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My german Videos for Pokerstrategy

SNG´s
1. Beginner Video

MTT´s
1. Beginner Video
2. RFI und PFR
3. Poker Range und Poker Grid
4. Was ist GTO?
5. Steal/Resteal/Defending/SPR

Dear Alchemists,

Actually, I wanted to write earlier but I had too much to do with my other jobs. Sometimes in the teaching profession, unfortunately, you have to accept that it's better to leave the work at school to protect yourself better. Otherwise, the teaching profession really makes you sick.

Nevertheless I want to keep my promise and join the PS.com bankroll challenge. I have after the class trip next week in the vacations finally a little more time, what I am looking forward to very much.

For this reason I thought that I would like to give something back for my time here in the forums. Therefore I offer until the end of the year every bankroll challenger of pokerstrategy a free Tournament Coaching (sng/mtt) in the buyins of 0$-5$.
I would like to stream these coachings also over my Twitch channel however I am not finished with my layout yet. Is super much work to relearn everything. I imagined it would be easier. I hope I can at least finish the layout during the vacations.

Here is a small list of coaching offers from which may be chosen:

-Live play
-How to study poker
-Basic articles
-tracking software
-Overlays and HUDs
-solvers preflop (HRC, Icmizer, Equilab, etc.)
-solver basics postflop (pio, hrc beta)
-preflop play from rfi, cc, iso, 3bet, 4bet squeeze.
-What is icm and how its different from cev?
-postflop play from cbets to hero folds
-database analysis
-adaptations gto exploitable wtf
-mindset coaching
- writing goals
- How to improve your C-game
- How to manage your tilt?
- How to play closer to your A-game

Other topics on request.

What do you have to do to get a free coaching?

Send me a message via pokerstrategy, twitter or join my discord channel. We will choose a day together and chat for 10 minutes to get to know each other.

Week 1 | 03.10.21

Starting Bankroll: $3000
Goal: $15000

Originally posted by maniac
Dear Alchemists,

I've never been an alchemist.
I once had a friend who was a stoned philosopher -- sadly not the philosopher's stone...

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by maniac
Dear Alchemists,

I've never been an alchemist.
I once had a friend who was a stoned philosopher -- sadly not the philosopher's stone...

hahaha... you're a nut Vorpal.

Good luck with your mission maniac - I'll be sure to give you a follow on Twitch when you get it up and running.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by maniac
Dear Alchemists,

I've never been an alchemist.
I once had a friend who was a stoned philosopher -- sadly not the philosopher's stone...

Well maybe a stoned philosopher is a kind of stone

Originally posted by Ramble

Good luck with your mission maniac - I'll be sure to give you a follow on Twitch when you get it up and running.

Thanks. I have two week off now. Hopefully I will get it done.

Dear Alchemists,

I am very happy that since this week I have more time to grind and work on my BR challenge. After only two days of rest, I am very motivated and excited.
Besides the continuous learning and reviewing I spend most of my time playing.
Since I have more time now, I can also choose mainly longer formats and so for this reason I rather focus on MTTs. Overall, I am very satisfied for the first two weeks. I still have to get used to the new layout and the poker site combinations.
This also includes realizing that since I play on BetOnline, Stars and Party, the player pools are also getting bigger. This tends not to be a problem for the medium to small buyins, as we don't often play with the same people anyway.
But when I go back to my original SNGs formats up to 22$ the whole thing becomes rather problematic.
So if I deliberately FR, 6m, 6m hyp and dons due to the few tables on Titan you have in the maximum 4 player pools. Sometimes regs overlap like I do, but we neglect that for simplicity's sake.
If I now multiply that over three pages and all SNG formats that's already 12 different pools. Normally I think it's good to try other formats of tournaments to develop and per se to choose the weakest one on each day. But this requires not only the knowledge of the single format, but also the knowledge of the player pools to be able to choose it.
However, the sheer number of sites makes this rather impractical. Sure I could play all on BetOnline and play no SNGs on Party games because of the tax, but even then I'm making life rather difficult for myself. I think it's easier to reduce formats and rather play more of the same BetOnline tables when playing SNG sets. From theory I put my focus on MTTs anyway, but I always played the SNGs and stabilize my BR on Titan until I learned MTTs. However, this is now falling away due to the loss of Titanpoker and I really only have the choice of playing the BetOnline SNG sets or continuing to play MTTs on the three sites.
What makes this even more difficult is that I stupidly didn't go down with my table count when I had to leave Titan. As a result, I have less time to make decisions when playing, and I make my life harder than it should be, because I have to read even more people than I did on titan, where I was pretty much done.
I think this is especially important when things don't go well.
For this reason, I advise everyone not to take it so hard and to accept that it takes time to get used to new things. That's why I think it makes sense to reduce the number of tables and formats for the time being and to analyze the player pools bit by bit. Even if I find it super appealing to mix the formats according to availability and quality, because it challenges me intellectually, I should first relax after the change and develop a solid grinding routine that I can rely on. I also don't want to seek my intellectual challenges in poker by mixing variants at the same time, I'd rather deal with more demanding situations.

Like you, this post certainly touches on some topics important to poker that I'd like to go into in more detail at some point in the future.
I hope I create the layout and everything around the Twitch in the next week.

Finally remains for me only to say that my offer for each BR-Challenger a free coaching up to the 5ver always stands. I am convinced that I can help everyone who is interested on his poker way a little bit further.

Week 3 | 17.10.21

Start bankroll: $3000
Today's Bankroll: $3227.54
Goal: $15000
Profit: $227.54

Lol. You have really great results despite your nickname. As I understand week 3 turned out to be the most profitable for you.

Originally posted by terrysmith98
Lol. You have really great results despite your nickname. As I understand week 3 turned out to be the most profitable for you.

Well that's my result for the first two week. Started the 3rd week 3227.54

Thank you for your kind word. It's OK I guess.

Dear Alchemists,

Unfortunately I have to tell you that the last 2 weeks were very sobering for me. I had actually hoped to get more for poker during the vacations, but unfortunately it didn't work out. As you know, I'm still teaching at the university and I unfortunately forgot that the start of the winter semester fell exactly over the start of the fall vacations this year.
In detail this means that I didn't have any time off as I would have needed it. On the contrary, I have to go to university five times a week. Although the semesters are in hybrid form due to the pandemic, it is super hard in terms of motivation when you actually thought you could relax a bit.
To make matters worse, I have to do postgraduate studies for my PhD. In my old state exams are no doctoral eligibility like the new bachelor's/master's students have. This means I actually have to take courses at my department again myself. This means I spend a total of two days at the university taking courses myself and another two days lecturing myself. Together with the mostly obligatory PhD colloquium on Friday, I have to work five days a week at full time at school and then five days a week at the university or on videoconferences.

As you can imagine, I will be very happy when the winter semester ends in February and things will be more relaxed.
Nevertheless, at least in the last week I only worked at the university and could use the evening to play.
I always find it incredible how little I care about this more work with the workload. I think this is only possible because I really like to play poker. I'm doing the same at the moment, since school started again this week. In every free minute I train myself pairrd workers hands after, teach poker in private coachings and work myself on my game with the raise you edge courses. I'm really looking forward to the weekend where I can play two days a week and try to implement everything I learned during the week. I think I have now found a good measure, not to learn too much new to process the learned first safely. It's better to first understand concepts correctly and also apply them while playing than to try to learn too much content too quickly and then have to repeat everything all the time. I stick to basic neuroscientific principles, which at least work quite well for me. This competence model is described very nicely in the books "The Mental game of Poker" 1+2.

Week 5 | 01.11.21

Start bankroll: $3000
Today's Bankroll: $3441.17
Goal: $15000
Profit: $441.17

Thank you for your kind words I appreciate it.

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Hi Clease,
If you haven't done so already, please put your stream details in this thread: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3035095#post3035095 so others can find your stream.

nothing wrong with being old -- it beats all known alternatives

All the best,
VS

Dear Alchemists,
In the last two weeks I could hardly play at all. Except for my private coaching sessions, I had only 4 small sessions myself. It was my wife's birthday and I was a bit sick myself, which is why I didn't manage more. The nice thing about playing semi-professionally is at least that I have no pressure and can take care of my family. Nevertheless, I really hope that things will get better in the next two weeks.
As if that wasn't enough, I had to deal with the new partypoker software which I find very interesting to say the least.
This version is only available in Germany but with a little luck others will enjoy it soon or not so much.
Party relies a lot on throwables, which there was already before with the diamondbalance, but I have the feeling that these unnecessary child rows are now even more present. I think for beginners they definitely have something for me it's rather annoying. I write about it because the software is still quite buggy. So you can not properly turn off the throwables, at almost forward tables you can not wait for the bb and then go from the table. Just a lot of teething problems, which is why it certainly makes sense not to try it out right away in the English area. The new layout also takes a lot of getting used to, as the card font has been changed. On the positive side, the mtt overlay on the table is now smaller and thicker at the top left and you can click on it. It looks like live tournaments. So a mini lobby on the table itself without having to open the lobby. The timelines are now colored and the player icons are a bit bigger, so they look something like they do on ACR or GG. I think also the cards were not diagonally on top of each other before, but rather side by side. It all takes a little getting used to, but I think in the long run it will be fine. I actually like partypoker as it is the first site I started playing on. I'm curious to see what new features make it into the English version. In this sense in times of funny Gokus and Gandalfs on live events. See you soon.

Week 7 | 15.11.21

Start bankroll: $3000
Today's Bankroll: $3539.55
Goal: $15000
Profit: $539.55

Dear Alchemists,
From a poker technical point of view this is the first week since the start of my challenge that didn't go so well. I simply had a lot on my plate privately and had almost no time to play. I don't blame myself if I made the wrong decisions that led to this result.

At least I was able to learn some new poker material, because I managed to finish reading "Whe Math of Poker by Collin and Douglas, which I can really recommend to anyone who is looking for a logical approach to poker. I also started reading the new book by Barry and Dara "Endgame Poker Strategy - The Icm Book. Since I have already read the two books in the series and found them great I am really looking forward to it. For me as a SNG and MTT player, there are a lot of things in it that I already knew, but also a few subtleties that I had not yet noticed in the way. I'm super excited to see what the rest of the book is like.

I have so much time to read, unfortunately, because I stupidly fell down Sunday and suffered a knee injury again. This is a big problem for me as I have already had two ACL tears and this time it affected my last healthy knee. I have big mindset problems to deal with the situation, because I felt like I was thrown back in time.
With me such things are always connected with emotional food, which makes my sporty goals not only physically, but also mentally in far distance and me me so to speak still another leg place. For this reason I looked for something in my mindset programs that helps me over time and found it in the Primed mind podcast by Elliot Roe. In the episode 07 - Vik Hothi - The Martial Arts Master who is to stubborn to die. He counts Vik how he had to learn to walk again after a serious illness and did not give up. Even when all wounds were reopened because of an infection and he had to start all over again a second time in a short time. For him, starting over again was not difficult at all, because he had already done it once, he knew that he could learn it again.
This attitude of him lets me look positively on my health and say again full of conviction, no matter what with the knee is I get it again. Because in life it doesn't depend on how often you fall down but how often you get up again.

Week 10

Start bankroll: $3000
Last weeks Profit: $81.32
Overall Profit: $539.55
Today's Bankroll: $3620.87
Goal: $15000