Summer time

Poker sucks! Some days ago I lost a couple of buyins vs IamUrSlayer – yes just the guy I flamed in my last post – and took a frustrated break. So topic closed, more poker in some days, weeks, ages!? No I guess days cause I am addicted and never can stop it for a long time.

Btw it is quite funny. I loose 20k at poker but the same day make a 50k profit in betting. That’s 30k for the day, for sure a sum I appreciate. That’s way above my average daily profit. But still I am not really happy about the day. Depending on if I played good or bad poker I am either feeling normal or even a bit depressed. Having a 30k profit day and feeling bad is sick, isn’t it? It is even more sick if you consider I would feel great if I had won 10k in poker and 10k at betting - what is less in total.
I am a bad looser.

But now lets talk about the summer! I just love it to be warm again. Going out in t-shirt and soon driving cabriolet. Yeah baby, that’s the life I love!
The next weeks I will work hard in sports, so I don’t look as much as now like the old ugly fat bastard slobbering the young chicks.
Soon I will loose my dollars outside in the garden and not in my stinky room. Yeah, I feel the energy!

Time for some music: This is my absolute favourite song for cabriolet times.

Big poker action

Yesterday I played for some hours a three-way round of Omaha. IamUrSlayer badly wanted me to blog about it, so here we go:

The blinds were 25-50usd Omaha with IamUrSlayer, omas and me participating. I started well and was up about a stack for the first hour. Then the big misery started. On a 266 flop I hold 26xx and had no other choice than putting in all money on the flop. My opp holding 6xxx hit one of his overcards. Bad luck I guess. It sadly wasn’t the only bad luck. For the next two hours I basically lost every pot. The biggest one was a 25k one were everybody of us moved in on a 3JK two diamonds flop. Top two vs nuts flush draw vs my TQA Q high flush draw. The board paired and the third diamond came in.
I was down like 25k and ready to leave if my last gamble wouldn’t come in, a 15k pot vs IamUrSlayer. Well it wasn’t that much of a gamble in fact. Flop 568, two spades and I was holding the 4678. Turn 7, river 9 and the third spade appeared. This sucked, I felt quite sure the time to open the window and risk a highly motivated jump had come. But noooo, I won it! My small straight made it. I go no idea what IamUrSlayer had but I guess something like a set. Bad luck, sir.

So, omas poker god? He left with a 33k stack, so I guess somehow yes.
IamUrSlayer poker god? No way. He played like a drunk old bitch and cried all the time about “FML”. What does this mean btw? Fuck my life? For married love?
Hellfish poker god? I lost more than IamUrSlayer so I fear all these insults I am writing about him do even fit better about me. But this is my blog so I can flame whoever I want and don’t need to be objective! HAH!

Apple

I admit it, I am an Apple fan. Their products are way overpriced, technical quite bad but sooooo cool.
When they started selling the I-Phone I thought quite long about but a month after the launch I finally went out buying one. I loved it, I really loved it. So easy to use, such cool layout. It exactly was what I was looking for.
Then some months ago my home computer crashed on a Friday. I urgently needed a new one for the weekend betting but my computer expert was on holidays. So I drove to some electronic market to buy a laptop. I again planned to go Apple, better to say the ultra small air book. But the prices shocked me. Nearly double as expensive as some “normal” laptop like Vaio. This is just too sick, so I buyed the Vaio which works fine.

In some weeks the next one is starting. IPAD. To be honest to myself, it is complete shit lol. I love reading books but doing so on a computer screen. No way, sorry. I want some real paper in my hands, some real paper I can dirty with my coffee. If you exclude reading books and papers, what else do you need the Ipad for? It is nothing else than an ipod / Iphone in bigger size. It has only one quality: It is COOOOOL.
And that’s enough for me. I will buy it and count down the days until one can do so. In the end it probably will end as a digital picture frame but as I don’t have any yet. Heck why not.

Is always moving higher the right way?

Some days ago I read an interesting thesis in a newspaper: Every company, our whole culture is always looking for increasing profits, to grow. But is this really needed?

A pro making his living out of poker or/and betting are in fact nothing else than a small company. He also always tries to earn more, to stake higher, to jump up in limits.
This surely is a must to some extend. Poker and betting is no regular job. You don’t have any old-age provisions, neither there is any guarantee you will still beat the markets in some years. You can only seriously start as a betting pro if there is the realistic chance to earn some millions for the next say decade.

But what if you reached this point? You have a million in the bank and you beat the poker games / make a great yield in betting. The way nearly everyone goes is to play higher limits, to stake bigger. One million is nothing, you want three. And when you have them you want eight. If this goes without disadvantages there is nothing wrong about it, of course. But every jump in limits means a new additional risk. You beat 50-100 limits but the step to 100-200 on Fulltilt might just be too big for you and you just loose the money. Yes if you are serious you jump down again and still have a completely sufficient bankroll. But it still hurt your ego and you kind of wasted a lot of time and even more money. What can you gain on the other hand? You might win at 100-200 but then automatically you go to the next level, 250-500. It is an endless circle until you are either one of the very few absolute world class poker pros like Tom Dwan or lost a lot of energy for basically nothing. Chances aren’t big you are the next Durrrrr or Antonius. And even if it happens, is the life of Dwan so much better than the life of a “normal” guy who already earned enough money to never have to work again in his life? I doubt it.
And if the life of these guys isn’t seriously better, why not just staying in the “low” limits where everything is working fine and enjoying your life.

