Hy everyone,

my name is Nick, I’m 23 years old and I’m from Austria. At the moment I’m in the newbie process of coaching for profits (6-Max). This Blog is about Poker and my personal Life!



My previous life


A “sheltered life” is how I would describe the last 23 years that I’ve been on this planet. I probably have the best and most supportive parents one could have and I never had bigger problems in life. It’s too boring to write a story about it.

There were only two things in my youth, which wasn’t that good:
First I canceled school to early, didn’t know, what job I should do and couldn’t really “find a place” in life.
The second thing was that I didn’t have a lot of self-confidence and social skills and as a consequence little success with girls.


So I started with Pick Up, what is labeled “the art of seduction” but is much more than picking up girls. Though there are many experts, coaches and gurus, who teach you a lot of bull**** (like in poker), the good ones know, that the essence of success with the opposite sex, like success in life also, is a matter of mindset, the right attitude and hard work. After completing a bootcamp, that required from me to push my comfort zone every day, seven days a week, six weeks in a row (beside my job) I knew, what is possible to reach for everyone(!) if you just do it. Everything that keeps you from doing exactly what you want is just a (false) limiting believe.


Unfortunately I lost something (not all) of that mental strength over the years again as a result of living a calm life again. But that’s okay. I have a wonderful girlfriend who supports me in everything I do and I don’t have to be “up all night to get lucky”, like I used to. Now I want to use all my energy, to become a poker professional.



My Poker Story


It was about eight years ago, when I was fifteen and poker boomed when we started to play no limit texas holdem in school. We used to play every short break and every free hour with ten and twenty cent coins. But to be honest we didn’t really know, how to play poker, although everyone thought of himself being the best player in the world. After some years of playing occasionally and without ever reading a poker book or strategies at the web, somehow poker got lost in my life due to the fact, that I’m living in a small town, where the options to play poker are limited and I never thought about playing online.


Two years ago something changed when I was visiting family in the USA for the first time. We were playing poker there nearly every day and my love to poker was back and it was stronger than ever before. The following two years it evolved to a real passion. When I was at home from my vacation, I bought my first poker book and started playing online a little bit. I never, ever got successful at online poker, no matter how often I tried it and I got much bigger tilt problems, than I could ever have at live poker. The last one and a half year I played a lot at a live poker room that opened in my town. For this time I know that I really want to become a professional and I developed a lot as a player but still didn’t get successful at online poker. My biggest dream now is to be as good at online poker that I can live and work from everywhere with just a laptop and a monitor so that I can change my residence (maybe to a warm country at the sea) whenever I want and still make money with my dream job.



How I came to Cfp


Some months ago, I read through the blogs of pokerstrategy and I found the blog of Ironhades. I didn’t really understand, what he was talking about but I liked his attitude and it seemed like he was doing a really tough coaching. So I was curious about it and after some research I found BPC and Cfp. At this time I didn’t think of applying for the program because I couldn’t organize it with my fulltime job and evening classes. Now there is the “light version” of the program and though it isn’t the best time to start with it, because October is probably the busiest month of the year in my life, I applied because if I waited for the right time, I would never do it.



My Goals


My goal is to reach the 60k € until the end of 2016, what is an extremely high goal considering that I start with a bankroll of 100€, still continue my fulltime job and yet loose on the microstakes but it’s okay: Dream Big, Work Hard!


Goals after finishing the program:

– Earning enough that I can take 2 – 4 months a year off to travel around and see the world.

– Learn HU and Tournament strategies to become a really good pokerplayer who masters the game in its entirety.

– Build a Bankroll to play Big Live Tournaments.

– Play more Live Poker to win titles, trophies, bracelets and of course the million dollar prize moneys.



Ok Guys, just join and follow my way to the 60k

So shuffle up and deal 😉

Hy everyone!

Nearly a month passed by since my first post here and finallay I‘m done with the newbie process. It took a long time but that’s ok, I knew that this would happen because in october I have to do some very important charity stuff so for me thats the busiest month every year. Actually I didn’t want to start Cfp before november because of this but the urge to start Cfp was too big and even bigger was the fear of missing this oppurtunity. There is always a reason to postpone something, particularly if it’s something that requires a lot of work and freetime but once you’re in, there is no way back. Now I’m glad that i started in october because there is a lot of work to do before the real coaching starts. So fortunately i could finish the last three steps now and I can finally start to play some poker. Also looking forward to my first coaching soon.

I hope you’re doing well on the tables; I’ll see you there.

So shuffle up and deal!

Hy everyone!

What can i say after four days of playing?

Well I’m not playing too much. Just some short sessions everyday. If you trained for a marathon you wouldn’t start with running 40km everyday. Though I would consider myself a lazy guy, I’m constantly working on my poker skills every day beside my full time job and it feels great. I feel that something is happening. I try to increase volume and quality of my work, what not only means that I play good poker but also that I get myself organized in learning / blogging/ playing / reviewing.

My biggest weakness is probably to review sessions. I just don’t like it. It’s like the homework that nobody wants do do. I think the reason, why I don’t like it, is that I see all the mistakes that I made and that makes me kinda tilt and making even more mistakes. Now I know, what I always knew: I’m not losing because I’m too stupid to follow a simple strategy but I’m losing because of leaks in my mind. Though I’m such a positive guy in real life, sometimes negative emotions like impatience and desire for revenge control me while I’m playing. Fortunately Gordon gave me acces to the „Poker Millionaire Mindset“ and „Tilt Free Today“.Thats exactly what I need at the moment.

