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Maybe someone doesn't want me to play poker now. The update does not work properly and now I'm having some trouble getting my database recovered. I defenitely try everything to do so. If there's no other way I've to install a new virtual machine and HM and all that other stuff. That's gonna take a while...

EDIT:
I managed to export my hands from my database but I still have to reinstall windows...

When I started playing this morning after starting my blog I was only able to play till 7am 'cause my internet provider cut my connection. I closed my telephone line a month ago and instead of shutting down only this line they entirely deleted my account in the system which will be fixed on approx. monday morning. So I'm now sitting by a friend to check some things including this blog. It seems it needs some time to keep some users interested. I'd really like to post a few hands to check some possible lines with you. I also thought about 3betting small in position and out of position. As soon as my internet connection works again I'm going to write down my thoughts and questions on this topic. So long...

I decided to withdrawal my stars roll and deposit it on titan poker as they offer a nice bonus and I'm also able to earn strategy points. I'm especially interested in all the psychological articles. Does anyone know how many hands I need to play to clear that 600$ bonus on 50nl and (if somethings goes wrong) on 25nl as well.

One question do I have to you:

• How big are your 3bets in and out of position given 100bb effective stacksize? With and without coldcaller?

I thought about that topic in the last couple of days but first I want you to tell me this.

I was able to get everything going now. I'm currently playing some 20nl on pacific since I have to wait for my money to deposit it on titan. Although pacific looks pretty ugly the tables are great there. After my session I'm going to upload some graphs.

I recently looked through the strategy session and realized that much time has passed since I focused on articles and hand posting but I'm sure this is necessary to improve the game. Because I'm just at bronze status right now I'm going to re-read all the articles I'm currently able to(i won't read the sss articles though), especially in the psychology section. To keep myself motivated I'll do a checklist in the first post.

Hi mate!

I see you have kinda aggressive bankroll management. I prefer to follow a strickter one - 25 buy-ins of the higher level to move up (up to NL50) or 30 buy-ins on higher level (if I ever manage to climb up). But I guess yours can be good as well as long as you don't have trouble moving down.

About your question, I raise 3,5x times the original raise regardless of my position. If there is a caller I raise 4,5x, if there are two 5,5x and so on.

Good luck at the tables.

Originally posted by radyan111
Hi mate!

I see you have kinda aggressive bankroll management. I prefer to follow a strickter one - 25 buy-ins of the higher level to move up (up to NL50) or 30 buy-ins on higher level (if I ever manage to climb up). But I guess yours can be good as well as long as you don't have trouble moving down.

About your question, I raise 3,5x times the original raise regardless of my position. If there is a caller I raise 4,5x, if there are two 5,5x and so on.

Good luck at the tables.

I'm currently overthinking so much including my bankrollmanagement. I think I'm also changing to a strickter BRM since 50nl gets more swingy. I'll add a step-by-step list in my first post where everyone can see my process.

I hate playing poker with a bankroll divided to several accounts. I don't know exactly but I just can't stand it while grinding on the microlimits so I tried to cash out everything everywhere and put it on titan because there's a nice deposit bonus I want to clear and because I can earn strategypoints there.

Just a few minutes ago I recieved this email from pokerstars:

Hello xxx,

You have recently requested a Cash Out .

However, we are not able to process your withdrawl request at this time.

This is because you have not met our policy that requires you to
accumulate at least 15% in VPPs since your last deposit/transfer received.

To make this requirement easier to understand, you can think of needing to
accumulate 15 VPPs for every $100 you received in deposit/transfer.

If you would like to know more about VPPs and how to accumulate them, please visit the
following links on our web site.

http://www.pokerstars.com/vip/faq/

http://www.pokerstars.com/fpp/#earn

Please submit your transfer request again once you have accumulated the
necessary number of VPPs and let us know if you have any further questions.

Regards,

Ian
PokerStars Security Team

I asked him how many VPPs I need to collect exactly, no answer yet. I'm asuming it's about 50 so there's not much of a problem.

I just hope that my cash out on pacific will work.

Something else I thought about is that I start a new database from this point now so that you all can see how I'm doing and perhaps help me imrpove my game.

The next thing I'm going to do is writing down short- and longterm goals. It's easier to stick to the plan and stay motivated when you've phrased goals to achieve. There's still some thinking be done as I'm not sure which goal I want to set myself.

Pokerstar just answered to my question about the VPPs:

.., you will first need to accumulate 71 VPPs while playing on our tables before we will be able to do so.

To do so I'm going to play turbo 18-90man $1-$3 SNGs until I collected all neccesary VPPs. As I won't sleep tonight I'll accomplish my goal as fast as possible. This is my first short-term goal.

Just played 42 games with a profit around 30 bucks. These $3 45/90man sngs are of course swingy but also pretty soft. I cleared around 70% from the VPPs needed so I'll play some more now.

Originally posted by anstaendig
Does anyone know how many hands I need to play to clear that 600$ bonus on 50nl and (if somethings goes wrong) on 25nl as well.

Hi anstaendig;

you need to play about 100,000 hands on NL50 to clear whole bonus and aproximately twice as much on lower limit.

Good luck at the tables!