New Year’s ReVolution – 180 SNG MTTs

RaucheCh1987 · 2015-01-02T07:41:07Z

Welcome to my blog. My name is Christian I am a 27 year old Austrian currently living in Cavite (Philippines, close to Manila). Like many others in the community I use new year to start over and start a blog to take everything more serious and finally become a solid winning player. To start the blog I will start with my background regarding poker and what lead to the idea of starting this blog, it’s perhaps boring for most of you to read, but I think that it’s sometimes also good to reflect so it might help me to note the mistakes I’ve made in the past to avoid them in the future. I also plan to stream my poker sessions using twitch, so here is the link to my channel, as well as to my YouTube channel where all videos should be archived by default: Live Streams & Updates: My Twitch Channel My Twitch Archive (Old Broadcasts) My YouTube Channel My Twitter Account since I will use this channel also for my trading blog and some other things there won't only be poker videos/streams to enjoy My (Poker) Background 2010 – In autumn 2010 I played poker for the first time. That time a friend mentioned the FREE50 from PokerStrategy so I signed up and got them on PartyPoker if I’m not mistaken (long time ago ^^). I started playing micro stakes and tried to stick to the SSS but due to lack of motivation I ended up gambling it away, depositing and re-depositing… In that time I also had some major issues in my private live resulting in a “depression”. To avoid dealing with those issues and my girlfriend who was constantly busting my balls about them I started to visit two cardrooms nearby on daily basis and played some MTT/SNG and cash game there. Needless to say, even though I had some tournament cashes (NLH only buyins up to 50 € with up to 50 players) and winning sessions at the cash game tables (NLH, PLO, Crazy Pineapple) I was pretty much the fish at the table. There were few players worse than me, but I didn’t mind because I didn’t know better, and didn’t bother to learn it on PS or anywhere. Until the end of 2010 I lost a small five digit euro sum. SpoilerMaxim - the dog of my girlfriend back then 2011 – Since my girlfriend figured I was playing too much and not paying here enough attention anymore she decided to break-up shortly after new year, which changed something in my mind and I decided to sort the issues that lead to the situation out. I started working on regularly basis again (was freelancing in IT as a programmer) and landed a nice contract I actually didn’t want to get because I already had too much work for the coming weeks. Long story short got paid 15k € for something I usually do for far less. So I finished the outstanding contracts and felt pretty good since I had a nice sum on my bank account again. During this time I was just playing occasionally live tournaments or cash games in a new cardroom and got a quite good run. This led to the situation where I decided to play poker for a living and just didn’t accept any new contracts for the rest of the year. I used to play most of the daily tournaments in the cardroom with buyins between 15 and 50 € and cashgames NLH/PLO100 – 200 ending up with an hourly around 35 € in the cashgames and some good tournament results. Instead of saving the money to increase my bankroll I partied a lot back then and bought stuff I didn’t need to impress people I actually didn’t like at all. I started playing online again but didn’t care about bankroll management so I just deposited some hundred euro on PokerStars and played PLO200 there. Sometimes I was able to make some winnings but at the end of the day I got totally crushed by the regulars there. Since I didn’t bother to study theoretical stuff so far, I blamed most of it on “tilt” or “bad luck” even though PokerTracker already made it pretty clear that I was mostly playing bad or just “overplaying”. Looking back today it was pretty stupid to think just because I’m a winning player in the cardroom around the corner I could just crush the PLO200 tables too. During the whole year I donated between 6 and 10k € on PokerStars. During this year I also read my first poker related book “Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Balll and Short-Handed Play” by Jeff Hwang which kind off opened my eyes a bit since I was shocked that I didn’t know what “floating” is and so on. Even though I did it sometimes but not with the same thoughts or a bit more mindless. I also started reading some of the content on PokerStrategy and watching some of the videos, but at the end (to be honest) I didn’t really try hard. SpoilerDid I mention that I spent money on stuff I don't need? 2012 – like almost every year I looked back what I’ve done so far and how my life nowadays is, ending up comparing it with my life working as freelancer in IT. I also made at least 35 € per hour working in IT without the need to worry about variance or table selection. I really focused on the downsides like how poker is affecting my social life. Sleeping every d...