Hello again partypeople and Merry Christmas to everyone of you!

I'm on the start of one week vacation right now and figured I would give all you interested readers a short update. To summarize in the shortest way possible I could say I'm running pretty good at life but run bad at poker for December.

The Christmas celebration (December 24th in Germany) with my gfs' and my family has been a blast pretty much, with tons of fun and cool presents and all, plus having vacation between Christmas and New Years Eve (with my B-Day at the 2nd of January) is certainly helping to kick the mood in high gear too.
I got the book "The Professor, the Banker and the Suicide King" as a present which should be a cool read, I'll be posting my opinion on it after finishing it. It's for poker-related entertainment only, not for strategic advice or anything, but I still enjoyed the first few pages already.

This is our Christmas tree, my sweetheart begged me to get it like 2 weeks prior to Christmas and decorating it shortly after (she gets really excited about Christmas every year as you can tell ).





Other than that poker's not been super exciting this month and I will yet again just cut on the talking and let pictures speak instead.

December Graph:


Graph since I started out again in October:




What can be seen basically is that I get what I deserve for cutting down a ton of volume while running bad instead of grinding through it (thus the tiny sample in December). I have the very strong feeling that I'm one of the top players at NL25 at Stars right now when I play my A-Game, I just suck too bad on my C-Game and I play just barely more poker than an average recreational player lol.
This puts me in a position where I'm up ~200$ in my roll since the beginning of October, with 100$ being in VIP reward (the graph is a bit misleading here because I lost a good chunk at € tables and HEM messes up those numbers, plus I wasted some money on tourney buy-ins). Well, whatever, I'll just keep on improving and crushing in Galfond $ and somehow my time will come. :P

Other than that sweats have been cool again this month. I just today lost 3 stacks over the course of a ridiculously bad going 3-hour session with klamsauce sweating me and I actually didn't care that much, neither did I start to steam off huge sums of money although the gameflow really put me to the test. That might come across strange, but I think this is what helps me way more than everything else right now, keeping my focus while running like shit and not letting my game drop down to my C-game too often. And I had fun playing poker, what else do you need?

Anybody interested in my play can download these two short recordings of mine, really small files encoded with the ffdshow video codec (you might have to install that one to be able to watch these, and then run the files with the VLC-player).

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D7K18LXH

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HZ7POFRV

Nothing spectacular and no audio which might be a little bit tilting, but I think this reflects my B-Game pretty good and might give you an idea about how I tend to play. My HUD is

VPIP/PFR/AF/H
CBET/FvsCB/FvsTCB
ST/FvsST/3b/Fvs3b

I also analysed a vid shadowez sent me a few days ago and I'm in the middle of doing the same for the member diginet and I enjoyed all that too, keeps you sharp away from the tables and all, you know?

Congrats to the loose cannon of the 10th week of the Pokerstars Big Game, I think the guy Fishman played far above every other LC so far, showed a super likeable personality and deserved his winnings, although I was turning apeshit and yelling at my screen when he folded AA and limp/folded KK after his big payday hand, brabbling shit all the time like a little girl instead of just either blind-folding every hand or man up and take his monsters to the flop at least. Thumbs up for the show once again, besides Daniel Negreanu behaving like a dick and playing bad almost all the time it's by far the best TV-Poker show out there right now.

To conclude this blog, check out this song, you Americans don't have this kind of stuff in your charts.

Culcha Candela - Move It

That's it, leave comments, gl at the tables and enjoy the holidays!

I remember when I first found out about online poker forums and started to post in hand history threads over at the 2+2 microstakes forums to get better. A few months after that I discovered a free coaching site with tons of solid low stakes videos and I would from then on spend even more time trying to get better away from the tables in watching all the videos multiple times and posting even more.
To top that learning experience another time I subscribed to Leggo at the beginning of this year and recognized how much better the strategy forums were compared to 2+2.
But in the last two month I once again "evolved" poker-educationwise and finally made the move to add leggomembers on Skype to start sweats, hand reviews and overall 1 to 1 strategy discussions.

