war eine großartige session mit 40€ plus, auf 4-5 tischen in 2.5h!
will euch einige hände nicht vorenthalten.
ähm ich habe zu allen händen nur einen kommentar: ICH LIEBE W2D ICH LIEBE W2D und nochmal ICH LIEBE W2D ;-) - ansonsten no comment; weil über diese genialen gegner darf ich einfach nichts mehr sagen. bilder sagen mehr als tausend worte ;-)
#1 KK ;-)
#2 66 mal nett zwischendurch :)
#3 AA
gut zu der hand muss ich ein bisschen was sagen: ich habe mich sehr über das "richtige" board pair am river gefreut. somit schlug ich KQ - was ich ihm hier durchaus geben kann! turn bet zu niedrig- ihr seht dass war eher eine art probe bet von mir. wenn er mich hier fett raist, dann hab ich eine (schwere) entscheidung zu treffen. aber der river war sehr toll und siehe da ich kann dann auch wieder etwas höher (value) betten -
hinterher sag ich: mein gegner hatte nur den King also eine hand wie KJ, K10
#4 AA *freu*
so nebenbei: die hände 1-4 waren ALLE auf EINEM tisch (also ihr seht es swingt ganz schön UP bei mir momentan)
#5- Q10s
ich spiel ja nie gern lehrer aber sry: flop gut für mich - er callt. dann der turn eine scarecard für mich also checke ich (er hat ja auch preflop min geraist vlt hat er ja das ass). und was macht er???? anstatt sein mögliches A anzuspielen bzw. zu verteidigen spielt er so niedrig dass ich nicht folden will. er gibt mir 1:4 dazu hat er einen großen stack: also lautete meine einfache rechnung: der pot ist schon von der größe her ganz ok. wenn er wirklich ein A hat und ich eines meiner weniges outs treffe, dann könnt ich noch fett gewinnen. also machte ich einen mmn easy call, denn diese schwache bet muss ja nichtmal ein A sein ;-) also vlt halte ich sogar noch die beste hand. der river ist dann natürlich auch glück. und ich konnte dann wirklich noch 2€ aus im rausholen.
#6 wieder mal AA *g*
ihr seht schon: ich bekam sehr gute hände. und meine gegner waren gsd sehr zahlungswillig
BANKROLL: 450,xx€
lg euer doc
PS: heut in der kurzen nachmittagssession: +13€ in 30min :) bin echt in einem mega upswing drin. habs eben wieder gmerkt. ich kann machen was ich will und treffe genial. ABER es ghört ja immer auch ein gegner dazu der bereit ist zu zahlen ;-).......
PPS: auf das nächste video heißt es leider noch ein bisschen warten; ich momentan keine zeit dafür, ein video aufzunehmen und dann zu bearbeiten - uni hat die nächsten tage bzw. die nächste woche vorrang
Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009
Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009
w2d der geilste fischteich auf erden ;-) gsd hab ich meine angel immer dabei
hy leute!
hab grade eine geniale session hinter mir. es wimmelte von schlechten spielern. und ich konnte in einer guten halben stunde sage und schreibe 33 euro plus machen! das ist wahnsinn. hände kommen gleich on. teilweise viel zum lachen dabei :)
#1 AJs
ich fang mit einer hand an die man preflop sogar folden kann auf das raise. aber es war halt wieder der "ich weiß der typ ist ein fisch"-Faktor dabei. ich hab mich zerkugelt als ich einen free-turn gekriegt hab und als ich die turn karte sah noch mehr ;-)
dann hat er mich auch noch instant gecallt am river. also hat ganz gut funktioniert
#2 AK
das play vom gegner is ja auch auch sehr nett. ich mein was gibt er mir? LOL mit was glaubt er call ich preflop raise und re-raise??? naja mir hats getaugt von AQ da ausbezahlt zu werden. ich hab ja gedacht: toll der hundling hat AA oder KK. aber gsd hab ich mich getäuscht
#3 QQ
da hab ich meinen gegner ein bisschen geärgert. am turn auf sein min raise hab ich ewig überlegt und dann geshoved er callte ziemlich schnell. ich hab keine idee was er hatte. ich bin mal nett und geb ihm sogar ein set. vermute aber eher two pair....
