Frustration

Currently I'm a bit frustrated. I try to play my best, I'm not tilting. Sure, that I have some leaks in my game but yesterday I lost some unreal hands and got coolered in four consecutive matches....thats hurts. I can now believe that some players thinks that the pokersites are ridged but for sue they are not, hopefully. What have I done to you FullTilt Poker? Getting my money in as a hugh favorite and got sucked out at the river. I know I'm whining but some times it helpes. It's like you are learning and learining and write a bad exam. I always say to myself "keep cool tinker, one day there will be a hugh turnaround". I got some PM's that some of you are waiting for a blog update. Unfortunately I have nothing good to say and think its more fun to write about success. However, it's very nice that I get some positive feedback and hopefully I can write something positive next time. Maybe I have also to learn that HUSNG has variances and have to deal with them. So stay tuned and wish me some luck at the tables. Cheers Tinker

The aspect of Tilt

I would like to write about "Tilt" today due to that I noticed that getting on tilt is a big issue for any poker player.
How do you notice that you are on tilt? Usually you notice it at the end of a session and its probably too late.
When you are on tilt you don't play very well and make some strange decisions, either by making some stupid calls or
stupid moves. You generally would like to force your opponent to make mistakes but when you are on tilt most of the time you are the one who are making hugh mistakes.
It is a creeping process until you register it and sometime you dont even do that.
Why are you tilting? I think it depends on several factors. Sometimes a normal bad beat could be the an activator or the own thinking. As an example I played agianst a very bad player. His sharkscope stats were horrible. Great, ist easy money was my thinking even before the first hand was dealt. This bad player played so weird and I couldn't adapt my game. So, I lost the first match. He accepted a re-match and I lost that game, too. I tought OK, stay calm and play him again. I dont want to go in hands in detail, because not the hands are so important if you are already on tilt. More important is the reason for the tilt and this was in my case AKs and villain made again a strange bet from the buttom, he bet half his stack by a 2:1 lead an I shoved all-in...he showed T2o, I couldn't believe it. The flop was something like Q82 and I lost the third match in a row. He accepted another re-match and I declinded. I looked in his sharkscope in more detail and he lost 11 matches in a row before playing me and that was the normal stretch in his last 250 games. After having a break to come down a bit I played some more matches against several players, some good some bad and after the session I lost 8 buyins and I made some weird things. The strange thing is that I knew in some cases that this would be a stupid move but I did it anyway.
In this posting I would really appreciate if some of you would leave a comment how your technic is to protect against going on tilt, please. I know it is difficult and ther is no general advice for sure.
If I am concentrated and thinking about my game I could be a well basicly skilled HU SnG player. I read a lot, watched a lot videos but I think I have something like a tilt problem...or say it my tilt skills are way behind my poker skills some times. It's annoying when the good work the last couple of days gets smashed by tilting in a few games. Fortunately I did not make things like playing a higher limit or so...but who knows when I am able to do those crackbrained things on my next tilt!? Thnaks for any comment on that in advance and stay tuned.

Good shot (I shot the sheriff)- hit my targets and play very relaxed

As I mentioned in my former blog I took some shots at the 20$ Limit. Fortunately it went very well for me. I think sometimes in a poker career you should step one side beside yourself and think what you really want or what are your expectations. I am surely in a phase at HU SnG's to find my own style and to have my own concept of playing. Very often when somebody sees videos from a coach and the plays/moves are reasonable or almost allways justified with a lot of thinking it looks so easy. The biggest mistakes what someone can do is to copy that play and think "hey, are understand that and will adapt that into my game". It's great if you have understood the concept or the thinking but very often you can't adapt that ono to one into your game. Every game is different, every villain and even every board structure, for sure. I take the advices from the coaches and the videos very serious but I have to figure out when I have to get these advices back in my mind when I need it. Sounds so easy, doesn't it!? In every video is a hint that you could value from but the time to establish into your game will not come prompt. I compare it with a puzzle, every little peace you found and can stick it in the picture will complete it. The difference is that I don't know when the puzzle is comlete, maybe never ;-). I have to really thank RyPac for his good advice regarding my turbo vs. regspeed issue and another big advice from Cog in his Video 11.. Very often I had a big lead over my opponent and felt my edge is slightly better then his/her I wanted to finish the match as soon as possible and often made mistakes by giving no respect. My last games went very different and I don't know really why....is this the announcement of the "click"? I hope so. I went into every game with the same concept - Looked at the sharkscope stats - and figured out how my opponent plays - look for good spots to make bets, raises and some moves - and justify every action to myself, why I make that or that now - and the main thing for me is to relax and try to play my best poker in no hurry and no pressure. I even didn't looked at the cashier, what I intend to do. Of course at the end of a session as any poker player does :-). So, I thought it would be good to write that down and remember me when things goes not so good...if this is a good upswing?....who cares....I enjoy it. Stay tuned, Cheers,Tinker

