Update:
Another solid livepoker Session yesterday.
Won a nice bomp-pot (30€ preflop ante) with my hand QQJx on QJx Board. It was around 1k pot.
There was one hand, I turned nutstr8 on a 2346 Board (with one backdoor flushdraw possible on the board). I had position on turn vs. two solid opponents. There action was on turn: Villain1 checks, Villain 2 bet almost pot, I decided to just flat behind and see what happen on the river and play my hand a little bit slow here. Villiain1 check calls (both players had a stack around 700€).
On the river the board paired unfortunately and Villian 1, who was leading out on flop, donk stab more than 4/5 pot here. Villian 2 folded and I went into the tank for a little bit and said: str8 not good here?? I folded and Villain1 showed his bluff with just two pair and missed backdoorflush..Would be a tough call here to catch this bluff..

Here a pic of my stack this session:

Sessionwinnings: 510€

Overview 20 livesessions so far:


So, I am very happy with my livegame preformence. I had only one big tilt Session so far at the beginning on this month. I should leave at some point in this session (was playing not good and was try to get to even and than gambling around...)
But I could recover from this session very quick and find back to my solid game.

Hey Martin, Congrats on your recent Success.
Where do you Play live? I think to Remember you are german.
What do you buy in for? I assume it is 5-5 blinds?
Cheers and Good luck

Ty. I play in Wiesbaden Casino. Its 5-5 blinds and minimum buy in is 250€. I buy in usually for 1000€.
I cover the most guys (the avarage stack at the beginning is 250 to 400). I have no stress at the beginning to double up or play too agressiv with a shortstack. If I fall under 700, I always rebuy to more than 1k. It works good so far.

Sweet. Have you ever been to Casino Dortmund? I Wonder what the Games are like over there as i live close by

No, never been there. No idea but overall live games are soft. Most pots are limp pots or single raised pots and if you play tight, you can make easy money. Of course you have to bluff a little bit and balance against some thinking regs but the most guys just play their passiv nit style, the whole day long..
There are no or just very few aggro guys, who push your around and you can not avoid the variance. Thats not the case.

Update livepoker yesterday.
One of my best days so far. Play almost 7 hours a very solid A-game. Hit some flops very well and made some good timed bluffs against tight/nit villains.
H1: Have called a raise on BTN with A355ds and flopped quads on T55 flop and got pay off by TTxx
H2: Turned nutsr8 with QTxx on x9JK Board, the same guy, who has bluffed me yesterday of the pot with my nutstr8, is leading out here. I just flat in position and another tight guy calls the action. River is a Q. He leads out again about 2/3 pot and I called with my 2nd best hand here (the another guy folded) and Villain shows TTxx for blockerplay
(Makes not much sense to play ATxx this way on turn, so it was not hard to catch his bluff here..)
H3: Play a big pot with Q9Txds in position against 2 guys. Turned Top 2 with flushdraw and raised a bet there and got 2 callers. On the river, I hit my boat but no more action..It was a nice 1k pot.
Than I lost unfortunately with AAAx hand against a 5 bet shove . The action was: I raised preflop in EP, got a reraise from a tight player and another guy cold call in position. I 4bet to 200€, the first raiser folds and the cold caller shoves for 560€, and I had to call. Villian has QT99ds and got there, so it was nothing to do here.

Here my pic of my 3k stack before the AAAx hand:


Session winnings: 1320€

Will follow.

I am also from germany and playing PLO on ggpoker, up to PLO2k because even at PLO2k the games are so unbelievable soft.
GL at the tables

if you haven't read "The Mental Game of Poker" I recommend you read it, great for dealing with tilt issues,.

Thank you!

Update livesession today:
Another great run and great play. A-Game at my best level.
The first 2 hours, the table was tight and I was try to play very loose and get involve in many pots, most in position.Was playing aggressiv and creating a lot of situation for some passiv nits. Thats works fine, I got some action, if I hit my cards. Biggest pot was a nice 2k pot against another big stack at the table. It was a sick cooler. Flop is 885. We both have a quite similar hand: AK8x..we got it in on the turn and hit both our backdoor flush, I had the nutflush, he the 2nd nutflush
Another nice hand was 8879ds on 874 Flop, where I bet/call a raise on flop and got my both on the turn Could get some value on the river from villains hand, who had probably 65xx..
Overall I feel very comfortable at the table at the moment and can read my opponents very well.The passiv livepoker environment fits me quite well.
Session winnings: 2070€

Pic of my nice 3k stack, I could get home today

Some toughts on my progress the last two months since the beginning of my comeback so far:
- made for sure some steps in the right direction to grow as a player and to achive my own potential.
- Every Session, I try to play my A- Game and show my best possible abilities at the tables. Make good reads, good laydowns, good calls and good adjustments to the table dynamic.
- The work, I put to study my leaks and read some PLO books and get some coaching material pays off.
- Still have some tilt issue online and live but I have this much better under control than in the past.
- Online is still a big challenge, but I will try to stick to one level (PLO100) and play some MTTs, no need to prove something there.
Livepoker is the way to go for me right now.
- BRM is good (over 25k now), games are soft and I feel more and more comfortable but be careful not playing too aggressiv.
Room to improve in my game for the next sessions:
- try to play more hands and be more involved in marginal spots to get out of my comfortzone to put me but also my opponents to the test. Last session this plan works quite well.
- Pay more attention to my tableseat and not have a big stack on my left.
- Smallball strategy is fine to focus on small and unforced pots, still can bluff a little more here and there and check- raise more, if I smell weakness.