#4 AQs
die geilste hand ever. der typ ist der geilste. preflop call schon grenzgenial. dann donkt er all in mit nicht mal top two. leute DAS ist der klassische fall von sucker play. weil: sry aber wenn er hier (so wie in dem fall) gecallt wird; ist er immer hinten (zumindest gegen einen guten spieler)^^
ja das wars auch schon ;-)
ziemlich cool gelaufen!
BANKROLL nun: 380€
glg euer doc
hab grade eine geniale session hinter mir. es wimmelte von schlechten spielern. und ich konnte in einer guten halben stunde sage und schreibe 33 euro plus machen! das ist wahnsinn. hände kommen gleich on. teilweise viel zum lachen dabei :)
#1 AJs
ich fang mit einer hand an die man preflop sogar folden kann auf das raise. aber es war halt wieder der "ich weiß der typ ist ein fisch"-Faktor dabei. ich hab mich zerkugelt als ich einen free-turn gekriegt hab und als ich die turn karte sah noch mehr ;-)
dann hat er mich auch noch instant gecallt am river. also hat ganz gut funktioniert
#2 AK
das play vom gegner is ja auch auch sehr nett. ich mein was gibt er mir? LOL mit was glaubt er call ich preflop raise und re-raise??? naja mir hats getaugt von AQ da ausbezahlt zu werden. ich hab ja gedacht: toll der hundling hat AA oder KK. aber gsd hab ich mich getäuscht
#3 QQ
da hab ich meinen gegner ein bisschen geärgert. am turn auf sein min raise hab ich ewig überlegt und dann geshoved er callte ziemlich schnell. ich hab keine idee was er hatte. ich bin mal nett und geb ihm sogar ein set. vermute aber eher two pair....
#4 AQs
die geilste hand ever. der typ ist der geilste. preflop call schon grenzgenial. dann donkt er all in mit nicht mal top two. leute DAS ist der klassische fall von sucker play. weil: sry aber wenn er hier (so wie in dem fall) gecallt wird; ist er immer hinten (zumindest gegen einen guten spieler)^^
ja das wars auch schon ;-)
ziemlich cool gelaufen!
BANKROLL nun: 380€
glg euer doc
Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009
"Projekt 2500" läuft gut an.....
so nachdem ich dann wohl wirklich als letzter regelmäßiger blogger übrig bleib, muss ich dieser verpflichtung natürlich nachkommen :)
hier der erste graph meines Projektes 2500 (ich will während der auszeit von fontaene meine bankroll auf mindestens 2500€ ausbauen bis spätestens 26.November 2010)
der graph bezieht sich auf Monat November und die ersten Dezember tage
bankroll aktuell in etwa bei 347€...
lg euer doc
hier der erste graph meines Projektes 2500 (ich will während der auszeit von fontaene meine bankroll auf mindestens 2500€ ausbauen bis spätestens 26.November 2010)
der graph bezieht sich auf Monat November und die ersten Dezember tage
bankroll aktuell in etwa bei 347€...
lg euer doc
Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009
maybe ..
i gonna reduce my poker activities too ... but only a little bit I think, ... there's something more important at the moment or better said .. I just know I found something that's worth playing less or maybe think about it :)
just know I'm very happy right now .. hope you understand .. so my posts will come more seldom in the next time :)
just know I'm very happy right now .. hope you understand .. so my posts will come more seldom in the next time :)
Sonntag, 29. November 2009
live cash game
Yesterday I had to manage some stuff for university. Decided to connect this with some fun in the evening. So it was university first .. which means my bro Daniel came to my place in the late afternoon and we tried to finish most of our work for presentation next thursday. Afterwards we planned to go out in the city, have a quick lunch at a snack bar and then visit my card room to watch some action. Of course I knew this will end up in playing myself too ;) ... as normally I expected a full table or even more on a late saturday, also with the city full of people as there was traditional pre-christmas-stuff there (for our german speaking readers, there was a Perchten- & Krampusumzug) .. but to my surprise only 5 players there.
As we came in I first talked a little bit to the floor, had some talk to Daniel before sitting down. He always wanted to rail me and watch my play ... so I hope he had a nice evening sitting behind me and looking at the action (btw we played from approx. 9.30PM until 2.30AM). I sat down, we were 6-handed but soon one player (short stacked already) left the table - wanted to come back with a friend, but he didn't show up again. So for the rest of the evening we were just 5-handed ... something quite seldom. I was card dead for most of the first 1 or 2 hours, .. terrible as you could imagine .. only one hand with K9 were I made a little pot, after my raise from the button and lucky hitting top two pair on the flop. In the end I lost my first 50BB stack (100 euros) and had to rebuy ... just couldn't get worser ;) haha.
With my second stack I went up and down, but mostly I went up ... never fell down under this 2nd 100 euro stack, and fought back to 203 ... at one point even had 216 or so .. finally in the plus with 8BB :D ... was feeling good and confident with my play which was nearly A-Game (some hands could have been differently of course) .. and as we were short handed you were faced to play some hands, so blinds and limps brought me down to 115 again, means some 42BB minus again .. no good, I wanted to double up. In the end two players left the table around 1.45 or so .. and we decided to play on with 3players .. me, some regular I quite play a lot and a very seldom visitor who's a real rock - only plays solid cards and hyper-tight (easy to play haha). So it became aggessive play now as there was only button, sb and bb ... I liked it quite much! In the end we decided to play until 2.30 and came to the last 3 hands around 2.25AM ... first was nothing ok. Next hand, the penultimate one, I got dealt KK .. wow nice one to finish up, .. and right after I looked into my cards I said to myself "you will double up now with this hand" .. and I had this feeling in my whole body. to make it easy ... I crashed with the regular .. and I made the pot :) ... maybe a bit lucky, but well deserved if you ask me! he just played like a fish there, had a made hand on the turn, but I made my hand on the river and won the total pot of 209 euros .. which meant I had a total of 225 infront of me ... gave 5 to the dealer for that nice river, saving me from a 100BB minus ... and decided to cancel the last hand with the tight guy. I was happy with my 10BB win :D ... and so we sayd good night and left the place.
When I came home I posted this hand to pokerhand.org .. so have look here --> http://www.pokerhand.org/?4930431
In total this evening was a bit thrilling and very much up and down, ... not the typical action or play in the card room .. also got some interesting info about the rake or what goes down the table in one hour, .. how much collection and jackpot ... just to say one statement to this: I was the only guy in plus this evening and collection on the table was for sure something like 400 or 500 euros! (on a 5-max short handed table with blinds of 1/2) !!!!! unbelievable ... and of course the dicussion about it made everyone thinking about visiting again!?!
As we came in I first talked a little bit to the floor, had some talk to Daniel before sitting down. He always wanted to rail me and watch my play ... so I hope he had a nice evening sitting behind me and looking at the action (btw we played from approx. 9.30PM until 2.30AM). I sat down, we were 6-handed but soon one player (short stacked already) left the table - wanted to come back with a friend, but he didn't show up again. So for the rest of the evening we were just 5-handed ... something quite seldom. I was card dead for most of the first 1 or 2 hours, .. terrible as you could imagine .. only one hand with K9 were I made a little pot, after my raise from the button and lucky hitting top two pair on the flop. In the end I lost my first 50BB stack (100 euros) and had to rebuy ... just couldn't get worser ;) haha.
With my second stack I went up and down, but mostly I went up ... never fell down under this 2nd 100 euro stack, and fought back to 203 ... at one point even had 216 or so .. finally in the plus with 8BB :D ... was feeling good and confident with my play which was nearly A-Game (some hands could have been differently of course) .. and as we were short handed you were faced to play some hands, so blinds and limps brought me down to 115 again, means some 42BB minus again .. no good, I wanted to double up. In the end two players left the table around 1.45 or so .. and we decided to play on with 3players .. me, some regular I quite play a lot and a very seldom visitor who's a real rock - only plays solid cards and hyper-tight (easy to play haha). So it became aggessive play now as there was only button, sb and bb ... I liked it quite much! In the end we decided to play until 2.30 and came to the last 3 hands around 2.25AM ... first was nothing ok. Next hand, the penultimate one, I got dealt KK .. wow nice one to finish up, .. and right after I looked into my cards I said to myself "you will double up now with this hand" .. and I had this feeling in my whole body. to make it easy ... I crashed with the regular .. and I made the pot :) ... maybe a bit lucky, but well deserved if you ask me! he just played like a fish there, had a made hand on the turn, but I made my hand on the river and won the total pot of 209 euros .. which meant I had a total of 225 infront of me ... gave 5 to the dealer for that nice river, saving me from a 100BB minus ... and decided to cancel the last hand with the tight guy. I was happy with my 10BB win :D ... and so we sayd good night and left the place.
When I came home I posted this hand to pokerhand.org .. so have look here --> http://www.pokerhand.org/?4930431
In total this evening was a bit thrilling and very much up and down, ... not the typical action or play in the card room .. also got some interesting info about the rake or what goes down the table in one hour, .. how much collection and jackpot ... just to say one statement to this: I was the only guy in plus this evening and collection on the table was for sure something like 400 or 500 euros! (on a 5-max short handed table with blinds of 1/2) !!!!! unbelievable ... and of course the dicussion about it made everyone thinking about visiting again!?!
Samstag, 28. November 2009
es läuft gut...
meine ersten sessions nach fontaene's "rücktritt" laufen sehr gut:
heute leider auch kein video weil ich im BG den fernseher laufen hatte :)
ich möchte mit einer hand beginnen die wohl der knackpunkt der session war - ich hatte natürlich unfassbares glück:
#1
gibts nicht viel dazu zu sagen. ja ok ich hab mir eh noch gesagt: er ist zu gut um hier mit KK oder AA broke zu gehen - aber mal ehrlich könnt ihr hier einfach so second nuts folden???? ich bin halt noch nicht so gut ;-)
#2
das hab ich sicher nicht optimal gespielt. weil ich hier ws meist nur von der besseren hand gecallt werde. aber ich hab mir gedacht: mach ich eine "normale bet" sinds 5 euro. wenn er das callt wird er wohl auch ein all in callen. und außerdem hätt mich auch die 5euro bet an den pot committed
#3
vlt. die geilste hand der session. es is so geil. ich hab so glacht beim showdown. vor allem als ich ihre hand sah LOL LOL LOL und dann min raist er hier - es ist so grenzgenial. ich dachte wir werden wohl splitten (AQ gab ich keinem) und dann naja unverhofft kommt oft
ja also am ende dann beinahe +30€ obwohl ich einmal gesuckt wurde (waren aber "nur -5€): hatte AJ gelimpt UTG gegen 3 am flop.
flop J 9 3
ich setze einer callt (der hatte eben 5€) turn J
ich bette 2€ er callt
river K
er geht all in - ich denk ok ich muss wohl KJ auszahlen
calle und er zeigt Q10
also eine gewisse frechheit- aber was solls der gewinn lässt mich sowas schnell vergessen
lg euer doc
heute leider auch kein video weil ich im BG den fernseher laufen hatte :)
ich möchte mit einer hand beginnen die wohl der knackpunkt der session war - ich hatte natürlich unfassbares glück:
#1
gibts nicht viel dazu zu sagen. ja ok ich hab mir eh noch gesagt: er ist zu gut um hier mit KK oder AA broke zu gehen - aber mal ehrlich könnt ihr hier einfach so second nuts folden???? ich bin halt noch nicht so gut ;-)
#2
das hab ich sicher nicht optimal gespielt. weil ich hier ws meist nur von der besseren hand gecallt werde. aber ich hab mir gedacht: mach ich eine "normale bet" sinds 5 euro. wenn er das callt wird er wohl auch ein all in callen. und außerdem hätt mich auch die 5euro bet an den pot committed
#3
vlt. die geilste hand der session. es is so geil. ich hab so glacht beim showdown. vor allem als ich ihre hand sah LOL LOL LOL und dann min raist er hier - es ist so grenzgenial. ich dachte wir werden wohl splitten (AQ gab ich keinem) und dann naja unverhofft kommt oft
ja also am ende dann beinahe +30€ obwohl ich einmal gesuckt wurde (waren aber "nur -5€): hatte AJ gelimpt UTG gegen 3 am flop.
flop J 9 3
ich setze einer callt (der hatte eben 5€) turn J
ich bette 2€ er callt
river K
er geht all in - ich denk ok ich muss wohl KJ auszahlen
calle und er zeigt Q10
also eine gewisse frechheit- aber was solls der gewinn lässt mich sowas schnell vergessen
lg euer doc
some new hands vol. 1
starting to post some hands from my sessions, using pokerhand.org as i did yesterday.
played two short sessions today .. one before lunch, one after lunch ... 1st session lost one stack, after building up to 150BB [bought in with 100BB) .. played a 5-handed SnG for 5 euros and became second, so I reduced my deficit and went nearly break even again. after lunch I bought in with 100BB again on a nlhe short handed table and made quite a good table selection .. loose players, some fish and other sort of sea food in there ;) ... I like such ponds .. so I made a plus of 70BB there .. so I'm confident with my play .. had some nice hands and played really solid .. A-Game in the house today (or better said, I'm trying to find back to my old play ...more tight, more aggressive with small risk, playing smooth when the nuts come down ... a good mixture there I think ... and to be honest short-handed is MY game! I'll stay on those 5-handed tables NL10 on w2d now.
