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After some miscommunications and other weird stuff that made me go instant life-tilt, I decided to take one year off my life to explore life.... with Poker!

 I will not go into details what happened as it is just a waste of energy and I rather want to save it up into a bottle so I can drink that instead of a RedBull lol...

I will spend this year more on exploring life, travelling and sponsor the costs by playing poker. But by playing, I mean learning and playing!

The countries I am visiting for sure is Copenhagen, Denmark and Firenze/Florence, Italy since I am totally in love with Copenhagen (and it's girls ) and I adore the historic arts and sight of Firenze, sugoi!

Concerning Poker, I moved up to Stars on 50NL since Party was not really the place to be although for 6 á 8 tables , it was quite okay. I couldn't resist the bonus offered by Stars.... hihi

 I kind off miss the ShortStackness back when I used to play 200NL or 100NL. I could move up to 400NL SSS but I didn't do it since I wanted to explore in the Poker-Galaxy. I didn't learned much by just playing SSS though the paycheck(= profit as a result of Consistent Good Play ) was solid and consistent.

I still see people keeping track of their bankroll with SSS and base their moods/emotions/verdicts on the results. Please don't do this, with the shortstack, you cannot have control over more than 2 streets (pre & post but maybe you play the Turn but that's mostly either SHOVE or FOLD)

Even though I am doing a sabbatical year, I do not know if I want to devote every day into learning poker consistently. I got the motivation & discipline for it, I know this and it can sound cocky but hey, it's self-confidence !!
Maybe I will find a full-time job in the early mornings so that I have a consistent biorhythm. Moreover I think I will apply for a Fitness club or something like that to keep me fit. I mean cycling to the KFC every tuesday is +EV but that's only once per week lol! 

My learning :: playing ratio is like 75/25 and I have to level it towards 60/40 to find the optimal balance into 50/50 but I think, the stage where I am in now 60/40 is okayish, 70/30 is excellent!
As careful as I am, I will gradually move up the limits and mass tabling is a big no-no unless I want to play SSS =P


Last but not least a small tip for live homegames and stuff: Never ever mindonkbet/fold with a Fullhouse on the River if you hold [8c 7s] on a [Jh 8s 2d] [2h] [2s] board being IP against a Girl nit who deviates from her preflop & postflop line >_<. Zeeboo theory did his work and Karma showed me [7c 6c] 76 of clubs, total Air Ball FML
And since I am a bad player during homegames, my 3bet/4bet range only consists of Trash (GusPoker) or Seven-Deuce (Whenever this game is applicable =D)

 
A {poker}year full of opportunities, it is now up to me to seize those opportunities and take advantage of it

Take care & thanks for reading!

- Gerv aus Holland, jawohl bitte schön SPÄTER!

     Sadly, I have not been able to play much poker lately. I have been swamped with business stuff. I ended up having to fly from Vegas to New York City yesterday for a short meeting that will hopefully pay off for me in the future. There really hasnt been much happening in the poker world over the last month or so. August is usually the month where nothing happens. That is all going to change though, once the WPT event at the Bike in LA starts in around a week. I am super excited to get back to the tournament grind. After that, I will be heading to Cyprus for the WPT event there. If any of you guys are going, make sure to say Hi if you see me. After that, I head back to America for the WPT event at Borgata then back to Vegas for all the Bellagio tournaments. 

    I have discovered lately that I really just like working. Most people love relaxing, watching movies, partying, etc, but I just like to work, and when I say work, I mean play poker. Does that make me a workaholic or a gamblaholic? Maybe a bit of both. Anyways, I look forward to studying lots of poker videos and putting in lots of hours over the next week. After that, I look forward to (hopefully) winning my 3rd WPT title.

Sorry, that's the only title I could come up with.

"Day 3" is over, and was by far the sickest. TwiceT arrived earlier today, and coached me for a session of HU (mostly nl100, plus one table nl200). I don't think I've ever learned so much, so fast. His insight and general game are amazing...In short: we crushed 

FTP is really cool for heads-up too, we only once played a regular (who was a DC coach and mid-stakes HU regular...and we crushed him :P), otherwise there's really good traffic and plenty of fish, so whenever I can't get enough NL200 SH tables on party, I can always play huhu.

The first two days didn't go very well, with a big upswing followed by a similar downswing. Actually, today's upswing doesn't quite top the last one, but I don't care. I feel great about my game now (and my chances), so...we'll see what the next sessions bring!

Here's a graph of the day, mostly HU but with a few NL200sh hands (the 400$ up in the red line...don't ask, I'm not sure how it happened):

And here's the month, up til now (August 4th 4am CET):

By the way... check out our setup ;)

Hey guys,

July was a month filled with LANs, housesitting, days off with the GF and lots of Battleships Crossfire (WC3 custom map!). As such not a huge amount of poker got done but I'm gonna share my experience anyways.

Firstly non-poker-wise our competitive Left 4 Dead team visited xLan which is New Zealand's biggest LAN event was early on in the month. We seeded first got knocked out in party by chenny8888's team which was a bit of a kick to groin, and I have since quit the game and have been playing a spot of StarCraft in anticipation of the SC2 beta which is just over the horizon :D

Poker-wise I'll break down the hands I played.

8066 HU hands in total.

5496 @ 5/T, +1142$ +2BB/100

2570 @ 3/6, +648$ +4.2BB/100

6448 6-max hands in total

3276 @ 5/T -1500$ , -4.6BB/100 (yay)

3212 @ 3/6 +700$  , +3.62BB/100

HU is fun and profitable, I need to keep up with my good table selection and intend on playing it in August. I won't be playing any 5/T 6-max as it has never been profitable for me despite playing only with terribad fishes on my direct right and generally never playing with bad tables meanwhile my 3/6 6-max has always been a winner.

So it's going to be 3/6 6-max and both 3/6 + 5/T HU this month for the monies. My bankroll is in the mid 10ks including FPPs. My goal this month is to make a few k$ and unlock my 4k$ bonus and decide where to go from there, sticking with tried and true +EV games for me.

Also Starcraft 2 beta....

I'm doomed :*(

TerrorBlade

Here's a funny pic.

Hi all,

In case you're wondering why I haven't posted in ages..it's pretty much that I haven't had anything interesting to say, what with playing very little hands at rather boring limits. In case you're wondering who the fuck I am, you'll have to dig through the blog to find my older posts. deal with it.

First, let me sum up what's happened between then and now in a handy list format.

- I almost busted my roll making a stupid BRM mistake in February or so (that, I already talked about)

- I played NL50 then NL100 for a while, mostly making money through bonuses.

- The reason why that phase lasted almost 6 months is that I was working (a little more than usual) for school, and was too lazy to make proper time for poker.

- Somewhere in there, I broke my back in two places on the last day of the ski season (nothing too serious, but very annoying), had exams, won a $1000 propbet on my maths one (6/6, ship it holla), recovered and continued to be super lazy with poker.

- Oh, I recently started playing HU too. Also, I watched a few videos and improved my 6-max game a ton. I'm not grinding stupidly anymore, thinking about every decision I make and soaking up advice from excellent coaches. 

AND NOW:

Today is the 1st of August. I have an entire month free ahead of me. For those of you who read my blog a year ago, the title should start to give you a hint of what's up next. (quick summary for the new ones: I grinded like crazy during July '08 for a promotion, 120k hands nl100-nl200 in <30 days)

That time, I was shooting for 20'000 partypoints in a month. This time, I'm going for 20'000$. Just to step things up a little. The way I'm going to do this is simple: eat, play poker, eat, play poker, eat, play poker, sleep. Let's see how it goes. 

Seriously though, my roll now stands at 6700$, spread between Party and full tilt. I'll be starting at NL200, playing *maximum* 8 tables (I'll fill up with nl100 when traffic is bad). I play 6-max on party and HU (nl100 at first) on FTP, though that might change once I get my bonus. Speaking of which, I have a 3k$ bonus I can buy on party as soon as I reach Palladium again, and rakeback on full tilt -- the 20'000$ include bonuses and rakeback, by the way.

What's perhaps noteworthy as well is that I am not going for any specific promotion, top250 or otherwise, so I don't give a shit about volume. My main goal will be to improve my hourly rate as much as possible (frankly, that should be the goal of every poker player), and beat NL400 as soon as possible. Thankfully I have lots of videos I can watch, and I might get some private coaching if I feel I need it. 

I will hopefully be playing 6 days per week full time, to leave a few days for playing live (I play NL1k or 2k and put 75% of my winnings towards live tourneys). It'll probably end up being less than 6 days though, since TwiceT is coming over in a few days ^^ 

I'll post updates here if there's enough popular demand, otherwise I'll just start a thread in the forum blogs I guess. On that note, I'll leave you with an awesome video while you wait for the first update. Wish me luck, I'm officially starting tomorrow!  (well, this afternoon i guess. whatever.)

//edit: check out TheLastNail's blog! He's doing the same thing, only way more baller