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After running veeery bad last weeks I wasn’t in the mood to write news or just-another-bad-beat-story. I had three or four situations where I tilted in games and didn’t play my A-Game recently. But I insta-quit afterwards and I’m very glad that I can say there are “three or four situations in which I tilted” instead of “I tilted in several sessions”. The difference is huge. You can’t play ur best A-Game every time over such a long period, especially when you are 3tabling from time to time. Some months ago I didn’t care much about the times when I played my B-Game and just tried to avoid tilting and not to donate too much money to donks. Today I’m pissed when I feel I don’t play my best A-Game. I take a break afterwards or quit for the day. Hopefully my improvements, especially in game-management, will be measurable very soon as well.
I played a lot of higher games last weeks and ran pretty bad every time I took a shot. At the moment I jump a lot through the limits and play 115s to 570s regularly depending on my mood, the action and my losses/winnings before. Even at 570 there’s almost no reg who plays me anymore (beside those who just sit and don’t care much about opponents). To get respected by the best HU SNG-players you could find feels pretty cool. I don’t have sick stats like they have yet, but they still respect me and my game. I couldn’t imagine that would ever happen.

Here’s the most beautiful hand I played last days at 345 vs a semi-reg highroller:

Recently I played my first 5,6k HU match. Sounds sick? Yes, it is! Sounds like a tilt move? No, it definitely wasn’t!
It’s one week ago since I asked some other regs to stake me at 5,6k vs a CashGame-Pro who was waiting for action. All of the three guys accepted and bought 63% of my action in total. So my own investment was “only” about 2k which I was ready to risk. I was up like 5k for the month and played pretty nice A-Game before. Sure I was thrilled to play at highest limit available, but I didn’t feel scared or something at all. I hate to lose other guys money, but did pretty well to grind the guy down to 1,1k within few minutes in which I 3bet a lot and took the advantage of his very passive play. We had a huge allin 7s vs AK for 2,2k pot which he won and took me and my bakers money just 2 hands later when I got coolered again. Nothing I could do about it, but ugly to lose like that another time taking a shot at higher buyins.
If I would do it again with the same given circumstances? Yeah, I think so. I would definitely play an unexperienced guy at 2k, so it doesn’t make big difference to play 5,6k HU with some investors on the line who know about the +EV.

Before you read on, please have a look at this video. It’s just awesome. I found it at Thomas’ blog and just love it!

After losing the 5,6k and getting coolered in several 345s I was evenish for the month and decided to grind 115s for a while, just to climb the ladder very quick again when I felt rolled and comfortable enough. I was still way behind EV for this month where I had huge losses to take – not even at HU SNGs but at Satellites for EPT Berlin as well (reached Top5 about 8 times and couldn’t get any ticket and finished 3rd in EPT Satellite for EPT Monte Carlo: worth 13,000 Euro). I think my losses in EPT-Satellites are about $1,800 in total. Pretty sick, but it was the only way to have a chance to get a Main-Event ticket. Now, I will just play some side-events or CashGame. I’m not 100% sure about it yet.
After investing lot of money in Satellites I was about evenish for this month. It felt pretty bad to be back to zero after I had have such a beautiful start in the beginning of February. But it’s always the same, variance is like a bear: Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you…

Last night it was my time to eat him. A friend of mine (“Got youread”) asked me if I was interested in playing the $109 turbo and to split the winnings. I had the run of my lifetime. The FinalTable was sickest run of hole cards I can remember. Combined with great play (obv lol) I took the sweet 8,2k down. Now I know how luckbox Jamie Gold felt when he “pwned” the FinalTable of WSOP.
In the end I’m very very glad I played it and that we made “only” a 60-40 deal. Enjoy the 3,2k buddy. I’ m looking forward for partying in Berlin

I could increase the winnings a little bit and I’m back to $7,500 now. Not that great considering my start in February, but still pretty nice. Especially cuz I still need some time to get used to playing 345s-570s regularly.
I collected 165k VPPs this year so far. Maybe Supernova Elite is possible? Who knows, who knows… we’ll see