18 man christmas time

today i played a small 18 man sng session while my son was still sleeping...
thank god people still suck bigtime in them....

whyme270483

79

$7

$14

48%

$565

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i didnt even win lots of them, its just that people have no idea how to get into the money, so i cashed alot and avoided lots of spots where i couldve lost my entire stack...gl the last few days of the year hope all your wishes/dreams come true in 2012...cya 

Almost over

Ok,

so I think tomorrow will be my last real Pokerday....
It was really a sick year 2011 for me....
Alot happened. Reached lots of my goals. Especially when it comes to Onlinepoker my improvements are as good as I hoped they would be.
I finally am confident enough to beat online SNGs (besides Hyperturbosngs I am happy about all my results), there is no format that I am loosing at since I joined SNGprotege, so it has been really the best decision to join the site, and the community there is amazing.
My live-cash play suffered a little from my agressive onlinesng style, but thats ok, I think I can adjust well enough....
I used december to play all kinds of games ranging from headsup turbos ( My results were really good), headsup hypers ( results suck bigtime ), 45men ( really good results) 180s (pretty much skipped them), 6 max satelites, some mtts and some other small cashgames....
Looking at sharkscope it looks as if my results suffered, but looking at it more indepth we see that i played lots of hyperturbos and lots of games between 1-7$ buyin for my challenge. So i really used this month to study and decide what i am going to do in 2012.

I didnt even notice that my swings this month were sooooo big haha


My choice now is to play 45men sngs as my new approach to them seems to work really well and i dont see anyone playing them like me, and I see others get really confused by my plays sometimes...raising 23 and calling shoves and other times folding aj as a shortie...

The next thing is to play 180s at least 4 times a week for a total of at least 600-700 games per week.
We ' ll see how it works...But I dont think I will try to go for sne next year, I really think it will be a waste of time and energy for me

Goals reached 2011:

- reach Supernova
- Beat Onlinesngs
- Move from Livecash to Online sngs
- Travel more ( Brazil, Portugal and different parts of Germany this year )
- Workout more ( worked since November, went to the gym almost too much ^^ )

besides that I had some personal goals that I do not want to share here, but besides one big one, I've reached all of those too.

For 2012 Goals are:

- depending on the Vip Program of Pokerstars I would love to reach SN twice this year
- travel alot again
- improve in MTTS/SNGS
- make at least 50k overall Online next year
- help students of Sngprotege to get better
. AVOID LOOSING too much time/money in Hyperturbo games
- workout at least 5 times a week
- PARTY PARTY PARTY

- and pray that onlinepoker will not be totally destroyed by some politicians that dont even have a clue why they are doing what they do...

wish you all gl in 2012 and wish myself even more luck... cya ;)

I am sooo lazy, am I?

So today I started to look at my sharkscope graph for the last 3 months

I always wonder about my volume...in general I always see myself as extremely lazy and that there is no way I get enough volume in...BUT looking at numbers it really seems pretty decent.

without hyperturbos

whyme270483

5.382

$2

$11

15%

$8.987

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with hyperturbos

whyme270483

8.624

$1

$13

10%

$10.031

Hot

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looking at these numbers it totally seems like hyperturbos are not worth my time and I should concentrate more on playing 45men and 180men sngs.

after looking at this I asked myself:
Ok, you do not play as many hrs and as consistently as you should/could...If you can put in 5382 turbo sngs +3300 hypertubos plus some mtts without actually forcing you to play...what do you think you are capeable of playing if you consistently play 7-8hrs/day???? 5 days a week?

right now i play whenever i feel like and have a somewhat vague schedule..
I pretty much managed to NOT play after 8pm for the last 25/30 days, I am really glad I managed to do this as it gave me more time and more strenght to head to the gym at least 4 to 5 times a week and I really feel like my body is giving me alot back by concentrating alot better AND longer...

I will definitely try to work more on keeping my schedule active and work acording to this.
I mean, look at guys like azntracker for example, when he started his sick grind in jan 2011 to get sne by feb28...this is the sickest grind i can imagine and he made it. there is a way to make a lot of money with a cardgame, and it all seems to come to those who WORK...