Right now I feel better about my game then ever before, partly because I ran pretty solid over my last 30k-ish hands, feeling like being in the zone on a regular basis but also being able to nail the exact times where tilt creeped into my play, and partly because I never had a streak in my life before where I would think so much in depth about poker as I did due to talking to other people, especially with the leggomember klamsauce.
Without exaggerating I have to admit that if it wasn't for him i would
a) never have been able to feel so motivated and put so many volume in (as posted before, I'm a lazy ass) and
b) to improve my perceived learning curve so steeply again.

I made a habit out of marking a sick amount of hands in HEM while playing, regarding every concept that seems to be of even minor interest to discuss, and that turned out to lead to a bunch of incredibly valueable discussions and intense review sessions, whereas before I might just have randomly marked one or two hands of a 1k-ish sample and maybe post them in the forums or forget about them a few hours later. Reviewing hands on my own is something I can't get myself to do...

I still don't have nearly enough time to dedicate myself to poker as much as I'd like to, but even when I wasn't able to go online and play I tried to keep myself mentally occupied with poker as much as possible. I e.g. read some books, my opinions are found below:

The Poker Blueprint: Solid, solid book, see my post in the Poker Book Discussion Thread - 9/10

Treat your Poker like a Business: Leatherass' book...I hated it for the style of writing as much as for the advice included which I found to be pretty much useless overall, but some readers might find it interesting from a biographical point of view, so 3/10

Elements of Poker: It's Tommy Angelos book and people where saying it is the nuts for people struggling with the mental aspect of the game. For me personally it seems more like a very interesting read with some food for deeper thinking. But a lot of the stuff has more entertainment value than actual "EV" in poker terms. But especially for live players there is a lot of gold in it, so I give a 7.5/10

The Mathematics of Poker: Uhhh, I was able to fight through the first few chapters and felt lucky I still remember some more complicated math from school and university, but I think my knowledge of the english language isn't sufficient to keep up with all the mathematical terms and shit. This is a book I need to buy in German and read again, so no voting possible for me.

Your Worst Poker Enemy: A book from Alan Schoonmaker about psychological aspects of the game. I liked it, was an ok read and probably made me aware of some of the avoidable leaks in my mindset. 7/10


I also managed to get somewhat deeper in a micro-buy-in donkament but busted with JJ against AJ even though I flopped a set on a rainbow board. Right before the money starts to get serious compared to the stakes I play stuff like that hurts the most, that's why I will never be a tourney specialist able to handle the immense luck factor, yet I like mixing in tourneys when I feel to groggy to play serious poker, watching a movie at the same time or whatever.


So enough rambling, here are the hard facts, garphs, giraphs and stats:

November Stats:



November graph:



Start of December Graph:



HEM doesn't transform the net € into the $ amount, so I actually won more then the sheet suggest. Of the NL10 stats there are also a few hundered 250bb hands included where I ran pretty hot too (flopping top set against top two for a 500bb pot, a maniac openshipping 200bb w/ A7 into my AK and stuff like that).


So after losing 300$ when I started playing again in October I crawled back up the cheezburgerstakes-ladder at the beginning of November from NL10, getting my bankroll NL50-ready with 4 digits again this day.
With my standard run way above EV and NL50 still being pretty low stakes this isn't that exciting, but it's at least a point to start, when the easy game of owning fish slowly changes into more serious business against hordes of weak-tight rakeback grinders, lagtard pro-wannabes and 22/18 masstabling supernovas.

Only mayor beat last month was that I got too lazy over my higher-than-my-average NL10 volume in the first weeks and let my Goldstar status slip away by only a few hundered points, which means this month I would've been able to collect way more FPP if I had played just a few k hands more. But oh well, this month it should be easy to get to Platinum if I don't start to play bad and too infrequently again.



Some links you guys might find entertaining (poker related):


The R4v3n

The Micros Pt. 1

Solid NL50 strat-videos on 2+2



And to conclude with a non poker related rant: Last Sunday my GF and I decided we would buy new sick mobile phones and we ordered them online, me first, she afterwards. Yesterday she had hers in the mail, and while we made everything exactly the same (same mobile phone model, same contract, same everything), I have still yet to hear from the company. WTF, this is serious torture!
This is the thing, currently the nuts on our market (and way better than the iPhone4 imho):

HTC HD Desire


Ok then people, to wrap things up thanks as always for the continuing interest in my blog, please feel free to leave comments below the blog about anything and gl at the tables!

I won't say much and rather let graphs and stats speak. My Bankroll to start after the break was 500$.







