Poker Journey 2019

Hi Adelaar, just finished reading your other blog. Inspired to make my own now! Also from the Netherlands! Hope you succeed in all of your goals for 2019!

GL Roachor, seeing forward to your blog.

Happy New Year to you all, grinders. That our dreams may come true.

I read somewhere that you must have crazy dreams.
One crazy dream of me that I will have in 2019 a bankroll of EU 50.000 (50BI) for cashgames NL2/4 in our local Casino!
That would be fun, no more mini-mini-micro-stuff, but finally a good game where the money is really meaning something.
No more sitting at the tables as a scared little fish, but being a tough proud shark.:f_biggrin:

As for today: study 3/4 hour and grind 3 - 4 hours.
GL

I reached the silver status, nice. I can see more videos.

Last week overview:

Play 2 hours a day: Done
Study 2 hours a week: Done
Find a job: I made an appointment for a job-interview for next Tuesday!
I orientated for houses

As for the crazy dream: what a pity, I went to play in the Casino on Sylvester evening and the first hand I got was AA!
Flop was nothing special, Q96 rainbow.
7 on the turn, so board became connected but rainbow.
I had potsize left and got it in.
What a pity , he has turned a set and my BI was gone.
Bye bye BI of EU 160.

Prf 90%
Flop 88%

Next time hopefully more luck.

Online Bankroll
$ 49
EU 113
mBTC 2

prf 80%

Last week overview:

Play 2 hours a day: Done
Study 2 hours a week: Done

Find a job: I had the interview. Difficult to judge what my chances are. They didn't give any information. They were critical about the distance from my home to work, 50 minutes drive. Only mid February they will continue with the procedure. There are in total 7 candidates for a few posts.

So I have to continue looking for other possibilities, because just waiting a whole month and then maybe not getting the job there, is just waisting my time.

Online Bankroll
$ 48
EU 123
mBTC 2

I repeated the video of W34z3l about defending versus 3bettors.
I put the ranges in Equilab.

This video is from a few years ago. At that moment there was less 3betting than nowadays. So maybe his defending ranges are a bit too narrow and do I actually have to extend them a bit.

What do you think?

Gl gl gl!

I found a nice real estate for rent in a shopping mall. And I also have established that an investor has some interests. He is going to have a look there next week.

I want to start there a very nice biological shop as a franchise-entrepreneur. (being part of a franchise-formula)
Next week I will call the investor and if he wants to continue, I will have my shop within a few months.
Then it will be 6 days a week in the shop and employing about 2 fulltimers and 4 parttimers.

GL with yr businessadventure

It wasn't a good week and in the weekend I had a mental setback. I was very sad because all the things that I work on, both poker and real life, don't give me the results that I want.
Standard bullshit, nothing special:
Lost Bi's with 2Pair vs 2 better Pair and bottomSet vs Topset.

Had to fold KK on river when the board became 4straight.
Another time had to fold QQ on the river versus very aggressive action on a Ahigh-board.

Study 2 hours: done
Play 14 hours: done

Bankroll:
$47
EU 110

I am studying the TDA rules, to get a job in a pokerroom.

Past week went normally.
Unibet was not good and last days I am only playing on Stars.

Study 2 hours: done
Play 14 hours: done

Bankroll:
$63
EU 97

I have almost finished studying all the TDA rules.
For example we have to know the rules when some-one has acted Out of Turn.

We learn what is Substantial Action.

And what the dealer must do when a player has received too few or too many cards.

Silently pushing multiple chips when facing a bet.

If you remove 1 chip and there is just the call-amount: it is a CALL.

If it is more than the call-amount:
calculate how much more it is and calculate how much of a percentage it is.

a) it is less than 50% of the raise-amount : it is a CALL
b) it is more than 50% of the raise-amount: it is a RAISE.
The player has to complete the full raise-amount.

For example A raises with 600 to 1100. Raise-amount is 600.
B tosses silently 1 chip of 1000 and 1 chips of 500.
You cannot remove 1 chip and still have 1100. So it is a CALL.

If B tosses silently 1 chip of 1000 and 5 chips of 100.
He puts in an extra 400. That is more than 50% of the 600 minimumraise-amount.
Now it is a RAISE and he is obliged to put the minimumraise of 600 to 1700 total.

I have finished studying all TDA rules, Procedures and Addendum.
Now I will start repeating all stuff to get it all properly in my mind.

Maximum Luck on your goals

Past week I played on Stars and it went okay.

Study 2 hours: done
Play 14 hours: played 15 hours

Bankroll:
$79
EU 96

Also I worked on improving my house. I rented a noiselevel-meter
and measured the noiselevel of the sanitary installations of the adjacent house. They make 32 - 40 dB and probably that is above the legally allowed level.
It is quite annoying and disturbing always to hear the sanitary installations of neighbours.
Now that I have the technical data I can request the landlord to improve the sound insulation.

This is the house that I move to in the future.