No Excuses! - My way towards becoming an excellent person

Hey Sebastian,

You have some really nice goals there. Have you checked out our Goal Getter Promotion?

Have fun

Laz

Originally posted by Lazza61
Hey Sebastian,

You have some really nice goals there. Have you checked out our Goal Getter Promotion?

Have fun

Laz

Thanks, nice to hear you like them

Just posted in the thread. GL to you too

I don't think flatting bb vs btn with K2s is too loose, I much prefer a call here.

Hellooo.. Sunday Funday!

I think it's time for another entry, right out of the headquarters of MrSnS Inc. Welcome everybody who is new to this blog!


The snow is higher than the length of my penis *_*

ANYWAYS!
The last days were a huge rollercoaster in terms of results. But I am improving, so that's good. Yesterday I had the best pokerday of the year grinding NL25 with over 20bb/100 on 4k Hands (14 by All-In Adj.). That's definitely not a coincidence. Sometimes you just have to tweak one or two "little things" in order to get great results. Tony Robbins describes this with golf: Only one miillimeter can make a huge difference in terms of where the ball is going. I realized that my preflop game was waaaay too aggressive. I didn't really adapt to the table and just raised my standard ranges vs. everyone. Then I started reading The Poker Blueprint by Tri Nguyen and everything came together giving me a huge boost in my skill and winrate. Together with the Poker-Drills, I am trying to do every day, NL25 suddenly seems pretty easy to beat. But I don't want to be overconfident. I know that just because you have one good winning day does not mean that you own poker haha.

Shortcomings

Because I firstly ran pretty bad and played bad, and therefore had another bankroll crash in which I lost 6 BI's on NL25, I spent all my time working on poker and grinding back up to $550 incl. Rakeback. That's the thing, if I want to start my Photography thing I have to be financially stable first. And when I am poor I have no head for the stuff I really love to do.. whereas Poker is fun too of course

I also did not go out because a HUGE snow blanket is covering Northern Germany. Fifteen centimeters were falling down last night, it's very beautiful, but also a bit annoying since I couldn't drive the car to the city (living on a small-ass village 30km from it, and getting back home is harder than crossing a street in syria) I didn't shoot a video about some topic either, simply because I just read about poker and didn't touch everything else.

The Goal for the next week, definitely, is too free up more time and simply plan days in advance so that I do something else and get some more social life and passions into my life.

Hands

1) Quite interesting one... I am still not sure how correct my play was. I just wanted to try a concept I've read: Betting so big with your draw that you commit yourself vs. a shove. I think if I'd had bet the turn smaller he would have called his Tx and Draws, like that I thought it's easy to get him off of these, plus we have still some outs to suck it in case he has a set.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $46.26 (VPIP: 20.18, PFR: 13.76, 3Bet Preflop: 6.00, Hands: 110)
SB: $27.15 (VPIP: 18.69, PFR: 17.76, 3Bet Preflop: 4.76, Hands: 109)
Hero (BB): $26.84
UTG: $31.87 (VPIP: 24.62, PFR: 21.54, 3Bet Preflop: 9.68, Hands: 65)
MP: $15.71 (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
CO: $39.15 (VPIP: 21.15, PFR: 13.46, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 55)

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has K♣ T♥

fold, MP calls $0.25, fold, BTN raises to $1.00, fold, Hero raises to $3.20, fold, BTN calls $2.20

Flop: ($6.75, 2 players) 8♠ 3♥ 9♥
Hero bets $3.50, BTN calls $3.50

Turn: ($13.75, 2 players) J♦
Hero bets $11.40, fold

2) Blind vs Blind this should be a pretty standard cbet with some backdoors and instant Foldequity on the flop. This guy, though, raised cbets 2/2 times plus the board is super dry. Usually there is no reason to valueraise here unless he's a big fish. So either we are way behind or play against a huge number of bluffs. Qx should probably just flat, same with Ax. I thought floating oop is a good option here. I would have folded on a turn blank, but given that the Turn is an A and he can't really have AQ (which mostly 3bets pre) and the A does not really hit his range I decided to get it All-In. Turned out my read was right

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $34.03 (VPIP: 10.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
Hero (SB): $29.21
BB: $28.97 (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 54)
UTG: $83.52 (VPIP: 23.81, PFR: 19.05, 3Bet Preflop: 11.90, Hands: 106)
MP: $42.37 (VPIP: 24.46, PFR: 20.14, 3Bet Preflop: 5.77, Hands: 144)
CO: $23.20 (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has K♥ T♥

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.50, 2 players) 3♥ 2♦ Q♠
Hero bets $1.00, BB raises to $3.64, Hero calls $2.64

Turn: ($8.78, 2 players) A♥
Hero checks, BB bets $6.45, Hero raises to $24.82 and is all-in, BB calls $18.13 and is all-in

River: ($57.94, 2 players) 9♣
Players agreed to run it twice.

River #2: ($57.94, 2 players) 2♠

Hero shows K♥ T♥ (High Card, Ace)
Board #1 (Pre 64%, Flop 64%, Turn 80%)
(One Pair, Twos)
Board #2 (Pre 64%, Flop 64%, Turn 79%)

BB shows 5♥ 6♥ (High Card, Ace)
Board #1 (Pre 36%, Flop 36%, Turn 20%)
(One Pair, Twos)
Board #2 (Pre 36%, Flop 36%, Turn 21%)

Hero wins $27.97

3) Not much to say to this one I guess, other than x/c Turn >>> cbet

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $28.76 (VPIP: 18.52, PFR: 15.64, 3Bet Preflop: 6.90, Hands: 247)
Hero (SB): $25.10
BB: $34.13 (VPIP: 25.40, PFR: 19.05, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 64)
UTG: $55.14 (VPIP: 27.27, PFR: 18.18, 3Bet Preflop: 4.76, Hands: 56)
MP: $19.31 (VPIP: 17.95, PFR: 17.95, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 39)
CO: $27.85 (VPIP: 16.87, PFR: 13.15, 3Bet Preflop: 3.82, Hands: 412)

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has J♠ A♠

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.75, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($1.50, 2 players) 9♦ J♥ 6♥
Hero bets $1.10, BB calls $1.10

Turn: ($3.70, 2 players) 9♥
Hero checks, BB bets $2.50, Hero calls $2.50

River: ($8.70, 2 players) 5♠
Hero checks, BB bets $6.81, Hero calls $6.81

BB shows K♥ Q♠ (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 38%, Flop 40%, Turn 39%)
Hero shows J♠ A♠ (Two Pair, Jacks and Nines)
(Pre 62%, Flop 60%, Turn 61%)
Hero wins $21.32

Just busted the Sunday Storm as 353rd of 31.000 Entries, with a flip. Always so close

Gonna watch some Family Guy, then meditate for a bit and then go to sleep to start up tomorrow fresh with my morning ritual.

INSANE

Today was the biggest day of the year regarding Poker. I don't really know how to express myself haha.

In Tri Nguyens book he writes about Bankrollmanagement and that the best players even are sometimes not really rolled for a certain limit. But because the games are so good they decide to do shots. Even though they risk more than usually, they potentially win more and if you can risk to lose a certain amount you should definitely do it. That's why I decided today to give NL50 a shot after a 8-stack heater on NL25. And it went all good After 3 days my bankroll almost got to a grand.

The danger though is, in my opinion, that you should not start to believe you are a poker god just because you had some sick days in a row. I know that I have to work on my game, but it's definitely getting better and I'm sooo happy. At the end of the month I will buy a new lense and enroll for photography training.

Hands

1) Failed Check-Shove. Probably just a bet/fold on the river. He can't have a lot of sets in his range bc he would just bet it on the flop and as played nothing worse as the flush cals.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $34.70 (VPIP: 18.46, PFR: 13.85, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 66)
SB: $9.88 (VPIP: 26.32, PFR: 15.79, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 20)
Hero (BB): $34.93
UTG: $31.93 (VPIP: 17.99, PFR: 15.48, 3Bet Preflop: 7.84, Hands: 248)
MP: $29.85 (VPIP: 17.88, PFR: 15.23, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 155)
CO: $31.12 (VPIP: 12.35, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 2.86, Hands: 83)

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has A♠ A♥

fold, fold, CO raises to $0.75, fold, SB calls $0.65, Hero raises to $3.20, CO calls $2.45, fold

Flop: ($7.15, 2 players) 7♣ A♦ 4♣
Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($7.15, 2 players) 5♣
Hero bets $3.80, CO calls $3.80

River: ($14.75, 2 players) T♠
Hero checks, CO bets $6.50, Hero raises to $27.93 and is all-in, CO calls $17.62 and is all-in

2) Lesson: Don't 4bet a donkey. I got some really lose stats on that guy but a 0 fold to 4bet. Probably just a call pre or a fold if he's that lose. But the notetracker states only premiums he has 3bet so far. So not sure what to do on the river. If he has AJ/AQ, sometimes AK. its probably best to just x/f the river.

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $57.15 (VPIP: 27.27, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 15.79, Hands: 46)
SB: $44.21 (VPIP: 31.91, PFR: 17.02, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 47)
BB: $47.94 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)
UTG: $35.61 (VPIP: 25.71, PFR: 11.43, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 35)
MP: $50.00 (VPIP: 20.69, PFR: 20.69, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 61)
Hero (CO): $50.00

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has T♣ A♥

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.22, BTN raises to $3.75, fold, fold, Hero raises to $9.50, BTN calls $5.75

Flop: ($19.75, 2 players) 5♥ 7♠ 7♥
Hero bets $6.00, BTN calls $6.00

Turn: ($31.75, 2 players) 5♠
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: ($31.75, 2 players) A♣
Hero checks, BTN bets $41.65 and is all-in, fold

3) What can he rep?
PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $75.34 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 27)
SB: $65.48 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 25.00, Hands: 6)
BB: $49.41
UTG: $59.91 (VPIP: 19.72, PFR: 12.68, 3Bet Preflop: 11.54, Hands: 72)
MP: $39.86 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
Hero (CO): $52.00

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has Q♣ 8♣

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.22, fold, SB calls $0.97, fold

Flop: ($2.94, 2 players) 6♥ A♣ 8♥
SB checks, Hero bets $1.88, SB raises to $5.00, Hero calls $3.12

Turn: ($12.94, 2 players) K♠
SB checks, Hero bets $6.50, fold

Bankroll Challenge Update Week 2

Hands played: 24.276 Hands, 8 MTT's
Profit: $495.37
Bankroll: $818

What's uppppp...

It's a wonderful thursday and I thought about what I wanted to write this blog entry. Really want to keep everything up to date. But sometimes the content is a little bit missing. But there is always something to talk about. While I am listening to a remix album of Notorious B.I.G. I am reflecting a little bit on the last couple of weeks. It was actually a hell of a ride. I didn't know what to expect. I think I thought about quitting poker for 10 times or so. But eventually I found some self-hypnosis stuff on youtube and started to train my mind on success. Seriously, if you constantly visualize and put your mind in a state where you actually believe you are a successful person already you start to behave in a way that you really become that person. In my opinion it's a mistake to wait for that moment to come when you are successful. Just be it today. Success should not be measured in terms of results but rather in your daily actions that you take towards your goals.

I started running every morning, drink a lot of water, and have breakfast before I start my day (I used to just wake up and grind). I put in some energy cleansing or success programming guided meditation and start to work. Really work. I reflect every session I play, review 20 hands at least and always learn and improve. There's still a long way to go, because I don't feel like I am earning long-term money with poker. But I realized that this is possible, also in 2016. Not being a winning player yet is just a result of missing effort and efficient work. Unfortunately we are living in a magic-pill society. Everyone wants things FAST. Fast money (with Poker, or other stuff), a fast meal or coffee on the way to work, a fast girlfriend or a fast family with a fast house. The problem is that this magic pill does not exist and most things you are getting fast are either things that are not really worth it, or you won't be even able to appreciate it (ergo: Happiness is left out of the equation). I really appreciate every day because it's a chance to improve. In the book "A practicing mind" the author (forgot his name) writes that it's the process that is important. Are you doing what you doing while you are doing it? Or are you somewhere else in the past or in the future with your mind and really can't things done, get deviated and procrastinate until the point where "it's enough!"? Fact is, hard work pays off.

Leaks (Will be edited)
Betsizing with the nuts
Somehow I am always scared to not get paid off and bet too small, especially when the board is locked (e.g. AA on A37, or 99 on 936r).

Betsizing vs. fish
here I mostly use standard betsizings. This is not the optimum I guess. Vs. fish I can bet much bigger and get the same amount of calls with my valuehands. It's important to work on that because that is where the money comes from

Preflop Game: Defending enough vs 3bets in the CO/BTN/SB
I am sooo tight I noticed. Mostly it has to do with the Zoom Games: every day I see new players and don't really know how to play vs. their 3bets. On average people are very tight (4% overall 3bet on average) and therefore I fold a LOT, maybe too much. I have my defending ranges down but I am really not sure if they are that profitable to play vs. so tight players. What's your pick on this?

:spade Defending vs. squeezes in every position
That's a really hard one as well since the sample is always pretty small. But I expect very strong ranges on average that's why I probably fold 80% or so to their squeezes (sometimes even TT's). Would be great to talk to someone who plays NL50 on that.

Lol'd so hard

PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $50.00 (VPIP: 25.15, PFR: 21.05, 3Bet Preflop: 6.90, Hands: 175)
SB: $52.85 (VPIP: 21.47, PFR: 18.40, 3Bet Preflop: 9.84, Hands: 167)
BB: $89.93 (VPIP: 24.03, PFR: 15.89, 3Bet Preflop: 9.17, Hands: 267)
UTG: $86.95 (VPIP: 3.23, PFR: 3.23, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 32)
MP: $45.90 (VPIP: 75.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 6)
Hero (CO): $55.26

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has Q♦ J♦

fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.22, fold, SB raises to $4.50, fold, Hero calls $3.28

Flop: ($9.50, 2 players) 4♥ 8♥ 5♣
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($9.50, 2 players) 7♠
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($9.50, 2 players) 6♠
SB bets $15.00, Hero raises to $30.00, fold

Yo Guys, I just recorded a short session of me grinding some NL25 Zoom. Looking forward to your comments.

Some hands were played well, others not. This one belongs to the not-category I guess. In retrospection this is probably just a give up on every street. Questionable if we can get QQ/JJ to fold on a blank turn. And the A is just the worse card because Ahigh flushdraws improve and more importantly sth. like AJ/AQ.

That one was also interesting. On the one hand he can have a very strong range on the river, on the other hand he can't. Assuming he just cbets any2 on the flop his river-range must be pretty polarized. Hard to say if he'd bet worse Qx here. But overall getting ridiculous odds, it's just a call.

Interesting session! I feel I can learn a lot from these Those QQ against your 88 was quite unfortunate!

Originally posted by Hesticus
Interesting session! I feel I can learn a lot from these Those QQ against your 88 was quite unfortunate!

Sweet! Just saw that the quality isn't that great... gonna fix it for the next session ♠_drink:

Yo, I'm going to update this blog daily now and post graphs and hands. My lense for the camera isn't bought and would take me some more time because of today and I'd like to move up on NL50 before I invest any money.

Day 1 - OUCH!

Didn't play so much... don't wanna play more. Everything started well, ran good, then a sick cooler hit me and my roll started to cry after I ran once in another quads (why is this happening only in 3bet pots to me? ♠_ugly: ) and 2 hands later in a set, for another stack in a 3bet pot. I could have mucked / wouldn't have gotten into these situations and could have saved some money. Check out the hands and tell me what you think

1) The initial squeezer has a 3bet of 2% overall so far. It's probably higher EV to 4bet/br here instead of calling for a hit and letting everyone hit their set and let a fish like me give them money ♠_evil: Will keep that in mind.

AKs in BB vs Squeeze

2) 5-way 3bet-Pots really only happen on NL25 I guess ♠_biggrin: - Man his line is so damn strong... I was probably fastplaying in that moment and didn't think too much, apart from he can't have any Jx here cause he's a nit. Then.. 55/88/JJ are likely and probably all he has here. Could punch myself in the face for that play ♠_mad:

KK in a 5way 3betPot

Second hand isn't that bad if you exclude Jx from his range. He won't really have 55 preflop if he's a nit and he won't donk 88 on flop 4-way. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he plays QQ like this.

Aks is a bit of a cooler with the 2 lowcards besides the ace. Him calling 22 in MP is noteworthy tho.

And the other hand, donkbetting Quads doesn't make all that much sense to me

I guess, It's noteworthy in general that if Regs & Nits put any money (not meaning min-betting, but real men-bets) into a multiway-reraised-pot they tend to be very strong. And with that I mean nutted.
- So not sure if I can really call down in both hands.

Day 2 - Grinding it up

Graph

Today it wasn't such a pain in the like yesterday. But I felt tired which one can see in the last 600 hands. Didn't really play my A-Game anymore and started to lose the feeling for the game. Became robotic grinding 4 tables of zoom.

One thing that definitely improved with me is my skill of quitting. Definitely undererstimated. I know now when to better stop playing. Mentally I'm on top of my game too.

Grinded some tournaments then and actually finished 2nd in a $2,50 180-man after having a tremendous 70% of all chips when it was three-way. Somehow managed to lose it all to the first. Almost busted him in a flip but then he got back and owned me with variance - Thus generally a good day, about $100 up.

What's next?

I feel a bit bored with poker. Maybe I should take a day off and do something more exciting. I don't know where to work on my game, and I also don't really feel like it. Tournaments are fun, but they are not re-charging my batteries either. Good news is that I will be getting a train card soon which will enable me to drive cheaply from my village to the city and back. Going to buy a monthly ticket and go there more often than not to shoot Videoblogs, meet people (I'm lonely right now, and it makes me crazy that I can't just move out of my mom's house), practice photography, dress up anew and go to parties.

Btw, if somebody here has a sister who looks like Nathalie Portman (the young version, from the Star Wars movies), shoot me a pm. :f_love::coolface: