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Another interview. This time with Nate. M: Full name? N: Nathan Andrew Hays M: Your called Nebraska-Nate. Why? N: Me being irish, perhaps? M: What do you play? N: FL 0.5/1 and $1 HU SNG. But I do 8 tables. I have 10% ROI. Tuff_Fish is my mentor. M: You call yourself Ninja_Nate. Do you have a sword? N: Yes I do. Its huuuge. M: Do you plan to move up in level? Maybe to 1/2? N: I have tried. I cant beat those games. M: How old are you? N: 21. M: Hows are normal day for you? N: I wake up around 6AM. Go for a jog. Do some yoga. Then start the grind. By lunch Im hopefully up 3-4 Big Bets. I usually do that until 10 in the evening. Then I read my comic books and play with my action figures. At 11 I drink some hot milk and go to bed. M: What do you think about swedes and how they dress? N: Swedes dress like fags. But american chicks dig it. Yesterday I wore your "fag shoes" and the chicks couldnt get enough. M: If I win the main event. Im gonna buy you a really cool mans purse. Do you agree to use it every day? N: Of course. M: Why are you here in Vegas? Are you gonna play the main event? N: Yes I will. I won my seat at Pokerstars. I started with 5 FPP. This is a dream come true. Some final words from Nate: "Some day I wanna be a fat agressive american. Driving around in a Raskall and enjoy burgers."

WHY DO I HAVE TO LOSE KK vs 88 IN A 70K POT ITM!!!! Played the 1k at Bellagio today. 348 entrants. I came 18th and got $2700. Startingchips was 5k. Basically I played a really solid game all through the tournament. No moves at all. Never had a big stack. Not because I play too tight. I really didnt get any opportunities to play my hands. When ITM I have 50k. Guy utg pushes for 30k. I go into the tank for 3 minutes on the button with KK. Hollywood is da shit. The blinds folded though. He catches a 8 on turn to make his set. Im down to 16k and with 3/6k blinds I go out with AT vs AK a few hands later. Would have had a big stack otherwise. Im gonna play the same tournament tomomorow. Before the tournament. Me and JP played some video-poker to spend our time. To make it interesting we had a $100 last longer bet. We started with $20 and bet $0.25 each time. Of course I won this one. Massive klonk-skills at video-poker. Massive photographic skills too....

Valuetown.

Some expressions I have learned lately: Valuetown - When you bet into a calling station. Bustoville - Losing... Mallards - Deuces. Not threes. If you say Quack-Quack you flop a set. Ship it! - This is the key expression in online american poker. A full description is available at http://www.shipitholla.com/about/ship_it/

Adam is trying to teach me about America. A: Most people in america have a lawyer. M: Why? A: Because we are more important than all of the poor people. Especially poor swedes. A: If you write anything bad about us, we will sue you. A: We will take you to Judge Judy. We will verbally pwn you.

Bekräfta fördomar är så himla skoj

Time for a short interview with Donny "DeezNutz3". The funniest guy in the house. And a true tomte. M: What do you think of a swede coming to Vegas and pwning fish? D: I want you to win the Main Event Mats. Because you promised me a pink Ferrari if you won. M: What do you normally play online? D: 100/200 Limit. Thats where I typically pwn fish. Im also playing some 3/6 NL to learn NL. M: We have had an interview with John in this blog. He only ate microwave food. What do you eat? D: I like chicken. I like asian cousine. I eat out mostly. M: Any big tournament wins? D: I won a tournament in Austria two summers ago. I cashed 30k. M: What do you think burgers, guns and the american flag? D: Burgers taste good. Guns scare me. And the flag is pretty. M: Do you want a swedish wife? D: Yeah. M: What do you think of swedish players? D: They are always bluffing. Never check in position. And they are crazy aggressive. They love suited connectors and double gappers. M: Im the only swede you ever met? M: Anything you want to tell the average swedish low limit grinder? D: Im rich bitch. Holla. Ship it!

Today I went to Bellagio to play the 1k event. The structure is much than the smaller events at the Rio. Sadly, they had moved the event from the Poker Room to the Fontana Lounge. That means no shuffling machines so the 40 minute periods means the structure is a little worse than before. I went out of the tournament after 6 hands. Im a bad poker player. I also tried the Buffet at Bellagio, really sweet. Lots of fat americans, sorry, average americans. Yesterday night we played some Risk. I pwned the fish in the house. Making a remarkable return from just a few armies. JP, "itsthemaster_" at Party. Playing risk and drinking. He got pwned. Such a silly smile Jason makes. He got pwned too. Donny is a cool guy. Yesterday Nates brother paid us a visit. They went out to a bar. Nate got company in the bed it seems. I accidently tilted to the right when I took a shot of Alex at the Buffet at Bellagio. Or this Shejk in a raskall is a photo magnet? Tomorrow im gonna play the 1k event at Bellagio again. Ill skip the 1.5k WSOP event.