Grinding at FullTilt

Whats up, I'm grinding FullTilt again and it went very well. As I postet in my HUSNG blog I switched back to FullTilt due to I feel the regspeed structure is the best for me and my game. I still need some time to define my opponent and how my strategy is to exploit them. I struggled a bit between playing the turbos or regspeed but RyPac13 (HUSNG coach) opened my eyes that I should not worry at which structure I play. I should play were I feel comfortable and thats recently the regspeed structure at FT. Sounds like a minor advice but for me it was very important because I had in my mind that good HU SnG Players plays turbos due to the bigger hourly rate. According my bankroll (shiftet some $$$ from my 6 max roll) I decided to take some shots at the 20$ limit and I believe that was a good idea. Hopefully I left my breakeven stretch far behind for a while. I play really concentrated and don't bother myself on thinkings that I have to play faster and the turbo thing. I play relaxed, have all coaching advices in my mind that that works....unbelievable. I currently watch a lot of Videos from Cog Dissonance's and I really like his voice and the way he teaches. So finally I insert a graph from my matches at the 20$ Limit.

English <-> German and Poker

Hey all, some days ago since my last posting. So, what happened so far. I have registered for an advanced English Course with a friend. We both want to improve our English.
Unfortunately my friend was categorized in a course one step below me (she reached Middle Step III and I reached Certificate Step I). We asked to go in the same course and it should be no problem.
I think that is much better for learning and motivation if we manage it together, so we decided to participate at the advanced certified course. Lets see how we manage that. Start is on Wednesday and I am happy to be a student again. So all English native speaker, please feel free to give me a hint if I make horrible mistakes in my blog and please don't hesitate to correct me.
So, lets get to Poker. My first deposit bonus at FullTilt expired and I would like to try a new software with bonus and rakeback. I signed at PokerHeaven. I assumed that the software would not be so nice as FullTilt but it is very cool. The only thing that is missing is the re-match button. On Pokerheaven you can play 5min, 8 min and 12 min HU SnGs and I tried out all three. As I assumed I play the 8 minute games and figured out that there are the most unexperienced players and very bad. I dont really now if it is good that I can't play against US players, but a colleague from PokerTips said that PokerHeaven is much softer as on FullTilt, so lets see. I play the 10€ + 0.5€ Limit and I am very comfortable with that according my bankroll. Again I am break-even...so nothing changed since my switch :-(.
A highlight was yesterday as I organized a 10 HU private tourney at FullTilt some days ago. We had 22 participants and it was a lot of fun playing my mates from PokerTips. Unfortunately I had no luck regaridng my opponents. I managed to win the first round versus a very strong HU player and got kicked in round two. However, it was fun and we hope to have more HU Tourneys in the future mas they are rare in the Pokerworld. Maybe its not so plus EV due to the fact that most of the players have basic or advanced poker knowledge...but the fun factor for the community is great and the buyin limit is small and fits to most bankrolls.
Thats it for today and stay tuned and let me end my break-even stretch into a winning stretch...my training should make profit at least and hopefully.

Tinker is back in town

Hi there....I am back. Egypt was great. Nice weather, nice hotel and nice food (maybe the food is a beat now :-). I spend a day more in Hamburg and now I am back in Berlin.
I have to go into my office for a couple of hours due to my colleague will go on vacation next week and has a seminar beginning on tomorrow. Maybe I can play some poker in the evening I would really love to check-out some stuff what I have learned from Collin Moshman's Heads-up book. This book is really great and should have read it from begin on. I recommend to read it in case you start playing heads up. I saw some videos drinking cocktails on the beach and enjoyed the advices from Primordial, Rypac and Crog laying in the sun with my earphones and watching them playing on my ipod. In general I make some hugh mistakes in Heads-up play I have figured out and hopefully will avoid that in the future. The good thing is that I am a very aggressiv player at HU but very often I have not chosen the right spots for my aggression and should give up some hands earlier to avoid trouble in the beginning of a match. The mainly second big leak is to give players credit and even a fish could have good hands and surely a big mistake by new HU players....position, position, position. Collin's book explaines a lot details in calculating pot odds and equity and I really have to focus on that, too. I look forward to manage those leaks in the future. So have to got to work now...See you at the tables...stay tuuuuned.

Holiday!!!!

