It was Warsaw to give place for the next EPT event. I arrived in the city one day earlier to look around and get use to the Polish atmosphere. It is said that Krakkow is the number one city to visit for tourists, but despite of the fact that Warsaw is not a dream place for history lovers, I liked the huge impressive scyscrapers and the modern look of the city, it was built to be a well organised and comfortable place to stay. And it is also reflected on the people, all I met were kind and nice locals, not talking about the beauty of the girls which must be world famous.

I started the tourney on day 1B and I managed to receive a very hard first table. It was a mixture of live professionals - like Roland de Wolfe who sat on my right - and agressive online players. I also spotted the Italian man at my table who knocked me out last time at Budapest.

One guy already finished the tournament after the first hand, so I expected an agressive game which I wasn’t mistaken. It was common to see a raise, then a reraise and even sometimes an allin. I tried to build my stack wit small pots, but I lost all the biggest ones, so when the table was broken up I only had the 2/3 of my stack.

My new table seemed to be easier, but I couldn’t play my agressive game due to my stack size, so mostly I played my strong hands with mostly less luck, there was a point when I was down to 1/3 of the starting chip. It was the time after the dinner break and arriving back at the tables I was dealt an AK – AQ – AK series with which I went allin with a result of one folding all, one split and one double up.

So I was back at business, but still not standing too good and closed the day at the half of the avarage knowing that next day I need to double up to stay in the tournament. And everything went as I planned, I doubled my stack with a pair of tens and after later on I won a relative big pot with a pair of aces, so I arrived at the avarage which meant for me the start point of playing harder. However my moves weren’t welcomed by the other players at my tables who answered with big reraises. So I had to go back for the short stack game and keep waiting for good cards to bulid my stack.

On the second day it was down to 34 players when I was forced to finish the tournament. Once I doubled up with a pair of 8s against deuces, but was fighting all the time for the survive playing with hardly any chips.

I had 40.000 when the avarage was 60.000 and still it was 10 players until the money and until the finish of the day. So I knew that I need to risk my stack in some way. I sat before the dealer when I looked down to pocket nines, perfect hand for me I thought. I raised with it and in the big blind Arnaud Mattern, last year’s EPT Prague winner went allin with the same stack I had. I knew that he is a really good players and capable of doing it with a wide range of hands, so I called and he showed A10. The flop came K-Q-J which gave him a straight and for me meant the end of the game.

I would have been much happier if I could go on for the 3rd day, but in poker you need a small amount of luck too, which this time I missed, but I will not give up, at the next EPT in Prague I will do my best to finish at the very front.

Hello! I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jonas Molander, I’m 22 years old and I’ve been playing poker for about four years. I’m born and raised in Sweden and I recently moved from Stockholm to a smaller student town in southern Sweden called Lund. Here I play poker fulltime but I’m still trying to get some studies done on the side for fun.

I’ve been playing most of the big live tournaments in Europe since three years back and now I got the great honor to do it together with RedKings! That’s not all; I also got company by one of my best friend Ramzi Jelassi who is a really great Swedish pokerplayer as well.

Our first tournament in the RedKings clothes was the European Poker Tour – Warzaw. I had a good starting table there and tried my best to get some chips but I didn’t have to much support from lady luck. After a while I got moved to a worse table where I got the seat out of position of another really good friend and pokerplayer from Sweden. I played tight without anything spectacular except some steals here and there when the moments where good.

I made day two with about twelve bigblinds which wasn’t very good but it is always good to have your tournament life left. I had a good start on day two fighting players like Dario Miniri and some others. I more than doubled my stack without having any showdown which was good. Then I did a move with A9o and got called by two sixes. No support from lady luck and I was out on the classic coinflip.

The trip wasn’t over because I was out of the tournament though. We were a couple of Swedes who lived together and had a lot of fun. Some good lunches at the shopping mall and then we went out two nights. The both nights were awesome; it’s always fun to go out with people you haven’t met in a while. One of the nights two Americans joined us aswell. Michael Martins who won the EPT – London this year and his friend. We had a great time and it’s always fun to meet new people!