I already posted this in the "Oktober Highs, Lows and In-Betweens" thread, but in case you didn't see my new little friend there, here is my graph for the year:




Just a few fun hands of my last 5 minute session, representative for this month:

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($9.55)
BB ($5.43)
UTG ($11.99)
Hero ($10.26)
CO ($10)
BTN ($11.96)

Dealt to Hero 5 5

fold, Hero raises to $0.40, fold, fold, fold, BB calls $0.30

FLOP ($0.85) 9 5 6

BB bets $0.50, Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1

TURN ($3.85) 9 5 6 T

BB bets $0.30, Hero raises to $1.30, BB calls $1

RIVER ($6.45) 9 5 6 T 8

BB bets $2.23 (AI), Hero calls $2.23

BB shows 5 7
(Pre 39%, Flop 15.8%, Turn 9.1%)

Hero shows 5 5
(Pre 61%, Flop 84.2%, Turn 90.9%)

BB wins $10.38

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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($5)
BB ($15.64)
UTG ($10)
UTG+1 ($11.41)
CO ($17.99)
Hero ($10.05)

Dealt to Hero K K

UTG raises to $0.40, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.40, fold, fold

FLOP ($0.95) 7 3 5

UTG bets $0.60, Hero raises to $1.60, UTG raises to $9.60 (AI), Hero calls $8

TURN ($20.15) 7 3 5 4

RIVER ($20.15) 7 3 5 4 2

Hero shows K K
(Pre 80%, Flop 74.8%, Turn 2.3%)

UTG shows 6 6
(Pre 20%, Flop 25.2%, Turn 97.7%)

UTG wins $19.15

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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Replayer
SB ($6.43)
BB ($10)
UTG ($9.75)
UTG+1 ($3.69)
CO ($4.33)
Hero ($10.08)

Dealt to Hero A K

fold, UTG+1 calls $0.10, CO calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.70, SB calls $0.65, fold, UTG+1 calls $0.60, fold

FLOP ($2.30) A 6 J

SB checks, UTG+1 bets $2.99 (AI), Hero calls $2.99, SB calls $2.99

TURN ($11.27) A 6 J 9

SB bets $2.74 (AI), Hero calls $2.74

RIVER ($16.75) A 6 J 9 7

UTG+1 shows A 3
(Pre 20%, Flop 9.9%, Turn 0.0%)

Hero shows A K
(Pre 55%, Flop 78.3%, Turn 14.3%)

SB shows 9 A
(Pre 24%, Flop 11.8%, Turn 85.7%)

SB wins $15.94

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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.10(BB) Poker Stars
SB ($11.49)
BB ($11.04)
UTG ($14.08)
UTG+1 ($2.76)
CO ($10.81)
Hero ($10)

Dealt to Hero A A

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.30, fold, BB raises to $1, Hero raises to $2.50, BB raises to $11.04 (AI), Hero calls $7.50 (AI)

FLOP ($20.05) Q 7 7

TURN ($20.05) Q 7 7 K

RIVER ($20.05) Q 7 7 K 7

BB shows K K
(Pre 18%, Flop 8.4%, Turn 95.5%)

Hero shows A A
(Pre 82%, Flop 91.6%, Turn 4.5%)

BB wins $19.05

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Bottom line seems to be my skill at the levels NL10-NL100 can't overcome the chance and I pretty much didn't achieve anything noteworthy this year playing poker other than having made a tiny amount of money while running 2k$ above expectation.
I don't know what you guys think of the stuff I regularly post in hand history threads in the micro stakes forum, but look how far that smart-ass talking and all my so-called knowledge of the game gets me.

Move along, nothing to see here....

I've been absent from the forums for a week and also haven't been playing any Poker. The reason for that was simply the fact that I'm on a two week vacation with this last week being away in Austria with my gf and I haven't had an internet connection during that time.

I've been getting pretty nerdy over the last few years when it comes to the internet. Without my window to the world as I call it I feel kinda incomplete which is a little bit sad in a way, but as I still participate in the real world and socialize quite a bit I don't mind that developement too much. Still, waking up every morning and the first thing to look for being the On-switch of my laptop feels disturbing when I think about it. I'm sure many of you guys know what I mean. I think it is good to walk away from that from time to time.
And despite me admittingly being addicted to the internet I feel I'm at least lightyears away from dying of dehydration in front of my screen like some of the asian gamers do periodically...

