Upswing anyone?
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 12/10/09 at 01:10:29 pmI havnt really been in the mood for blogging in the last few months because I didnt know what to write. Poker is the same as always, I’m having a fine year considering how much I’ve played. The last few days have been pretty good and I managed to go on a somewhat big heater:
July and August werent that great so now I’m really happy with my overall winnings this year.
There is a new Poker-TV-Show produced for the ORF and I might get in. I’ll know for sure at the end of the week. It’s nothing too exciting since it’s a series of SNGs in which only the winner gets a WSOP package, but it would still be fun to be on TV so I hope they take me 
This Month….
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 28/07/09 at 02:07:08 pm
Rakeback pro?
Good Day
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 09/07/09 at 02:07:03 am
Badbeat anyone?
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 01/06/09 at 06:06:44 pm
Project of some friends
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 17/04/09 at 03:04:36 pmSome friends of mine have a new project, its called poker-scene.at. Its a poker forum in german
where me and all other ventgang members will post frequently, so I would like to invite all people to join our small community there :)
hf
brainstorm
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 03/03/09 at 11:03:12 pmatm – vienna – parents – dentist – boring
graz – fun – working out – too much rl – too little poker
poker – mediocre year – still up enough – need play more
questions? 
Long time no see
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 17/02/09 at 06:02:56 pmIt’s been a while since my last blogpost. After I returned from bali (which was a really relaxing week btw) I started grinding in our new apartment in graz. I’ve been running pretty bad and whenever I’m on a downswing I really don’t feel like blogging. After today I’m even for the month after 29k Hands which isn’t too bad considering how horrible i ran.
On Win2Day I seem to run bad since over 3 months. I just checked and I managed to make whooping 2k€ since November 1st on Win2Day which is a really poor result considering how bad the competition is. The main problem is that there is so little action that I just can’t get many hands in. I only played 40k Hands of nl400+ on Win2Day since I started my HEM-db in August. And we all know that 40k hands are nothing. The funny thing is that there are quite a few regulars there that consider themselves to be a “poker pro” because they managed to win xxxxx€ from fish at limits as high as NL1k allthough they havn’t played much more than 300k hands of poker alltogether. I find it interesting how lightly many people take the decision to “go pro”. For me it took a pretty long time to finally think of poker as my actual job. Also I finished my bachelor in computer science in order to have at least something if the day comes that poker can’t be played profitable anymore (allthough I don’t think that day is going to come ever). I guess many people see the “easy” money and think it’s going to be like this forever. I’m really curious how the pokerworld will look like in 2-3 years. I think it will still be possible to play profitably but alot of the mediocre winning players that are around now will be gone because they won’t be able to show a profit anymore when the games continue to get thougher. We’ll see, I hope I’m not one of these mediocre players .
Here are 2 hands I played against one of the Win2Day regulars. The first is only to show how bad he is and the 2nd is nothing special but it illustrates well how I run at Win2Day these days:
I didn’t play nearly aggro enough to justify his offstack here
hf
Nice Shot
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 11/01/09 at 05:01:26 pmAs you guys can see I decided to start blogging in English from now on. Wtfichigo is going to do the same and we are hoping to attract a few more frequent readers this way.
Until yesterday I’ve been in Graz celebrating New Years Eve and looking for an apartement for Gunnar, Alex and me. We found a pretty good one that statisfies most of our needs. Obviously there was/is still alot of stuff to do and thats why i couldnt play as much poker as i wanted to. I only played 19k Hands untill now in January but i ran good (as always :p ) so i im fine with it. On 23rd ill go on a trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bali together with a friend who is doing some traveling before he starts to work as a management consultant. He asked me if i wanted to join him and I figuered why not? I dont’t have too much to do anyways and i certainly would enjoy one week at the beach. I hate the cold weather we have in Vienna right now so im really looking forward to this trip.
Enough of the RL-stuff; its time for some more poker brag . Yesterday I took a shot at NL5k because a known fish (Chass777) was playing. It took me 3 hands to own half the table. This was the hand in question. Obviously well played by me! I dont really know what PIRA-PARA was doing with AQ there but whatever. After this hand the table instantly broke. This is what i call a successfull shot:
Today i had a little flamewar with an NL400-600 regular. Nothing special, just the usual bitching and whining by me after losing a hand . But I promised him to post my hourly Winrate so here it is:
And yes almost all of that is €. Counting rakeback that’s probably what i averaged in Euros over the past few months. Im not sure how far this is off my true winrate though. Poker is a really high variance game and even 300k hands dont mean that much nowadays.
hf
Hi@ 2009
Posted by Georg Prohaska - 31/12/08 at 02:12:03 am2008 war pokertechnisch ein ziemlich gutes Jahr für mich. Zwar spiel ich jetzt immernoch auf denselben Limits wie am Anfang des Jahres, aber ich bin mir sicher dass ich mein Spiel um einiges weiterentwickeln konnte. Gestern hab ich meine alter Pokertracker 2 Datenbank durchgeschaut um rauszufinden wieviele Hände ich 2008 gespielt habe. Wenns stimmt hab ichs insgesamt auf etwas über 650k Hände gebracht (530k auf Boss, 100k auf w2d und den Rest auf verschiedenen anderen Seiten). Das ist ein Monatsschnitt von über 50k, was eigentlich doch relativ viel ist. Geldmäßig hab ich auf jeden Fall mehr gemacht als ich mir noch vor 2 Jahren je erträumt hätte. Zwischen 250k€ und 260k€ warns, leider hab ich nicht ganz genau Buch geführt. Damit wären wir auch schon beim ersten Vorsatz fürs neue Jahr: Immer genau Buch führen über den Stand der Winnings. Man sollt doch schon wissen wieviel man tatsächlich verdient . Ansonsten will ich nächstes Jahr 800k Hände schaffen. Ob ich im Limit aufsteigen will (NL5k) weiß ich noch nicht. Im Prinzip reicht das Geld das ich im Moment verdiene mehr als aus und um konstant NL5k zu spielen müsste man auf 5 verschiedenen Seiten Geld haben um genügend Hände reinzukriegen. Ansonsten steigt die Varianz so hoch dass es, für mich zumindest, zu frustrierend wäre. Hier noch mein aktueller overall-Graph aus dem Holdemmanager:
Anfang Jänner wirds auf Bossmedia ein einwöchiges Rakerace geben. Der Prizepool ist 50k€ also wird der erste wohl circa 15k€ bekommen. Mitmachen werd ich logischerweise auf jeden Fall, ob ich genug Nerven hab soviel zu spielen um oben dabei zu sein wird sich zeigen, versuchen will ichs zumindest. Es ist auf jeden Fall eine gute Motivation viele Hände zu spielen.
Ansonsten wünsch ich euch allen ein frohes neues Jahr und einen guten Rutsch!
hf
Frohe Weihnachten.
Posted by wtfichigo - 24/12/08 at 02:12:48 pmStellvertretend für den Rest der Ventgang wünsche ich allen Lesern frohe Weihnachten.
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