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so i have 1 week vacations now, my expectations where high for poker to drop alot of volume. as it is now i got the flue and idles all day long because i knew poker would be to hard on my mind in this state. hopefully i well get better soon and can be at the tables
Hello Michael,
I seem to be to stupid to insert the picture on the posts. could someone give me a hint how to do that?
You can drag and drop your image into the text box as you are creating your post. I have also corrected the link to your graph. I opened the image in a new window and copied the link from there.
Hope you feel better from flu and enjoy your vacation too.
If you need any more help don't hesitate to ask.
My regards
Matt
tiltstop reached within 300 hands.
Somehow i lose more vs fish than vs Regs. gotta step up my game against them
hey, just a little update. I will not play poker until this sunday.
Hopefully we can crush then
I checked out your blog and it looks really good. Many members on this forum started doing poker blogs as a way to give back to the poker community i.e. sharing their tips and strategies learned throughout many years of dealing with different types of players. It's also a great mental escape and helps you grow.
I learned some of my best tricks through studying everything the internet has to offer along with reading a lot of books. Just recently I stumbled upon some informative articles and learned some nifty strategies on poker outs and discovered some mistakes I've been making that I didn't even realize I was making.
Anyways, good luck with your blog and with poker. Cheers!
*Hello Dealmeln81. I have edited out your link as it is against our forum policy on external links. Metalmonkey80
hey, i have alot of downtime during the day so i definetly will check out pokerhack.com!
Sadly I did not find to much time playing recently, only played 3k hands since i returned from my vacation.
Gonna get more Volume going the next few days, and hopefully interesting spots to share
Yesterday i wrote a new blog about the different Playertypes in the Micros because i felt like there was no
in depth analysis even about the basic types yet that compromised.
+ Since i started losing more against the "Bad Players" yet again (had problems with that some time back) it was very nice to reread stuff i should already know and write it down to never ever forget it again.
The Blog really helps me stay on track especialy in tough times where i seem to tilt faster and have to fight my motivation.
It was alot of work but i hope it will pay off and increase my Winrate (which is lacking for quite some time now).
Better times soon to come!
Oh, here is the post:
Since yesterday i made a few adjustments.
I turned off that I can see the money in the Mainlobby because it's only a destraction and makes me play worse whenever things go bad or even when they go very well I have a feeling like "you know what, fish, I am up 4 Buy-Ins already! So you didnt raise a single hand and only call down usually, now you 5bet shove against me on a 4 cards hearts board... No Way you have the flush,!!!!!!!!!!!" - Call with 4th pair vs nuts! (well not exactly like that, but I hope you get the point)
Also I Set the date of pokertracker to a timespan where not a single hand was played so I can't check my graph/winnings for now.
Sure it will hurt me a little bit because I cannot review my hands for now. I tagged a few "difficult" spots that I will review like on the weekend or something.
So Pokertracker basicly is HUD-only for me now ♦ Usually I set goals that involve volume of hands. from now on I have to work with time cause I cannot know exactly how many hands ive played in the individual session.
Since yesterday I play 2 hands of NL5 Speed (Zoom) and 4 reg tables NL4 (because there is no nl5 at winner), I have the feeling I am doing much better in the time i played FF on Bwin so now I am gathering a bigger sample to know if i should go back to 4 speed tables or to play reg tables in the future.
Small Problem is the HUD only seems to work around 80% of the time for speed from my experience so far.
I don't think that this is a problem with my setup or on my end because before I joined Winner-Poker a friend already told me that hud often times doesn't work for speed.
I cannot say how good of a session I had yesterday in numbers because of my adjustments. But i feel like the session went fairly well. I knew I was running somewhat bad in the beginning, but I felt comfortable at the tables at all times (that feeling was gone for so long, and it was nice to feel it again, especialy when being down a few) so this is not a problem for me.
In the end i think it payed off and I ended up in the green. From my feel Speed tables went better than Reg tables even so I had plenty of fish on them.