Apart from that everything is going well. I’m getting „into the flow“ of playing and working everyday and I feel that I’m doing the right thing. I start feeling comfortable with playing more tables, checking rakeback stats everyday, updating the Cfp software everyday and start develop myself and my life in a positive way.


So my goals fort the next weeks are:

• Working myself through „Tilt free“ and the „Poker Mindset“
• Getting well organised in everything I do and get „good“ habits
• Getting comfortable to play „simple poker“ on the microstakes

I hope the coach can help me with these goals. Still looking forward to my first coaching.


I hope you’re doing well on the tables, I’ll see you there

Shuffle up and deal!

Hy everyone,

the first week of Cfp is behind me so it’s time for a little review.

It was a hard first week with up and downs, but my focus was not on the play but on getting the right habits and organizing everything. I feel good with daily updates etc. but for me it seems to be a lot of material to work through and to be honest i feel a little overwhelmed from time to time. I expected to get more support from coaches / working groups. But everytime I have these kind of thoughts, I remember myself that i never learned anything from someone taking me by the hand and treating me like a little child on it’s first day in school.

Though I started with a bankroll of 100€ on NL2 as a former losing player on the microstakes, I was pushed to the Intermediate Course for some reason. It demands a lot of me but after a few moments in wich i doubt about myself, a feeling of pleasure about the challenge outweighs. Maybe it is Gordons secret of succes to always require more of his students, than they would think they can handle, so they have to work twice as hard, like I will do.

Here is my graph for the first seven days:





It were relatively short sessions. Since I never played more than 4 tables or longer than two hours, I’m just in the process of getting used to volumeand feeling comfortable with longer sessions and more tables.

All these sessions were played on NL2 with the preflop ranges of the NB 6Max Course and a very simple preflop play.



Tasks for the next week:

• I will start with the advanced preflop ranges. At first I have to devide it in parts, wich my brain can handle and then learn it gradually
  
• Going on working out my postflop plan.
  
• Getting in contact with some other players of my stakes by INCREASING FORUM ACTIVITY!
  
• Going on with Tilt Free and summarize The Poker Millionaire Mind.

I hope you’re doing well on the tables, I’ll see you there

Shuffle up and deal!

Hy everyone,



week 3…



I’m a ****ing lazy jerk who deserves to run bad. Couldn’t really handle the advanced ranges at first, so I tried to write a little program which supports me during play but I’m anything but a programmer so after two days I gave up and decided that there has to be another way. So I worked out the ranges again, marked them with different colors and printed them on cue cards as clear as possible. Now I can play with them.



I also worked out a working plan, which tells me exactly what to do and when to do because this is what I need. Otherwise I’m ending up doing nothing. If I follow the plan, I should make it to play the 10k hands for my databank analysis and work through Tilt Free Today until the beginning of January.



Although I thought I was not playing bad and felt really good at the few sessions I played this week, the results were terrible.
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But I try not to care about the results but about my game, especially preflop at the moment.



I hope you’re doung well on the tables, I’ll see you there.

Shuffle up and deal!

Hy everyone!


Nick Raiser is back! And this time it’s serious!


Whats going on? I had a tough december and didn’t play or do anything else for almost a month! I had also to admit to myself, that the intermediate course was the totally wrong place for me. So I asked Gordon to move me to the micro group and everything is going well now.


I realized that I was overwhelmed with the intermediate stuff and everything I was doing was just ****ing around and getting nothing straight in my head. So it’s like a new beginning on January the first of 2016!




Week 01


My first week went well. I started to play on a new site and grinding for some rakeback and bonus now!

I also realized in a group coaching that I make a looooot of bad calls on the river. I’m a real calling station. Thats why my blue line is so deep. But for now I’m on a good way and the blue line is already moving up!



This is my graph for the first week in 2016:




I hope you’re doing well on the tables, I’ll see you there.

Shuffle up and deal!

Hy everyone!



Week 02



I worked my way through the second week of 2016 and it was a hard one.



Workwise it was very good. I played 21 hours (about 10k hands) + coachings + studying.



From the aspect of winning it was a week full of struggeling. I was down quite often and even missed stoploss once. From my subjective point of view I was running really bad. It felt like everytime I had second nuts, someone else hat the nuts. But who knows… just concentrate on playing better and this **** will pass by.



At the end I still finished the week with nearly +3BI.



At the graph you can see at the end oft he week, that my blue line takes its way up which means I improve my game in the way that I’m not calling with weak hands anymore.



This is my graph for the second week in 2016:



I hope you’re doing well on the tables, I’ll see you there.



Shuffle up and deal!

Hy everyone…



Week 03



It was a week full of ups and downs. At the end I’m up but I’m a little worried because I’m running so extremely high above EV. But I try not to worry, when I’m below EV so I also shouldn’t worry in this case.



I also started playing NL4 this week. I didn’t play 100k hands on NL2 yet but my bankroll is already bigger than required so I gave it a try and it’s running good so far.



What I realized this week is, that I still tilt a lot. So I made an experiment yesterday: Though I should keep an eye on my winnings/losses because of stoploss, I didn’t look at it at all. I made a deal with myself, that I play for exactly 2 hours and I don’t look at my results. After 2 hours I quit playing, no matter how I feel. I tried to have no expectacions (although you always hope, that you‘re up in the end.) It went really well and I avoided tilting with these approach. I’m working through tilt free today at the moment so tilting shouldn’t be a big problem in the future anyway but maybe I repeat these ‚exercise‘ in the next sessions.





This is my graph of this week:

I don't know which one is crazier: your red or blue line