Tagit de flesta med mobilen. Smidigast så.

Inte vårt hus. Men vi känner killarna.

I just heard. John: We should go out and buy guns. Nate: I would love to buy a gun. Mats: Why do you want to buy guns? John: Because we dont want to get robbed. Anyway. The tournament went shit yesterday. I found no cards. The blinds were high. I made a stealattempt after 5 orbits. With 68s. A shortstack pushed with kings and I was short. Maybe I shouldnt made that steal attempt? Today I was gonna play the daily 1k tournament at Bellagio. It was full so I had to go to Rio and play a $500 tournament instead. I busted after 6 hands with nut flush draw versus aces. Starting stack was 1500 with blinds 25/25 so you gotta gamble a bit early on. Next tournament is in two days. A $1500 NLT. Yesterday we were out eating chinese at Bellagio. At a place called Noodles. They had "One thousand year old eggs". Nate told med he had eaten Dinosaur eggs. I also got pwned hard by big Nate. During the dinner he asked me to pass the buttfor. I didnt understand what he meant. Finally I had to ask him; "Whats the butt for?". Silly americans. There has been alot of debating about how europeans dress. Americans think that most europeans dress like f-a-g-s. When we were out shopping I told John all the clothes in the stores we were were pretty boring. I think John caught the point of what I said so he had this shirt yesterday. He even asked me when we went to the Rio. "Is this shirt fag enough?" Johan Storakers in the tank. Big Mike had to ask the waitress how to use the chopsticks. I think he missunderstood what she said though. Today we played Keno. Big Mike made a nice pattern. Klonk!

Played the 2k event today. I got a really loose table so I decided to be really tight in the beginning. For 90 minutes I didnt play one single hand. The second hand I play is JTd from the SB. I flop a straight and manage to get 800 chips from one of the loose fish. A little later I see a flop with 99 against him and another guy. Flop is J99 and I get a few more thousand from him, he had KK. After that I manage to get all in versus a guy with 2k chips. I have 26o on the BB. He limps from utg and flop is Q62. I checkraise him on the flop and we get all in. He has QJh and make runner runner flush. Im back to 5k after that pot. I would have had 10k so that hurt me alot. I keep using my for the day tight image. I fire two pot bets with a missed AK and get a good pot before I leave the table. Im not getting any cards but manage to win some small pots and stay around 6-7k when blinds get up to 150/300. Now things are starting to happen. At my new table UTg raises, I reraise with AK and another guy pushes for exactly my reraise. He has KK. I hit an ace and got 13k again. At this point im on average. Sadly, I bluff away half of my chips shortly after this. I raise from the button with ATc. BB who is a good player calls. Flop is a 339. Dunno why but Im afraid of being cr all in on this flop so I check behind. Turn is a K. He makes a minibet and I raise this. He calls so I give up the pot. River is another 3. Check check and he shows KQ. I was thinking of pushing the flop for 3 times the pot but didnt. At some point at this table I also double up with Aa against AK. First time out of four times I win with AA in Vegas. Close to the bubble im at 8000. I push with A4s form SB, BB folds. I push with JTd from MP, everyone folds. I find AA again but no action. Just after the bubble I find 77 and push for 9k pot is 4k after blinds posted. I get called by 99 but spike a sweet 7 on the turn. A little later I raise with QJ and have to fold to a push. A little tilted I push for 13 BB in CO+1 with A4s. As always I get a caller who has 88. Today im lucky and hit another ace on the flop Status right now: 30 500 chips, 144 people left in the tournament, 2050 entrants. 198 ITM. Average is like 28 500. The tournament continues 2PM local time which is in 11 hours. Meanwhile the guys have a small party in the house. Some gangsta rap and stuff. This is Nate. He is.... special. In his own funny way Donny always caps preflop with mallards. (pocket threes) Party picture. Americans and gangsta rap.. sigh. Big Mike who was chippie in the 5k shorthanded event. He ended up getting like $50k. Adam and Nate pwning fish. Random comment: Donny: Nate,lets go to the hot tub. Nate: No, im pwning fish. Was talking some to Hallinggoll today. He wasnt happy with his finish despite getting 40k. He said it only covered 2 nights partying. Cool guy I must say

In 1.5 hours im gonna play my next event which is a 2k NLT. Better luck this time I hope. Yesterday was fun. After going out of the SH event I went back to the house. There I found out that two of the guys in the house were the chipleaders. So the rest of us went back to Rio pretty fast. At the Rio we watched Rahmn grab the Bracelet, go sweden! Our house-boy Big Mike is also second in chips in the shorthanded event. John got busted though. We also played a 1k sng. Back in the house we played some $200 pool-games. I was killing the field. Up $480. Yiahaa. Ill report back later. Some pics: Oh. I looooove my burger. I look scary, right? Alex and JP doing the pushbot. Rahmn showing how good americans are HU.

