Originally posted by Maniatrix
Too bad I couldn't make it in time. All my poker money was frozen up in transfer so I couldn't make a video in time anyway ♠_mad:
sucks for me too, i thought i was in the queue already so i went to bed. i even prepared all the questions! 
Originally posted by pleno1
lets look through it together rio?
another guy in 
spotted.
i'm first in 
@doctorkgb: 
well, for now there ll be some hands disussed on an irregular basis, prolly only concepts new to the lower stakes plrs, lets see abt how it goes
@nobutreally: abt the BRM: i used a very conservative strat to move up (60-80BI, i bascially only moved up when i KNEW for good that i was killing the limit rly hard- i played FR back than and at the time it meant ~6bb/100. I would now use deffo 20BI rule at most to move up and make shots asap and get lower a limit when losiing 5BIs. But again, it depends on what ur personality traits are and overall poker ambitions. My first poker ambition were only to secure myself from poker and get a independent life from my family. So i had to prove to me and my family i can earn every month stable and couldnt afford any swings. If i had a richer family background or/and i would have some other plan to back up on (studying fe- at the moment of me starting poker i was just abt to go to a uni (i had lost years before), so i thought like i had very much to lose by gambling back then) , then i would have gone for rly as much agro brm as possible.
Actually now its more of the case that i am secured so conversely to what ppl usually do that they go from agro monkeys to nits as far as BRM, i think i ll gamble it up a bit in the closest future lets see what it brings. PLO pls be merciful to me! I deffo think i have to take risks in my carrer in order to allow for my full potential to show more- or yea, get unlucky, and back to grinding
@mbml: well, for me folding AK to a 3bet is just an insult to the game i play for living. I also dont think its particularly good, and wouldnt consider folding even if i knew guys 3bet is just 1% just coz of if i hit an A, i know he ll make the bet for no reason at all again for me we could aslo hit some other boards which we could bluff at right? some hyperconnected boards where we attempt to fold out his OP.. I am not calling just for value of the hand pre.
@other guys: i am already looking forw to making another love show, so stay tuned so that u dont miss out on it. Hope to make it even better than the last one.
Originally posted by TheLastNail
What u ll encouter very often in ur carreers tho esp till the NL200 lim is ppl making 2 other categories of bets: 4, bets for information 5, bets for no reason at all (usually stems from the "shock therapy" frozen thinking: i dont want my opponent to bet, so i bet first. The closer to Balkan u live, the more likely u ll encounter this on a (very) regular basis, trust me on this. ♦ Another thing which bets for no reason at all induce, is: calls for no reason at all.
lol i run so bad its out of this world
from 12.8. we set a challenge w Opal and Matusko abt volume goals. I was supposed to play 50k hands for a month from there. I missed this esp coz 1 week of illness and such a continuos unluck i just cant play longer session, its 35BI below EV, thats rly such an intense feeling- like i feel it in my gut that when i have AK pf i cant repush coz i never win. That s just irritating.
today mtts mostly: played a free SnG40man in PokerHeaven for World Champ of ps, finished 2nd (1st ships the 2.5k ticket)- losing 1st hand of HU AK<99 (obv setup, but the guy was just a lot worse than me, geez, he 1 outered me back when i nailed the board w Q7s on Qxxss him hitting the only set he could.. anyway) then i play some small tourneys on Stars, obv i lose AK vs KJ, KQ or KT like every singlet time it comes, and then in wcoop HU event, i demolish the guys in first rounds to get to top512 where i totally outplay again. Then my net gows down for 10mins, i come back w 3:1 stack disadvantage, i turn it around with no sd, and 1 big hand when he makes a terrible R call. He has 8bb left and from then on he wins: 5/5 30:70 or worse, last hand he wins 55:45, that was just obv. The only thing i win is KK>88 weee. Just freakin unbelievable, I am close to my total Agame, which is pretty damn close to worldclass NL2k regs and i just keep on losing like everything on unluck.
obv its BS to moan and groan, i just am so sick right now, but i need to play on, so am writing my soul out, just to feel a bit better. Peter Sagan, instead of winning a race on Vuelta and hence firmly securing a green jersey, misses the last bent (goes to the other side of a roundabout) 300m from the finish and drops outside of top places :facepalm:. Also, our football plrs got a worst in era of our state whipping on home soil vs Armenia 0:4?!?! Also what happened w TT recently is sick. But the cream on the cake of tragedies for last 2 days is prolly what happened in Russia w the Jaroslavl hockey team, 40 of the most in shape and hardworking athletes in the world die in a plane accident. Just like that, all young ppl 20-35yo, travelling to spread their love for their game of hockey. Armageddon coming? 
On the worst note of today: online poker in Czech republic was forbidden by legislation yesterday and will be in effect from January. Since Slovak gov is full of weak puppets who like to get fancy salaries for easy copying, its 100% going to come to Slovakia as well. That's it pretty much for online poker in central Europe, gg. Online poker is so much dying i cant believe it's happening so quickly. For me the adjustment is: rly put in huge volume NOW and try to squuze in as much $ as i can. I will play every single bigger tourney from now on on Stars, trying to get lucky maybe 1 time and hit sth big as well as play as much of cash i can, even NL400 again, just for money. I will likely be moving out of Bratislava for good from the new year. To England 80%. (anyone wanting to set a new pokerflat somewhere around Brighton or so, let me know)
What s happening also, is some platforms as Entraction are banning ppl from several coutries now-goodbye Entraction and even Spain is now having its own gov-regulated poker market.
