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Smart investing for pokerplayers and expats

Gambar
Sup guys, you probably werent expecting to hear from me so soon after last post but this one isn't about poker it's about something i wanted to write for a while now: Investing your money! For me personally it goes way back. I'm one of the biggest winners at my stakes but apart from playing poker and transfering that money into my bank accounts i never did anything with it. And there are better ways than having a couple of hundred k's lying around in bank accounts making 0% a year and losing to inflation and stuff. And what i gathered so far is that like 80% of pokerplayers operating exactly like this basically because they are uninformed about opportunities, unsure about taxation, scared of dodgy financial advisors or just too lazy and always say "yeah i gonna invest some money soon" and push it further and further. Especially the last point was very true for me personally but i changed this beginning this year. I have a good friend i know for several years n...

July at teh office

Gambar
Another month another update. Fairly on time which says that things overall seem to have been allright. Overall pretty decent but rather unspectacular months. If you dont check results you always know how things are appromixmately but over the course of the month you tend to lose track sooner or later. More often than not you are positively surprised but this time i honestly expected abit more than just the 6k i was able to bank. Obviously this is complaining on a fairy high level so i will stop at it right here and provide the graphs: dollar EV july Abit over EV dollar wise, abit more buy in wise. As you can see fairly hot start, then a while into breakevensville, some real heat and back to breako. BBs won Pretty similar picture in Bigblinds, think i was 13 stacks above EV which is definitely nice. Total earnings including rakeback appr. You can see with rakeback i almost exactly hit the 10k USD mark which is nice because 10k is alotta money and can buy alot of things :) Theres certai...

Lasik trip report #justdoit

Gambar
Sup folks?! This time no poker at all. Since a decent amount of people seemed to be interested in the stuff regarding my LASIK surgery which was done around a week ago i will give some infos here there especially those who considering it have a better picture how the whole thing is going down. Will start with abit of history about me and how i ended up at that point where i really wanted to get it done and afterwards lead you through the procedure and describe what to expect. So for those who are only interested in the hard facts just jump straight to 2nd paragraph. background: I basically always thought my eyes were fine up to when my driving license came around and i had to take a visual test. I was 18 back then and went to an optician to get that test done and directly failed it. I was devasted at the thought of having to drive car with glasses and the doctor seemed to realize my disappointment and didnt charge me for the test. Outside i reevaluated what to do and since i dont like ...

upswong june and YTD update #hardworkalwayspays

Gambar
Sup foo's! Blog post on time this time so most of you frequent readers prolly already realize it was rather decent month. We start off right with poker and i really didnt feel as good about my game in a long while and after running cold for far too long things finally seem to come together. So first off teh garph: realmoney june BBs june winnings+rb As you can see casual 80 stack month and around 8k in winning + another 4k in rakeback. Also very very little variance compared to other months which gets a bit more obv here: breakdown by days 6 losing days out of 25 and only one day where i lost moar than 500bucks. Pretty insane given that i played decent amount of 200 and some 400 but also shows that i ran fairly well overall. Also to note that this steady grind gives alot of peaze of mind but safe to say it will not stay forever like this. bell curve aka hitting skillz for june (pokertracker only) In case of hitting skillz there seem to be still alot of room for improvement especial...

Everything sorted, back to work

Gambar
Bit belated since its already 10th of june but better late than never so here comes the may update. We start of with poker which was ok but nothing too special. I didn't had those extreme swings/extreme under EV run which i experienced the months before and had one or two heater sessions as well which werent happening in oh so long that i almost forgot how they feel like, But first the garphs before going into more detail: may with rakeback may table winnings As you can see i managed to win 4k at the tables which doesnt exactly make me ecstatic but combined with rakeback it's about 8000euro net which is still alot more money than most people make a month so complaining about that would be complaining on a high level. But in general it's always tough if you really experienced big big months back in the days to get used to abit less... Didnt checked results all month and was expecting abit more but you cannot always be so lucky. Especially the small downer at the end of the m...

Arrived in Vienna, downswong finally over?!ap

Gambar
Long time no update so here we go. The frequent followers prolly oreddi know what happend but yeah, pretty much had one of the worst stretches i can think of since playing for a living and didnt really felt like updating after that abomination of march. Havent even checked results for last 2 months until like a couple of hours ago: march As you can see the only thing which was somewhat allright that month was volume. 175k hands is not too bad but nothing was working out ever and in the end the beyond EV run started as well which made things only worse and made me finish at the around -3k USD mark. With rakeback prolly a small winner afterall but nothing to brag about and definitely nothing which pays the bills :D April started of alot better april but became complete aids pretty quickly as well. Its really mindblowing how you cannot make any hands over such huge samples, get coolered left and right, win no flips, get sucked out by fish. Like everything which could go wrong went wrong a...