“I was above average (60k) in SB position and after all players fold, and I
get pocket Jacks, I raise 5x the BB. The BB calls, flop comes: 7 - 7 - 2. I
go all-in, being persuaded he doesn’t have a 7, my opponent calls with AK
suited. But the turn shows an A and the river merciless a K!

I played this hand like this for 2 essential reasons: first my opponent had
more or less the same stack as I did (62k), so it was obviously dangerous
for him to call, risking to go out, and secondly because he was a pretty
aggressive player pre-flop, and because he didn’t raise I imagined he
doesn’t have a good hand. But finally because the only 2 odds out of 6 he
had to win they came out, he won and I was out….”

Article in Italian:

Esco in pieno average (60K) in posizione di SB dopo che tutti foldano ed io
spillando JJ raiso 5 volte il BB. Il BB fa call, scende il flop 7-7-2
rainbow, io mando la vasca in all-in per i resti e lui fa call mostrando AK
suited. Turn A River K senza pieta’!

Ho fatto questa giocata per due motivi essenziali, la prima il mio
avversario aveva il mio stesso stack (62k esattamente) per cui reputavo che
avesse difficolta’ a fare call rischiando di uscire, secondo specialmente
perche’ era un giocatore abbastanza aggressivo e preflop non ha reisato
dimostrando una mano buona collando un mio rilancio spropositato ma non
ottima (gli davo da A-10 ad A-Q) e visto il flop 7-7-2 ero certo che non
avesse il 7. Purtroppo pero’ la dea bendata ha deciso di far uscire
addirittura 2 dei 6 out che il mio avversario aveva…. comunque altro in
the money nel cassetto!

A presto!

Silvio

And his position ITM shows here:

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/results.asp?grid=764&tid=10845

On Sunday Silvio played the $1000 NL of the WSOP at Rio, he finished day1
but a bit short stacked: 12.000 with an average pot of 23.000 but everything
is not lost yet. From 5000 people, 520 are still there, first 20 ITM. First
place 1.000.000, not bad…
Today he is playing Day2, once we have news we keep you posted.

Post in Italian:

Ciao! oggi ho giocato il 1.000 no-limit delle WSOP al Rio e dopo una grande
battaglia sono riuscito a superare il day1 anche se sono un po’ corto… Ho
12.000 con l’ average a 23.000 ma tutto ancora si puo’ giocare. Considera
che da 5.000 persone i rimasti sono 520 e tra 20 persone si e’ in the money.
Lunedi ho il day2 e chiaramente ti aggiorno immediatamente ma tu sollecita
il mio inserimento nel sito perche’ cominciamo a farci vedere
molto!!!!!!!!!!!!
Un saluto grande!!! Il primo posto vale 1.000.000 …….. niente male…
A presto!!!

He played the final table of Megastack series from Caesars Palace Casino! Read bellow what
happened there:

6th level (300 / 600) : UTG limpin’ in, I get pocket 2s, raise 2.2k to steal the blinds, SB folds, BB calls and UTG folds. Flop comes A - 10 - 4, and I bet 3/4 of the pot to see where BB stands, BB calls. 7 on the turn, he checks, hoping for a miracle on the river, BB checks also. On the river - the 2 comes out. I overbet to make it seem like I was tryin’ to steal the pot. Surprise: BB calls and shows a pair of Aces, I show 3 of a kind and take the pot of 120k when the average pot was 50.

2500 / 5000 level, antes 500: I receive AK in BB position, all fold, dealer limping in, I raise 18k (pot: 120k), dealer calls. Flop comes: 8 - A - K. He checks, I pretend I am thinking about it, then bet 35k. Instantly he goes all-in… At this point I am thinking: with a pair - 88, AA, KK I would have
raised pre-flop, so in this case I have all the odds on my side, I call, he shows K- 8 and so far everything has been foreseen…But the turn show an 8 and the river a 4, he’s got 3 of a kind and I am player out…just to prove that in this game the only thing unpredictable is the final result.

