Due to recent developments within the poker community combined with travel restrictions that completely threw me off my path I see myself forced to take a break from blogging for an undefined amount of time. Stay save
As I am in the middle of my Las Vegas preparations and don’t have anything to show for my monthly recap I picked up a rather unfamiliar and underrated topic to write about. I hope this is a decent replacement for the January Recap! Take this with a grain of salt, this is my personal … More The Importance of Rakeback in Online Poker 2020
I started super motivated into December and had the month layed out in my head already: planned interview with High Stakes crusher, plenty of grinding, plenty of studying.I was in a comfortable spot: Almost out of Make-Up, a new PC that finally can handle a HUD smootly and my game just had reached a new … More December 2019 Recap: The end of an era
Welcome to my November 2019 Recap and I wish all of you a joyful and reflecting advent season. Happy first advent. In November quite some stuff was happening. Plenty of talking with my current stable and people related to it about how things could run smoother/better in the future and while not all the matters … More November 2019 Spin & Go / Expresso Recap
Happy Halloween! And welcome to my October 2019 Recap! As it is offical: I’m a High Stakes Spin & Go player now! Doesn’t it sound beautiful? Once more! Habit- High Stakes Poker Player! It was a very tough journey with quite some ups and downs and an enourmous amount of work to reach it, so … More October 2019 Spin & Go / Expresso Recap
Not a lot to write about so I keep it short and simple! Only important info is, that I can’t invest more money into poker for now until the Vegas trip is over, so therefor the MTT Recaps are on hold! I still love the format and it gives me great joy, but I simply … More Mid October MTT Recap
In September I spent a lot more time relaxing with family & friends than usual and didn’t spend as much of my spare time on poker than I did previously (even if volume already was horrible for a few months). I can tell you that it just feels awesome! While I always looked at poker as … More September 2019 Spin & Go / Expresso Recap
This month I enjoyed a few poker evenings with some MTTs. Not too big of a volume to write about, but whatever! This is a journey which prioritises fun and this is exactly how I’m approaching the situation.Sadly a lot of evening where a MTT schedule would actually fit I felt rather exhausted and didn’t … More Mid September MTT Recap
I’m actually super happy about my volume in August as I had many many family obligations including my 30th birthday and therefore barely any days I could dedicate to grinding. When I found the time to grind it usually looked a lot like this: But I gave it my best at any time and sometimes … More August 2019 Spin & Go/Expresso Recap
Here it is, my first monthly MTT Poker Recap! On the 12th of July my Multi Table Tournament journey began. I seperated a 1000$ Bankroll to start with and my plan is to apply a rather agressive BRM as I am pretty sure that my general poker knowledge should beat these limits with a rather … More Mid-Month MTT Recap
Let’s start this blogupdate with a little shocker:On my vacations I had a lot of time to think about my approach towards poker, I just had the best month of my Spin career so it was the perfect time to make a big decision, and here it is. I will focus more time on playing … More July 2019 Recap
This grinding month ends early for me as I am going on 2 vacations for the next 2 weeks! It has been a great month with alot of ups and barly any downs. One of the highlights was the attempt to win The Daily Expresso Challenge on Winamax. I was 4 tabling 17:30 hours that … More June 2019 Recap
“Hello! Congratulations on your promotion. It should be an important moment for you as playing these stakes allows you to consider starting a life as a professional poker player.” Those are the words I was waiting for so long! They stand for the biggest achievement in my pokercareer and mean the world to me! I … More May 2019 Recap
Yet another short but busy month comes to an end. I had 21 grinding days and tried to use them in the best way possible even though I had to overcome a lot of distractions yet again. As I mentioned in my last months recap already, my stable Smart Spin is still in transitionphase from … More April 2019 Recap
IMEZRU, one of my fellow Smart Spinners just recently started his Blog. You can check it out at http://www.expressoequity.com Here is what he had to say when being asked for a short introduction: “The blog follows my journey up the stakes playing Lottery Format Poker aka. Expressos, Spin and Gos Twisters etc. As a member of … More IMEZRU’s Expressos and Investment Blog
March was a rather short month pokerwise, as I was sick at the beginning and started the grind super late. Still I had set a few competetive goals which I mostly managed to achieve, even though alot of changes happened during the month in my current stable Smart Spin which took alot of attention away … More March 2019 Recap
Welcome to my delayed February Recap. Sadly the flu caught up on me and bound me to bed for the last 9 days. But let’s not get distracted and talk some poker! This month taught me how incredible cruel streaks in Spin & Goes can be. All February was just about damagecontrolling and learning how … More February 2019 Recap
As I am pretty sick right now and not in the shape to sit in front of the computer for more than a few minutes February Recap will be late this month.