here are some hands from today:
LINK
this first one is from the 5 euros sng-tourney, nice hand I raised pre flop and made a more or less "loose" call after all .. and after the flop the hand was easy to play ;) .. busted two players here :D
LINK
I quite like this hand, don't know why, but I think, it was played good ... maybe thoughts will be different here (comments?) .. but I wanted to bet the river on any card ... ok went nice for me I know ;)
LINK
no comment ;) hehe ... just look and see :D
played two short sessions today .. one before lunch, one after lunch ... 1st session lost one stack, after building up to 150BB [bought in with 100BB) .. played a 5-handed SnG for 5 euros and became second, so I reduced my deficit and went nearly break even again. after lunch I bought in with 100BB again on a nlhe short handed table and made quite a good table selection .. loose players, some fish and other sort of sea food in there ;) ... I like such ponds .. so I made a plus of 70BB there .. so I'm confident with my play .. had some nice hands and played really solid .. A-Game in the house today (or better said, I'm trying to find back to my old play ...more tight, more aggressive with small risk, playing smooth when the nuts come down ... a good mixture there I think ... and to be honest short-handed is MY game! I'll stay on those 5-handed tables NL10 on w2d now.
here are some hands from today:
LINK
this first one is from the 5 euros sng-tourney, nice hand I raised pre flop and made a more or less "loose" call after all .. and after the flop the hand was easy to play ;) .. busted two players here :D
LINK
I quite like this hand, don't know why, but I think, it was played good ... maybe thoughts will be different here (comments?) .. but I wanted to bet the river on any card ... ok went nice for me I know ;)
LINK
no comment ;) hehe ... just look and see :D
Freitag, 27. November 2009
just reloaded ..
.. and already have a hand to report from:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4926737
posted it to pokerhand.org .. they use another format, so it's always shown a bit curious, in comparison to hands from pokerstars, full tilt, etc.
in total I made a nice plus of some 5 euros on that sh-table, when playing about some 30 minutes or so (don't exactly remember the time).
maybe we gonna have a private online table this weekend, ... playing with friends on a reserved table on win2day .. but so far we are not sure if there'll be time and enough people to play.
I may post some videos soon, .. but so far I have problems with the audio .. once I had no problems, next time I had a delay of 5-8 seconds .. which means you see the river of hand A und talk about the flop of hand B ;) .. no good.
have a good hand!
edit: gonna play Sunday Quarter Million on PokerStars this week, .. but not playing it just for fun ... I'll be part of Team Danzer (german Team Pokerstars Pro George Danzer) in a battle between Danzer and his friend Jan Heitmann (also Team Pokerstars Pro) and so my goal is to last quite long and hopefully win the tournament ;) ... hope you keep your fingers crossed for me! (every team consists of 25 players and I hope in the end Team Danzer is gonna be the more successful ;) stay tuned)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4926737
posted it to pokerhand.org .. they use another format, so it's always shown a bit curious, in comparison to hands from pokerstars, full tilt, etc.
in total I made a nice plus of some 5 euros on that sh-table, when playing about some 30 minutes or so (don't exactly remember the time).
maybe we gonna have a private online table this weekend, ... playing with friends on a reserved table on win2day .. but so far we are not sure if there'll be time and enough people to play.
I may post some videos soon, .. but so far I have problems with the audio .. once I had no problems, next time I had a delay of 5-8 seconds .. which means you see the river of hand A und talk about the flop of hand B ;) .. no good.
have a good hand!
edit: gonna play Sunday Quarter Million on PokerStars this week, .. but not playing it just for fun ... I'll be part of Team Danzer (german Team Pokerstars Pro George Danzer) in a battle between Danzer and his friend Jan Heitmann (also Team Pokerstars Pro) and so my goal is to last quite long and hopefully win the tournament ;) ... hope you keep your fingers crossed for me! (every team consists of 25 players and I hope in the end Team Danzer is gonna be the more successful ;) stay tuned)
Donnerstag, 26. November 2009
na dann bin ich wohl der letzte online-mohikaner
so sollte freund fontaene das echt durchhalten wirds wohl auf dauer ein one-man blog. zumindest was regelmäßige posts betrifft.
