yes it is time!

Anonym hat gesagt…
time for a new blog entry or not? I love poker but i always get broken at this fucking game... what i am doing wrong - i think not enough disciplin or fucking bad money management... cmon write something about a day of a professional poker play or something like that... and mainz will win the 8th game against hsv... oooleeelelee

That is a good point Mr Anonymius. Long ago, indeed.
I made a bet with myself when reading your comment: If Mainz makes the record with 8 wins in row I start to post daily again ... well, you know the result. Bad luck. I wont post. Okay not often at least.

Money management is important, somehow. You need to either learn it or do the Hellblood approach: Having enough dollars so one just cant loose all. More easy, more easy!

There isnt much intersting to post about my life though. I very rarely play poker, betting is the main job. Great world cup, average league start. This is just suuuuch a pleasure to read I bet. Oh well, I stop it. I need some beer. Thats life baby!

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!