, $126.29 cash
$2.20 Zoom 3k$ GTD - 11th/1.830 runners, $28.54 cash

Graph so far:

Starting bankroll: $1.150
Current bankroll: $1.807

The Great Dane showing Phil Ivey who is the best

Sweet start, congratz!

Week 3

Originally posted by vonki
Sweet start, congratz!

Thanks. And yeah, I am quite pleased with my poker so far this year. So far I have been running deep in many MTTs, sadly I tend to get out of hand, going in to the last 3-4 tables in the tours

I am going to start studying harder on my game and for the first time I ordered help from a pro Starting with HH reviews and looking for some coaching soon - hopefully that can help me improve my lategame play so I can take those MTTs down, instead of busting when reaching top 20-25.

Yesterday summed it up when I ran deep in two MTTs again, but busted just before the payouts got really fun

The Big $4.40, $12K GTD - 29th/3.892 runners, $35.02 cash
$5.50 NL Hold'em [2R1A], $3K GTD - 31th/240 runners, $22.15 cash

Starting bankroll: $1.150
Current bankroll: $1.866

Week 4

Been a pretty quiet last few days for my poker tournies. Pretty much been busting everyone, min cashing a few and then finally one deep run getting me back to back even over the last 4-5 days.

$2.20 Zoom 3k$ GTD - 6th/1.613 runners, $120.97 cash

I finally started to invest in my poker game, and so far ordered my first HH review - pretty excited about it, hopefully I can learn a lot from it. And I also got Silver status on PokerStrategy
After my HH reviews, I will probably try to find a coach Anyone of you who know a (not too expensive) micro-low stakes MTT coach that you would recommend?

Starting bankroll: $1.150
Current bankroll: $1.890

Going to wrap it up with a bad joke

Unf I am not that familiar with MTT and MTT material/coaches but you can always check out the private coaching section!

Currently sitting on 1st place with 15 players left in the Bounty Builder $5,50 (Saturday Special).
Already locked up $435 from bounties + current payout, making it one of my best results

Well done sir if i am right i see you won it

Week 5

Been playing quite a lot of poker this week. Yesterday I cashed in 6 out of 13 MTTs without hitting any significant runs and busted on quite a few bad beats. Pretty sure I was just saving my run good for today where I won the $5,50 Bounty Builder Took down 2,6k$ which is by far my best result so far. All in all it was a pretty weird tourny and due to the massive bounties and the relative small payouts, I played the tourny completely different then I usually play. Normally I got around 20 VPIP, but in the Bounty Builder I saw 43% of the flops, meaning my VPIP probably were around 50 (which somehow did that I won ).

I have also been grinding the 10A Sunday Million sats, without getting a ticket If I dont sat my way in, I will just forget about my BRM for one day and buyin directly

$5.50 Bounty Builder [Saturday Special] - 1st/6.421 runners, $2.597,32 cash

This also mean that I completed one of my goals:

Originally posted by Malendes
Besides that I would like to double my bankroll during the next 3 months.

Starting bankroll: $1.150
Current bankroll: $4.380

Originally posted by rompas
Well done sir if i am right i see you won it

Ty very much

Well done sir with winning the tournament

Congratz!!!How you improve the game to the last 3/4 tables?

Update - New Goals

After finishing my goal on doubling my BR in 3 months (from 1.15k to 2.3k), I guess I will dream bigger now

New goals:

$10.000 Bankroll by the end of 2016 - Starting BR (after a withdraw from last challenge): $2.880
Study. Keep discussing hands, watch videos and get HH review and potential coaching
Volume. Get SilverStar on PokerStars (500 VPPs monthly)
Sunday Million 10A. Play my A-game in the Sunday Million 10A

And the most important: stay focused and motivated - enjoy poker

Originally posted by SDK1987
Well done sir with winning the tournament

Originally posted by 49Allex94
Congratz!!!How you improve the game to the last 3/4 tables?

Thanks guys To be honest I dont think I can compare my usually tournies with the one I just won - so I really dont know if I have improved my late game (last 3/4 tables) much. Usually I bust tournies because I get way too fancy when I going into lategame, but I think that might have been the reason why I won the Bounty Builder (being extremely aggro to win as many bounties as possible). With 75% of the prizemoney being dealt in bounties, the actual payouts and payjumps lost alot of its value, making it alright that I was being fancy and extremely aggro, playing around half of my 700 hands in the MTT.

But I might have gotten better at adjusting my play to my stack and my villains in late game and from just that one deep run in the Bounty Builder I probably learned alot

If you have some tips to give I will be very happy because for one week before I finished on 18/1230 Bounty Builder 1.1$ and I won only 51$..I did'nt was aggresive,I only grind ,in the last 100 players I had over 2 mil. chips and the second place had under 1 mil..I don't know what to say..I played 8 hours and I was very mad,angry..