Update from live Session today.
My great and sick run continue, booked another 2k winning session. Today ends my most winning 30 day periode in my entire pokerlife: won 7.2k€ in livepoker. Lost a little bit online, but its ok.
Interssting hand today: raised AAxx in EP and got 4 callers, with one aggro guy on the BTN, we both have a 2k stack. I checked/call a 924 Flop. Turn J (rainbow board)
I checked to him and he fired another barrel, I moved in with my whole stack and he folded won 1k in this hand. (I don't think he would play any value hand this way, is more likely he was try to get me out of the pot and my decision was right, maybe I had the best hand anyway)
Played a lot of small pots and lost the minimum with my big hands, where I got unlucky on some turn and river cards.

Pic of my nice stack tonight:

Here my graph for the last 30 days:


My first nice looking winning graph in the last 5 years.

Impressive, I like it.
My local casino in germany still hasnt opened poker, and we only have NLHE, no one likes playing PLO in my city.

Nice score!

Thank guys.
Update livesession on sunday:
Tough session, had a lot of missed draws and made some questionable rivercalls. Was almost 2k down at some point but could come back.
Session winnings: 230€

Update livesession Monday:
Another great run and solid A-Game.
Was involved in a 4 way all in with QQTTss and could split a nice 1.2k pot with KJTx. Another nice pot was with with AAxxss top set+nutflushdraw on flop made my boat on the river.
Here pick of my stack:

Session winnings: 1335€
Overall winnings now: 9k€

nice scores Champ. You seem to be playing every day^^
Do you have a job outside poker, too? hehe

Keep on crushing

@yowinsomeyo
Hi, ty. Yeah I have a job and doing poker just for fun.But I am playing too much right now.Thats true , maybe its because I am winning atm and can't stop.
But after today session, a very sick one, I will take a break to get my mind fresh. 4 weeks of livepoker with 6 to 7 hours sessions can be very tough.
Update today:
A very sick session, I will remember for a long time, thats for sure.Hit my flops once again very well and build my stack quickly to 3.5k (was 2.5k up at some point). Than lost some pots unlucky, running to some better hands.
Some bluffs didn't work: a tight player called my riverbet on AA3T5 with AQKx .I had a str8flush draw with 45xx on flop and was check calling oop and donkbet on the river...
Than a very sick hand will cost me my whole stack.
Table get very loose and everybody is in a gambling mode. I had A5K2ds (my stack was about 2.7k) and get involved in a multiway 4 way all in with some 500€ stacks..A big stack was also in the hand, actually the only guy who could hurt me..
Flop is A5J..I bet into the sidepot and he moved it, couldn't fold anymore, it was almost a 6.5 to 7k pot. He had AJ44 unfortunately I didn't improve.
Session loss: 1150€
Still 8k winnings so far.

Want take a break but after the sick session and the sick pot yesterday, I was playing today to make it better and overcome the session yesterday.
It was a hard and tough fight today but I won it!
The first hour I was a little bit out of line and was calling down some players who had me beat all the time..Than I have changed my style and try some crazy LAG style. Was raising and 3 betting almost every hand and it works, I got nice setups and could win some nice pots.
The biggest one was a nice 4k pot: I flopped bottom two pair with weak flushdraw and I get it in a 3-way all in with one 1k and one 2k stack. We run it twice and I won both times
I could almost tripple up here my stack.
Here pic of my 4k stack (was buy in for 2.2k)

Session winnings: 1990€

First milestone done!!
My first 10k winning graph ever in my entire pokerlife (I was a losingplayer for the last 5 years)

nice one, maybe I'll come visit you in Wiesbaden in the coming weeks

Cool. Than wee see us. Ask about the guy who is always winning...They all know me

Update:
Take a day off, to get my mind free. Just realize slowly how it feels finally winning in this game and to be on the right side of poker: to be finally a winner in poker.
If you get punished for more than 5 years str8, you confidence is down, you whole pokermindset is crappy, you feel sad to lose more than 20k€ in this cardgame.
But now is another situation. My pokerconfidence was never bigger than right now..
I know, if I play this game, if I sit at the table, I know all the other guys, know they tendency and know what they all want, and I know what to do. Stick to the plan, try it, if the plan doesn't work, try it again and again and again and than finally it beginns to work. Finally you realize the weakness of all the other guys at the table and than attack their weakness over and over again. Thats how you can win in in this game.

Earning this month more than 10k (pokerwinnings + salary) for the first time in my whole life. It feels great

Start playing again. Never stop, if you are on a lifetime upswing
Update livepoker Satarday-session:
The first 6 hours of play almost card death, won some small pots and lost some small pots, so far break even. Than a big whale enjoyed the table, who raise and reraise pot with almost every hand. Was waiting for a nice hand against him. And here we go:
AQ9xds in CO. I openraised pre, he was in SB and reraised pot and I just called in position.
Flop a dream: A72 two heart. I had the nutflush draw and top pair. He lead pot, I just called (my stack is around 1.7k and he had covered me).
Turn Q.
He pot it again, I moved and in he called..river blank a won a nice 3.5k pot
(he had wrap on turn with K-high for the 2nd nutflushdraw )
Than another nice pot vs. him with AA56ds. It was a raise and reraise pre I pot it to 800€ and he called the 800€ (he was all in)..Board brings some low cards and I won a nice 2k pot.

Here pic of my 4.5k stack yesterday (was buy in for 1.7k)

Session winnings: 2860€

Here my nice looking winning graph so far, what I should print out and put it on a wall