Read the full blog in italian:
Sesto livello (300/600) limp dell’ Utg ed io da bottone spillo 22 ed esco raisando per 2,2K nel tentativo di prendere la mano. Fold dello SB, call del BB e fold dell’ Utg. Flop negativo per me: A-10-4, io esco con 3/4 di pot per vedere il big blind dove sta’ e lui ci pensa un po’ e poi call. 7 al river ed a questo punto chek per me sperando di trovare un miracolo nel river, check dell’ Utg ed il miracolo si concretizza perche’ nel river cade un 2! Io a questo punto faccio una overbet cercando di fare intendere di voler rubare il piatto convinto che il BB mi avrebbe pagato se avesse avuto
A con qualsiasi kicker e anche qualcosa di meno visto che non avevo dimostrato parecchia forza nella mano. Lui infatti call, io mostro il mio set di 3 e lui scopre l’ asso. Mano che mi porta a 120K con l’ average a 50

Sedicesimo livello, player out: esco cosi’ al nono posto in the money per 1.260$. Ante 500 buoi 2500/5000. Tutti fold, limp del bottone (un giocare superloose chipleader in quel momento con 230k average a 120k) ed io sul BB spillando AK off raiso per 18k (davanti ho 120k). Lui fa call ed al flop
esce 8-A-K. Io penso e’ fatta e volevo incastrarlo al meglio ma la mano va cosi’: lui check, io faccio finta di pensarci un po’ ma so’ esattamente quello che voglio, betto 35k e lui senza pensarci va instant all in! A questo punto io non gli faccio set perche’ con 88, AA, KK avrebbe re-reisato preflop e quindi sono sicuro che stia dietro in un qualche progetto. Ho tutte le odds per chiamare e dopo qualche secondo vado con il call. Lui mostra K-8 e fin qui tutto piu’ o meno previsto. Quello che in questo gioco spesso risulta imprevedibile e’ il risultato finale, puoi giocare bene quanto vuoi ma al momento opportuno c’e’ bisogno che la dea bendata ti dia una picola mano per portarti avanti. Cosi’ non e’ stato oggi infatti il turner e’ un 8 ed il river un 4 per un set di 8 che mi fa’ player out al nono posto.

Noi pero’ andiamo avanti!!!

Un saluto! Silvio

12 June 2010 – RedKings Poker Team pro Ramzi Jelassi showed his awesome live poker talent yesterday by winning the 2010 Helsinki Midnight Sun in Finland.

The 2850€ buy-in tournament drew a field of 139 players with Jelassi taking down an impressive 117000€ first prize.

This was Jelassi’s fourth money finish after winning the IPT San Remo in August last year. With two EPT money finishes and two wins in the last 11 months the star of Swedish poker is finally achieving the results so many poker people in the know have been expecting for some time now.

Determined to win the famous Gnome which goes to the Midnight Sun winner huge chip leader Jelassi made a deal in the final stages to be declared the winner of the Tournament. Commented Jelassi, “I have played the Midnight Sun and Helsinki Freezeout quite a few times now and being part Finnish I just wanted to go home with the Gnome this time . It cost me some money but it’s like winning a WSOP bracelet in this part of the world so it was very important to me”
Commented RedKings Poker Director Michael Golembo, “we are delighted for Ramzi for yet another fantastic win. He is such a great guy and as a poker player and ambassador for RedKings he is just outstanding. The whole of RedKings congratulates him and we all look forward to seeing him in action again soon. Live Poker, Ramzi Jelassi and Team RedKings are very important part of our online poker strategy which will become even more apparent when we announce our first major Live Tournament in the next few weeks.”

Team RedKings comprises Poker pros like Swedish Ramzi Jelassi and Finnish champion Toni Ojala, first time live poker tournament players chosen by RedKings and players who qualify through the huge number of Live Poker Events promoted online at RedKings. RedKings has tournament guarantees of over $16,000,000 each month and qualifiers for their online live poker event satellites start from as little as $2.00.