So I've taken this short break from my normal life and been enjoying the wonderful mountain world of middle Austria which was a truly refreshing experience, getting the head clean, focusing on totally different things for a while and all that...I believe that's one key to prevent burnout and the unhappiness that can come with a boring everyday rountine (at least for those of us who don't truly love what they do for a living).



Although I didn't have any connection to the internet I still wasn't too lazy regarding Poker as I had my laptop with me and re-read "The Poker Blueprint", an amazing Poker e-book that I had bought earlier this year. Somewhere halfway through I decided I would use my spare time to try writting a little recension for the Poker Book Discussion thread, so if you guys haven't already, check the thread out and leave me comments on what you think about the book and my view on it. I haven't had a dictionnary with me that time, so I hope my knowledge of the english language was sufficient to make the post readable. Robbyd was kind enough to look over it, thanks again for that!

The week off also fired me up quite a bit to get back into a daily Poker routine. I really lacked work ethics after my break so far, mainly because my new hobby, Starcraft 2, proved way more addictive than I originally thought. Oftentimes when I sat down to play Poker I would suddenly feel I'd rather open youtube and watch the newest SC2 pro videos in Huskies or HDs channel or go hunt more SC2 game achievements.
Having a hobby like that to which I can fall back when on tilt or in grumpy, unproductive mood is important for me to not get drawn into a cycle of frustration from Poker (I'm unfortunately an easy-to-get-frustrated person as you might've figured out by now), but I obviously need to set my priorities right. One random hour of Poker here and there is probably not getting me anywhere near the level I would like to be, ldo.

Now I have one week of vacation left that I will try to use as efficiently as I can pokerwise. I would love to put out a Micro Stakes Video with audio commentary, I'm not sure if that will work though. I will see if I'm able to speak english while playing, if that's not working I will skip real-time commentary and add that later after the actual play. Don't know if I can provide a lot of useful material, but I'll do my best and also keep grinding the micro forums. I've gotten some positive feedback on some of the things I posted and that really helped out my motivation. Thank you all for that and keep it on, I'll give back what I can! I will probably also add my Skype-Adress to my profile sooner or later and jump onto that sweatsession thing if anyone is interested.

Enough talk, on to the action...

GL at the tables and see you in the forums!

Short update - I wasn't in the mood for playing a bunch, but after realising posting a ton in the forum will not get my bankroll growing and after not playing at all yesterday I felt I had to put in at least a few hands today, so I opened up pokerstars and fired up 4 NL25 tables. First 50 hands went good, owned some n00bs and went up 1.5 stacks.
Around the 100 hand mark I picked up back to back QQ in a blinds vs BTN spot and lost 250bb to KK/AA. Alt+F4, nh gg.

Maaaaybe in the 2nd hand the big blinds 5bet preflop (only guy at the table with a 200bb stack too) should've told me that I'm in bad shape with the two bitc..huh...queens, but my simple structured donk-brain wasn't able to accept the fact that one cooler with QQ at one table does NOT mean exactly the same can't or won't happen right the next hand at another table.

Not exactly the kind of stuff that motivates me to get more volume in and start playing seriously instead of sporadically.

People, listen to your emotions. Sitting down to grind hands while in bad mood could affect any poker session in a devestating way. At least for me there have been tons and tons of sessions after which I felt like "Well, I knew I was going to seriously fuck up before even starting, why didn't I do something else instead?".
I hate that, I much more prefer to play losing sessions that at least leave a feeling of satisfaction about my play, focus and determination.

Meh, see you later, I guess.

Void Rays should be nerfed. I mean, really, that unit is like limp/minraising AA in 6max NLHE preflop. It's so bad and obvious to do it and opponents somewhat know what's coming but they simply don't want to believe, because it's sooo disgusting. I just lost my second 4v4 today, partly because we had one random teammate who considered a cannon rush to be a good idea (I think it's lame, but to each his own I guess), but then he stopped halfway after wasting a ton of minerals on cannons and didn't even kill one enemy base.
We then fought a pretty equal fight and were able to clear out two enemy bases when the third guy finally got together his critical mass of void rays that put him into godmode immediately. I think that opponent cleared the whole map pretty much alone from then on.
Massive multiplayer battles are so much fun, but it sucks that every single time you see two protoss in the enemies team composition you just know what is coming, but you just don't want to take it for real...and then you just lose. Meh.