But we spend dead time infront of the computer reading stuff we already know and watch movies or a series for the 4th time...and the worst part of it, is that i do that stuff too...

lets make it a sick 2012....gl guys..hope to see you all at the tables

swings swings swings

today I had a really sick and swingy day...down 800$ in the first set, then binked a 15$ 180 man sng for 743$, then added another 180 man session and got down again only to cash deep in  4 15$ 180s in the end and be almost even again...
after those two big sessions, with a total of 213 sngs i was down about 28$, and made 933 vpps----

it waws 3 in the morning but i really didnt want to go to sleep, so i decided to play some hyperturbo satelites and won around 220$ there...while watching wpt season 2 episode 1....

definitely feels good to play hyperturbo sngs and win.
I would love to play more of them next year and more Headsup sngs above 100$ next year, but who know where the next swing takes me to...either it ll go down to play avg 10$ sngs or it will move me up to play 60$ sngs soon...lets hope for the pokergods to be on my side....

here is a graph of this month,,,,really makes me puke

and again, not that much volume , but i know that i will win big when finally getting in more games...and playing 350 games today definitely helps ;)

the next thing that i am pretty happy with is that my 45 men game really improved..i tried to play more 45s so that i can coach them better and try stuff and see what works and what doesnt...and so far here are my results...in 7$ 45s so far i have 30% roi, but its a really small sample..will try to put in one day per week only playing 45s...without 15$ 45s i think i am up close to 300$ there, so there is alot of room to improve..lets do this...gl at the tables

whyme270483

177

$1

$5

17%

$182

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12/1/2011 12/14/2011 E45-45

VOLUME SUX!!!!!!!!!!

Even before december started I knew that my volume would drop alot...it has been dropping over the last few weeks steadily except when i started the bankroll builder.
This is due to alot of bdays and holidays in december in Germany, and also because its the month i can see my son more, so its always family > poker for me, i hope its the same for you guys too.

besides that i still made more money than the avg person does, so i am really not unhappy so far about this month at all....

first i looked at my cashouts this month and my sharkscope graph and i was really disappointed, but then i realized: i made 600$ in winnings plus rakeback...and mostly i played micros, and only played something around 5-6 days..thats 100$/day...what exactly am i complaining??? play 1-6$ sngs and make 100$/day with 4-5 hrs work per day...and i am really complaining?

after that i realized that we look at monthly stats way too often instead of looking at hrly rates...i did not put much work in, i spend alot of time with the people i love and that makes me happy...
so, YEAH I am really happy right now..i love my job, i love coaching, it was kinda hard to start with, but i think looking at students results it really paid off for both sides,,so i cant wait for january to come and grind the money out of pokerstars ;)

wish ya`ll gl this month, i  will try to get to 2k profit this month at least..wnt be too hard..but today is monday...time to chill ;)

cya

UHHHH so annoying

YO,

another aha moment for me while playing...and that big moment in a 3,50$ sng.

there was a guy with a 10k stack with stats 5/4....
ok till that nothing unusual...wrong!!!!!
after 2 hands his stats increased alot...as he started to reraise every raiser and raised every limper..called all raises and stabbed all pots and so on...
I was shocked to see these plays in 3,50s and by a guy that tight...
I tried to avoid him as much as i could as i was playing too many tables to concentrate on him, lucky for me I had a big enough stack to lean back and wait.

Then we got 3 handed and he started to do this with me over and over again and there was nothing I could do..i was absolutely helpless...and thought: boy this is sooo annoying.....I have to do this myself!!!!!!!!

And so I did and added in more reraises into my game from any position depending on others stacksizes too of course...I always made it less than the player made it..i startet to 4 bet him constantly until he finally started to berate me in chat...

That was the moment it hit me..and i started a new session and every time i had a 10bb+ stack i started to reraise from all positions...well done whyme...played 20 games, won 80$ and am on my way to play more tomorrow...hell yeah

Also this little session taught me once and again that its important to be observant...tho i think that these players suck bigtime, at the same time they teach me how to play better poker sometimes...just watch out for the players that do effective things u dont do..even if they dont understand why they do it, or why its working...that doesnt mean you have to ignore it and not learn from it.

500$ reached/7$ sngs will start now

Jo guys,

so I ve reached the 500$ mark and will add in 7$ 45s and 18 man

so far my stats are pretty ok.

whyme270483

364

$1

$3

19%

$221

won in 45s, binked a 2,50$ 180, and won big in 3,50$ 18 mans.

I decided to play 18s earlier then planned, the reaon is, that, tho the rake is higher, that people are way worse and I can play more games and therefore earn more fpps and play sunday storm sats to increase my roll faster.

Besides that my volume def. sucks, I ve been partying way too much and not been playing enough.
Also I ve not been sleeping enough, but atleast I ve been heading to the gym more then 3/7 days per week...


Ok thats about it for now, now lets hope I will play more on sunday...


GL