Thick bloody lip

I am sometimes screaming, blaring and cursing so I guess some of you think I deserve some punishment. Well your dreams became true, it happened – in a quite ridiculous way though:
I am walking in my flat, drinking a nearly empty bottle of water. I have it high in the air to reach the last water when I pass a door. You can imagine what happened then: The bottle is too high in the air and strikes back into my face. Baang, blood, it hit me.
If I could only declare it would have been a big fight but no … the truth is quite disappointing.
Just like you will be disappointed about such a boring post!

EPT Berlin attack

A friend just called me screaming there would have been an attack on EPT Berlin poker tournament.
Crazy stuff. It luckily seems that noone got seriously injured.

All the best to you guys there!

sports bet

Köln - Bayern AWAY -1,0 @ 1,95 (money back when Bayern wins with a 1-goal margin)

Köln poor at home and normally should have no chance vs in-form Bayern. Even if they face an imp CL game in some days.

But attention: At Bayern centreback van Buyten is a very small doubt. If he really was out it would be a real problem for Bayern considering they also miss CN Demechelis. If you wanna go save, better wait for line-ups and check if he is playing.

No action

I played nearly no poker the last days, neither I was betting. Is it the cold weather? No, probably not. There were no interesting games going on and I wasn’t motivated at all to push something. The only half interesting one developed in a 15 minutes rushpoker session:

I raised with JJ and got called. Flop TJQ two spades I bet out and get called. Turn the spades 9. I check, opp checks. Turn another 9. I check again, he bets pot and I move in.
Now this opponent starts screaming down the chat:
- you dump fish, fucking idiot.
- How bad are you, such a donk!
- How can someone stupid like you still have money .. blablablabla.

When his timebank was nearly gone he folded.
Reflecting it I am not sure anymore, if he really meant me or maybe moaned about himself!?
I surely sucked out versus his flush or flopped straight but LOL. The money only went in when my hand was great, didn’t it? LOL

Something serious for your money

Okay, so I called this blog “blablabla … and everything sweet you can buy for money”. Why do I only post boring poker shit and sports bets that WIN. We need something where you can SPEND your dollars!

Hands up, the audience is listening. Here we go:

a 3D action figure of yourself!

This piece of shit is in fact something damn cool. You upload one, better two, photos of yourself and then the company uses them for a 3D model of yourself. This model can be adjusted by you. Different hair, more muscles, having a machine gun in your hand, everything is possible. You cannot only see it on their website in 3D but also order it as a real action figure!
This is so freaking. I have an action figure of myself on my desk where I don’t look like shit old too drunk Hell but like a young sporty man the girls love. My one minute of dreaming. Back to hard reality, bye bye.

P.S. The clown on this pic is NOT me. Don’t start asking. I wont post anything about my real look. It is too ugly.

Sense of life

I had a quick chat with a mate yesterday.
He: I am so bored with my life, I need to change something. I will stop drinking.
Me: I know the feeling, I am also so bored at the moment. That’s why I just started drinking again.

Why do you play if you dont enjoy it?

Some days ago I was waiting at a table after a long six-hour session just had ended. Giorgio came down and asked me why I wouldn’t join another table where a game was going on. I replied that table wouldn’t be top value and therefore I would be glad not to have to play. He replied with an in fact very logical question:

“Why don’t you just go out if you don’t enjoy playing now?”

It is the perpetual inner conflict of a gambling pro. Do you enjoy your life or do you go for maximum profits by working as much as possible?
Someone outside the gambling world will probably only see the moment: “This guy just won 3000 Euro. That’s as much as I earn in a month!! Why the heck doesn’t he just enjoy his life, soooo much money!”
I don’t want to start arguing being a gambling pro would be a hard life. That would be a lie. In a way it is living the dream. But one still has to care about the future (“ohhhh how uncool” I hear all the teens shouting now). Earning a lot of money now gives no clue at all about the future. In two years it all might be over. Many poker players and betting pros who won a lot six years ago cant compete at all today. They just don’t have the skills to beats todays much improved market anymore. The same will happen with many of the current pros. The poker games become so much tougher every year. More and more new pros join the cake and old-time fishes even improve to solid players themselves. I also always fear that sooner or later the lower limit ring games will be completely flooded by bots. In theory it is not hard to code a solid playing poker bot.

So guys, where will you be in two years? Having half a million in the bank sounds awesome but if you on the other hand cant win in poker/betting anymore and have no education – that’s no the dream life, I bet. After some years the money is spent and you basically sit on the streets with nothing.

Okay this is probably getting a bit too pessimistic but I like to outline that someone who goes gambling fulltime really needs to have a plan for the after-gambling life. Only a very tiny percentage of the pros really earned that much money that they are prepared for their living.
This is btw also the answer to the question Giorgio asked. Yes I sometimes don’t enjoy poker but it is my job. If there is a chance for a profitable game I have to take it. Just like I didn’t miss one single weekend with German soccer running since eight years or something. Holidays can wait for the time of soccer being in summer or winter break!