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Enough Starcraft II rant, on to Poker:

Right after my first blog entry I launched Pokerstars and went into the action. There must've been a recent change in the Buy-Chips process as I was only able to put 250$ into my account (weekly limit) with the method I chose, but I figured that that amount would do for a restart at NL25.

I was able to put in around 1.5k hands since then, splitted into 5-6 short sessions and so far I'm very pleased with the short run outcome, as I made around 3.5 stacks. More importantly, I felt that I played very well, focused and tilt free, although the last point is quite easy to pull off while running good. ^^

Detaching myself from the money aspect of the game as much as possible seems to be a very important thing to keep working on for me in the near future. I'll try to see poker more as a game I can achieve a highscore in or whatever, as I was really struggling with retarded thought process like "If I had only cashed out all that money I lost early and bought [insert expensive technology inside] for it".
Another very crucial issue for me will be to stop taking poker hands personal. Speaking from the logical, analytical standpoint and away from the table I obviously know how stupid it is to bear my n00b-opponents any kind of grudge, but once "the red curtain falls" it becomes pretty hard to stay logical and analytical and everything suddenly becomes messy.
I'm not sure yet how to counter that dangerous pattern of me turning into a complete monkey, but I will try this:

a) Improving in poker to not run as bad as often and as long.
This includes putting effort into a lot of forum posts. I like to be one of the guys who are doing more than just briefly looking over hand histories and giving a two word vanilla answer without explanation or interpunction.
I think this helps me to really think about whats going on (strangely enough I can't pull that off while playing ) and also helps others to get a better grasp of a different way to look at certain situations

b) It's only a highscore, it's only a highscore, it's only a highscore

c) Shorter sessions and no guilty conscience when I don't feel like playing (I'm no full-time commited pro, I have a job, I'm kinda young, why should I haste things)

d) When tilting, knowing that I have something else to do that I enjoy, SCII for example, instead of returning to the tables after 10 minutes with the illusion of having a refreshed mind


Pretty basic stuff, isn't it? Would be cool to remember all this during a 20 buy-in downswing...

Right before starting I feared that in my downtime the games could've evolved into an unbeatable nitfest down to the bottom of all limits, but I guess that fear was only grounded on the hysteria talk in forums all the time about the games getting tougher and on the fact that I lost quite a bit of "groove" for the game in my short absence.
I didn't like the obvious tendency of the average VPIP to slowly twindle down, even in the NL25 games, but there still doesn't seem to be much of a hindrance to slaughter the games at that level. After quite a time at NL50 and NL100 it has been a really good feeling not having to worry about people playing back at me. The plan is to keep the rungood on () and move up again to NL50 asap and from there on up to NL100 and...well, you figure.

Next thing to think about will be if I should pay for another leggo-subscription. I'd definitly like to, but I just don't know if that will pay off for me nearly as much as the last time when I was totally new to the concept of a training site. I think right now I get more from playing, grinding the forums and enjoying non-poker free time.

Enough for now, need a good nights sleep now. Keep me posted about everything you might think about my blog and good luck at the tables!


Some GMM ("good mood moments"):

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
($20)
Hero ($25)

Dealt to Hero 7 J

Hero raises to $0.75, calls $0.50

FLOP ($1.50) 6 5 K

checks, Hero bets $1.10, raises to $2.20, Hero calls $1.10

TURN ($5.90) 6 5 K T

checks, Hero bets $3.50, calls $3.50

RIVER ($12.90) 6 5 K T A

checks, Hero bets $6, calls $6

Hero shows 7 J
(Pre 40%, Flop 33.4%, Turn 84.1%)

shows K 8
(Pre 61%, Flop 66.6%, Turn 15.9%)

Hero wins $24.40

IN YOUR FACE MINCHECKRAISING FISH, MWUAHAHAHAHA!