Just got back from the Rio. Busted from the 5k shorthanded event. The first table I got was really tough. Im in seat 1. Seat 2 has in older guy with a bracelet. Then we got "The Grinder"s little brother. Next seat is Scotty Ngyuen. Then some younger guy, played really TAG. Last player was my friend Tomas Wahlroos. Really really tought table. Tomas bust pretty early, he was really tilted after losing 100k at chinese poker the day before. I manage to work my way up to 10k pretty fast. The guy to my left really wanted to bluff on several streets and I called him down with solid hands. I didnt really get any good hands. Had QQ once and took down the pot preflop. Then I get moved to another table. Then Ken comes up to me and warns me about this one guy at the table which he says is really really good. I try to stay out of his way. Anyway, a LAG guy raises from the button. I find AJd in BB and calls. Flop is 992 with two diamonds. I bet, he calls. Turn Jc, I check-call. River As. I check-call again. He shows K9o. I dont like my play here but hard to get fold at any street really. After this im down to 4k. I find kings, utg raises, lag calls. I decide to call and push any non-ace flop. I really need to double up. Im not happy with just taking the pot preflop. We are four to the flop. 653 with 2 spades. The LAG guy bets at it. I push for another 1200 on top of his bet. He calls with Q9h. I get to 9k. After this Im getting really cold cards and blind down to 8k. Find aces on CO when a new guy sits down into the BB. I raise, he pushes, I call. He shows A4o and pulls a flush on me. Im down to 4k. Blinds eat me a little down to 3k when blinds go up to 150/300. I push with 22 from button, 99 from CO with no calls. The hand I bust out on is when the A4o-guy makes a raise to 900. The woman in SB calls. I push for 3.7k from BB with KQo. The guy pushes and lady folds, he shows TT which holds. Played my best game today but still didnt work. Guess Ill have to wait for some better luck. Tomorrow is 2k NLT. SNG-John is currently 2nd in chips in the 5k event. Big Mike who also lives in the house is the chipleader with over 120k. No idea how one can get a stack of 300BB.... Som pics: Adam is the strange guy in the house. He stares you down... Gangsta-rap David at the seafood restaurant. Little Mike with his girlfriend. This guy is moving around the poker room in his raskall This is my "a mans purse". I think its a bag though.

Han hälsar tillbaka. Han ska iväg på ett bröllop nu och är tillbaka om ett par dagar.

5k event om 2.5 timmar nu. Ska bli grymt skoj. Jag ligger en del back på resan. Svingsen på $530 är inte att leka med... men jag har ju budgeterat med minsta $2M i main så plus på resan lär man väl hamna till slut...

"Mats! Mats! U gotta watch this, its Cops. Best TV-show in America"

Here is a short interview with John: M: How long have u been playing? J: Two years. M: Total winnings? J: 300k M: Im sooooo impressed.... Actually I am. M: Hows a typical day for you? J: Wake up at like 15.00. Turn on microwave food. Take a shower. Get a glass of coke, a glass of cranberrie and some water. Then I eat and go into 12 sngs. Im playing on my laptop. I keep on playing for 3 hours. Take a break, watch TV for 1-2 hours, random shit, europeans dont know it, its called p-o-r-n. THen I go play for another 4-5 hours and then I go to bed. I rarely go outside. I check the mail before I go bed. M: Are you a typical american? J: No, americans are fat and drive around in cars. They also eat burgers each day. Im not fat and I eat thai chicken each day. M: Do you use PT? John: No, its for nerds. M: I read some of your notes. I found the word "euroraise", whats that? J: Its where you raise 1/3-2/5 of your stack and then fold to an all-in raise. All europans do it, no just 97%. M: Best tip to the random $11 sng fish? J: Dont play loose in the early game. M: I notice you have big ears. Sorry, you got headphones. What are you listening to? Random gangsta rap? J: No, Im listening to lots of hardrock music. M: How much do you spend on pants each month? J: Like $60. If you guys wanna ask John some questions, feel free to post them in the commentary section. And for all the girls out there. Another picture of the hot australian musclepack named Jason Mellross.

Ur wish is my law.

Fcuk poker is the topic of today. First hand in the 2.5k pot limit event I look down at queens. UTG who is a russian pro makes it 100. One fishy american calls. I make it 350. THe russian makes a big sigh and thinks for 2 minutes before he repots. TILT. I fold. He shows an ace. I had Allen Cunningham, Noah Boekeen, that russian pro and an asian girl sponsored by Bodog at my table. Pretty tough. Then I get on a cardrush. AQ 5 times. Every time Kxx-flop. I also get AKs and see a flop against Cunningham. Flop is 984 rainbow. He checkraises me all in more or less. Im out after 90 minutes. Requested: A full body picture of a big australian fish.