aber habe auch etwas zu sagen:
habe mir vorgenommen in diesem Jahr (soferns ein ganzes wird) meine bankroll (ohne das ich mir was auszahl - außer cih brauch dringend geld:) ) fett auszubauen.
momentan hab ich gute 240€ bei w2d liegen.
ich hab mir als ziel gesetzt in den nächsten 12 monaten im schnitt 200€ pro monat zu machen. allerdings kann das variieren. ihr wisst ja die downswings ;-). aber vor allem deshalb weil ich ja bei einer 1k bankroll höhere limits spielen kann und da kan sein dass ich viel mehr gewinn aber natürlich auch höher verlieren könnte ;-)
naja also ich sag mal am 26.november 2010 möchte ich ungefähr bei 2500€ stehen
mal sehen was draus wird ;-)
ich hoffe ihr drückt mir die daumen
und maniac: bitte bleib dem blog treu ;-)
aber habe auch etwas zu sagen:
habe mir vorgenommen in diesem Jahr (soferns ein ganzes wird) meine bankroll (ohne das ich mir was auszahl - außer cih brauch dringend geld:) ) fett auszubauen.
momentan hab ich gute 240€ bei w2d liegen.
ich hab mir als ziel gesetzt in den nächsten 12 monaten im schnitt 200€ pro monat zu machen. allerdings kann das variieren. ihr wisst ja die downswings ;-). aber vor allem deshalb weil ich ja bei einer 1k bankroll höhere limits spielen kann und da kan sein dass ich viel mehr gewinn aber natürlich auch höher verlieren könnte ;-)
naja also ich sag mal am 26.november 2010 möchte ich ungefähr bei 2500€ stehen
mal sehen was draus wird ;-)
ich hoffe ihr drückt mir die daumen
und maniac: bitte bleib dem blog treu ;-)
turning 21 / a big decision
Hey guys, as you can maybe read from the title, I’v just turned 21. 21, what an age. 21 is blackjack. 21 is freedom. I may now run my own business, may drink alcohol in the US or even enter casinos there. So, from now on, the WSOP waits for me.
But, I just don’t see myself in there the next year for various reasons, including mostly lack of money to finance the buy-in. ;)
But there’s one more thing. As the title says, I was faced with a big decision. I’ve been molling over a topic, a very important topic, for the last couple of weeks and I’ve made my final decision yesterday, on my birthday during a long run through the 'Leechwald'.
I’ll limit my poker-activities sharply for one year. Now, what does this mean?
I see it as a kind of challenge. For one year, namely till the 25th of November 2010, my 22th birthday, I won’t be playing a single hand of online-poker (and also no single hand against a poker-simulation like Poker Academy) and I will not follow the poker circuit regularly, meaning that I will not read poker news or watch poker-shows. (even though I know that HSP 6 is coming out in February, screw it.) The only thing I will still do in terms of poker is to play occasionally in our homegame in Carinthia or in other occasional games, if I get invited, but never higher than 0.1/0.2. These live-games just are great fun and very social events indeed, plus they don’t take that much time for they only take place rarely.
Why do I do this? Why do I limit myself so much in terms of a thing that I love so much? Well, basically, it’s an interest-conflict with university. I’ve now been studying for one year and even though my success was o.k., it was not terrific and I have never had the feeling of really having arrived here truly. There have always been some other things, somehow holding me back. I know that I am not dull, in fact I rate to be pretty smart, but I am lazy. And in life, there are so many things that can catch my interest, there is so much to see, so much to do, so much to feel. There are so many good and bad things, so many beautiful and ugly things, so much wisdom to be experienced, bla bla bla ….
In my life, as you all know, poker was not everything, but it was a big part of my everyday procedures. Even though I love the game and can’t really think of living my whole life without it, I don’t want the situation to go on like it is now. I’ve got so many other interests, I enjoy sports more and more everyday, I love literature and am keen on reading as much as possible, I enjoy travelling and want to see more of our world, I am running after girls to find the “chosen one”, etc.
Now is the time. That’s why I’ll take one year off. In this time I’ll try to truly find my place at university and really get further with my studies. Then, on or around my 22th birthday I’ll re-evaluate, just like the last year I constantly re-evaluated the strength of my hand on the river after calling a turn bet.
