I saw ”The Hangover” a couple days before I went to Las Vegas. For you who haven’t seen it I must say it’s the funniest movie I have ever seen. Those of you who have seen it probably understood I came to Vegas with great expectations and I must say it was even more fun than I expected.

I went out a couple of days with all the Swedish friends and it was a lot of fun. A friends friend who I met and hang with in Vegas got married to a Swedish 31 year old girl who we met the day before they married. They saved their first kiss until the altar when the priest said ”you may now kiss your bride”. All this was a really crazy night and there’s one thing that we all are really happy about… we got it all on tape!

Pokerwise I didn’t play anything other then the main event. I had a really soft table the first day but was a bit said since I only finished the day with 54k in chips which felt a bit bad. I did one mistake that I wish I didn’t make but other than that I was happy with my play.

The second day I got a pretty soft table as well except that I had Phil Ivey to my right which wasn’t that irritating thou since I had position. He didn’t start with a huge stack but sucked out two guys early so after that he had a lot of chips. I must say Phil played really good and slaughtered the table but the funny thing was that I slaughtered Phil a lot. I really used my position and Phil raised very much so I did a lots of 3-bet and floated much. It all worked great for me since I had great timing versus him and I was super aggressive against him but still controlled.

I picked up all the chips from him that he took from others. So after winning like 17 of the 20 pots we played against each other in the four hours we played I had built my stack up to around 110k. At this time it felt like Phil was steaming a bit and really wanted to get me out of the way. I knew that he thought if I only can get rid of this guy I’ll have the table all for myself.

However after five hours of super aggressive play from our parts Phil raises to 2200 in mid/late position and I 3-bet to 6700 with AK in position. He did the first 4-bet to 20k which I had been waiting for so I thought it was a great time to move in. Not because I thought I would get called of with a worse hand but because I was pretty sure he would 4-bet bluff me some time soon since I really had to push my whole big stack into the middle which I wasn’t going to do without a hand.

Unfortunately for me he called after 30 seconds of thinking and showing KK. I didn’t suck out so I went out in a 230k pot at 400/800 with a ante of 100. Even thou I got it in bad this time I was really happy with my play and it felt like I really slaughtered Phil and was a pain in the ass for him.

Now, back in Stockholm I have taken the time to hang out with my friends and just had a lot of fun. I’m going back to Lund in a week or something to grind a bit of poker and study for some test I haven’t finished yet.

Good Luck to all of you until next time!

I flew to Paris from Copenhagen on Thursday to meet up with Ramzi, Michael Thureniec, Nichlas Mattsson and Patric Mårtensson and play the 10k euro event in Paris. They all played day1A and Michael, Mattsson and Patric got through the day with good stacks to day2. I played day1B and got a really tough first table. I sat out of position to Anthony Le Louche, Freddy Deeb, Elky and Elky’s girlfriend. This table wasn’t very bad normally but if you compare it to the other tables it really was terrible.

The structure of the tournament was great. All players start with 20k in chips and the blinds start at 25/50. Each level lasted for 90 minutes. Since I sat out of position to some guys that can play decent poker I decided to take it easy in the start and see how things would evolve. They went in my favor even though I dropped down from 20k to around 15k in a pot versus Anthony.

In that particularly pot a bad French player limped in middle position for 50 chips and I raised 250 with QQ on the button. Anthony raised to 750 from the big blind, the limper folded and I called. Flop was 633. Anthony bet out 700 and I raised to 1900 and he called. Turn was a 7 and Anthony checked to me as I bet 3400 and then he raised me to about 8000 to which I folded after some thinking.
After a while after this pot Freddy Deeb got short, Anthony went out and Elky got short. All really good things for me. Anthony told me that he had 45 for a straight in the hand versus me after he busted so for what it’s worth.

I grinded my stack for a while got moved and then got up to about 40k. After that I just raised a lot not really catching anything specific but I just had a really good table and good timing. I built my stack up to 145,6k as day1B was finished. I felt very good about the way I played and was really proud to have that many chips without any really big setups or spectacular cards.

In day 2 I continued to raise a lot as I got a really soft table. I built my stack up to 200k and got moved to a tougher table where I slowed down and took it easy for a while. After some hours we were down to the money and last 18 players. After that I ran into set with AK when I bluffed and miscalculated a players stack which sadly was a pretty big mistake. This happened when we were down to the last 14 players. After that I got my last 60k in on a coinflip which I of course lost and I was disappointed and out as a 14th place finisher.

I had a lot of fever the last two hours of my tournament and still feel very sick. I went home on the Sunday and now I’m gonna try to get rid of all the fever as fast as possible so I will be able to play the Swedish Championship in Tallin on Thursday.