Now in a couple of days I and Ramzi are going to Prague for the next EPT. I’m going to try to get to the gym two times before so I get my focus on top. On Sunday I’m also going to play the $5k tournament on RedKings which should be a good warm-up as well. I really love big tournaments because they make me think on a whole new level and I’m always trying to develop my game the most in those tournaments.

I will also be playing two bounty tournaments on RedKings where you can join up and use your mind or balls to beat me and the other team RedKings players. Tomorrow at 19.35CET there will be a $11 tournament with $70.000 guaranteed and added bountys on all team RedKings players. If you knock one of us out you will get a $320 ticket to a live event final where you can qualify for an EPT event or Aussie Millions!

That’s not all! On Sunday RedKings is hosting a $500 freeroll at 20.00CET where the winner also gets a ticket for the live event final. If you knock one of the team RedKings players out you also get $100 deposited to your account!

I hope I’ll see you all in the tournaments! Until that, Good luck

Im back in Sweden right now waiting for my flight to next event, Amsterdam masters classics that is! Im gonna stay there for 9 days, long trip compared to my usual ones and Im really looking forward to it!

So far I really enjoy travelling and playing big tournaments with the guys on the Redkings team! Though after making it to 2nd day with a decent stack in EPT Barcelona, London and also Budapest but still not making any money, it feels kinda meeh..In general Im satisfied with my performance throughout all the tournaments.

Without complaining to much I got sucked out bigtime during 2nd day in Barca, In london I think I took too many gambles when getting close to the money, at that moment I felt my stack was big enough (bout 100k) that I could use it and get plenty of fold equity against smaller stacks. Even if I splashed around it would higher my % for making the finaltable (since table played nitty) and at the same time have a very slight chance for going busto before the money..In Budapest I chipped upped playing smallball poker all the way, I never really had a huge stack by any means. At the 500/1000, a:100 level I had a good oppurtunity to make a squeezplay with 8-5s with a stack of about 22k. Pot was about 8k already so if I got fold over 50% (which I was very certain of) I would make tons of chips on average.. Iversen picked up ak and unfortunitely I bricked and was sent to the rail.

I just won my seat to the $1000+40 monthly “Grand Tournament” on Redkings, its definitly one of the best tournaments online and also its not that hard winning a seat actually! Hope seeing you there or in any other events Im playing. Good luck at the tables!

Team Redkings Member

Jesper “Jeppish” Höög

As a Team RedKings player I participated at the EPT in Budapest. I waited this event very much as I wanted to prove in the first ever Hungarian EPT event.

A meeting was arranged for our team before the tournament, so I arrived a few hours earlier to the casino to the get know the other Team RedKings players, Jesper and Tony and the representetives of RedKings who arranged everything for us, players to feel comfortable during the whole tournament.

This was the first time I met the guys and I can assure you that they are all nice guys So we were talking a lot and had an easy dinner before the tournament which didn’t decrease our hunger for collecting as many chips as possible.

My table seemed to be good for the first look except the fact, that a fellow Hungarian, Denes Kalo was my big blind who already finished twice in second position at the EPTs. All other players were unknown for me.
My table was really tight with a lot of limping and calling, but without many raises.

In the first few rounds I receieved twice a pair of aces and even had a set, but as normally I wasn’t paid so early in the tourney and I even lost with the set. So I first went down, but later on I managed to come back with stealings and with a full house I went over the avarage in the middle of the day.

Then as players were knocked out from my table, new faces arrived who were more dangerous than the others on their seats before. Mostly a French guy caused the most problems for me, he seemed to be playing a decent aggresive game, raising with a wide range of hands and won many small pots.

I decided to get over the control of the table, so I also started to be more agressive which this time didn’t work for me, once a pair of queens weakened me and after loosing another big pot I became shortstack. So I started to wait for my hand to double up, but my King Jack wasn’t enough against the opponent’s pair of fives. After playing 10 hours I had to finish the tournament just half an hour before the end of day 1. I hope I will do much better at the forecoming EPTs.

However I really enjoyed playing this tournament, the atmosphere was extremely good and I feel that I played a good game which didn’t work this time, but hopefully will work next time.

What I also found remarkable that only our team, Team RedKings did really have a team spirit. From starting the day together we came together in the brakes, discussed the hands and encouraged each other during the whole tournament. I am happy to be a member of such a fantastic team and would like to thank for RedKings all the help during the tournament.