Hi guys,

my name is Michael, 21 years old and im living in germany. I started and learned poker at ps. After i read occasionally only as a guest, i decided to join this forum.

There are 2 goals, i want to reach with that kind of blog:

Studies

Im studying business information systems in the first semester and i wanna reach a good final certificate. "Good" means 1.x would be great, but definitely better than 2.5. I will update to this issue from time to time, but not in a very high frequency. I think it is really boring to read how i learn. (yeah i like the similies in this forum). But I think tracking the steps to reach that goal will motivate me and i can call regularly in mind that study > poker.

Poker

I started poker with LHE, switched to NLHE 6max and now im playing HU only.
My bankroll is slightly over 4k and so im playing nl100. When i reach 6k i`ll play nl200 until I dropped to 5k. I really hope ftp relaunched in the near future, cause that would be a bankroll boost for me. I start playing regs @nl200 when i reach 10k.

ahja, one benefit of this blog is to improve my english. I think I am in urgent need of doing this. So feel free to tell me my mistakes.

Thanks for reading!

You speke the good english already sir :P

But for real good luck and i hope you hit your goal.
Are you going to play live as well or just online?

Hi thank u! I`m pleased someone answered to my posting .

In the near future im not going to play live, cause my bankroll is a little bit low for playing NL200€. But when the bankroll grows (i hope so), i will playing live for a change and for fun, but not mainly.

So here are my first few hands...seems to be a pretty good start.



I have just installed CamStudio for recording all my sessions and i carry out working more with Flopzilla and Co. Also i have to review my session constantly.


Allthough i focus on learning the next days. At 7th and 14th i have my exams and therefore poker is really secondary.

Chasaments. For the most part i played regs on this day.





yap i think he was able to vb kx on the river and folding a lot of ahi floats/pp to my second barrel. My first intention to post this hand, was to show how bad i am

But when my assumptions are reasonable i think the hand is not that incredible bad. But nevertheless HU is not about winning these spots.

Aja camstudio sucks and aTubecatcher rockz at least for Win7.

As of now i learn without joining empty HU tables, cause i'm all right distracted by doing that.

nice thread mate will be follow und viel glueck bei den tischen

Danke schön!

Shame on me, because i´ve not kept to this. But in my defence, i write the first exame 2 days afterwards and i make good time.

So first message, i have hit the 6k and today i`ve taken a shot on NL200.



Tomorrow, i will write more about the session and i`ll give u some hands.

Now, it`s time to go to bed. gn8.

Yesterday`s shot was really nice.

Mainly i played a "semi" NL50 reg on Stars, who tilted his money to me and a fish on Ipoker. Of course i run good, exspecially vs the NL50 reg, but i struggled with the fish on IPoker.

First, the graph vs him with NonSD:



Look how i crash at hand 280. At this time i had to make silly folds for example 2 times i 2nd barreled my draw and he xr ai with a 60bb stack, and i had to fold.

Or...





I think this is a really tough fold. I mean i`ve got TPTK in 3bet Pot but actually he was passive and i assume he would play his draws passively as well. Ofcourse he is a fish and he could do weird things, but ya i think this fold is fine.

I tilted a little bit vs him, for example i 2nd barreld with less EQ, although he folded anything and 2 times i snapped really really light the river. In retrospect i tilted, cause i really often missed the board. Ofcourse u win vs these guys by thin value betting..blabla, but i cant vb 8hi.

An interesting point is, that he folded to contibets flop/turn/river 21%/(61), 13%/(24) and 67%/(6).

That means 3rd barreling would be nuts, but i didn`t implement this . I think it is difficult to 3rd barrel callingstations, but next time when i have proper reads i will consider that option.

I remember that i said to myself ingame : "argh u have to squeeze more value out of this fish, he plays so worse."

I was dissatisfied with the result against this huge fish but the point is, i think my edge vs these kind of fishes are more less than i imagine. I mean i beat him with 10 ptBB in EV and that`s fine.


Shortly here are 2 hands vs the NL50 reg:








At this time he lost 1k to me, he played really fast and i felt he was out of contol.







