A Fish Called...

First off. Happy New year to all of you DC guys and girls out there!!

2010 was not the best and most exciting year in my life. When i think back at it i dont realy remember a lot of it except some physical issues. Now that I think of it, the only things that stand out are my 2 vacations in Germany and France and the Whackem Course by Tuba an Nowereman that I did and enjoyed a lot. But on the personal side no highs and no lows. But I quess thats oke as well, becarefull what you wish for. The job is all good, the house still not finished and my girlfriend still loves me. So what more can you ask for, I live the good life!

Poker wise I had a pretty good year. That is to say that i didnt lost as much as i did in previous years, so the "Whackem Course" helped out. I run bad in december (and made some stuppid plays as well). otherwise I would have ended 2 months in a row up playing cash and SNG's. I still dont know what to do should i start playing SNG's or focus on the cashgames. The problem is I still loose at the CG but kinda beat the SNG's. I figure that playing Cash makes you a better poker players. So ill pbb will mix it up. This year i played pretty much break even over 2010, wich is good, but I realise I still have a lot to learn. Thank god we have DC!

Due to my bad running and bad plays im back at 5nl. And it makes me proud that im able to move down instead of burning my money away at the stackes i would like to play. Actually i am rolled to play 10nl but i keep playing 5nl untill i crush the game by 10bb/100 over say 100000 hands.

So what will i be doing in 2011? Basically I will continue what started in november of this year. Study and play a mix of SNG, CG & participate in this great community. I'm planning on making some vids the comming year, because I still am struggling to figure out why I cant beat the games. So I hope the DC will help me with that and I know you guys and girls will! The idea I have is learning a specific topic and then try to implement this in real time play.

So some goals for the first half of 2011.

• Play 100000 hands on 5nl and only move up when i beat it by 10bb/100.  
• Study 2 hours per week and organising the studying much better.
• Play 2 hours per day
• Review every session and post the hands I think i played wrong or im not sure about.
• Actualy work with a stop-loss
• Do something about sports
• Post a video per month based on a theme.
• Finaly start playing by the numbers and get the numbers right for a change.....
• Find an not to expensive coach or someone that can help my game

O yeah, one more thing: making these goals SMART and cutting them up in monthly goals and actions.

Well anyway! Guys and girls... all the best for 2011 and remember "WHACKEM"

I feel i need to give an update evenhough i dont realy want to. I wonder how te fxxx it is possible to win money online.

I mean after 4 days of loosing 2,4 to 4 buyins per day, ill have to drop to 5nl. For some reason nothing seems to work. I started 10nl being up 10 BI but now im down like 15 BI. So i dont have any options but to drop back to 5nl. I realy dont see a way out of this nightmare. Although i didnt play all the hands rignt and i got eager to make it fast back to 25nl.

I still feel that what i withness now is starting to get brutal. Everybody hits, trips over trips. If i raise AK, AA or KK or an other good Ax hand and I hit, they fold to my CBet or they turn the nuts on turn or river and im down 60% of my stack. When i dont hit, they wont fold to a CBET or Turn barrel and i have to give up on the river or they call my 3barrel with middle pair!!???. Every toppair runs into trips or 2pair. I basically need quads to barelly win. Trips wont do it anymore for me. It is so frustrating. My BR went from 360 to 180 in 4 day. Everyday i loose, while playing like 1000 hands a day. I wonder how i can keep up!

I thought i finaly had it, but like i said befor, im familiar with going to high peaks and finally busting, but i wanted it to be different this time. But i think it will go the same way agian. What should i do? I dont think i play that bad, although not optimal, but is shoudl be sufficient for 10nl. I thought i was beter than most 10nl players but now im not so sure, at least i cant beat it. Why? How am i going to fix what is broke?

Soo, yeah what? I dont know, i am thinking of giving up…

Lets talk about today: It was again a long day, because i had to wait for those who found the need to crack my AA, KK and a few times AK’s. An i cant stand seing a 76/45/11.0 sitting with my money. In the end of course they bust. But i took a while. No real progress. Im 10 BI up now and need another 30 to move up to 25NL. But we are giving it a real try, i play a dozen hands a day and i feel with a bit more luck today…

Now its time to go to bed, hope i dont dream of K2o busting me with AA…

Hello,

Today i had a long pokerday. In multiple session i played 1800 hands at 10nl. I must say that the length of the day cost me money at the end. I also noticed that i made some of the same mistake i used to make due to lach of concentration. Biggest leak is calling when you know you are beat. I know its hard to let go of trips QQ, when you know he has the straight… But anyways, i thought i was over that, but two hands at the end of the session proved me wrong.

Well how are things at 10nl? Yesterday i played my first few hands and i needed some adjustment, its a bit more difficult than 5nl. But i made my adjustment and after 1400 hands i was 90 dollars up. The last 400 hands cost me 30 dallars, due to bad luck and some dump moves. But i cant complain. Still running hot and im realy starting to make good descisions. So hopefully in may ill be back at 25nl. Stil need 240 dollar for that, but who knows…

just a slight update on my quest to start with 1.79 dollars and 3.25 tournement dollars and make it back to 25NL before the summer, with appropiate BR.

After playing 10K hands on 5nl, im about to move up to 10nl. I must consider that i run hot at the moment. I mean running 12 Big bets per 100 hands cant be my standard, I like it to be, but I know I am not that good. lol

Greetz.

Started all over again. Ones the poker virus hits you its hard to let go…

Started 10 days ago. My plan is to start at 5nl and grind my way up. For the first time i will have te backbone to do it propperly, 20 buyins than move up, not like i used to, play to high stakes for my BR.

So a brief update: im doing well, mainly because i started to understand that i have to fold every now and then.

Started out with the huge amount of 1.79 and 3.25 in tournement dollars and now im up at 125 dollard. And im kinda proud of it.

Today, no actually yesterday, i lost 90% of my bankroll which I build up carefully over the last 2 months. I did it again for the 3th time, so if got some experience in that field. Ofcourse i played 100nl with only 700 dollar, so i knew this could happen, but i feel like a fool. It makes me sick. Somehow i can only play tournements at a descent level, but Cash.

Why play 100nl when you know you dont have the roll for it? Good question!? dear sir. Why? Creed, excitement, stuppidness or a mix of that. Now and then I took shots at it and to be honest the players are not that good as i thought they would be. But after some badbeats, some stuppidness and inpatience you can drop down easely.

Now what i wonder? Been playing poker for 1.5 years and im not good at it at least not in cashgames. I wont give up: a couple of things work against me:
- Lack of knowledge of EV play
- Lack of knowledge of Odds
- Lack of patience
- volume
- creed
- did i mention patience?
- Creed?
- Lack of knowledge of ranges and playertypes

Jezus… im a fish or at best a donk!

Soo no play for me this month, except tournements and studie, studie studie…

I wonder if there are guys older that 35 at DC, because sometimes i feel like an oldtimer in this poker life…

No worries guys and girls, im sick and down, but ill be back. Dont mean to offend, but im not writing this for anybody but me.

Goals this month?
- Learn poker, math and post flop play and learn patience…

ps. forgive me my bad english, im dutch..

Greetz,

Patjeto