3-giugno-2010

L’arrivo a Las Vegas

Arrivare a Vegas di notte ha un fascino senza precedenti, atterrate a
Sin City e vedere tutte queste luci ti fanno venire la pelle d’oca,
alle 23 ero già al locale di Flaminio (un must per tutti i pro
italiani che vengono a Vegas), Flaminio ti accoglie come nessuno sa
fare, carbonara ricca e poi di corsa al Venitian a riposare perché il
giorno dopo si gioca l’evento numero 11, no-limit holdem buy in
1.500$. Di italiani ce ne sono tanti ma al tavolo capito con un
personaggio famoso, tanto famoso ma no nel poker, un certo Boris
Becker, ora in un team di poker. Di certo non un avversario insidioso
infatti dopo un paio d’ore viene eliminato dopo un call quanto meno
azzardato. Il mio torneo e’ faticoso dal primo minuto, le carte non
arrivano ed io stringo i denti in attesa di tempi migliori ma la
struttura non ti da tutto questo tempo e dopo un po’ di tentativi di
furtarelli dei bui più o meno riusciti ecco la meno che sembrava
chiamarmi. Era quasi la fine del day 1, 2.500 iscritti rimasti in 800,
270 premi quindi basterebbe un po’ di fortuna in questi momenti e
tutto sarebbe perfetto, la mano e’ questa: buy 400-800 limp del
giocatore under the gan, limp in Middle position ed io sul bottone con
AK suited esco con una bet considerevole, 3.200. A questo punto fold
di: small blind, big blind e under the gun. Il giocatore in middle ci
pensa un po’ e dopo fa call. Flop straordinario, A-K-2 rainbow, il
giocatore rimasto fa 2.500 ed io mando i resti per 14.000. Instant
call del giocatore in middle che mostra 2-2 e chiaramente il set gli
regge fino alla fine… Tutti a casa mae’ solo l’inizio, il bello deve
arrivare e noi siamo pronti a prendercelo!!!
Alla prossima, Silvio Crisari

Please find bellow the second article written on his participation to Deepstack Tournament extravaganza at Venetian:

475 players / buy-in 560$ / Prize pool: 273.500$

Dopo 4 livelli piatti finalmente una buona mano, Io sono sul bottone, limp dell’ Utg, io raiso 1.2k con AK suited ,Utg call, si va’ heads up. Flop K-J-3 rainbow. Check dell’ Utg, io bet 2.1k e Utg call. Turn A, Utg bet 5k ed io a questo punto vado all in per 18k, instant call dell’Utg che scopre AJ. River 8 e double up per me che vado a 40K con average 18k. Esco dal torneo al 10th livello (bui 600/1.200 ante 100) limp dell’ UTG, limp dell’ UTG+1 e limp del cutoff, io sul bottone spillo A-A e decido di prendere tutti i dead money che ci sono in mezzo pushando forte 7k. Tutti fold il cutoff va all in per 55k (era il chipleader del tavolo), io call e lui mostra A-10 cuori suited. Flop 10-9-4 con due cuori turn 10 e river 5 di cuori. Esco dal torneo con rammarico ma non c’e'tanto tempo, domani gia si ricomincia, non sara’ ne la prima ne l’ ultima bad beat….. a domani!

Silvio

This is in my opinion one of the best destinations within the EPT circuit, both when it comes to the value in the tournament and the cashgames and the city itself. The tournament is played out in the Hilton hotel where most of the players stay during the week. Unfortunately the tournament didnt last to long on my part this time and I can give you guys a brief of the reason for that.

We start with 30k and blinds 50/100 one hour levels, as usual this season. One of the very first hands i pick up a pair of eights, this elder guy raises to 275 in early position I make the call and so does the player in the big blind. Flop comes down _Jd _9c _8c, the preflop-raiser bets 800, and I make the call and the BB folds. Turn is _Qh, and he quickly checks, I think about it for a while and check behind. River is the _Jc, giving me a full house and puts a possible flush out there. A little surprising the preflop-raiser makes a relatively big bet of 2300, I thougt for a while and came to the conclusion raising had little merit to it, so I made the call. He showed me _9h _9d and higher full house. Not to much happened on this table before i moved to a new table, which was filled with a bunch of French guys playing literally every hand. This is pretty awesome as long as you catch some cards and that the hands you get into turns out well.