Im off to play the 2.5k pot limit event at the Rio soon. Meanwhile I have been hearing some really cool stuff at the house Adam is talking a walk to his computer. "Time to pwn some fish" Nate is playing 75/150 FL. "God I love check raising fish" "I dont play on skill, I play on psychic ability"

From now on I will write in english. The guys in the house wants to understand my blog Alex in front. Adam in the middle and John to the left. I tried out the pool today! Lots of stuff has been happening today. Woke up like 10.00. Some online grind and pizza for breakfast. Typical american morning I have been told. Around 12 the others woke up. Shannon went on to play some 25/50. During the whole stay Shannon has been losing money and been kinda easy to deal with. This session he had a huge hand. KQs on a AJx flop with two spades. There is betting and reraising. Turn is a Tc and all the money goes into a 17k pot. Fi has AA and Shannon makes his biggest pot ever. After this he starts singing and smiling all the time. The house now officially hates him. Singing and smiling. We cant stand him. At like 15.00 Adam, John and Jason went out to get some real american lunch. Burgers. I told Adam that all swedes thinks that americans love burgers. I got a quick and good answer from him: "I love burgers almost as much as I love our flag". Adam and his burgers. Random fisk. Then we went to do some shopping. On the way we scouted some average americans. One fourth of all americans drive these. They are for fat people. At the mall Shannon bought a watch. Shannons new watch. Matches the fast food perfectly. Dont you think? Afterwards we went to a great chinese restaurant. Before the dinner we played 1 hour of 2-7 3 draw. Imagine four NL2000 players sitting playing 2/4 FL 2-7-3. It was ALOT of fun, ALOT of action. Poor those tight weak americans sitting at that table. American fish playing 2-7. Me at the dinner. Adam at the dinner. My first fortune coockie ever. Good, I guess. After the dinner all of us, 8 people, went on to play a private table at the Aladdin Casino. The game was at first 2/4 crazy pineapple but turned into a PLO sit n go. Ship it! The private table. Waiting for the ride home. Shannon is about to get pwned heads up PLO. Tomorrow its time for the 1.5k event. Once in a lifetime!

hahahha,, skönt att du förklarar att du är tvungen att pusha innan du gör det Bra att ge lektioner Härligt att vinna båda två ,, tyckte jag såg en del riktigt dåliga spel för att vara så hög nivå. T.ex en hand, Blinds 200/400 en med 2,6k ökar tilll 1000 och när han får omslag allin så foldar han. Kommer grinda $530 i fortsättningen tror jag.

Skoj dag idag. Började med shootouten vid tolvtiden. Det blev bara 600 pers i den så det spelades 100 bord 6-handed. Jag hamnade på samma bord som Iversen. Efter mycket berg-o-dalbana lyckas jag få in ett stort antal big blinds med QQ vs 75 på 772-floppen, lite dåligt spel av mig och jag är ute. Men Iversen donerade ju EPT-vinsten till mig så vi är even En av amerikanerna i huset bustade också första rundan i shootouten så vi stack tillbaka till huset för lite onlinegrind. John som killen heter spelar $215 sngs. Cirka 3000 i månaden. Han är DUKTIG. Fick mig ett par lektioner och spelade sen 9st $530 sngs. Hur ska man inte kunna plussa 8k på det liksom? Lite senare på kvällen drog jag och Sveriges Bästa Pokerspelare plus några till till ett av de andra casinon i Vegas för lite live 5/10 NL. Riktigt sjuka potter mellan mig och Jonas blev det. Lyckades till slutet få ihop en 4k pott med bottenset. Tyvärr hade en av de andra i potten mellanset så det blev back 1.3k på livespelet. Ändå bra plus idag. Liten lista på de saker som amerikanerna retar mig för. -Min väska, en vanlig axelremsväska. "a mans purse" -Min tur... oväntat.. Imorgon blir det inga events. Får se vad som händer. På onsdag är det dags för $1500 NLT. Once in a lifetime då kanske? Lite bilder från dagen... John. Sjukt bra sng-spelare. David. En av de jag träffade i Wien som erbjöd mig plats i huset. Mikes frukost. Massa skaldjur. Cola och Sprite. Nån fisksoppa och ett gäng friterade grejer. Låter smarrigt. Mike till vänster. I mitten en average american... typ. I mitten Rio där WSOP hålls. Till vänster två höga byggnader, Palms. Där kommer jag bo under main event.

Försökte få tag på dig hela dagen ju Ses på shootouten!