In January I had to change my goal for the month rather soon, as Pokerstars started a promotion which added $5 and $25 Spin & Goes. As you can hunt for a million Dollars there, for sure plenty of the recreational players, that would usually play a limit around them (i.e. $3 to $30), got … More January 2019 Recap
First of all let me wish you a happy new beginning of the year. Yet again I have to report, that I failed my volume goal in December, but it was just out of my control, so I’m not dissapointed at all. First my brother went for a visit, which was great! Later in the … More December 2018 Recap
Winter is coming! But we are prepared Pokerwise November actually was a decent month considering the goals I set beforehanded. The Volume was super low as expected, but I got in a lot of high quality hours especially on the study part. My partice partner excluded himself from playing to prepare better for his exams, … More November 2018 Recap
October was a single big struggle again. I had to change the goal from moving up, towards fighting to not go down a limit rather early in the month. That, including the facts that I had to attend something similar to a 9 to 5 job again, looking for a new car and being sick … More October 2018 Recap
September was the last month I planned to get used to everything that is different between my old stable and Smart Spin. I had a high Learn-to-Grind ratio in order to learn everything the right way. Basically everything I did in September only was done to be able to grind comfortably in Oktober, so I … More September 2018 Recap
Welcome to my August Recap. As announced last month already, August was the first month I played Spin & Goes under the banner of Smart Spin. After some struggles early on, where I played a hybride mix of old and new stables strategies, and therefor got poor results, I by now feel more confident than … More August 2018 Recap
Next awkward month! But last one for now, promised! First and only time you won’t see any numbers in here. I did play 500 Spin and Goals on 5$ limit quite successfully, but they aren’t on any Tracker so I just won’t talk about them. If you are just here for the numbers, you can … More July 2018 Recap
June was an awkward month. Really awkward. I spent the last 3 hours thinking about how to approach this monthly recap, as things are different than usual. In the beginning of June, Alvaro, the co-founder of the stable I was part in, was found cheating and therefor banned with immediate effect on PokerStars. As the … More June 2018 Recap
Thanks for dropping by and welcome to my May Recap! As you may already have read in my April Recap, I finally got in a healthstate that allows me to go back to work. I still have to use crunches from time to time, but I’m improving slowly but steady! I wanned to go back … More May 2018 Recap
April came to an end and so comes my free time from work soon. Beginning next week I have to go to my dayjob again, finally! Pokerwise April was very challenging as I made myself alot of pressure with my ambition to go up a limit again! My database got destroyed twice over the month, … More April 2018 Recap
Happy chaotic Eastern! And welcome to my March 2018 Recap As I caught the flue in the beginning of March I had to cancel the “4000 Spins in 31 days challenge”. Therefor I changed my approach to Spins a little. I only 2 tabled most of March and focused more on making the correct plays. … More March 2018 Recap
On 12th February I was able to start the grind again. Since then I am investing more than ever to improve as a player. Every day, I grinded 5-6 hours at least and studied 2 additional hours. As I’m in the middle of a “4k Spins in 31 days challenge” it often occured that I … More February 2018 Recap
First off I’m sorry for the delayed recap, but until yesterday evening I was still in the hospital recovering from a planned surgery. Gladly all went well so all it takes is a few weeks of time now for me to be completely recovered, hopefully fitter than I’ve been in a long time! Only bad … More January 2018 Recap
Happy new Year! December finally went as planned. I’m German, and we Germans are not really know for being the most spontanious guys! Having a strict plan without unforseen stuff happening is exactly what we need to perform well! In December I had 21 days of grinding as we had alot of family birthdays and … More December 2017 Recap
November was a very challenging month with very ambitious goals set beforehand. But there are always things that can’t be taken under consideration when setting goals. That’s what happened in November. Right in the beginning of the month my girlfriend had to stay in hospital and get surgery. While I do not want to get … More November 2017 Recap
Happy Halloween! The second month of Spin & Goes comes to an end. As already mentioned in my September Recap I had send in my first 1000 Spins on 3$ limit and was waiting for an answer wether I can go up to the 7$ Spins or wether I have another 3$ Block to grind. … More October 2017 Recap
My first month of Spin & Goes is over now, and let me tell you: Spins blow my mind! Having played Cashgames in the past and therefor knowing how tough the playerpool even at the lowest stakes can be, I expected to meet alot of competent grinders at the Spintables aswell. I knew that Spin … More September 2017 Recap
Stats for August Winnings: 680.24$ Tournaments total: 305 Avg. Buy-In: 2.08$ ITM: 17.4% Tournaments won: 2 Top 3 finishes: 3 Bankroll: 1,072.90$ In the beginning of August, I was fortuned to win the 2.20$ Bounty Builder for close to 1k$ score. Moving forward from there I had a few discussions with … More August 2017 Recap