So all...that will be my last entry before going on holiday. Yesterday I cashed in the 24$ HU Tourney on FullTilt (thanks to BBU for railing and your great support). I played a few HU SnG today and it went well. I am not that winning player as I would like to be but I'm learning in every game. Hoepfuly it will work better after reading Collin Moshman completly during my holiday. I will drive to Hamburg tomorrow and will fly on Tuesday very early. I decided to get some coaching in December and hope that will also improve my game. OK, take care all and see you next week. In Egypt is about 34°C so I hope to get a nice teint :-). Stay healthy and good luck at the tables. Bye, bye...Tinker

My first posting at HUSNG.com

Hey all, I posted the first time at HUSNG. Check it out here http://www.husng.com/node/1418

Getting help from HUSNG Members

To be a HUSNG member has a hugh benefit. For sure to have the access to a lot training videos and secondly not less important to get feedback from a lot of HU SnG players and coaches who understands a lot of the game. I met by chance a HUSNG member on a 10$ HU table and both have decent HU stats and need to improve our game. I sent him my HH of that game and he gave me a good feedback of my leaks and that he had exploited me very well. Another member who plays the 100$ HU SnG limit offered a free HH review in the forums and of course I sent him HH from a game where I had some difficult decisions, maybe some bad play and again to analyse me leaks by an experienced player. But for sure I can't forget my "colleagues" from Pokertips...they are always a very good community where you can ask all poker and non-poker related questions and there are some very well HU experienced players, too. I only played 3 matches yesterday...nothing to say about that except that I lose two games versus a big fish. I am very careful with that word fish but in this case he surely was one. However, in that two games he crushed me by hitting so well and playing so strange. I was wondering that he declined to play further games maybe he realised that his luck will not stand :-). I am currently thinking about to blog on HUSNG in addition or as primary blog. The design is not so "nice" as here but I think the content is much more important. The only thing is that I really miss the link function to other blogs. I think this is very nice to gain your network. I will discuss this with Bryan...maybe his webmaster has a solution^^.
So thats a briefly note what happened the last days and I can't wait to see the HH review of my match being analyzed....so stay tuned ladies and gentlemen.

I hate to be break even

I currently read a forum entry at HUSNG and a member posted that he has a ROI about +15% between 20$-50$ Limits over 1000 games. I am a bit disapointed because I play IMHO very good Poker and I get my chips in as a favorite and get coolered and coolered again. Thats not fair...btw I love that song by Lily Allen :-). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLLyM3jMMY&feature=related The funny thing is...no it isn't funny I win against good players and lose against bad players and I'm getting frustrated. I had a break even streak over 20.000 Hands at 6max tables, but I must say I played about 15.000 Hands a month, what is not very much and got crazy. I hate the advices stay calm be patient it gets over...grrrrrrrrrr. Waht is a blog worth...my own blog....where I am responsible for...where I can scream and shout but nobody hears me. Ok, things could get much worseI...dont lose...but surely I will not lose, I will not be break-even I will win. What does a player think to go allin in with 98 OOP and he calls my 4bet shove with about 40BB???? What does he think I have? ...it doesnt matter what I had due to the fact the flop came 998....grrrrrrrrrrr. OK I should get down now....The best way for a women is to go shopping....so stay tuned :-)

An almost poker free weekend

Had a lot to manage due to my upcoming holiday so that I couldn't play a lot of matches and met some friends to take part of the non-poker world again :-). However, I played some HU SnG's with the intention to implement my tarining. Had some good reads on the villains and exploited some very well. Againts a station I was a bit unlucky to go Allin with AQo vs A8o effective stack about 20BB and versus the same villain run into AA with KK about equal stack sizes. Thats variance. I did went on tilit because I had the feeling I played very well. The best game IMHO was against a very strong winning player. He made a lot of pressure with 3bets and I decided to limp every button and let him lead out. Every single time he raised OOP and I had to fold. I didn't changed my strategy and therefore I limped with AK to reshove his 3bet...he had A8s and 3 hands later to limp with JJ and he shoved 99 with about effective stack of 15BB. I won that game and he chatted that I was a starong opponent and had a good strategy against him. I do not know if that strategy was so optimal but it worked out against him. Maybe it was good to do not play usual ABC HU poker. Under this circumstance I really was looking for a concept to "fight" back at him and remembered that intermediate concepts of PrimordialAA. That was so cool :-). I also played the 26$ HU MTT at FullTilt and the 10$/5$ Turbos again without success. In every tourney I reached the 3rd round. Someday I will cash in one of these tourneys I hope. I viewed the last two Videos of Primo's advanced concepts and will go on with other coaches from a beginners view.
Today I have to get my new passport and have to buy some stuff for the holiday as a rechargeable cable for my ipod, suncream and so on. Oh well I assume I haven't wrote that I travel with my best friend to Egypt. I will post some picture when I'm back. I have some comments in my further blog and will erspond to them now and add some blog links. Later on I will play some mtaches but I think today only a few ones. So, thats it for today...to be continued and stay tuned.

