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Yesterday it wasn’t that easy to celebrate the arriving spring – it was grey and rainy – so I and my boyfriend decided to go for a drink instead of moping in front of the TV. We went to a terrific little Irish pub nearby and drank pints of Guinness. In my bag I happened to have a deck of cards that I had received as promotion from an
online poker site. We decided to play once we had taken our seats in a cosy booth. Neither I nor my boyfriend has much experience in poker playing, though we both enjoy it, competitive as we are.

Quite soon I started getting the feeling that he had more luck in the game than I had. It might very well sound as though I am just a bad loser, but fact of the matter is that after each round when we compared cards, he had gotten a better hand than I almost every time. This made me very frustrated, since I kept coming out as the loser even though I didn’t play poorly. Luckily enough we didn’t play for money…

After swallowing my pride I decided that the only smart thing I could do was just to play the best I can, regardless of the hand I’d been given. As soon as I really started focusing, it immediately paid off. Maybe I got cards that were a bit better than earlier, but most importantly I realized that I hadn’t played aggressively enough. Instead of folding when I was unsure, I tried betting in a way that made him fold. We started ordering more beers, which was good since it added to the game, but bad because it made me loose focus again.

He kept teasing me when I lost, and I decided that I would do everything in my power to win over him and get that smirk off his face.

Then suddenly I was holding a Ten and a Nine when the flop showed a Jack, a Two and an Eight. “You want to play for the tab?”, I asked in a moment of too much courage. He, apparently holding something – which I in reality didn’t – agreed to this suggestion right away. My heart started pounding a bit harder. The odds for me getting a Seven or a Queen wasn’t on my side. The next card was …a Seven.

I have almost never felt that kind of triumph, actually it made me so happy that I offered to split the bill with him. I don’t care that I had lost pretty much every round up until then. I had won the one that mattered.

I have started playing with Rakeback. This is a super sweet deal to get a little extra money out of the poker rooms. Didn’t know about it until I read an article on Pokeriot a couple of days ago. The deal with rakeback is that you get a percentage of your total rake paid back to your account. If you play seriously you can get a whole lot of rake and that means a whole lote of rakeback.

Found a new Blog toplist, looks pretty nice.

I just can’t believe it. I played all night and I managed to run in to pocket jacks no matter what I had. It all started at about 2 am when I was playing for the small blinds with the fish. I kicked in $11, all I had brought to the table and instantly got called by some nub. I had a pocket pair of aces and the highest card on the table was a jack, I was damned sure until I saw the cards. Pocket Jacks. Just an hour after that I called a big bet when I was sitting on the highest pair in the flop, I had pair of tens with an Ace kicker. Felt pretty good until after the river he shows me pocket jacks and takes all my money.

I hate jacks.

Lots and lots of people are a bit scared about signing up on a poker room. I’m not. The reason most people are a bit scared is becasue they consider online poker a shady business. I claim the opposit and here is why:

Online Poker is a business where you make lots and lots of money.
By running a poker room you make lots of money, risking those big bucks to do shady business is just stupid.

If people trust you, you make more money.
Trust is important in the poker business. If you get people to trust you, they will deposit more money, play more poker and you will make more money. If they don’t trust you, you are screwed.

If you have a goose that lays golden eggs, You don’t want to start with any tricks.
If you are the ceo of a poker company, you are a rich guy. You make lots and lots of money. Would you try to start scamming a few extra bucks?

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I play a lot of nightly games with Americans, the reason for this is that I have a feeling (a not very well grounded feeling, but still) that people from the US play more for leisure. Europeans always give me the feeling that they play to make a living. My idea is that people playing for fun will be more loose with their money.

I make pretty good money at these nigthly games and most of the time I win. The problem with playing against rookies is that they will call to much. I know, of course, that in the long run I will beat them. In the short run I’m usually at 60-40. This means 40% of the times they actually do hit the flush or that straight they’ve been drawing for and it makes me insane.

It doesn’t matter that I know that they are supposed to do it 40% of the times. It doesn’t matter that I know I get their money in the long run. I go crazy.

This is my blog about internet poker. I’m a good internet poker player living in Sweden. I play at 24h and Chilipoker at the moment and I’m pretty happy with the gambling there. If you want to read more about my poker games, follow this blog.