There was a old guy on the table which liked to limp a lot from all positions and he was frequently isolated by several players. Once again he limps in from mid position on blinds 150/300, one of the young French guys makes it 750 and I make the call for 450 more from my bb with _7h _8h, so does the limper.
The flop comes down _2c _5s _7d, and we check to the pre-raiser, which bets 1600 , I make the call, and the limper folds. Turn is a _Kh and I check again, he bets 4200, I’m like 90% sure he’s bluffing, my reasoning beeing he seemed like the kind of guy just firing on what he thought was a scarecard which in this case I dont think a king is at all vs a guy like him. I didn’t think he would valuebet turn with less than a king to often and then he have more bluffs then honest hands in his range combined with his timing etc, so I call. The river is a _9c I check and he checks rather quickly and we turn over and he obviously has _Jc _9s FTW.

Even though it’s a good structure this pot was quite important and brought me down to under 20k.
I folded for a few orbits, before this hand occurs: it’s opened to 800 from early mp, the limping guy calls, so does one more player before it’s me on the button and I pick up _Ah _Kd, and I raise it to 3800. Originalraiser folds, before the limping machine decides to call, and the other guy folds.
Flop comes _JC _4h _5d and he checks, I think a bit and decide to continue bet 4500, my reasoning is that he was the kind of guy who could have everything from 22 to 89suited to the same hand as me etc. So even though a check might be better since he’s never folding much better hands and seemed so ultrarecreational, I still could not help myself since checking most of the time loses me the pot.
He obviously check-raises me all-in and I have to fold.

Then I move table again, this time it seemed like a more skillfull table with Luca Pagano and a few others i recognized. I am down to like 14k, and I raise _Ad _9d to 800 from middle position and get a caller on cutoff and the bb. The flop comes down 982 with two hearts, and I bet out 2100, getting called from the cutoff and the bb folds. The turn brings a good card for me the _As, i think for a while and since i was quite sure the player i was up against was a thinking player I tried to represent a bluff (and obv protect my hand is one of the upsides) by moving all-in with a slight overbet of 10k into the 7500 pot. He thinks for a while and makes the call with _6h _7h for a flushdraw and an open-ender.
The river is dealt and its a _3h and the tournament is over for me.

The cash games in Prague is always quite amazing, and I managed to take down a nice profit in a couple of sessions.

The rest of the week was spent partying with my Norwegian and Swedish friends.

Have a nice christmas!

EPT Barcelona 2009 is history and I am back home in Norway. The main event didn’t go to well for me unfortunately, and I busted already at day 1. I will go through some hands that came up during the tournament.

This year all the regular EPT’s will have a 30k starting stack and blinds will start at 50/100 with one hour levels. Not much happened the first two levels on my part, I didn’t catch any hands or situations so I just relaxed and managed to get a good feel of how the table was playing.

When the 150/300 level started I had about 30k where this hand starts:
UTG raises to 800(very passive middle aged guy which seemed very tight and honest in my impression the first levels) I am dealt kings in middle position and make it 2300, everyone folds over to him and he literally says “hmmmm” and makes it 6k straight after a short while. Ok this has developed to a big hand now and I was very unsure what to do right there and then, but i thought for a while and landed
on the call option.

There where several reasons for this:
1. there is a big chance he has a big big hand like aces or in the less likely case kings.
2. I’m quite sure i will be able to get a very good read on this player of his betsizing on the flop, his body language and so on, so that I’m able to make a more accurate decision than just smashing it in thinking I got 100bb with kings if he’s got me, he’s got me (like I would do in a cashgame).

Against a competent aggressive opponent in a game where i don’t have a tight image which was the case here i would just 5bet it all-in and hope for the best or flat call and move in on all none ace flops..

