Boywonder - In The Cage 2/11/10

[ninjapoker]

Hello Boywonder,

thanks for doing this!

1) Do you have experience with Heads Up games? Whats your general toughts about it? (The question aplies to PLO as well, but I guess someone talked about it in a previous post ^^)

2) What is the typical Swedish food?

3) If I had the opportunity to go to your country, what's the best town for a group of friends who wants to have a lot of fun ?

4) If you had to choose between Sun+Beach or Snow+Ski, which one would you prefer?

5) How is Poker viewed by your country's society?

Thats it for now, thanks and regards!

What do you think it takes to be a consistent winner in todays games at 5/10? Has your opinion of this changed much over the last 6 months or 1 year?

Edit: Thought of an extra question - What are your goals in poker?

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by Vitas23

1st. . .

When will your next video be out?

Any cool books you recommend?

My next video will be out in february, but when is hard to say. I had actually made a second video that I destroyed, so the video making process has not come as easy to me as it seems to do to some people.

Not in the habit of recommending books, but ok, one book that I read in 2009 and that I have recommended to some that I enjoyed a lot would be Sogyal Rinpoches "The Tibetan book of Living and Dying", which works as both an indepth study and an introduction to those interested in the topic.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by martin9_90

AeJones Had written an article in these forums about his turn c/r range and how it is VERY VERY small, if not non-existant.

Playing the stakes you have throughout your poker career how do to feel the turn c/r has been applicated by both yourself and regulars

--- I like you

My turn c/r range has gone through cycles, and today I would class it as higher than most regs as it seems to get undeserved respect.

Consequently, I feel that with some of my peers that perhaps don´t have the balance that Aejones has, they would do a lot better raising a wider range on the turn to increase their balance against me. Then again, most people might not be noticing this in which case it´s fine.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by Franzkovic

if you had the possibility to change your screenname every month would you do it? Please explain why

Thx!

Good question. I like things the way they are now, but wouldn´t really matter.

If I could be the only one changing sn´s, that would be ok because obviously I´d be void of reads. If everybody could constantly change sn´s, I think that would benefit me because I am used to playing without a HUD, and think I put more weight into opponents tendencies rather than opponents stats than most of the people I play against.

But things are fine they way they are now as well, so perhaps if it is not broken, do not fix it I guess. I would need to think about it a little bit more.

[luvr]

Originally Posted by martin9_90

--- I like you

I think some good questions have already been asked but here's some more:

Along the lines of playing on other sites, do you find Stars/FTP different from the rest of the market in regards to the difficulty of the games, # of fish or skill of regs?

It was somewhat already asked but what's your typical "workday" routine consist of? And how many workdays in a normal week?

And I'm also curious about what you think of the future of the game. It seems as though I often hear "the games are drying up" etc. and professional poker won't be viable in the future. However, as a university student, I know students that have degrees + and still can't find anything. I know a guy with a Masters in Physics and he was working at McDonald's, now he's back in school to take undergrad classes to try and get to med school since the Masters didn't do anything for him. A girlfriend of mine got her degree in Bio-Psychology and can't find anything now - she's probably going back to college to get a piece of paper saying she can work in Human Resources. So...my theory is that the entire economy sucks right now ....not that our games are getting too hard or the game has been solved. I think there's just a higher ratio of decent regs to fish with deep wallets but that the games will still be profitable for years to come even if it's not as juicy as it once was?

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by Shipit2kg

Thanks so much for doing this!

How many sites do you play on? I also live outside the usa, so i have the opportunity to play on multiple sites like you do. Do you think that i should be taking advantage of that? I only play at FTP at the moment.

Does or did your fiance/girlfriend have any problems with your poker lifestyle? Given that you 'gamble' for a living? If so, how did you guys work it out?

Where do you think poker will be in 5, 10, 20 years time? Should the average regs begin to worry about their poker careers as the games get tougher?

After you review your hands (whilst eating breaky) and finish your first session. What structure do you have for the rest of the day?

thanks boywonder

I think you should take advantage of playing on multiple sites, if not for the fact that it keeps things fresh which in turn prevents feelings of things being static and dull. I play on multiple sites, but I have a base site these days that speaks for about 70 or so % of my play.

I support myself and my fiancé, and it is very clear that poker is something that is there to benefit the both of us and our future children. With that perspective, it has become a lot easier for her to accept poker, in essence a pursuit which has little value compared to some other ways of fulfilling my one given life, as my line of work.

The games will become tougher, yes. How much tougher? Hard to say. Should people worry? No. Instead, they should feel blessed that they were given this opportunity in the first place, and reside in the fact that they were so extremely lucky that they were in the right place at the right time to begin with. Worrying overall has little to no benefits, in any avenue of life, I am sure most would agree.

Details of the structure differ, but the structure of the structure is important in the sense that there has to be one. At the start of each single day, I need to set out doing some things that do not come naturally to me, wether it be exercise, studies, grinding or meditation. Then I have to follow that which I have outlined, for that particular day. That is a day I can be satisfied with when going to bed in the evening.

[boywonder]

Originally Posted by Luv2tilt

Hey bw

First off respect....

Just wondering how you approach your sessions with regards to the number of hands played in any single session....

Over the past few months iv been experimenting with 3 seperate 1k sessions per day and it seems to be doing v v v well results wise.Where as when i play for eg 4k in a single session i seem to zone out and suffer from fancy play syndrome.
Would you recommend trying to fix this problem when it comes to the larger sessions or does it come down to the individual and which conditions they work best under?

Comes down to the individual. However, every individual should be willing to experiment, hear other ideas and change if they think that their current routines are not optimal. So you are approaching this the right way, if you ask me.

[3plus4is7]

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[nigelreopoker]

Hi and thanks for doing this.

What is your ultimate goal in poker? Do you desire to play the nosebleeds?

Why did you black out the pfr stat on your graph before Christmas?

Do you rate Isildur1? Is it Viktor Blom?

Why is snus only popular in Sweden?


Cheers