I know you two, especially docwu, will be harshly astonished and irritated by this decision. But what can I do? I’ve got to get further myself. Just like in poker I have to make my own decisions and take responsibility for them. This is what I want to do. I’ll do it. One year, no online poker, no following the poker-circuit. Sound’s tough. Will be tough for sure. But is possible and will be a lot of fun, too. And, if I finally make it, which I am sure of, will prove myself having extra-ordinary will-power and self-discipline. [Which I apparently don’t have a lot of, obviously ;) ]
If I then decide to get into a more intense poker-life at 22, it will certainly be quite fascinating for me to get back. Many things will have changed. The way the game will be played might have changed a bit. Omaha might finally have triumphed over Texas hold’em as the most popular game being played. I don’t know. Many things might happen.
But what I am really interested in is playing a heads-up match against docwu then. If I recall and think back for one year and compare my former-poker skills with my temporary skills, then I will face that I happen to have learned quite a bit. If my former I would compete against my contemporary I, well it would get crushed. So docuw, imagine you learn as much in this year as surely you have also learned in the past year, well, I guess you might crush me pretty hard then. I am looking forward to this and the process of recovering.
Here at the end I want to look back a bit on my previous poker life. Here’s my lifetime-graph on w2d for 0.05/0.1, but mainly it is since the October of 2008, for I really started playing a lot and also winning a lot at first around this time. Add to this a profit of around 70€ by playing a douche heads-up at 0.25/0.5 in one crazy night, a mere profit of 20€ when playing a bit of 0.1/0.2 from time to time and an estimated profit of 150€ be grinding SNG’s, MTT’s and freerolls occasionally. Oh yeah, and also around 100€ in profits from Omaha and Omaha/8. Maybe even a bit more, but I don’t know exactly.
To this you can add winning of around 150$ on FTP, around 200$ on Cake and around 80$ on PS. And then finally there is an estimated profit of 100€ by playing in live games, mainly our home-game in Carinthia and the two legendary trips to various card-rooms.
And then there is a minus of around 100€ by playing these shitty SNG’s in the casino Velden in the beginning of my “career” that has to be withdrawn.
So this altogether make “lifetime-winning” of 1740€ and 430$, which given the actual exchange-rate is a profit of around 2050€. It’s not so much compared to what you can make working an odd job, but still it’ not that bad and is certainly something that I am proud of, at least a bit. Just think about what you can buy with this money: a little, shabby and wrecked up car (which I in all probability will do recently, WOWIES [VW Golf, 17 years old, 200.000km]), buy even 4 little, shabby and wrecked up Opel-Corsas (which I, for heavens sake, am not gonna do), you can buy 1200 rolls filled with “meatloaf made out of finely-ground liver and other meat” Leberkäse I mean [here is my evidence for the translation – just click] at Billa, even added mustard and horseradish. Or you can spend some nice, luxurious days of holiday. So, it’s quite some money. ;)
But I will now try not to lose myself back into these glorious times, as I said, I want to look forward and also will do so. Keeping away from poker also means to keep away from outofaces, of course, which is sad, but only consequent. So I will leave you alone for one year now, I hope you’re doing fine here and keep the blog alive. There’s also no sense in commenting my post, since I will not read it. Well, maybe in a year then …
All the best to you. May it all togehter be a great year for me, and also for you, so that in the end all we can hear about it is a stong “nice hand”.
Bye.
- Roland Fritz
But, I just don’t see myself in there the next year for various reasons, including mostly lack of money to finance the buy-in. ;)
But there’s one more thing. As the title says, I was faced with a big decision. I’ve been molling over a topic, a very important topic, for the last couple of weeks and I’ve made my final decision yesterday, on my birthday during a long run through the 'Leechwald'.
I’ll limit my poker-activities sharply for one year. Now, what does this mean?
I see it as a kind of challenge. For one year, namely till the 25th of November 2010, my 22th birthday, I won’t be playing a single hand of online-poker (and also no single hand against a poker-simulation like Poker Academy) and I will not follow the poker circuit regularly, meaning that I will not read poker news or watch poker-shows. (even though I know that HSP 6 is coming out in February, screw it.) The only thing I will still do in terms of poker is to play occasionally in our homegame in Carinthia or in other occasional games, if I get invited, but never higher than 0.1/0.2. These live-games just are great fun and very social events indeed, plus they don’t take that much time for they only take place rarely.
