lets start this..

Just a short update:
Just sent my bankroll back to my backer and will now start with lowlimit donkfest grinding...

so I ll start from there:

1,50 - 3,50 45 men it is for now, I ll try to update every time i move up in limits (or down)

I have a fixed schedule to get to the gym and to work so i really hope to make this happen within the 10 days i plan to do it..


wish me luck guys...

enough Staking lets move on

Hey guys..so i finally convinced myself that i should stop to get staked...
i really have to stand on the pokerground myself, and although i have a great stakingdeal with a good friend who leaves me open to whatever i feel like..it still sux to ship someone so much money every single month.

So i thought about what limits i want to start.

My roommate who is one of my students recently started to play 1,50$ 45 men and by 2-4 tabeling after a week moved up to 3,50$ 45men and is still crushing them with my help..so i thought to myself: why not leave the most money possible on your bankaccount and start in the lowlimits and grind my way up to a 2k br...
so...

150$ deposit it is then....

so the last 2 days i ve started to play 45 men ranging from 3,50$ to 30$ and my results are pretty good i think...also I ve thought about some changes i need to make in order to consistently beat them..also i want to start conservative as i dont wanna redeposit.... and i think the best way is to play more agressive then i normally would play them.

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also i ve thought about the changes and adjustments i need to make in every single limit in order to beat the limits bigtime....so the last two days i mainly took to learn what exactly the bad players do worse then the players do in my limits and how i can exploid those mistakes better,,,
also I will use camtasia to record my sessions...I will make a video for every single limit i play and discuss the changes I make and comment as much as I can on my game...
For the sake of the video I will only 10 table them as long as the video lasts but normally I'll 15 table....

plan is:
1,50$ 45 men till 250$br
1,50$+3,50$ 45 men till i reach 500$br
3,50$+7,00$ 45 men till i reach 800$br
7,00$+25% 8$ 180s till i reach 1,2k br
after that I ll switch to 15$ 18 man sngs and get into my regular games again....
I hope to make all this happen within 10 days..but who knows what the 180s hold there for me


lets hope the best for whyme ;)

have fun guys

i am tooooooo loose

a few days ago i had a really nice coaching session with one of my students...i dont remember why, but we started to talk about regs and their ranges and i told him that the most agressive players are mostly the ones that win big over time.....and then he mentioned a really good and respected reg ( i will not mention his name as we are friends), who is one of the tighter guys....
and wow that really caught me off guard...this player is one of the best sng players around and he actually is pretty tight. i mean, he can be loose if he has to, but i think, like me he also believes that our stack is not low very often while others think they are too short to fold...
that got me thinking....since i moved to 180s my ranges in 18s pretty much sucked and i could not win really big...so i started to lay in my bed and think about ranges and moves i could make to exploid regs and also think more about stacks and when we actually are short and when not!!!! and i realized some situations where i am 100% sure most regs will shove as they believe they are too short to fold, where we actually can fold..


example:
say we have 9t on the btn with 3k bb 600.....this becomes an autoshove for most players...for me too few days ago btw...but then i just thought, ok i dont think shoving 100% here is best
1. if there is another shorty who will be dead before me, then it becomes more of a fold
2. if the bb and sb are not super active, then its a shove if they have x stack..
3....i found like 10 more reasons to fold or shove or even CALL that i hadnt even thought about before...
and well, what happened was, that i had the best day in 18s since 2 months ago....
tight is right sometimes....the funny thing is, that i ve always told that to other players....that we are not as short as our stack might show us, but then i made the same mistake others do, by letting my direct stack dictate my action...
but in reality it should be my direct stacksize in relation to the stacksizes at the table in relation to the chips in play, that should dictate the action....

a 5tbb stack in a 18 man is not the same in most spots as in a 180...
and treating it the same will cost u money ...a lot of money....

gl guys....

Supernova reached..uhhh yeah

so few minutes ago i finally reached supernova....now let the upswing begin ;)

Portugal , future plans, new book!!!!

JOOOOO guys,
so, yesterday I arrived from my short trip to portugal. Everything went well, got the paperwork done in one day and then spend a day and a half in Faro with Hugo-Piteiracorp...really nice guy...def glad to meet him. he showed me some sites in Faro, what i was really shocked about is how poor people really are there and that life is not that awesome in Portugal as i thought.
There is not much, thats really cheaper then in germany, so i really don't know if moving to Portugal is the best idea. But i still think that i should give it a try for at least one year. Still got enough time to think about it and decide.

Ok I ve probably read the best book about poker life outside of the tables:
Peak Performance Poker

It s not the tipical poker book that talks about strategies at the table or how to play hands or tiltcontrole....but its all about how to manage our time, health, sports, friendships, free time and much more ....
it compares poker to sports and talks about similarities and about how to play our A-Game more with being more healthier....It's definitely super interesting, its a small book and imo, if you are serious about Poker or anything in life that requires a high degree of concentration, this book is a must...

