A little bit late, but here are my results for April:
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This is only NL100 Fullring, I also played some NL50 in the beginning and some NL200, but used different databases, didn't play many hands there and was about breakeven, so I won't host it here.
I ran pretty consistently, although I couldn't hold my sick winrate of like 11BB/100, but still good, check out the graph:
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In May I started to play 6max, because Fullring became a little bit boring and hard to beat at NL200, because there are so many nits playing 11/9 and setmining the shit out of the table and not giving any action at all otherwise.
6max is much more swingy than Fullring, but also more exciting and there is some action going on. This is May so far:
NL100_6max:
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NL200_6max:
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I run quite bad at NL200_6max. I lost all my flips, got check-raised a lot when I didn't hit, lost many 3-bet pots and didn't get any action when I did have a big hand, especially preflop.
I feel like NL200 is really a huge step from NL100, both Fullring and 6max, but I don't want to grind NL100, as a poker player who both enjoys the game and the money, there is still some progress to make, maybe I will grind NL400 for a income.
Maybe I will go back to Fullring when I have a solid LAG style which I can use to crush the setmining nits at Fullring. I also thought about playing some Heads-up cashgames to improve my postflop play. We will see.
Discovering Online-Poker is definitely the best thing that could have happened to a semi-broke student like myself, but all the other students I told about it didn't get into it, don't know why.
Some hands from NL200_6max:
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And there are many small pot hands that I lost, but I think it's variance and that I am able to beat the game. And if I am not able to do so, I will be using the knowledge I got here to stomp on the NL100 players, because I think that I am improving my game a lot at the moment.
Some real life stuff:
University is going on in the 4th week now, and thought that I would learn harder this semester but of course I don't. People don't change, but I should. I already switched majors once (at first I studied physics) and I cannot afford to fuck it up again.
Anyway, I passed all exams last semester, though my results were rather mediocre.
At Wednesday last week I met PplusAD, another LPer who studies at the same university here, here is the pic, maybe some of you haven't seen it yet, but PplusAD already posted it in his blog.
LP.net degens meeting up: (And fighting in the future because we decided to train some MMA together, which we are both into kind of. We have about the same weight, though I am taller than him, but rather skinny..., anyhow I am gonna kick his ass)
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Training MMA is really fun, I wish I could do it more often, I only train once a week. Maybe next semester I will move to Nürnberg which is much larger than Erlangen and then I can join a club there.
Another thing I sometimes think about:
What can we learn from poker and apply to real life?
- Definitely Tilt-control. I mean tilt is a specific poker term, but it also applies to Real life. I think it's really good when you are always able to keep your coolness and think objectively about a situation instead of freaking out and stuff. Don't let nobody tilt you, no matter what shit happens to you.
- more reasonable thinking about things and persons. Like in poker you always think about what your opponent's cards are and what specific actions mean and tell you about your opponents holdings and intentions. I feel like I do that with other things as well, observing little things and thinking what they mean and what people think about when they do it.
- more responsible relation to money. Yeah, sounds paradox. Now that I make thousands of dollars with online-poker, I could spew around, right? But the reason I am able to win money, is that I respect money. Never would I post a blind out of position or complete the small blind without a good reason to do so. I mean, it's only like $1, but in the long run it adds up and it's definitely -EV. EV is term I also use in my daily thoughts.
Damn, maybe I could have expressed this a little bit better going a little bit more in depth, but it's getting late and I get tired.
Here is some great 80's song for you guys:
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(a full house, Aces full of Sevens)
(high card King)
(two pair, Tens and Sevens)