Learning from HUSNG videos

Hey all...Yesterday was an educational day. I watched some videos and as I wrote I will try to comment on some coaching videos from the perspective of a student. I realy enjoy the videos from PrimordialAA. I have finished the intermediate concepts, too. I like the concepts of seeing some slides with detailed explanations and implement the currently learned into the game. The videos are quit a bit tricky to handle when you instantly go in a match after watching. The explanations from the coaches sounds always very reasonable but it is not so easy to figure out in which situations you can compare it. That sounds a bit strange but you have to remind that every villain has different skills and every hand is diferent depending on the board structure and agian on the nature of your opponent. However, the important thing is to adjust your game and allways keep the basics in mind. That is one of my leaks in the past. I usually play the first games very concentrated and my tendency is to get casualy the more games I play. My second big leak is that I am always in trouble after geting a cooler, sucked out or a realy bad beat. I always say to my self "thats the part of the game" but can't live that really. So, what I have to change? First of all I will play not so long sessions anymore and quit a session after I have the feeling to not really focus on my game. Secondly I will make a break after getting coolers etc. for at least 10 minutes (get something to drink, post that hand in the forum and so on). I will write down a checklist with some reminders and some requirements to always have a look if something went wrong.
One advice what I never have done is to get a handhistory replayer and analyse my one game. I started that yesterday and wow I saw some big mistakes what I did during my game (gave free cards, didn't value bet my strong hands, going for check-raises when the board was so draw heavy and so on).
I am really thinking about to take some coaching lessons after my holiday. BBU_3001 from the pokertips forum currently told me that this has a hugh impact on your game. I still have my some of my 6max bankroll and have to decide if I will make an investment into coaching. Today I will see the two videos from Primo regarding the advance concepts to have the series complete and then switch to another coach to have a comparison. I will check out to get some beginner videos to start and of course I have to see the matches between PrimordialAA and BBU_3001 and the review video thereafter. So, take care and good luck to your own game and stay tuuuuuuuuuuuuuned :-).

Considerations

First of all I would like to explain why I am writing again in English and will continue to the most of my future postings. I am not a poker player who gets lot of interests because of my play for sure but anyway I get a lot of chat when I play at FullTilt Poker from observers. Thats great but yesterday I had to switch of my chat due to it distracted me of my game. However, please feel free to leave a comment in this blog or try to get me on tinkerbell1980@hotmail.com via msn.
Todays headline is "Considerations". What does that mean? For me it means that I considered for what a blog is and very important for whom. Many blogs are related to the success of a poker player, to post stats, hands, graphics, how the bankroll increases and so on. Is my blog different from any other blog? No, its still the same. Now, I am thinking about how to make my blog more interesting and how I could manage that. The blogs I read in the past was of course the blogs from the big poker pros and the great winning players. They did it great for sure. Of my interest was; how they started? did they had ever the feeling that the game is beating them and not backwards? Have they ever thought to quit the game because they were unsuccessfull? Sometimes you can read the career history briefly but not in detail step by step. One of my favourite blog is the blog from Thomas (http://www.headsup-sngs.blogspot.com/).

Why? I clicked on every blog link from HokieGreg and came on Thomas blog. In the beginning he wasn't such a great poker player and struggled a lot with what game is the best for him and played on different sides and different poker styles. He had success and he had very bad downswings. The read such honest postings was fresh air for me and I could find myself in the same spot now as he was some years ago. I read every posting from him since he began to blog.
Now I have the idea to use my blog to show and descride the stony way from a noobie to a pro. I must laugh at myself to read the word pro and relates it to me. My interpretation of a pro relating it to me is to control/dominate the game. I have my sure outcome with my job and I am not allocated to any poker winnings (now I must laugh again...which winnings :-)). I can't give any guarantees that I will manage it but maybe the blog will show up some thougth processes some feelings after bad session, bad play etc. and of course my traning plan/concept over the next few weeks. Ok, that was a long introduction.
What was yesterday? Not much. I had to work and could only played 5 games between going to sport and bying an ipod touch :-). Yes, I bought one and was searching for a program to convert the HUSNG Videos into an ipod version with success. I will be on holiday on 19th October for one week and will not miss me training videos. The converting takes very long and the files for the ipod are hugh. Together with Collin Moshman's HU Book I have a lot of educational fun during my holidays :-). So, in my next post I will come back to PrimordialsAA scratch beginner videos. He explaines very well the basic concepts of HU SnG poker. I will do some reviews of the training videos and post ist here, too. Of course not to critize the content rather than give a feedback how the training video was performed and if I have the feeling that it improved my game. So, stay tuned.

The Tinker Concept of learning - From the ground up

Yesterday was a very bad day for me. I don't really know why due to I felt very confident in my play. Ok, in some spots I made very bad decisions and in some spots it only was bad luck.
However, it seems that I need to work hard on my game and on my skills. So, how can I make that? As stated in todays headline the "secret" could only be training, training and more training to get better.
As David Slansky says for poker that "it takes minutes to learn poker and a lifetime to master" that relates of course also to Heads Up poker. What I did in the last couple of days was that I upgraded my five-pack member ship into a full membership at HUSNG and downloaded all videos. Until now I have seen all HookieGreg Videos and they are great. As HokieGreg also goes into deeper advance concepts in his videos I tried some moves and thought to crush the lower limits SnG games. It might be sucessfull some times but now I have to admit that I made the fifth or forth step before really learning the basics. I remembered how I startet my NL 6max games. Comparing how I startet HU SnG's that would be as to start with Balugawhale's 1000NL 6 max Videos what I surely haven't done. I started with so called series as "Baby Steps", "From the Ground up" and "Coaching Tree" at deucescracked to learn the 6max play from the ground up. I haven't done this with HU SnG's. I saw the free HokieGreg video and thought I have learned so much to play that game. The truth is that I have learned minimal from watching one video. That means I have to do a break. Not a break from playing but a big break from my thinking and my education.My ambition is to learn the game and not only to play the game. So I categorized the Videos on HUSNG into small stakes and medium and high stakes and identified that there are many series from the coaches. I started with PromordialAA's beginner Videos (Scratch 1 &2) and will stay at the small stakes videos where I belong to. Step by step I will not move up the limits with poker but will move up with the videos. I think that sounds very reasonably. I have played 213 Games so far and won 108 and lost 105 so I realy believe that I am not so bad in that game at all without really understanding the game. It took approx. one month to realize that but now I am so ambitious to implement my "Tinker Concept" for sure. I will still play some matches but my traing will have priority for the next weeks. I am sure that will improve my game. So stay tuned to my critical undeavor.

Heads-up is like a Rollercoaster

I got some comments via instant messenger that I should write more posts in English as I promised. Here we go :-).
I played some decent games last weekend. As usual I got some suckouts but I played pretty well. I wanted to play more games but unfortunately I got a cold beginning on Thursday so that I couldn't
play long sessions. I jumped from sleeping, watching TV and playing poker in my bed. I also played three HU Tourneys on FullTilt (22, 10 Turbo and 5 Turbo). I would love to play more HU Tourneys but they are rare on the Pokersites. My Tourney play was not so successful, but however it makes fun and comparing to 6max or fullring MTT's you dont have to change your game, only play Head-up as usual and get so far in the tourney as you can. Overall I could say that my game is improving and I am hoping that it will have an effect on my Bankroll in the future. I didn't scoped myself yesterday but I think I have now 200 games played and I am break-even or slightly ahead. It not that big sample size to make a realistic evaluation of my game.
Thank you Thomas for railing a HU match yesterday and making some comments on my game. Check out his blog from my link list, if the things goes fortune for him he might become a very good professional HU player...watch out Hokie^^. It meant realy much too me as one of his comment was that he had played every hand where he saw a showdown same as I did. Hopefully that gives me confidence to my game in future. I'm still reading Moshman and watching HU coaching Videos. I wish all guys a good start in the new week whatever you do :-).

Heads-up und andere Ungereimtheiten!

Ich dachte mir es wäre nett mal am Monatsende ein neues Posting zu veröffentlichen. Was ist in der Welt des Heads-up so passiert? Ich habe es wieder mal nicht lassen können verschiedene HU SnG Spielweisen auszuprobieren...ich kanns einfach nicht lassen. Ich lese bei 2+2 das Turbos viel gewinnbringender ist als regauler speed und dann befinde ich mich in einen Downswing und schwupps spiele ich ein paar Turbos und bekomme natürlich voll auf die Mütze.
Hier mal eine Hand die wirklich als gutes Beispiel dient. Es soll keine Ausrede sein aber man kann sich vorstellen wie so was einen Tilten kann:

