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Royal_Rumble, Apr 15 2008

Today I did a lesson with p1mpdaddy from Austria. This was pleasant because I like the Austrian accent. We talked in German, which I usually don't do because all the specific poker terms are English and you always end up using a terrible slang of mixed up German and English.

The lesson itself went OK I think, although there weren't too many interesting spots and we fucked up one AJ hand due to my poor advice, anyhow, it was a winning session for p1mpdaddy on NL100.
Basically he said that he played too weak-tight and I showed him how to play more loosely, especially when in position, and I told him to c-bet more hands, which he didn't do before.

After that I did a session for myself, which went quite ok, but not as good as last week, my winrate fell to like 4.5BB/100, check out todays results (so far, might play another session tonight):

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Some hands:

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Good thing is that I didn't tilt a little bit, no matter what happend.

I definitely need to play more poker, because it's my source of income at the moment and probably will be until I have my degree, since I don't feel like doing shitty part time jobs again.

So I think I should play poker instead of wasting time in following the epic downfall of NeillyJQ or doing other random bullshit.

But this leads to this question: Is it +EV to play poker although you don't feel like doing it? I get FPPs, but that should not be motivation to play more, because my winrate is probably lower then.

Another question: Is it better to play less tables and really following what is going on or doing some semi-mechanical approach and 10-table? It's basically the same. On one hand you do play more hands, which should mean more profit. On the other hand it is probably better to play less tables in order to improve.

Some Real Life stuff:

University started again this week, but first week is not too important. Wanted to go to lecture this morning, but I already was late, then it started raining (I ride a bicycle), so I thought: "Fuck it".
That lecture is not important, so who cares.

Gonna learn Japanese this semester and tomorrow I have my first lesson, I am quite excited.

I also want to start to train MMA myself, because it's simply badass and if you get into a fight it's better to end up as the winner than as the loser. So I signed up for the MMA training at the university, which is at Friday night. I have lectures on Friday until 8pm or so and directly after that MMA. It's only once a week though, don't know how fast I can progress then.

All this probably leaves not too much time for poker, but we will see.

What blows is that I have lectures in two different cities (Erlangen and Nürnberg) and I regularly have to travel between these two locations which costs a shitload of time and nerves.

I want to make this a high quality blog, so I will post some vids or something similar from time to time.
Here is Lily Allen and her song "LDN", hmm, she's hawt and I love the British accent, but not as much as Austrian German, lol.

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lol + free lesson

Royal_Rumble, Apr 14 2008

Did another short session at NL200, but lost a buy-in due to a poorly played QQ hand, probably a little bit scared money. Went back to NL100 and my run there continues. I also cashed out $1100 and my roll is at a comfortable $4.2k atm, and I soon have 50k FPP, so I can get the $650 reward bonus.

I always wondered who the guys are that fuel the poker industry and the winning players like myself, realizing that there are much more losers than winners at poker because of the rake.
I thought it might be some guys who consider poker as a hobby, which costs a certain amount of money in the month, which they take from their loan, deposit and don't mind losing, because it's fun to them and being in a bowling club or going on holiday or getting blowjobs from hookers is also fun and costs money.

I also never followed the personal drama on this site, I simply would read the forums and read interesting threads and think about hands, but in the last few days it was unable to ignore that f4zi + neillyJQ thing.

Reading neilly's blog added it all up, it shows me what kind of people are also into poker. Desperate gamblers, always for the one big shot, then losing it all. Man, read it. It goes like this, a hundred times:

a) ran well at NL2
b) played some NL50, didn't do that good
c) won 6k at some tournies
d) played NL200/NL400/NL600/NL5k, went busto
e) started up again at NL2,... see a)

Guess Neilly was the only Supernova ever that played NL2.

If you should read this: I have nothing against you personally, but poker clearly isn't for you. But you probably are unable to change your attitude and personality, so the story is gonna repeat itself again and again. Seriously: Stop it, ask all the sites to ban you and find another hobby.

This is so sad. It shows me the other side of poker, the broken existences of people who cannot control themselves, who have weak personalities, who deposit their last money on Poker Sites or OnlineCasinos, just to lose it...

to me hopefully.

Anyway, when I play I only see the odds, the stats, the money, I have not to deal with the person behind that money, all I see is their screenname and they will take my money, if they have the chance, so why should I bother? Everybody is at least 18 years old and responsible for himself. Doubt that Neilly would succeed in another aspect of life, he simply would find a different addiction, probably being alcohol or drugs.

So no more soft feelings here, life is hard and you have to watch out to be on the winners side.

NL100 though bores me a little bit at the moment, after playing NL200, it lacks the thrill of the big monies, I need a little bit of fresh motivation, and I think by sweating some other player I might get it.

So basically I offer a free lesson at NL50 or NL25, only Fullring.

If you are interested, you should have the following qualification:

1) able to speak proper english
2) having PokerTracker or a similar program with a HUD
3) knowing basic terms like equity, implied odds etc.
4) Having a headset, Skype and WebDialogs Unyte

preferably playing at stars or FTP because I am familiar with the software.

If you are interested and fulfill my criteria, post here or send me a PM, gonna do this one time, probably 1 or 2 hours.

My qualification for this:

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NL200

Royal_Rumble, Apr 12 2008

Ok, a little history first: Started playing poker in September 2006, but never took it seriously, made constant profit, but never really got over NL50, because I made constant cashouts.

Maybe I will be getting a little bit deeper in this later.

Since last semester I hardly played any poker, didn't have much time, I am studying mechanical engineering which is time consuming. And if I would occasionally play the game, I would be tilted very fast.

So poker was not any fun for me at that time. During the vacation time I had a part time job in order to earn money, it was in a steel factory. This was the most fucking, dirty and tough labor you can think about. I felt like I was dying there. From the first minute on (I started 6 am in the morning) I just waited for end of the working day. Enough said. That was motivation to hit the tables again. With a new motivation and fresh concept (Only making +EV plays) I was killing NL25 very fast (my BR at that moment: $736).

I had two exams, in Technical mechanics and maths, and after that about 10 days off, which I used to play poker, I basically was playing 10 tables of NL50, doing quite well.

After about 4 days, I felt like playing NL100, which was beautiful, watch this:
4 days of playing NL100_FR:

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playing 13k hands, running at 11BB/100, netting in $2708. Quite nice for 4 days playing poker.

Well, today I took a shot at NL200 and failed horribly. I am down about $350, I was running quite bad, check out my big pot hands:

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I was also able to win a few hands, but they were not so interesting, only maybe this one:

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So quite bad, but I didn't tilt and tried to play my best although running bad. Let's see what the future brings. Unfortunately University starts again at monday and I won't have much time to hit the tables.

Thanks for reading and keep it real!

Good luck.

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