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Hi Guys,

My name is Ron van den Enden and i am 25 years old. I live in Valenswaard in The Netherlands (this is near Eindhoven). I work as a Team Manager for Sitel in Eindhoven. I am leading 2 teams which handle big support contracts for HP. I really like what i am doing now and am investing a lot of time in it. We are giving printer support for the BeneLux. Basically i am responsible for their actions and achievements and i am handling the contact with the customer. Hewlett Packard in this case.

Originally i was a starcraft player, i was not good at it but because i invested a lot of time i got the chance to be an admin in the iD Team. There i learned a lot from discussing, observing and playing with great players like; Twisted, Midian, Anon, Rocklee, Nuros etc. They also got me inspired to play poker.

Some of you guys might have seen some of my hands which i have posted. Originally i am a fullring player. A really nitty fullring player i have to add because that really was one of my big leaks at the Fullring games. A few weeks ago i thought poker over for a long time and came to the conclusion that i am not improving my game enough. I am basically just playing the same style over and over again and this is not profitable enough.

That is why i have decided to make a new start at the micro stakes 6 max games and grind it up from there. I also will make a blog post to discuss my hands pretty much every session. I think this is a really good thing to think your hands over and get extra feedback from a possible discussion. I really need to be honest at myself and realise that i am a marginal poker player at the moment. I am dedicated to improve myself the coming period, but one thing i needed to do is be honest about it. I really need more experience in the 6 max games. Because i started in fullring and grinded the micro stakes to 1/2 NL there i never got that education on the 6 max tables. And apparantly i need this to improve and adapt my game to this new style. I want to be a player who can deal with every situation and adapt where needed.

I have watched a lot of video's the past few months on cardrunner just to try to improve my 6 max game before starting this and i think it has worked. Now i really need experience and just get the hands in, making a solid winrate and move up if i am really ready for it. I need to detach myself from the emotional side of playing poker, i need to dont care about the money. That is also why i have set myself the following goals:

- Make a blog post after every session (also the bad ones)
- Post 3-5 winners and 3-5 losers (more if more situations are there)
- Play 20 - 25k hands a month
- Discuss poker a lot
- Improving is more important than a decent winrate

Today i started my 1st session:



Winners

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597757

Standard hand i think, although i think my 3 bet size should be bigger. More something like 1.2. For the rest of the henad it is pretty standard

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597759

I chose to call the flop raise to see if the turn cards hit and go from there. Is it better to just re-raise flop and get it in because of the fold equity? No stats avaiable.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597761

Standard trip to valuetown?

Losers

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597765

I am not happy about my turn play, i think it should be bet/fold turn. Probably i would have won this on the turn then

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597767

He was just playing this too passive, i really thought that i had the best hand, i bet the river small as a blocker bet, to see where i am at.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597768

Standard....

Just let me know what you think and discuss the hands with me.

Update:

Just played a little more because i had some spare time, here are the total results of today:




http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597835

Guy was a maniac and shoved over my raise for the 2nd time, with stats of like 64/12.. Standard call imo.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597824

Maybe i need to re-raise flop here, but i knew i got the best hand and he was going to stack off if i let him the initiative, thoughts?

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/597818

Rigged.

Im done for today, see you tomorrow

Thanks,

Ron van den Enden

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