Wow, i feel like the effective end of online poker is within 2 years for sure.
@nobutreally: backing up in terms of motivation is awesome, i would encourage anyone, it s my passion to play this game, i want everyone to enjoy it as much as i do (usually) and that we spread some in the poker world, and other parallel worlds as well, why not. As i do on a regular basis either on skype or in the forums or within coachings. I dont back up ppl financially by any means of staking, usually. It has to be an extraordinary exception. I have bad experience, i ll say that much. I generally dont trust ppl who have weird overexegerrated statements and i dont feel the burning passion coming from them. I think in the poker world, there are deffo many very untrustworthy scammy ppl, but i think pokerstrategy is overall on a much sounder side comparing to other poker forums. 
Thats basically the reason i am only active here more or less.
@vonki:
hey everyone, how is it going?
i am fine, mainly just analyzing and playing now. I am back to good heath much to my delight and starting to do sports again. (swimming, skating)
Mainly concentrating on NL1k now. I feel extremely pumped up, even tho running very bad at higher. (NL2k). I had an awesome opportunity yesterday, to sit on a NL10k deep tab on Stars w a 2nd to best position to a massive fish and a direct one on a weak reg, but i didnt feel ready yet. Esp after how i run at higher lims, i know for good that had i lost 5digit numbers within seconds, i would be rly rly demotivated to play more, hence i again postponed my shots at nosebleeds.
Deffo this is costing me longrun a lot and am starting to read Mental game of poker by Jerret Tendler this week, maybe it helps a bit, will write a resume of some sort later.
This week i am visiting my friend Opal and hope we have some good time.
Other than that, living w my gf is sofar proving to be a lot above my expectations as she is just gorgeous sofar, extremely supportive, tolerant, a very good cook and good company for inbetween sessions tiltreducing walks and i also managed to find my ways to have an organized working ethic during weekends. Lovely.
I rly studied PLO pretty hard few days ago and played some PLO100, but then again just didnt rly find the right buzz going for it yet, so back to NL. I think i ll play some PLO again shortly as it is deffo true that there is a lot more dead money currently as is in NL.
hope to rly keep the freestyler poker enthusiasm going this month
should be fun and bring about more good things, more love
have lots of fun with Opal! i've never met him but he's always seemed like a real solid guy to me
i think it's wonderful that you are getting on well with your gf. she sounds fabulous! behind every great man is a great woman 
support and love in rl is underrated imo. ♠_love:
i know you will crush this mindset bump soon just like you crush everything else.
catch up soon!
lots of always,
w
ps that is some sick sick variance. 
guess who's reading...
@TLN: i dont see you on Skype and I'm not sure i'll be online later today, so: Come anytime you like - I'll be on phone, so just let me know when you're leaving BA and @ what time you expect to arrive so I can pick you up.
jozef, lets start our plo coaching sessions soon, we need to spread the love apart from the dance floor also (no homo)
Get in touch when you hit the ground as I am sometimes in London. GL with it all.
-Tim
Originally posted by TheLastNail
I will likely be moving out of Bratislava for good from the new year. To England 80%. (anyone wanting to set a new pokerflat somewhere around Brighton or so, let me know)
im living in brighton at the moment, we got a skype group for all the players here if you want to see whose about, lots of germans and norweigens.
If your still looking to share a pokerflat in the newyear i'd be very interested.
hey everyone,
thx for ur support, not much happening last few days, i took a few day break of playing, not exactly what i wanted, but i am back again now. Have continued to watch nosebleeds action online which has been very good last few days and comparing play of the regs in spots to mine. From what i can tell, these games are played looser than the NL1k-2k than i am used to, but also more passive, w esp not so much 3bet/4bet/5beting going on pre (are they scared?) as well as not so much 3barelling, but many very creative betsizings going on post on boards i didnt consider that would be good for it, as well as ppl are way more balanced for agression ip than NL1k regs are. (NL1k reg having a decent draw almost 100% bets ip as pfa- not the case there, where a lot of checking and disguising of hands is going on with some sort of weird sized raise later on when hitting, which induces angry calls) Agression on turns therefore is higher, but agression on flops is lower. One of the weaker plrs playing these games is imo Nano, who seems to be just least creative (even tho he is still very good in most of the spots, i ve seen some that he missplayed pretty hard) and a bit scared money from what i ve seen- his 3bet is way way less than on NL1k.
I ll deffo continue watching these games and taking notes to ensure i am ready the most when the time comes.
@fizz: nice wise words, cant stress this more rly: "support and love in rl is underrated imo." and thx for everything how are u lately? u need some volume if we are going to do anything abt ur game
@Ash: ♦ i feel it from u bro! so much for the game. When i play PLO again, i ll snapcontact u thats for sure, should be soon. Many thx for having u around, it's of rly great help and encouragement. Are u now staying permanently in Vienna? We should meet rly to baptize TT's new apartment, right? greets to Gina also.
@jmackenzie: this is awesome! I was thinking (for many reasons apart from the very strong poker community which i also knew abt already) exactly abt Brighton. Pls add me on skype and then to the skype group, eager to discuss the options.
@Tim: hope to when i settle a bit. thx, gl.