Well besides that not much happened, I have not been playing much, but went on a small downswing in 180s, about 1k, but managed to play some 18s today, up to 30$ buyins and made 504$ in 3 hrs...not too bad. I am awesome lol jokin...ofc

ok what comes next? ok I ve also read acoimbra s blog from the beginning, i really think this guy is awesome and the thought and dedication he puts into this game is remarkable....if you have not read his blog and about his beginnings you def should take few minutes and give it a try...here


well besides that i am pretty happy about life and everything....i think i play extremely well and now i have a time plan for my week....i will try to search for someone to help me with organizing good and healthy meals/food, and right now i have someone helping me with my excercises...

my timeplans look like this from sunday on, without this monday being my free-day as i ve had enough days off for now ;)
work tuesday-sunday with saturday being my shortest day of only 5 hrs work.
I will try to get my days to this schedule asap:
07:30 wakeup, breakfast, rest a bit
08:00-08:30 switch on computer, get myself comfortable and start my session
12:30-13:30 end 1st session
13:30-15:00 break, do some excercises, get on my bike or whatever, but DO NOT USE THE COMPUTER!!!!!!!
15:00 start the second session of the day
19:00-20:00 end session....

on tue,thurs,friday i will head to the gym and have a bigger training session and the rest of the days i will spend quality time with friends...since i have no girl right now, i def like this plan and have enough time for me/my body and my friends...also to stick to this plan i have to give 50$ for every single day that i do not work on schedule ( of course if i have something important to do i can change it slightly but my excercise times per week and my work schedule can not be changed much.... ) def -ev to not stick to my plan ;) haha

well guys thats it for now..i wish ya'll a good rest 2011 and lets party and drink alot when its 1 am somewhere on this planet...damn, thats alot ;)

Oktober is over..happy? i think i should

Ok well Oktober 2011 is done...managed to run like god i guess made roughly 7k and am on my way to get sn in a short time...
Today I started to play 30$ 18 mans...geeeezzzz i forgot how easy these games are, its insane...
had a guy / ratataboom1 sitting at my tables, i assume he was 8-12 tabeling and he normally is freaking tight and all of a sudden he started to 3-bet every single hand and jam when unopened..he once jammed 4k bb100 into 7 people...got called and suckedout with 92o....wtf...oh well but he did loose all games...he did not cash a single one..gg man...
well in that session ( 8tabeling 30 man sngs for a total of 40 games ) I made exactly 300$ not too bad considering how long i ve not played them and i still got that 180 man  strat handranges in the back of my mind, and if u dont switch that asap you will end loosing money.

well besides poker also alot happened, not in oktober but in the following months. I will be living in Portugal from Jan 2012 on. I ve talked to piteiracorp, a good 18 man reg living in Faro, and asked him if he would like to have a pokerbuddy living with him there, and he loved the idea and so we shared some info about where it is and what it would cost and basic stuff like that and i def love the idea...on sunday i will be in portugal and will def meet with him and he ll show me around the city....NICE!!!!!

I ve always dreamt about that, play poker and have the beach near...holy shit I 'd love that...I really can't wait to get to portugal. and even if we dont start living together I would still meet a condo myself and stay there. the only problem i always had with leaving germany is that i hate to be in a place where i dont know a single person... but well i ll deal with it if nothing else is possible...but i def wanna leave germany.

well coming back to poker, i assume that i will now get back on the 18 man train and grind some of those and grind my way up to the 60$ 18 mans and hopefully stay there for longer. TBH i think the biggest fish online are in mtts and in 60$+ 18 mans..the amount of mistakes they make is absolutely rediculous..there is no explanation for a 1st hand allinshove CALL with A5offsuit...are u kiddn me? raise,reraise,shove,CALL,fold,fold...hands flip over AA vs A5!!!!!!!!!!! byebye 60$

There is one last thing I wanted to say and i dont know really how to put it into words, but  i ll try...
today i saw a really good player playing the 30$ 18 mans and i had him marked as really good, then he made a horrible call on the bubble with a2....then i for some unknown reason decided to sharkscope him and saw that he was down 100$k this year....OMG i was shocked..the last 5 years that guy had made 50k+ every single year with 2010 being his best year being up 112$k...
and this year he lost over 100$k in SNGS max buyin 100$ wtf..i dont get that...why do people loose so much? poker seems so easy to me right now..no one is good, in sngs the regs i see everyday, except maybe 3-4, are all bad...they are predictable as reading a book....it then just comes down to luck...and luck will evenout in the longrun...so i start to wonder...will i ever loose the feel for the game..meaning will i ever NOT doubt myself and NOT get better some day??????
i guess i realized how important it is to always ask urself alot of questions while playing and constantly improve and think about the game....

gl everybody lets make something good happen in november!!!!!!