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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
($14.53)
Hero ($26.44)

Dealt to Hero 9 T

Hero raises to $0.75, raises to $1.25, Hero calls $0.50

FLOP ($2.50) 9 K 9

checks, Hero bets $2, calls $2

TURN ($6.50) 9 K 9 J

checks, Hero bets $3.50, calls $3.50

RIVER ($13.50) 9 K 9 J K

bets $7.50, Hero calls $7.50

Hero shows 9 T
(Pre 28%, Flop 97.9%, Turn 90.9%)

shows T A
(Pre 72%, Flop 2.1%, Turn 9.1%)

Hero wins $28

BOOOM, PWND!

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Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
Hero ($25)
BB ($11.23)
UTG ($26.40)
CO ($25.25)
BTN ($8.42)

Dealt to Hero J J

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1, BB calls $0.75

FLOP ($2) 9 6 6

Hero bets $1.50, BB calls $1.50

TURN ($5) 9 6 6 T

Hero bets $3.25, BB calls $3.25

RIVER...

I've never been the blogging kind of guy and I don't even now if my writing abilities – especially in a second language – are sufficient to catch anyones interest, but I will give this a shot as a refreshing new method of somehow improving the way I deal with poker (or with my poker-addiction for that matter).

My name is Markus, I'm 24 years old, German and I'm into poker for like 3ish years. So far I've been able to get pretty good in most the things I try doing and focus on, be it sports, gaming or whatever strikes me as interesting. My attention-span on most hobbies unfortunately proved to be kinda short, but Poker was always different, as – despite several breaks – I always got drawn back into the action, the attraction of fast and "easy" money, plus the fun of gambling on a competitive level and being part of a huge community on the one side, but with anger, frustration and tilting like a monkey on the other side.

I can't take losses well. In fact, losing hard in anything turns me into a different, very bad person.

I never could deal with that and I doubt I can get nearly as good in it as most successful poker players, but my lifetime graph tells me I won a good amount of money (I mean, it's a hobby afterall, not many can say they take money out of a hobby instead of pumping the $$$ into it) and I've got the pleasure of some luxury goods that only Poker made available, so I did at least something right, didn't I?

The last two months I avoided Poker completely and all my freetime was spent on improving my 14 extractor, 14 pool into speedlings-build or similar stuff (of course talking about Starcraft 2, the best rts in the world, ldo).

But now Poker's finally creeping back into my brain as the summer turns into autumn and my job starts to suck more and more (don't know the correct english phrase for what I do, I guess it's some kind of salesman-trainee?).
I'm already through with the latest season of True Blood and with the new Dexter not out yet I really felt this was the time to come back and take on the Poker-thing from a slightly different angle and see where it leads me this time around. The last time I run up a 30$ deposit in November 2009 into nearly 4.5k in mid 2010, but then steadily lost 2kish over the period of like two months which put me in a spot where I had to walk away from Poker completely for at least another two months until now.

If I don't find lame excuses and if the stuff I write down meets any kind of interest from you guys, then I will try to regularly blog about what's going on in my (Poker)life. One goal I set for myself is to not continue on being the whiny little bitch about every 100k breakeven stretch that I've been pre-break. Don't know if my genetic code even allows for such radical changes in my attitude, but I'll give it my best shot. I know that's easy to be said when you didn't play a hand of poker for over 60 days, but w/e.
Poker, I feel, IS my one chance to make a difference between a boring and average life (if you can classify life situations like that) and something more special and exciting, so I'm not willing to give that "dream" up already...

Now for all the statistic fans out there, here's my lifetime graph for NLHE, not including my random shots at PLO, mixed games and tournaments (I could book one "major" win of 1.2k once, but also spent a good amount in SCOOP/WCOOP events so I might be slighlty above even overall in non-NLHE Cash gambling, maybe a few hundereds up).



And here my stats:



The plan as of now is to load some $$$ and €€€ into my account and get the grind back on, starting out with NL25 (throwing in some excitement of tourneys and mixed-games) and moving on from there, randomly blogging along the way (of course also posting in the forums again) and hopefully staying mentally sane while doing so. I will try to avoid mass-multitabling, as my multitasking abilities seem to be pretty poor (play me in SC2 and you will get to know that, nickname is "Markus" #612 on the Eu-server) and my stats would've been a lot better if it wasn't for the 50% mass-tabling, I believe.

Any feedback, critisism or questions on this blog-try are highly appreciated. Now thank you guys for the interest so far and good luck at the tables!

See ya!