One Problem that bothers me at the moment is, that I don't catch All action even tho I have all tables visible at all times.
I had 2 spots yesterday where I jammed on a fish and only afterwards I noticed theres a 3rd Person (Reg) in the pot and both times I lost against that Reg while the fish came along and for sure was behind. I have to take better focus I guess.
On other Pokerplatforms I did not have that Problem and I set everything up that the Table is Black and the Cards still in the Hand are very Colorful, actually for that scenaria, but it let me down yesterday.
Another thing bothering me atm, which I had no Problems with before is, I missclick alot recently.
I openfolded TT yesterday and missclick cold-called a 3bet with K2o (that's the only exact spots i remember but it happened more often, those 2 just made me more angry than the other more unimportant spots)
I don't know why this is happening to me. Due to my esports past I am very fast with the mouse and usually with awesome aim!
Should I play more CS:GO for future prevention? ♦
Now in all seriousness, I have problems to play slower and have no idea how to fix this. usually my speed was not a problem so far, i barly missclicked every. Maybe I am getting to old.
So for yesterday I played for 2,5 hours,
watched training videos for 30 min
read articles during the day for like 2 hour (spread over the time from 7 am to 4:30 pm).
I write down my daily goals for every single day for quite some time, not only poker stuff but also very basic stuff like "clean ferrets, make 1 dishwasher, clean kitchen etc." stuff that needs to be done and I am not really that kind of guy that is like "Hey, the kitchen is dirty, lets do something about it"
I am a planer! I see its dirty and am like "k, it's on my list"
I am not talking about messed up kitchen after cooking, for sure that has to be done immediatly, but more like cleaning the floor and stuff that could wait ♦
usually I meet my goals!
So for today pokerwise:
-I will watch 30 min of training videos again (thats usually 1 Video)
-I will play 2 hours of poker
-read 1 chapter in "The Mental Game of Poker" (holy shit I usually read books in like 2 weeks, but thatone, even tho its great, took me forever already and I am not even deep in so far ♦
Since making the "Mental Adjustments" I feel like I am doing (mostly running) better. It is a weird feeling. I cannot say if on a day where I'd only play 1 hour if im down 2 buyins or up 2 buyins in the end. weird feeling but it helps at spots where i just gifted away a buyin. I stay more focused and don't have a feeling like "You have to catch up" in the back of my mind. sure at times when i run horrible its still weird and I often times ask myself stuff like "hm are you down 2 or 5 buyins?"
I played good volume over the weekend. Friday 3 hours, Saturday 4 hours and sunday another 4 hours (of cashgames only).
I am happy with my game for now and should be up a bit (hopefully).
It was a very busy weekend. My Girlfriend and me visited a flat and holy cow. What an amazing flat. We loved it and nailed it. Today in the evening is the signing.
So not sure how much volume I can grind the next few weeks since we have to do alot of work in both, the new and the old flat. Hopefully I can still find some evenings to get the grind going.
Yesterday was a great day. I used my R-A-D-Ticket on bwin to play the 100k gtd Flyweight special. I ran well and ended up at 4:30 am as 16th place for 380$ (basicly for free). That made more than up for my early bust in the Sunday Storm 6th Anniversary + the stake of a friend (looked like a great opinion to get rich!!)
That money comes in handy for the new flat. The dream to save up for a Vegas-WSOP-Trip gotta wait and will restart after everything is settled in the new flat!
Well 2 hours after my bust out I had to get up to get ready for work.
Here I am, tired as fuck ♦ But gotta keep the drive going!
Have a great week!
Today, under this circumstances, I should not touch cards
Edit: Friday is my next coaching. I usually send in my recent hands to my coach, so I cannot not look at the results myself.
Have already tagged a few spots where i had problems and will post some of the hands than.
I will keep you up-to-date
Originally posted by plobek
need to read it asap, good blog here and o your webpage
thank you very much
But doing the reasearch, thinking deeper on a matter and getting my own thoughts together are paying off slowly but steady. Also it is nice to keep me on track!