Why do I do this? Why do I limit myself so much in terms of a thing that I love so much? Well, basically, it’s an interest-conflict with university. I’ve now been studying for one year and even though my success was o.k., it was not terrific and I have never had the feeling of really having arrived here truly. There have always been some other things, somehow holding me back. I know that I am not dull, in fact I rate to be pretty smart, but I am lazy. And in life, there are so many things that can catch my interest, there is so much to see, so much to do, so much to feel. There are so many good and bad things, so many beautiful and ugly things, so much wisdom to be experienced, bla bla bla ….
In my life, as you all know, poker was not everything, but it was a big part of my everyday procedures. Even though I love the game and can’t really think of living my whole life without it, I don’t want the situation to go on like it is now. I’ve got so many other interests, I enjoy sports more and more everyday, I love literature and am keen on reading as much as possible, I enjoy travelling and want to see more of our world, I am running after girls to find the “chosen one”, etc.
Now is the time. That’s why I’ll take one year off. In this time I’ll try to truly find my place at university and really get further with my studies. Then, on or around my 22th birthday I’ll re-evaluate, just like the last year I constantly re-evaluated the strength of my hand on the river after calling a turn bet.
I know you two, especially docwu, will be harshly astonished and irritated by this decision. But what can I do? I’ve got to get further myself. Just like in poker I have to make my own decisions and take responsibility for them. This is what I want to do. I’ll do it. One year, no online poker, no following the poker-circuit. Sound’s tough. Will be tough for sure. But is possible and will be a lot of fun, too. And, if I finally make it, which I am sure of, will prove myself having extra-ordinary will-power and self-discipline. [Which I apparently don’t have a lot of, obviously ;) ]
If I then decide to get into a more intense poker-life at 22, it will certainly be quite fascinating for me to get back. Many things will have changed. The way the game will be played might have changed a bit. Omaha might finally have triumphed over Texas hold’em as the most popular game being played. I don’t know. Many things might happen.
But what I am really interested in is playing a heads-up match against docwu then. If I recall and think back for one year and compare my former-poker skills with my temporary skills, then I will face that I happen to have learned quite a bit. If my former I would compete against my contemporary I, well it would get crushed. So docuw, imagine you learn as much in this year as surely you have also learned in the past year, well, I guess you might crush me pretty hard then. I am looking forward to this and the process of recovering.
Here at the end I want to look back a bit on my previous poker life. Here’s my lifetime-graph on w2d for 0.05/0.1, but mainly it is since the October of 2008, for I really started playing a lot and also winning a lot at first around this time. Add to this a profit of around 70€ by playing a douche heads-up at 0.25/0.5 in one crazy night, a mere profit of 20€ when playing a bit of 0.1/0.2 from time to time and an estimated profit of 150€ be grinding SNG’s, MTT’s and freerolls occasionally. Oh yeah, and also around 100€ in profits from Omaha and Omaha/8. Maybe even a bit more, but I don’t know exactly.
To this you can add winning of around 150$ on FTP, around 200$ on Cake and around 80$ on PS. And then finally there is an estimated profit of 100€ by playing in live games, mainly our home-game in Carinthia and the two legendary trips to various card-rooms.
And then there is a minus of around 100€ by playing these shitty SNG’s in the casino Velden in the beginning of my “career” that has to be withdrawn.
So this altogether make “lifetime-winning” of 1740€ and 430$, which given the actual exchange-rate is a profit of around 2050€. It’s not so much compared to what you can make working an odd job, but still it’ not that bad and is certainly something that I am proud of, at least a bit. Just think about what you can buy with this money: a little, shabby and wrecked up car (which I in all probability will do recently, WOWIES [VW Golf, 17 years old, 200.000km]), buy even 4 little, shabby and wrecked up Opel-Corsas (which I, for heavens sake, am not gonna do), you can buy 1200 rolls filled with “meatloaf made out of finely-ground liver and other meat” Leberkäse I mean [here is my evidence for the translation – just click] at Billa, even added mustard and horseradish. Or you can spend some nice, luxurious days of holiday. So, it’s quite some money. ;)
But I will now try not to lose myself back into these glorious times, as I said, I want to look forward and also will do so. Keeping away from poker also means to keep away from outofaces, of course, which is sad, but only consequent. So I will leave you alone for one year now, I hope you’re doing fine here and keep the blog alive. There’s also no sense in commenting my post, since I will not read it. Well, maybe in a year then …
All the best to you. May it all togehter be a great year for me, and also for you, so that in the end all we can hear about it is a stong “nice hand”.
Bye.
- Roland Fritz
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