No Limit Holdem Tournament
FullTiltPoker
2 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com
Stacks:
SB Hero (1,500)
BB rob351 (1,500)
Blinds: 15/30
Pre-Flop: (45, 2 players) Hero is SB KcKh
Hero raises to 90, rob351 raises to 150, Hero raises to 450, rob351 raises to 750, Hero goes all-in 1,500, rob351 goes all-in 750
Flop: 4d Ad Ks (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: 6d (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)
River: 3d (3,000, 2 players, 2 all-in)
Final Pot: 3,000
rob351 shows
Hero shows
QsQd
rob351 wins 3,000 ( won +1,500 )

Auf FTP Turbos zu spielen ist der helle Wahnsinn. Verglichen mit Pokerstars sind die level 1.5 mal so schnell und nach 6 min befindet man sich in BBs von effectiv 30. Auch Multitablen ist nicht mein Ding da ich mich momentan nicht auf mehr als ein Tisch konzentrieren kann. Ich habe versucht zu ergründen warum ich anfangs so erfolgreich war und mich jetzt momentan zwischen Himmel und Hölle befinde. Ich hatte sehr viel respekt vor HU play und verlor nach und nach den Respekt und spielte nicht mehr voll konzentriert. Ich saß mich an nen Tisch, scopte den Villain und wenns ein vermeindlicher Fish war, hatte ich das Spiel schon gewonnen...böser Fehler. Tilt und weitere Faktoren haben ein Stück meiner Bankroll gekostet und dann ein Downswing, gepaart mit heftigen BadBeats und resultierenden Bad Play (muß ich wohl so eingestehen). Heads-up ist eben doch kein leichtes Spiel und jedes einzelne Spiel ist halt eine Schlacht um ein Stack bzw. ein BuyIn. Seit gut einem Monat Heads-up Poker; da sollte man halt keine Wunder erwarten. Erfolg muß man sich erarbeiten und darum habe ich meinen 5 Pack HUSNG.COM Account in einen monatlichen upgegradet und mir viele Videos von Pro's angeschaut. Zusätzlich lese ich gerade das HU Buch von Collin Moshman und bin total begeistert davon. Dieses Buch zeigt mir meine Schwächen im HU Play gnadenlos auf. So...das ist im wesentlichen was seit dem letzten Posting so passiert ist. Was aber positiv ist, das es sich nicht im geringsten auf meine Bankroll augewirkt hat bzw. habe ich auf grund von FullTilt Bonus + Rakeback sogar plus gemacht...nicht viel aber immerhin kein minus. Reines HU Play bin ich -8$. Meine Samplesize ist auch viel zu gering um das es aussagekräftig ist. Jeden Tag zu bloggen halte ich auch für nicht sonderlich realistisch, man saugt sich nur was aus den Fingern um was schreiben zu können. Ich werde einfach wie heute schreiben wenn ich Lust habe und versuche es mindestens einmal die Woche zu machen und natürlich sollte sich was "aufregendes" ereignen.

Wochenend und Sonnenschein!

Ich habe von Freitag bis Samstag in der Nacht sehr viele Spiele absolviert. Leider habe ich kein Plus gemacht aber dafür schon wieder dazugelernt.
Dazu beigetragen hat "wow..." den ich über meinen Blog "kennen gerlernt habe" :-). Wir haben uns gegenseitig gerailt und viel dabei gechattet, ides hat sehr viel
Spaß gemacht. Er hat mich auch "überredet" mein erstes HU MTT (24$+2$) zu spielen und mich dann auch noch mit 13$ gestacked, so daß ich mit gutem Gewissen
entsprechend meiner Bankroll mitspielen konnte (lieben Dank nochmal dafür). Leider bin ich schon in der zweiten Runde broke gegangen (erste Runde hatte ich ein Freilos). Ich habe mit ATo vom Button standard geraised
und nen 3bet gecalled. Im Flop war die zehn mit low unkoordierten Beikarten, bet von Villian und ich over the top push. Villain zeigt JJ und es hält. Wow gab mir den advice das ich den 3bet nicht hätte callen müssen aber mit den Flop schon broke gehen könne. Ein paar Spiele vorher halte ich KK OOP und er called meinen 3bet. Unscary Flop cbete ich uind calle seinn push...er hält so was wie 64o bei nem Board von in etwa 4T8 (WTF???). Ich hatte ihn zu dem Zeitpunkt auf 1000 runter bei starting staacks von 2000. Naja, ich muß zugeben das ich schon aufgeregt war obohl die Spielweise nicht anders ist als SnG HU. Bissel entäuscht war ich schon, denn es hätte nicht sein müssen. WoW gewann sein Spiel souverän und da es schon 2:00 Uhr morgens war verabschiedete ich mich ins Bett. WoW spielt 55$ HU SnG und bot mir an bissel auf mein Spiel zu schauen, was ich natürlich sehr gerne annehmen möchte. Samstag und Sonntag habe ich so gut wie gar nicht gespielt, denn wie der Titel diesmal schon sagt, es war am Wochenende herrliches Wetter und dies muß man noch nutzen bevor die klate Jahreszeit beginnt. Bin in etwa am Wochenende -40$ gelaufen incl. MTT also HU runde 3 BI runter. Ich verzichte bewußt darauf genauer auf meine suckouts einzugehen, da ich auch lernen muß mit so was umzugehen. Es gehört halt zum Spiel gegen vermeintlich schlechtere Gegner zu verlieren, denn auf lange sicht sind eben diese sehr profitabel. Ganz liebe Grüße heute nach Dortmund :-).