But since i saw the chance of him having aces as fairly big i opted to call and take it from the flop.
Flop was jj5 with two diamonds and he says “hmmm” again than a little shaky throws in two 5k chips.. I don’t know how to explain how clearly i felt that he had aces but i was like 96.7% sure, and since I had a decent stack even if I folded I choose to do so. I was so close to just thinking whatever and just go all-in since it truly is a bad-beat if he has me, but I would feel so stupid when I “knew” he had them and still don’t fold.. The way i played the hand especially the fold part is a way I close to never play that strong of a hand, but it was so obvious with the hm and the physical tells in the heat of the moment. He told me later he had aces, you never know but at least thats what i wanted to hear:)

Then I didn’t get involved in too many pots before the 200/400/50 ante level starts, i have about 20k when the hand starts, I’m on the button with two jacks, UTG goes all-in for 14k which is a huge overbet and since he was a young guy I “always” have a flip or better when they do such a irrational move. So when its folded to me I just have to stick it in and hope someone in the blinds doesn’t pick up some sort of monster. That unfortunately happened and the BB which had me covered makes the call and flips over two aces, UTG shows two tens.

Well, I clearly needed some luck to win this huge pot, and at the flop i wasn’t to far away, since I flopped a gutter and 3 hearts and I was the only one holding hearts, but two blanks sent me
off to the rail.

I also played the 2100 Euro side event where i busted when my aces didn’t hold up against queens.

Barcelona is a very nice city and the rest of the days where spent on nightclubs and playing online with some friends in the lobby, all inn all a fun trip even though it wasn’t any good poker-wise!

I guess it was a good EPT for Team RedKings, when Toni Ojala made the final table and finished in a very nice 6th place, very well done, congratulations!

Over and out

Stephan

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!

Well, the Vegas trip is over for this time! It was fun, even though you are going home with less than you brought here. I played little poker this year, only 4 WSOP events and not a single hand in a live cash game.

I will try to reproduce some interesting / humorous situations from the tournaments I played:

World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha (Event 40)
That was the tournament I was looking forward to the most, since I believe PLO is my best game right now. It was a little annoying that it is played in a full ring since the entire deck is dealt and it is hard to get people heads up in the pots. The tournament was a triple chance; it will say that we got 3x 5k chips that you could get whenever you wanted. I started off with 5k to study the table; I busted one chance with 6897 on the A58 flop, to a gentleman who had called my 3-bet with 2Q88 single suited.
Well, well, not much to do with that, I purchased my last 10k, and played on. I got a lot of good starting hands, played up and got called by the entire table, flopped nothing and had to check and fold, so I could not accumulate lots of chips. I blew most of my chips when I missed with AKQT with two diamonds on the flop J96, with two diamonds. I was up against a naked J9, was crippled and was busted out immediately after. It is slightly irritating to hit nothing, when a good start in such a tournament is a good chance to go deep, since it is many rookies in the field.

The next event was:
No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed (Event 56)
Here I was seated on a tough table with, among others, Jovial Gent and a couple of young Europeans you only know are good. The table took a little fun twist on the first level when all 6 of the table agreed to run a little humorous semi choice variant where the dealer button decided the specific betting limits on each street before the hand is dealt. We played everything from preflop fixed limit, pot limit on the flop / turn, and fixed limit on the river, etc. in lots of rare combinations. This was very funny and we laughed a lot.

The most eager guy almost choked on his laughter however, when he finds himself in the following situation: Button says: Pot limit preflop, limit on the flop, no limit on the turn / river.
It is a raise to 525 from a guy, before the eager guy pots to 1650 or something in that size, he calls on the second (well knowing that he may see the turn card for another 200). The flop comes: 4 4 5, the action is 200 from the 3-better and a call as expected. Turn brings a 3, and it is now pot limit and the 3-better makes a bid for 2500 or something like that, before the caller pushes for 10k. Instacall from the 3-better with his two Aces. Unfortunately, his opponent makes a full house on turn with his 33, and he scoops the pot when the river is blank.

After this we returned to the normal game, I got little cards and was playing at start stack all day.
I have no interesting hands in mind, and I was busted on the 400/800/100 level when I pushed for 14k with QJ suited from sb after the button had made it 2k, and he called and won with AK.
After this the stage was set for the Main Event, and my first RedKings sponsored tournament:

World Championship NL Texas Hold’em (Event 57)

I was drawn on a very beneficial table, with just two skilled players, both from Scandinavia. I had quite a bad run the first day and ended up in some situations where I made obvious value bets, and repeatedly it took people hours before they called with better hands. It was sick frustrating. For example, when the table is 88KQ6 and you bet heavy with AK (with a questionable image and against an incompetent opponent that never ever would fold two pairs on that table). He takes one minute before he makes the crying call with KQ. It just makes you sad…

I went on to day 2 with 34,175 chips, which are not very good, but quite playable with the nice structure and the long levels.