This hand was a little earlier in the match. I do not cb, cause he folds round about 65% to cb and i just wanna delay. But then he potted two times and ya it`s a tight decision imo.

Do I really have to contact the admin to change "fishes" in "fish? .

Is this always the case, that i can`t edit my posts after 30 min?

sweet, lots of HH please, and record a video of you playing with some commentary. Id be really interested atleast, and i doubt im the onlyone.

respect for you HU players, respect.

Keep crushing.. how long have you been playing HU cash for?

Yes ofcourse, after my exames i can record a video. Do u prefer a reg at NL100 or a bum at NL200?

First i played HU besides 6max and then i switched roughly to HU 3 months before blackfriday.
After BF i was really demotivated and played poker very rarely. Maybe i played lifetime round about 60-70k hands HU? Yes that could be about right.

id love to see you playing a reg, cause then theres something to pickup

ok allright, but i think I´ll profit most of all .

Now guys, it`s time for a update.

Last days, i played not much...round about 4 session. One loosing, one BE and two winning sessions. I´m nearly 5k up this month with rakeback. Really enjoyable. I can recommend everyone starting a blog, u will run hot like jesus

I marked many hands in HM, but here are only some of them.







uh light value bet on the turn imo. He have to be a really station to justify the bet. xb turn would be still standard i think. Arccording to my turn-play, my river-play is fine imo.














Pity, he didn`t jam the river. But okay he has Ahi. Non SDV he would jam for sure, i think.

I still have a few random suckout hands, but probably i would bore u.

The rest of the week i wont play much, because I have to do a lot of work at the appartment. My girlfriend and me move in together and there a few things to do. And at the beginning of the next week it is already carnival

So guys have a nice time and thank you for reading!

gl OP, you english is great and I think you have the potential to make it to nosebleeds one day if you grind a lot.

heh ty for your compliment . But, honestly i will never reach nosebleeds for sure and i dont strive for it. I imagine u have to give up a lot of your life for reaching that goal, cause u have to work so hard for it. Apropos my next goal is to shot NL400. Now my BR is slightly over 11k and i will shot NL400, when i reach 14k.

Two days ago it was "Rosenmontag" in cologne. It was a really sick day, because u start drinking at 10 o´clock and look at your watch and you think "oh, wtf 5 pm, it could easily be 3 am". But it was great .

Few days ago i played a reg on ipoker, but at first the graph:



I played him from hand 300 and he was really really aggressive. First i abused his over-aggressiveness pretty well imo. At the peek we started a third table and ya then i was crushed in a way. I noticed that he was changing his gameplan but my adjustments was`nt pretty good. Additionally i`m not used to play 3 tables and i went on autoplay in a way. I made my dicisions without atleast 80% awareness. And to be aware is really important, exspecially in HU. But nevertheless, i was aware enough to realize to quit and that chasing money isn`t the best option.
Also we played around 4 hours, i dont recall. But at some point my brain is tired and worned out and hence i can`t think clearly anyway.

Furthermore i carry out to work harder for my game. Im going to watch 3 pokervideos a week and im going to review my session atleast 3 hours a week. Ofcourse i track this process.

And that was about it for now!

cool thread OP and i think you're english is damn solid

keep crushing, and more HH's!

hey ty and ok here are some HH´s:







I`m never forward, but i still call.








He was xr a fairly amount and when he bets this river it becomes a pretty tough spot.







Same Villain

I played all hands against regs. Anyhow i just don`t get much action from fish -.-.

Yesterdays graph:

hey guys, just a short update.



In fact i was 1 stack up in EV, but i run pretty bad at the € tables. Here are some hands from that day:














































uh r/c is so ****ing bad.














wtf






















ok enough^^.

Yesterday i only played a reg on stars for 2.2k hands. Actually it`s silly playing regs on stars, because i dont get rb but i just dont get action on Ipoker. Anyway the match was fine and in the end i was up.

wow sick coolers op..

he ty for your sympathy

here`s my feb: