Gringo goes HU

cristianrjx · 2013-07-15T05:43:54Z

Hi, I'm Christian I'm German, I've lived in Brazil now for 10 years and I think the time has come to be more active in the Brazilian comunity. From now on I will blog here. I live in a small town near Maricá/RJ and I'm father of a 5 year old boy, I work as freelancer for HoldemManager. Some of the guys here maybe know me from the Platinum event in Rio last year. In the German comunity I am moderator of the travel forum. I prefer to write in English because I've never learned to write in Portuguese. I speak fluent, and I know how to write only from subtitles and newspaper. But I will do my best to get it translated in a readable Portuguese :D Poker: normally I play 6max at Ongame, NL10-NL30. I restarted a few weeks ago and hope to reach NL50 one day. After watching the "champions stand up one more time" series I decided to start this blog. I also started to play HU, normally at night, when there is no more traffic at Ongame. I play in a smaller network, which accepts also American players. I think it's better not to mention the name, because it's not supported by pokerstrategy. Before I started playing, I watched some HU-videos, then I started with turbo and hyper turbo HU-SnG. Although I was running good, I didn't like to play them because of PoF. So I tried some normal HU tables, at first at NL2, later I added NL5 and NL10. First impressions: - Most of the guys I played start to tilt after losing a stack or 2. This was not really bad for my WR. -The rake is really expensive - although my winnings are o.k. I am a fish. I felt so outplayed and helpless against a guy yesterday. I think I should write an extra post about this match. That's all for now, in the next days I plan to write about the following: -mindset I will write about the mental problems I have sometimes and how this costs me money at the tables. - Theorie What Am I doing to get a better pokerplayer -Time management also an important part in my life, and I'm sure there are some things that can be changed - general lifestyle here are also lots of thing I could do better. That's all for now, I hope some of you will read here although it's in English, and I will also do my best to give you at least some cliffs in Portuguese.