TheItalienStyle iPoker

TheItalienStyle on iPoker have been rumored to be Blom90, also rumored to be  high stakes poker player Isildur1 on Full Tilt Poker. These rumors is widely spread on several poker forums online and also suggested by high stakes blogger Sohelo Shah on Swedish news paper Expressen. Sohello Shah who is known for having close contact with Blom90 when he made his first appearance on the high stakes poker tables on iPoker and Cryptologic.

Sohello wrote before Christmas on his blog

“Isildur1 haven´t played on Full Tilt Poker for a couple of days now. I´m guessing that he is playing on iPoker under the nick “TheItalienStyle”.

And…

“TheItalienStyle played a couple of months on iPoker and when Isildur1 appeared on FTP,  then TheItalienStyle vanished from iPoker. But now he´s back again. “

Sohello continues on his blog….

“I saw TheItalienStyle play yesterday and my first thought was immediately that it could be Isildur1. With he´s semi-crazy plays, he could put his opponents on tilt.! “

So even of Sohello never points out TheItalienStyle directly to be Blom90. It seems pretty obvious. Or?

Read Sohellos Shah´s blog  in Swedish here: http://blogg.expressen.se/banktheman/entry.jsp?messid=564047

My search for balance

Since my last blog post Poker in Singapore and White Room – Stockholm, I have kept on wondering what my focus should be in my blog. I don´t just want to write about poker. I want to have several aspects to my blog. Like social media, traveling and more. But I don´t want it to be to narrow either.

Then it hit me today. Or maybe not hit me. But something that makes me feel good, is when I have balance in life. When several of areas is going good. It´s then when I´m doing my best, being most creative and get most energy to do stuff.

So I think my blog should be more focused on me, having balance in life, with stuff I really like

And I´m also putting out stuff later on with pictures and videos I can upload directly from where ever  I am. I hope I can make this blog really interesting for me and those of you who read it

Grinding it out

The last 24 hours have been filled with what I call “grind”. Doing stuff that needs to be done, but isn’t that fulfilling. I rather do tons of other stuff, but it´s really things that needs to be done. This is probably what separates failure from success.

I should instead of trying to feel sorry for myself, try to make the “grind” become more of game, a challenge of my stamina and endurance. Or, anyways… Something like that. I should always make the things I set myself out to make it better. I´m doing it for myself, right?

So yesterday I pulled a 24 hour shift, or something. Went to bed in the morning around 10.Slept to 14 and then almost immediately set up to do some more work. Yay!

And I think I´m pulling an all-nighter today as well.

Keep you guys posted or something.

White Room – Stockholm

So played a couple of poker tournaments this week with mixed results. Nothing fancy at all. But its good to get some tournament practice. I have been reading some more stuff of the importance of tracking results and aiming towards once goal. I’m really looking forward to begin 2010. Not only poker wise of course, but also for work and exercise.

I have been out on Stockholm this week meeting some friends and also doing some clubbing of course. Me and my friends booked a table at White Room in Stockholm, quite popular place. Had some bottles coming in and stuff.. Good party indeed.

Took some day or two to re-cooperate. But it was worth it

Singapore Poker

I love Singapore. It is a a great city with a lot of fun activities and interesting people. So it´s with great interest that  I have a my eyes on the growing poker community in Singapore. Actually not only poker in Singapore but the rest of South East Asia. But I think that Singapore have a leading roll of getting the poker community to grow in Asia, next to Macau.

Poker Singapore

Singapore Poker Community
One of the biggest, if not the biggest forums for poker players in Singapore and South East Asia is PokerKaki poker community. PokerKaki is a platform where poker enthusiasts in Asia gather for news, discussions and meetups. So if you are really interested in poker in Asia, the Singapore poker community is the place to go. Check out the poker community – Poker in Singapore.

Singapore Poker Interview

About a year ago, I made an interview with owner of Poker Kaki, Chris Ow, about his thoughts about poker in Singapore and Asia. A really interesting interview, which can be read in full here (Poker In Singapore and Asia). At the time the 2 year old poker community had grown to 900 members strong. But I´m sure that the membership on the Singaporean poker community has grown  much stronger up to date.

