Because I banned myself from playing last week I already can post results for june. I played enough to maintain Platinum star and my ban will end at 18th of July, so that should be enough time to keep Platinum for August.

results:
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had a good start but a dry streak in the middle, a little break is probably not bad, but I am looking forward to playing again.

I just wanted to post my lifetime SnG winnings, so gonna do it now because this will rather be a short blog entry.
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I need to hurry up a little bit so I don't miss the semis against Turkey. I fear riots on the streets because there are many Turkish here in Germany and they are known for their aggressive behavior.

After the last game I had some serious trouble with a fellow student. We were both drunk but I am a calm person who won't get involved in fights, when he started pushing me around some other people hold him back but that wasn't a pleasant experience anyway. It's not like I was afraid of him but the situation was not worth losing some teeth or facing legal issues in my opinion and he probably knows it as well but he is a poser.

Here is some oldschool UFC vid for you, back then they weren't wearing gloves and headbutts were still legal, so you can expect some serious action:
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Right now I am sitting at the university in Nuremberg, waiting for some friends to finish their presentation so I can get a ride home to Erlangen, so this will rather be a bad uninteresting blog entry.

Poker has been going soso in the last time. No graphs avaible here, but my overall winrate at NL200 is only like 2BB/100 over 50k hands. I definately have some minor tilt issues, but the main reason is probably the lack of fish.
I really try to table-select, but in a long session the fish usually get busto and the tables fill up with regs. I really don't like playing against regs since I don't have a huge edge over them and they are hard to extract value from.

Now, I am not a degenerate, but I self-excluded myself from playing on stars over the time shift of 30 days. Reason is that my exams are coming up and I really need to concentrate on the university stuff right now, because till now I rather was chilling, hanging around, partying, doing sports and of course playing poker . The semester already is running 8 weeks and I am up about 11k USD which is nice as hell, but still do I consider my degree more important, and poker distracted me a lot.

hmm, i was about to offer $5 on stars for someone who finds the epic 1-2-teddy thread on 2+2 where OP gets owned with TPGK by an openshoved straight flush on the flop, because I cannot find it. But if someones knows it, please post it here.

UPDATE: had to rush from uni, that's why I couldn't complete this:
I cannot offer $5 now because my acc is locked atm obv. But if some busto micro grinder sees no other possibility to get money, i will give it to you on 18th of July if you find this thread for me.

brag: On tuesday it's my 23rd birthday and I will have a little party here, hopefully PPlusAD will give us company, if he reads it I officially invite you!

ok, gotta go.

FUCKING GREAT SONG, forget the vid
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You might also consider this as a view from me on $1/$2 Fullring.

Yesterday I went through a 5 buyin downswing, meaning I lost 1k.
Well, running bad is the best time to improve your game by finding leaks. This morning I read an interesting post by Daut saying that most players play their hands face up and this is so true.
I checked my Database and the biggest winners are also the biggest nits, and they do how they came to 1/2: by setmining. It's so fucking obvious what they are doing that I already leveled myself:

lets say a 14/10 limps UTG and I raise him with 97, flops comes A92, I cbet he checkraises me:

After a long session my thought process goes like this: "My opponent's play is so obvious and he has to know it. And he knows that a semidecent player (I consider myself as one) won't stack off on such a dry board with AK, so this is a great spot to bluff."
Watching at my hand I see second pair which makes it much less likely that my opponent holds 99, reducing his set range mostly to 22 and I call and my opponent shows 99.

Then I watch around the tables and all I see are regs like that or fish. The play is still the same as in the levels below, people are not bluffing in these spots and that's why Daut is so right. I have to meet a regular who will pull off a good bluff, haven't seen one so far.
The paradox part now is that people often make calls that only beat bluffs but just as I described bluffs don't play a role in these stakes.

So basically it's all a stupid orgy of donks throwing money at each other and all you have to do is figure out if you can beat their value range, which makes it quite easy to play once you understand this.
Yeah, I see some smartass coming and say that there are bluffs in the games, this is true, but those are either the 64/32/8 lagtards who simply spew around or some "I missed my flush now I bet a weak-ass amount on the river" type bluffs, but you will seldom to never see a well represented hand as a bluff.
Often I see a hand and think: "Wow, this is such a great spot to bluff", however, the regulars always have the hand they do represent.

Now, a reason being why everybody, especially the regs, is playing, let's say solid, but face-up poker is that you have to play like this yourself in order to beat the games.

Read the sample hand above and realize that when you try to outthink your opponents you end up leveling yourself and losing, simply said, thinking 2 levels above your opponent doesn't help.

Another thing that tells you your opponent's cards are bet sizes: Big bets (especially on the river) mean nuts, smallish bets, especially over several streets means very vulnerable hand.

Rethinking my play so far I realized that I always make money when I play ultra-nitty and not calling in spots where I think my opponent might be bluffing because it's a great spot to bluff, means that I am another of those regs, stacking the donks with my obvious sets.

ok, gonna continue grinding, already won back $500.

gl.


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