And when i read nice stuff like your comment everything is totaly worth it.So little new update including RL stuff!
I struggled alot with me if I should play Sunday Million Anniversary in the beginning of april.
It was always a little dream (not as big as attending WSOP for sure) to play it one day. So the anniversary for it would be the perfect chance for it. be lucky once and be a milionair!
I had "big scores" in the past without a big investments. My Bankroll was out of the roof and I couldnt move up the limits because my Skilledge over the tougher competition would not be existing (working on thatone like crazy!) So again. The money I made through poker is on an own bank account for now, exactly for stuff like Sunday M. A.Everything seems to tell me to play it. Even 2 friends (and i dont have alot of Poker playing friends) suggested to give it a shot.
Yet, yesterday I made the decision not to spend the 215$ on it.
This seems to be the perfect moment for it, so why not?We are moving to a new flat in the beginning of may and that will be very costly since we have to pay rent for both flats 1 month, we have a security deposit for the new flat while we had non for the old one.
Even tho we do not plan on buying new stuff(we pretty much bought complete new equipment for our old flat 1.5 years ago) for the new flat, there are always stuff that will end up very costly, like color and other "small things" that sum up together. Even tho we have planned out everything very well, and would not need my Pokermoney I rather have some extra security money in the back, just so I can feel and sleep better.
If we don't need the money I can still play sunday million and won't get mad when i only win 150k
But for now I withdraw all the money (yet again) expect the Roll on Winner (Main Grinding site atm) and will save my Rakeback for later SM or WSOP!That seems to be the reasonable decision for the moment now.
Yet I did not give up my dream competely and decided to invest the rest of my money on Pokerstars to give it a shot to qulify. I had 28$ on my Account and decided to give the 5$ Spins to qualify for it a shot.
I have read alot about Spin Strategy at one Point and played like 900-1000 spins last year (without big multiplier) pretty much breakeven. So I didn't jump into something random I have no clue about.
I played well considering i had 5 buyins. I streched it to play 25 spins before going broke.
I had 5 times the multiplier for 27$ satelite ticket (so i was lucky on that part).
I won one and lost the rest (in one a guy with 20chips left beat me in the end, when headsup he had 200 chips and me 1300), It seemed in every single 27$ sat. spin I just could not win a hand.So i played a Satty and lost AK vs AQ with 10bb vs bigstack way before qualifying.
That was all the poker I played yesterday.
I had a busy day, signed contract for new flat, measured some stuff there, found an new tanant for the old (since otherwise we had 3 months of terminationduration (I hope this is the right word or you at least understand what i mean.)
And with only 2 hours of sleep beacuse of my deep run in the tournament on sunday the day was done for me.I still feel very exhausted so my plans for today are very relaxing.
1 hour of play
no learning unless reading through some stuff during the daythat's it!
todays 2 hours of playing are over, I should be down at least 4 buyins which is no biggy.
I played well but lost alot of hands i was way ahead and most of the time got my money in with alot of equity.
I played good poker and unless some cheap stupid "ragecalls" (only for 3 bb and stuff gladly)
and some missclicks that keep happening (right now i am waiting for bigblind and just called utgs openraise with k4o because of a missclick ♦)
During the day i was writing on a new strategical article for my other blog. I am confident it will decent. Lot's of stuff reviewed which I already should know
but some of it I really already forgot which made me wonder.
Also bought color and tools and stuff to renovate the old flat so we can focus on the new apartment as soon as possible
tomorrow I will send my hands to my coach and have to check my graph. i really dont know where i am but i feel like it will be breakeven again ♦
another busy day finished. It's not even 10pm here but still I am tired as hell and will fall asleep soon
Aaaw I see I´m not alone with that crappy downswing stuff and regarding missclicks: My worst missclick was folding kings!!! 
And there will come better times for us for sure - after a downswing comes the upswing ♠_thumbsup:
exactly what it felt like
breakeven for the last 18k hands yet again 
seems like my tiltstop did well at the -45$ day
tomorrow coaching 
after that another week of not checking results
here a few hands i felt lost in
iPoker - €0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BB: 100 BB
Hero (CO): 101 BB
BTN: 192 BB
SB: 88 BB
SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has K♥ K♠
Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, SB calls 2.6 BB, BB calls 2 BB
Flop: (9 BB, 3 players) 9♣ J♣ 3♦
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 6 BB, SB calls 6 BB, BB raises to 20 BB, fold, fold
BB wins 39.2 BB
Hand 2:
iPoker - €0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 121.25 BB
Hero (SB): 128.25 BB
BB: 106 BB
UTG: 189 BB
CO: 100 BB
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3♠ 2♠
UTG calls 1 BB, fold, BTN calls 1 BB, Hero calls 0.5 BB, BB checks
Flop: (4 BB, 4 players) T♦ Q♠ 6♠
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets 1 BB, BTN calls 1 BB, Hero calls 1 BB, BB calls 1 BB
Turn: (8 BB, 4 players) 5♠
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets 4 BB, BTN calls 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB, fold
River: (20 BB, 3 players) 6♥
Hero checks, UTG bets 4 BB, fold, Hero calls 4 BB
UTG wins 26.25 BB
hes a nit, i was mad i didnt find the foldbutton on the river!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just finished my new Article on Ranges
holy moly that was alot of work and i feel more exhausted than after a 4 hour grind.
Guess I will not play a single hand today. Tomorrow I will be gone and enjoy the weekend, so the next grind will only be on sunday evening.
time to relax for now.
I hope my hard work get rewarded an a few guys dropping by and checking it out
little whiney edit:
I spend alot of time in the past to change the layout and text so they would fit and look good in my eyes.
now everoyne is complaining that it looks like .txt documents which reallyyyyyyyyyyyy makes me mad 
do you think it really looks that bad and i have to rework it yet again? 
So after finishing my blogpost on friday i was gone for the complete weekend.
I only came back yesterday very late, later than expected and went into bad instantly when at home.
I still feeeel so exhausted, it seems i am already in the stress of moving into a new flat.
This month is by far the lowest volume month i ever had.
In the beginning I had a few days off cause of tilt ( before i rarly made complete days break) and now alot of stuff keeps me busy.
I am on break with gymtime until I moved in the new flat, there I can workout at home again (I love it <3).
My girlfriend gives me little tasks for every single day ~.~ like today at 6pm i have to get a huge ass wardrope for the new flat. that will cost another 2 hours of precious time~.~
thats usually the time I grind ♦
Tomorrow will be my next coaching so again time I cannot spend at the tables.
I guess April will be with even less volume so i should make very little goals so i won't be that disapointed when not matching my goals.
It's weird, we have over 1 month for the moveout. still I am so exhausted already ~.~
gotta see I get some hands together after my other taskes are solved this week.
Stress stress stress ~.~ all around
squeezed in 2 hours of play yesterday.
Went quite well.
only one tricky spot with flush over flush vs nit + paired board on river.
I think I can find a fold there because he played it exactly like a flushdraw would play it multiway.
But payed him off mainly because he only had 50bb stack.
Gotta work on my mindset to fold in this spot.
It is obvious I am beaten.
only hands I can beat are smaller flushes which are hard to find considering i had 45S and 2 was in the flop ♦
Today finally next coaching. got resheduled from friday.
I am really looking forward to it since I feel like I improved alot since last Coaching (which was over 1 month ago already).
Coaching yesterday was great!
talked alot about postflop situation and it really helped me. Got to alot of spots I was freestyling before (tough spots for me).
So talking them through was gold for me.
The 1 hour session right afterwards went brilliantly! At least 2 buyins up!
I planned to continue reading my Pokerbook before going to bed.
Vecause I had so much valueable information in my head already and thought I would overload my mind if I would continue learning, I decided to go for another half an hour session.
Ran Kings into Aces twice and all profit for the day was gone! shit happens, time would be better spend learning ♦
But in all honestly I am playing good poker as of late and that satisfices me!