July began painfully! Very painful! My knee started to hurt. Apparently I had an inflamed Corpus adiposum infrapatellare without having noticed any external forces. This basiclly means I won’t be able to perform heavy squats or deadlifts anymore which really saddens me, but I guess I have to deal with it. For poker, this was … More July 2017 Recap
In June a lot of stuff changed. In the beginning of the month I was a few days abroad to visit family. During that time I had alot of time to think about Poker and how approach the problems I had with the game in the past. The more I thought about it the more … More June 2017 Recap
The truth, and nothing but the truth! Let’s begin with some numbers. They might tell you more than my following whining words. Winnings: -277.48$ Winnings EV Adjusted : -157.28$ Hands total: 86,843 Winrate: -4,45b/100 (NL5 only) Winning Days: 12 Losing Days: 17 Bankroll: 152.63$ May taught me a lot of things. It taught me … More May 2017 Recap
April was largly determined by us moving. So first let me tell you how sorry I am for not writing the promised strategical article during April. But I barly found time to grind nor for learning. It was just more important to keep grinding as much as possible. But good news is the stressful time … More April 2017 Recap
And welcome to my March 2017 Recap! First quarter of the year is done and dusted. The summer breeze smells great already! It’s getting warmer outside every single day. Good times ahead! March was really really stressful for me. (in a positive way) My girlfriend and I decided to move to a new flat not … More March 2017 Recap
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach” – Aristoteles So this seems to be the best chance for me to find out if I truly understand what I’m trying to refelect at the poker tables! Dry stuff ahead! Ranges in Poker A Range in Poker simply is a Group of Hole-Cards, a specific player … More Useful Things To Know About Ranges
Not to long ago I went over to the iPoker Network. This is great! Many fishes, I’ve been told! It turned out to be true! Whenever I opened a random 6-max Table on NL4 there would be at least 2 terrible Players at the table (mostly Callingstations). So how could it be possible that … More Different Playertypes in the Micros
February 2017 is history! And what a month it was! It had his great Moments but also timeframes where nothing at all seemed to work (started by an encounter with Darth Vader)! I had to fight tilt and motivation problems and mess with a new Playerpool. Let’s Sum it up with a few graphs and … More February 2017 Recap
Efforts in Poker At the tables for at least 30 hours a week During breaks, in between two Session, posting difficult Spots in Practise-Group-Chat/Forum/Coach Posting opinions on Situations others had to face Read specific Articles to improve for another 5 to 10 hours every single week Receive coaching for one Hour per week which targets … More The Dark Sides of Poker, Tilt & Demotivation! Another attempt to fix the bad_habits!
“Know your oponnent and you don’t need cards” Habit – 2020 WSOP Main-Event Champion, 2nd Poker-Boom Initiator and 47th President of the United States Todays Poker Situation As Poker is getting tougher and tougher, even in the Microstakes, it’s getting more important to stop missing spots where alot of money can be made. The Micro-Stakes-Cashgame … More Simple Auto-Profit Spots to boost your Winrate
In late January I sucessfully made the progression from NL4/NL5 to NL10 (finally! I failed 3 times in 2016 for different reasons). In this post I’m going to write down what I noticed is different in both limits. I only have 35k hands on NL10 until today, so I talked to other players who recently … More Differences between NL4/NL5 and NL10 Fast Forward/Zoom/Snap and how to take a shot!
January is over already. Time is moving fast. Here is a little Review on my personal Poker Journey for this year so far. First let’s have a look at my graphs for January. With Pokertracker off I made another 80$ Profit on 888Poker. I am very pleased with the Volume I put in but not … More January 2017 Recap
Today was the last Day of 888Poker’s very interesting Treasure Quest. On a field of 5×5 (so 25 days for the complete field) all you had to do was to finish one small quest per day to win a small prize every day. If you finished a horizontal or vertical row you got a cash-prize … More 888Poker’s Treasure Quest Explained, Guide to solve it and my Personal Opinion
Since I am almost through NL4, mainly thanks to great promotions and not because of a good winrate, I am going to write about 5 common mistakes Bad Regs do I personally noticed in the Partypoker/bwin Fast Forward NL4 6-max Playerpool. You will not read stuff here everyone else praises like “Don’t Limp!”, “Play in … More 5 Common Mistakes Bad Regs do. Partypoker’s / Bwin’s FastFoward NL4 6-max Playerpool.
Yesterday in the evening I was about to start a smallish session review. This year I played around 50k hands until now. I looked at my graph and noticed 2 spots where i lost 10+ buyins already. Just take a look yourself. I should mention, that the 14 buyin downswing was within 1 day. The … More Demotivated because of Variance? Never again! Call me G-Bucks Millionair!
Who am I? Some Background Informations Hi, I’m Michael, 27 from Germany! May it have been Soccer in my very early childhood, Basketball + Gaming (AOE2, WC3, SC2 mainly) in my late teens, or recently Weightlifting/Bodybuilding. I always had a strong mindset and put in the hours required to achieve “something”. I tend to get … More WHO AM I? What is this? And what is to be expected? Pokerblog 2k17! NL5 to riches!
