[Closed] JP's NL Diary - Tourney Ship 2.7K

JohnPhoenix · 2010-07-22T23:26:18Z

Hi there, Finally I will write a Poker Blog. Why? Well, I never blogged before, but I got the feeling, that the next 1,5 years (and maybe the following years as well) get quite interesting with many decisions and events, which will influence my whole life. So I decided to document my future path in this blog. It's mainly for myself, so I can review the upcoming time lator. The blog will contain mainly poker-related stuff, but as well some private things. Let's start. 1) Who I am. My Name is Robert. I am 24 and from a town near to Munich in Germany. I'm studying business administration and currently I'm working for PokerStrategy.com as an intern in the B2B department. Maybe some guys recognized me, when I posted the Rake Race updates for a while. In the mid of August my contract ends and after a short trip through Spain I will be back In Germany to complete my studies. I got 1 to 1,5 years left. Actually I don't know, what will come, after finishing my studies. Let's see. In addition I love making music. I'm playing E-Guitar and E-Bass and also I have started to learn singing. In Germany I live together with my girlfriend, we're together since over 3 years. 2) How long do I play Poker? I started playing cards at the age of 7 with some German card games. (Watten, Schafkopfen). But probably nobody of you will know these games. With the age of 12 I already started playing for real money and improved my pocket money through winning constantly small amounts in the breaks at school. :f_biggrin: My first contact with poker when I moved out to my student flat, in the local home game rounds, when I was 20. I was caught by the game and started playing really often, but not with much effort for learning any strategies. After a while I spent more time on it, and at the time, where games were really soft I was able to win even up to NL 100 FR and cashed out my first 2000 Dollars, which were spent into a new Bass Amplifier. I left my previous band at Dez. 2008 and from that moment I got much more time for Poker. I started playing NL 25 SH at Everest and also reading articles and watching videos. I went really well so I moved up to NL 100 SH in not even 3 month, where I got stuck the first time. After some private coaching (TribunCeaser, Cyde, Deadmike, who is not at PS.com) and some training I was able to beat NL 100 and 200 and even played my first NL 400 tables at Everest in May 2009. Until the end of 2009 I won quite a lot of money and cashed out regularly. With these cash outs I'm able to finance my studies without any help from other people. At the beginning of the year 10 I even shotted NL 1K at Everest, but the shots weren't really successful. I also got in a downswing at NL 400 and ran about 13K under EV from February to March. In March I started my internship here. With a 40h - 45 H week of work I couldn't focus enough to beat the midstackes and so I become a BE player. Also the traffic at Everest broke down, I cashed out and tried different sites, but never really felt well at any site. Well while I got stuck online, I start playing Life Cash and Life Tournaments, which I really enjoy. I love it. 3) What will I play? First of all I think I will not play many hands online until I'm back in Germany. This has mainly 3 reasons. - Atm I'm playing much Live Poker - Next Thursday my girlfriend will arrive here in Gib and I won't play much poker after she has arrived. - I'm leaving Gibraltar on the 14th of August. We will make a City Tour trough Spain and visit Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, before flying back to Germany on the 26th of August. If you know real good must seen places in these cities, pls give me a short hint. Back in Germany I will play. A) NL 6max: Although I have the roll for higher limits I will start at NL 50 or 100 to get back into the game. I think the game changed a lot in the last 6 month and also playing Everest is not the same as playing other sites. It was not necessarily easier, but different. B) PLO 6Max Change the Plan. PLO is much more fun for me than HU. C) Tournaments I will play Tournament between $10 -109 Dollar. Sometimes a Major Event like SM, 200K, or Brawl. D) Live Play I will start to play live in casinos at Austria and also I try to qualify online for several live events. For example I would love to qualify for the Everest 3 Länder Tour. I will post critical hands and probably also some graphs. Please feel free to comment every hand, you find in this thread. 4) Long-term Goals (next 1.5 years) - Online 6max: Getting again on NL 400 and beating it with more than 4 bb/100 over a nice samplesize. Tourneys: Ship the fucking monezzzs! Actually I never won a NL Tournament with more than 300 participants, only had a nice number of Final Tables. It's getting time.... - LIVE: - Winning monezzzzs and having a lot of fun. - Playing several big live events.