On day 2, I also got a good table, the only one I knew was funny “Miami John” Cernuto. He seems like a guy that takes poker too personal and makes unnecessary steer downs and wants to be table captain without fully knowing how to achieve it.

My frustration was big when I had to sit card dead and see him drunk drive over the table (he did everything he could to bust out, but was unable to do so, but did however make his stack grow).
A fun hand he actually managed to lose:

He plays up to 7xbb utg. , call from the sb, on the flop 257 rainbow he bets 6000 into a 4200 pot, before sb takes time and gives the most serious physical tells I have seen in such a big tournament for a long time, and then he limit raises to 12k (lol). Miami-Donk calls instantly only to see an Ace on the turn, the limit raiser bets 8k, before Miami-Donk puts him all in, and he calls of course with his set of fives. Miami-Donk draws dead with his AK.

I played for some hours, in which the only proper hand I had was KK. I reraised after utg had limit raised and another player had called in between, sb flat calls my 5500 (11bb) bet, the other folded, the flop came sweet A92 and he bricks me all in with 4 times the pot bet. I could only laugh and fold and he proudly showed AK.

It was a very tough table when you are card dead since all raises preflop was so big, ranging from 3.5 xbb to 8xbb was standard and it’s not fun to be semi-short and without cards.
I was finally down to 13k at level 400/800/100 and I pushed from the button into the tight blinds with A8, and after 2 minutes BB called, who sat with 88 and no help, and this year’s Main Event was over for me.

It was a lot of party and much fun on the trip, good dinners, and unfortunately some casino games, it is completely unnecessary and only attracts the tilter in me. It ended as a little too expensive trip, so I have to learn from this till next year, and possibly put a bounty on my head if someone sees me gambling.

It was many Norwegians and people I know down there this year also, which lead to some parties, including the “Norwegian dinner” which was a successful and fun evening.

We also spent a lot of time flying around on XS that is decidedly the best nightclub in Vegas now, previously they had other places every day but now has the XS, so to speak, absorbed everything. The place is partly indoors, partly outdoors and it was at times apparently several thousands of people in there some days.

It is sick in Vegas, it seems almost like they do seeding of the ladies, because there are a lot of good looking girls to look at everywhere, and not only at Spear Mint for those who like that stuff.

The only remaining thing is to wish the remaining players in the Main Event good luck, and especially my good friend Thor Hansen who need and deserve a good result now!

Stephan

Hey everyone! First off all I would like to introduce myself for those of you who don’t know me! My name is Stephan Kjerstad i am 22 years old, and I live in Bergen, Norway. I have been playing poker from when I was 15 years old or so, but professionally since 2006. I had my share of success at the tables online both in tournaments and especially in the cashgames during those years. I have been playing under numerous aliases but the most known is probably “stephank”

Recently I had the great pleasure of joining Team RedKings, that means I will represent RedKings in a bunch of great tournaments in the future, starting with the World Series of poker. I will also play a lot online at Redkings.com, in fact I already started to play there (under the alias RedKingsteph). I’m very familiar with the Ongame network, and I always enjoyed to play there. Now it’s getting even better when the new huge software upgrade just has arrived.

As the World Series of poker already have been running for several weeks it’s time to get over there! I just booked tickets and I will leave Norway heading for Vegas this Wednesday. I really look forward to meet up with friends and start playing the World series. I will stay at Wynn Encore which i heard great things about, its actually a totally new hotel and a new tower of the Wynn. Me and some friends where thinking of the option of renting a house this year. There are some benefits by doing that, the biggest ones i would say is that it’s more relaxing and social. Even though hotel life is nice from time to time, its also something you get a lot of when you play live tournaments around the world and you can easily get tired of it, but we changed our mind and went for the hotel this time as well.

I will come back with blogs and updates from the stay and the play in Vegas when I get over there!

Stephan

Team RedKings welcomes Stephan to the team!