Asian Poker Magazine – Baller Magazine
Just recently a new poker magazine open it´s doors for the Asian and Pacific poker market. The poker magazine has its focus on the Asian poker community. Baller Magazine describe themselves centered to the edgy, glamorous lifestyle aspect of poker. I´m really hoping that the poker magazine will hit big and spread around Asia. For subscriptions and newsletter check out (http://www.ballermagazine.com).

Visiting Singapore and Asia
I would really love to visit Singapore soon again. And maybe have the chance to meet up with some of the people in the Singapore poker community and people who are trying to make the poker game much more appreciated in Singapore and Asia. Would love to discuss how we can make it grow and make it more fun and reachable for everyone. But next on my schedule after going back to Malta is the CAP meeting in London in late January. After that? Well, lets see.

Achieving dreams

I remember when I started my first Swedish poker blog. It was about poker and about achieving my dreams. One of those dreams was to be able to live and travel in Thailand and South East Asia. And I think my writing down my goals and my journey, I was able to accomplish many of my dreams.

Now looking back on the road that I´ve been walking the last three years, I can see that I accomplished a lot of those things that I was set-up to do. However I haven´t really found the balance for it all. There are still things that I can improve. Or correction… there are many things I would like to improve. Yes. I have been very lucky and had a lot of fun during my travels. But it would be much more rewarding if I could have some balance to it all.

So I´m hoping that this blog will help to achieve a balance and successful road down the new path that I´m walking

Back in Sweden

So I came back early yesterday. It was -6 celsius, it was snowing and I was really tired. Not the optimal state of mind then, hehe. But feels good to be in the family home again efter 6 months or so staying abroad. Feels safe and secure indeed.

While I´m home, I hope that I will get some work done actually. And then I´m of for some meetings and stuff before christmas. Some pretty interesting stuff is going on. Hope everything will turn out really well. Let´s hope so anyways

Friday night and it´s poker and work on the schedule.  Good times =)

Track the results

When I  was playing poker for a living I was always tracking my results and kept them both on Poker Tracker and on an excel spreadsheet. This was a great way to for me to analyze my performance and to improve my game. And I think this would be a great way for me to apply this on other things in life.

I don’t know. But sometimes I think I could perform so much better in a lot of areas. I know what I want to achieve, but I get lost from the road that can take me there. And when I get lost, it takes awhile before I can get back on it. It´s like getting lost in the woods or something.

So  I will try to set up some kind of excel spreadsheet or something similar in several areas of my life to track my results and analyze them, to see if I’m heading in the right direction.

Wish me luck!

Getting focused

I guess today is one of those days where the focus and my aim for reaching my goal are totally blown away. So, instead will try to write a few words in this blog to get some therapy and meditation for my thoughts that are spinning around in my head.  Could really be useful, I think.

Now in November 26^th its about 20 Celsius outside, here on Malta. For sure, it´s nice to be able to go out in the sun for awhile and just enjoy it.

I put up some goals for 2010. I am going to try to put up some kind of schedule for me to help me accomplish my goals.

It includes in short: More exercise, more poker, more travel.

And everything will in the end also help me to accomplish my job even more effective.

Have a great day!

(Pic by wili hybrid at flickr)

Beginning of November

Whops! I was supposed to post regular on this blog.
But I guess something else came up, hehe.

It´s already November and time is flying past really fast. The weather on Malta has become less warm. On a good day we can have 20+ and sun. But like today its 17-18 Celsius and local rain showers. I guess summer is truly over now here on Malta. But hey… It´s not snowing like in Stockholm

Started out today with writing some poker news on Cardlovers about the HU WSOP Main Event 2009 and a poker article about Stu Ungar, or more like a collection of the documentary that was made about him… “The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar”.

This weekend was filled with parties and barbecue. I was all-in on Friday, so Saturday was a little bit easier. Though Saturday was really cozy with barbecue and stuff.