Winning is good and losing is bad

Bin heute nicht sonderlich viel zum Spielen gekommen. Hab es auf 10 Partien gebracht und 6 davon für mich entscheiden können. Heute ist mir aufgefallen das ich mich gegen weak tighte Spieler schwer tue. Das Problem liegt womöglich darin das ich ungerne OutofPostion spiele und auf nen Button Limp nicht mit nem raise reagiere wenn es ständig passiert. Ich speiel diese Partien dann sehr nitty und komme tief in die nächsten Level, was für mich ungewöhnlich ist. Meist enden meine Spiele wenn der BB 50 ist, was effective Stacks von 20-30 entpricht. Ght es höher und die Villains jamen oft dann fehlt mir das Gefühl wenn es +EV ist. Ich muß da wohl noch intensiver an mein EndGame arbeiten. Ansonsten finde ich schon das ich skilltechnisch vielen überlegen bin, nur umsetzen muß ich es noch richtig. Ich möchte hier auch mal einige Hände posten aber in diesen Spielen ist eigentlich nichts aufregendes zu berichten. Meine Bankroll wächst langsam aber kontinuierlich. Mühsam ernährt sich das Eichhörnchen :-)

Business as usual

Hmmm...heute war ein durchwachsener Tag. Für meine Verhältnisse habe ich relativ viele Spiele gemacht und habe mit W10-L11 abgeschlossen. Tourney Rake mit eingeflossen bin ich +- gelaufen, weil mir 20$ Bonus gutgeschrieben wurde. Meiner Bankroll hats nicht geschadet. Ich erwische mich noch oft dabei s.g. stupid calls zu machen, in der Pokersprache sagt man dazu auch "Hero-Call". Das ärgert mich wahnsinnig, da ich auch schon im 6max Spiel des öfteren dazu geneigt habe. Ich hoffe ich kann dies bald abstellen. In Gedanken bin ich schon teils ein Limit höher. Dazu fehlen mir runde 150$ um in den 20er bereich zu spielen. Villeicht sollte ich dies einfach abschalten und mich einfach auf mein Spiel konzentrieren. Ich spiele seit ca. 3 Wochen Heads-up und sollte mich einfach freuen das es ganz gut läuft und mir vorerst keine Ziele setzen bzw. wenn überhaupt einfach mein Spiel zu verbessern. Ich habe kein Grund zu jammern, wie soll es erst sein wenn ich mal einen echten Downswing erlebe ;-). Ich weiß nicht ob es normal ist aber ich ärger mich über jedes verlorene Spiel. Um den Blog positiv zu enden, sei gesagt das ich noch gut im Plus bin, wenn man die Gesamtspiele sieht :-). Nach der Session ist vor der Session.

Aufholjagd

Heute wäre es fast ein Verlusttag gewesen, ich lag nach Spielen schon 2:5 hinten. Ich habe die ersten zwei Spiele sehr strange gespielt, habe Draws regelrecht gejagt. Ich hatte bei Spiel 7 nen Villain der hat fast jede Hand Allin gespielt vom Button. Ich bet er allin und am Button hat er gleich gejamed. Ich war so verwirrt und habe kein Mitel gegen ihn gefunden. Irgendwie war ich in der Phase auch carddead und habe nie nen gap gefunden wo ich mich hätte wehren können. Als ich endlich nen spielbare Hand hatt mit der ich callen konnte AJo hatt er ein kleines Pocket 44 was auch hielt. Auf Re-Match habe ich verzichtet...ich Nit :-). Danach habe ich kurz pausiert, etwas gegessen und mich wieder an den Tisch gesetzt und nahm mir vor mein A-Game zu spielen. Es gelang mir recht gut und bei 6-6 wollte ich den Tag nicht beenden und Verluste vom BuyIn Fee realisieren. Wenn dann verliere ich richtig aber dazu sollte es nicht kommen, denn ich gwann mein "Last Game of the Day" ziemlich souverän. Heute habe ich gemerkt das ich auf jeden Fall an meine B/C-Game Skills arbeiten muß. Für heute ist es nochmal gut gegangen W7-L6. Heute mal mit SharkScope Graph:

