Rinse and Repeat

Just yesterday I watched a video from Doug Polk about the current state of poker. And eventhough many player say poker is dying he argues, that even with some downsides, the poker dream is well and alive. You just have to work harder to achieve the same goals compared to a couple of years ago. And also I am way better today than some years ago at working my ass off, I would still consider myself a lazy person. My intelligence, and I say this without arrogance, is above average and therefore I often feel entitled to suceeding. That's not good. That's not how things work. Hard work beats talent all day long. So I think I can achieve something good, but I also think I have to work on my working attitude a lot in order to do so.

That's why I am her blogging. I want to track my progress. Not only the progress in the game but also my mindset. Let's just start with the things I am currently doing.

Above all, I try to live healthy. In a game where you are fully reliant on your head, your physical condition as well as your nutrition shouldn't be underrated. I already have something in mind for future post in order to evaluate this topic deeper and maybe get some of you guys off the couch ;).
But for this moment: I do work out 4-5 times a week, I eat healthy, drink enough and also have a healthy sleep schedule. Got a got base here I guess.

Besides that I also started to work on my game regularly. I get coaching from my stable (Team Faultier hype! - also will bring some further infos on that later) but I also work for myself.
Currently I decided that it's the best to start of with my preflop game and go on with my flop game, because I think that in these two stages you can heavily influence how much many you are going to make or loose. Already grasped the basic concept of pot geometry here.
In addition to that I just think it's harder to loose and easier to earn money if you have a good hand selection preflop as well as a good plan pending on the board structure on the flop.
For the moment I mostly work on my preflop decisions. I also have to be a bit more disciplined in that regard. Especially with a hand like AQo I am probably too loose in calling an all-in. But I already see some progress, so I got that going for me, which is nice (memer spotted).

Before I leave, some happy news: yesterday I shipped 2 (!!) tournaments (10$ on BetVictor and 3$ on 888) and got F2T on a third one (5$ deepstack). Hype!