The first minute I entered the pokerroom in the casino in Dortmund I saw Michael Tureniec. Day1A was at the 2nd level playing with the blinds 50/100 and as I just enter to rail Michael a bit he busts out. My flow in the EPT Dortmund on my first day wasn’t much better. Something just didn’t feel right. After busting out day one me and Michael went out for a night in Dortmund and had some fun to recharge the batteries for the 2k euro sidevent taking place a couple of days later.

In some weird way it felt like I had more power for this event. Both Michael and I made day two but sadly Michael went out on the bubble. I had achieved a great stack at this time and was just sitting there playing to win as usual. In the field of 30 players there were a couple good players remaining.
At the final five I could honestly say that all of the players remaining were really good poker players. This was kind of fun because actually it is not often that you can say that about the remaining five players of a tournament since tournament poker still contains a good amount of luck.

I’m a bit sad that I can’t say I had that luck in the end as I went out with AQ vs AJ and catching the fourth place of 35k euro instead of winning the event. Now a couple of days later I’m happy about it but I always want to win so just after I bust out it usually feels bad.

Now, finally home again I have a lot of study to do before my exam in the end of this week and after that I’m taking a two week trip to USA with a good friend of mine. We’re planning to spend a couple of days in Vegas but after that we’re planning to drive around in California just catching whatever is on the road.

I think my next big tournament will be San Remo. Until then, have fun!

EPT Copenhagen started really good for me. I got a nice table to start at and my flow was really good. It felt like I won every pot I entered and the life was just great. However I got moved to a new table after getting my stack up to about 30k in the first hours. At the new table I had some tougher players like Theo Jörgensson and some others. The table was so aggressive that I decided to sit back for a while and not get into the action too much without a solid hand. Of course I did some moves here and there.

After some time I got moved to what the media called “Table of Death” in this tournament. This table was filled with good poker players like Annette Obrestadt and more. The media people told me that Gus Hansen, Elky and Michael Tureniec already had been knocked out at this table. It went better for me and I grinded my stack up to almost the double amount of chips that I sat down at the table with. After two hours at this table it was time to go home to sleep and continue day two tomorrow.

My day two was not going as well as my first day but it was still pretty good. I think I played very good but the timing was never really there and I went out after the dinner break when I made a move with my A8s and got called by AJo. The board gave me nothing and I was out.
Hopefully I will have more luck in Dortmund where the next EPT is located. It’s not long time away now, because I’m going there in a week! I will write a new blog from there, hopefully with a better result to report!

Don’t miss out on the live reporting about Molle and the rest of the Team that will take place here in the blog from EPT Dortmund, on the 10th to 14th of Mars!

I arrived to Prague a couple of hours after Ramzi. He had already checked into the hotel where we were supposed to stay and the hotel were the EPT was supposed to be hosted at. It was the same beautiful Hilton hotel as last year. Normally I really think the Hilton hotels are overpriced and overrated but this one is really nice. The big open lobby is amazing and at Christmastime it gets even better with a gigantic Christmas tree and other kind of decoration.

The main event wasn’t very fun for me. I started out playing pretty safe at a good table, just grinding it out. After a couple of levels I got moved to a tougher table but with a couple of really bad players. I saw about 4 pots between a good Frenchmen and a crazy older guy from Prague or something. The older guy made huge mistakes at almost every street in the four pots I saw so I was hoping to catch him as soon as possible.

The first pot I got active in was when a pretty fishy guy limps in for 300 chips from the cutoff. I complete in the small blind with 42s and the crazy old guy checks in the big blind. The flop came A53 with a flushdraw, Jackpot! There were 900 in the pot plus eight antes of 25 each. I bet out for 600 chips, the crazy old guy calls and the limper raises to 2000 chips. I decided that I couldn’t give freecards to both of them since the crazy guy in big blind probably would call if I only called. With that in mind I pushed for almost 10k chips where the crazy old guy mutters something like “I don’t want to call, but I can’t slowplay anymore” then he called and the limper folded.

I think I never got so surprised when the old crazy guy turned up his cards. I thought he had A3, A5, 55m 33 or maybe worse… but no, he turns up AA? The turncard is a 5 and my nutstraight is now totally dead.

After the tournament I convinced Ramzi to stay in Prague instead of taking an early flight home to Stockholm. Prague is a fun city and I was in the mood for a fun night out. Actually we went out a big Swedish gang a couple of nights. Ramzi and I also played some sideevents, a 500euro tournament with one rebuy and a 2000euro freezeout.

In the 2k euro sideevent both Ramzi and I were deep into the 2nd day. I think we both were very convinced that someone in a RedKings-shirt were going to win when we made the finaltable

Of course Ramzi was the man with the most luck so he scooped the event when I had to be happy with a 4th place. Ramzi got about 100k euro and I got about 30k. The trip was a successful one in every way. We won some money, got the RedKings logo out there and had a couple of fun nights out. I really hope we find the rush now!

My next big tournament is EPT Deauville in about two weeks. Until then, Good luck at the tables!

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