7 again

Today I was a little bit lazy regarding poker. I could have played more hands but the television kept me away from the pokertable. However, I played exact seven games today just the same amount as yesterday. I try to play every hand very concentrated and make a lot of notes of every villain. Something sucks with my sharkscope account. I could not log in and wrote an email to the support. Hopefully they can fix my problem. Anyway, In won the first three games against a very loose and agressiv player and he made very weared moves. In the final Hand I held ATo and he jamed. At this stage the blinds were 20/40 and our stacks were equal. After running down my time I called 1 sec before timeout, he showed J6o....in this case I loved my very good read :-). 10-0 is now my new record of wins in a row. I lost the next game and won the last three games. My overall is now 13:1...not bad. I would be a very bad poker player if I assume this will hold up. I quit for today. Hopefully my English is not so bad as some villains played poker today.

Heads-up SnG

So, nun kommen Fakten. Der gestrige Tag soll nun DER Tag meiner HU Karriere sein. Ich habe alle meine Statisktiken bei SharkScope löschen lassen und beginne mit einer Bankroll von genau 334,5$. Ich starte mit dem Limit 10$+0.50$. Ich werde regular speed tables spielen, weil ich festgestellt habe das die Turbos mir überhaupt nicht liegen. Es gibt auch viele Diskussionen was profitable ist und das outcome ist; Jeder soll dort spielen wo er/sie sich wohl fühlt.

Nun gut, gestern Abend konnte ich leider nur 7 Spiele machen und habe alle gewonnen. Na, das ist doch mal ein Anfang. Meine Bankroll beträgt jetzt 401$ bei
Won 7 / Lost 0 und Gewinn +66.5$.

13. September 2009

So, nun will ich auch einen Blog haben, denn ich glaube viele Pokerspieler verwenden einen um sich auch ein wenig zu motivieren und genau dies beabsichtige ich mit meinem Blog. Weiter möchte ich natürlich die Pokerwelt über meine (hoffentlichen) Erfolge informieren. Was ich gerne machen möchte sind auch einige Postings in englisch zu verfassen zum einen damit auch die englisch sprachige Welt hier uach bissel reinschauen kann, zum anderen um einfach an Sprache weiterhin dran zu bleiben.

Welche Form von Poker werde ich spielen?

Momentan ist es ganz einfach; ausschließlich No Limit Holdem - Heads-Up - Sit and Go Turniere (HU SnG). Ich habe im Dezember 2008 meine Liebe zum Pokern entdeckt und mich sehr viel damit beschäftigt. Ich habe im Internet recherchiert und bin dabei auf ein tolles deutsches Pokerforum gestoßen http://www.pokertips.org/. Ich habe No Limit Holdem 6max gespielt und habe die Limits NL5$, 6max und NL10$, 6max gescrusht, wie man es in der Pokersprache so sagt. Als ich nach NL25$ wehchselte wurde die Luft schon etwas dünner aber nicht sonderlich schwerer im Vergleich zu NL5/10$. Schwerer wurde es tasächlich im Bereich NL50$. Diese Sprünge habe ich in 7 Monate geschafft und auch mir ist es dann passiert, nach längerer Verlustserie die ich auch wieder aufgeholt habe, das ich mich einfach nicht genügen motivieren konnte und mir Pokern ainfach kein Spaß mehr gemacht hat. Ich habe auf ner anderen Seite gespielt, habe verschiedene Arten von Pokern probiert und bin nun bei HU SnG's hängen geblieben. Die Form bietet sehr viel action aber erfordert auch sehr viel Disziplin und man muß sich wirklich mit dem Spiel auseinandersetzen. Einer der besten Online HU SnG Pokerspieler hat sich nen Monatsziel von 63/37 in 500 Spielen gesetzt, bricht man dies runter auf 100 Spiele dann erwartet er das er 37 Spiele verlieren wird und dies obwohl er weiß das er besser ist als seine Gegner. Daran kann man schon sehen wie viel Disziplin macht für dise Form braucht. So, genug geschwafelt als Einleitung sollte dies reichen. Achso, vielleicht doch noch ein wichtiger Aspekt zu mir. Ich bin weibliche Pokerspielerin :-).