Moin Moin,

aus aktuellem Anlass ein paar Sätze, diesmal zur Abwechslung auch mal wieder in einfachem Deutsch verfasst. Ein Eintrag, wo ich ein paar allgemeine Worte über mich verliere, ist schon vor zwei Wochen geschrieben worden. Habe diesen jedoch nie veröffentlich, aber eventuell hole ich das demnächst noch nach.

Nach langem hin und her und dem Abwägen aller Vor- und Nachteile, der aktuellen Pokerpromosituation und auch in gewissem Maße durch die Inspiration der werten Herren Siete777 und liafun ist der Boomslangsche Masterplan entstanden.

Hoffentlich gelingt es mir die darin gesteckten Ziele zumindest zu 50% zu erfüllen. Ich kenne mich leider zu gut und weiß, dass ich ein wenig zur Faulheit neige. Daher sind ein pa(a)r   ermunternde Worte oder Tipps wie man am besten so ein Spielpensum durchzieht mehr als gerne gesehen!

Ok, the week in Miami is over. Time to get aboard of the Freedom of the seas.
We arrived at the ship at around 1pm and were about 30minutes later on board. The ship is absolutely amazing. It's hard to describe, because you have to see it by yourself. You can do waveriding, climb a wall or just go to the iceskating arena.
(Not to mention all the standart stuff like bars, restaurants,nightclub, cinema, pools and everything else you can imagine)

There were 3100 guests and over 1400 crew members on board. Everything which had to do with "eating" was incredible good. I don't think I ever ate so much in my life within a week. They offerd everything you can imagine. From buffet restaurants to fine dinning, a pizzeria which was open untill 3AM and midnight buffets by the pool. 

I qualified through Interpoker and like always they took care very good of their PlatinumClub members. We had several parties on board, they organized a catamaran cruise while our stop in St.Thomas and a poccer tournament in St. Maarten. ( poccer is half soccer and half poker. You play soccer to dertermine you starting stack in the upcoming poker tournament )

I don't need to say that the combination of 30°C, the Caribbean itself, lots of drinks and the very good programm made the week absolutely fantastic.

We had 3 ports of call. San Juan(Puerto Rico) , St.Thomas and St.Maarten. While San Juan was not that spectacular for us ( we just got off board at around 3.30pm and had no tour booked) St.Thomas and St.Maarten were absolutely great. The reef were the catamaran stopped for some snorkeling was very nice. Lots of fish there :-)

Unfortunately there took no "ExtremePoker" place this year. 2007 we played a 2 table tournament 20feet under the water.
(Very nice experience.Heads up, Flo Langmann lost a 4-1 chiplead to some scandinavien guy)

Except for one SNG, i played no poker at CPC 09, which had mainly to do with, that I didn't had a vacation without poker in the last 30month. So i decided to get some distance to the game a took two weeks "completely off"
The CPC offered a wide rang of tournament between 200$ and 1000$, with a 2500$main event. Cash games and SNGs ran everyday. Thomas Kremser and his crew ran the tournaments, like the year before.(Like always pretty good)

So unfortunately the week passed way to fast and I'm a little sad sitting here with -2°C in Germany :-/

Just a few words to the SupernovaElite thing. To make it short, i'm not going to make it. Main reason for this is simple that I got absolutely destroyed in the SNGs. As there is no way to make it with NL Cash games, I'm not getting it. Another reasson is, that I'm moving to Australia by the end of the year. As you can imagine it's not pretty cool for me, spending my last days here in Germany sitting infront of my PC day and night.
I know that it is pretty lame to cancel it after talking about it in my first post, but in Poker, things change more often then anywhere else in life ( Just my experience)
I decided to go for it at 550k VPP and stopped at around 690k VPP. This is in my opinion the latest stage very you can stop without beeing commited to SNE (due to the very high bonus at 1Mio VPP)

 GL @ the tables 

Hi everybody.

I just got back from Miami, so here are the first impressions.
Our plane landed on Nov 15 at around 10pm local time.The weather was pretty nice, around 23°C by night and ~28°C by day.
We stayed at a pretty nice hotel called "The Albion" which Ican absolutly recommend to everybody. It's only a 3 and a half star hotel, but was for sure the best 3,5* hotel I ever stayed in. I would prefer that hotel in comparison to 80% of the 4-4,5* properties I have been to. It's just a 1 minute walk to the beach, Lincoln road (with tons of shops, bars and restaurants) and the world famous Ocean Drive. We got a great bang for our buck at this hotel (we only paid like a third of the prices that the direct beach front hotels charge)so it was a great choice. The beach @ SB is definitely a place to be. It's so good to just hang out there, enjoy the sea and watching the people walk by. (Which are for sure worth to be seen :-)  )

We did lots of shopping, dinning and had some drinks at one of the countless (and super cool) bars at night.
A Miami City tour showed us how many faces this city has. It's incredible to see the huge Downtown with lots of 40+stories buildings and just a five minute ride later you are in a whole different world with lots of palms, single familie homes, parks and a golf course around (Coral Gables). (Biltmore Hotel should be your choice of hotel if you prefer to chill out more than partying (+chill out) )

Another interesting fact I didn't know before was that due to the heavy influence by Cuba and other caribbean islands, 60% of the population in Miami speak Spanish. It could happen to you that your taxi driver doesn't speak English :-)

On Saturday night we went to the welcome party from Interpoker which took place on the rooftop terrace of the Hilton downtown hotel. It's always cool to meet people you haven't seen in a while (But with most of them you spend more than one night partying all night long :-) ) Fortunately we could manage to be back in our hotel by midnight, so the first day of the crusie was not too rough ....

Ok, this should be enough for the first post back in Germany.
GL to all of you

PS: I'm going to write some more about the Supernova Elite thing in the next days. I don't really have a clue at the moment what I should do as I don't really see a future for me @ SNGs (at least about High Stakes and the last 35 days of this year).
Another thing is that I would also love to play some cash games. I was tired of them but don't playing cash games for 5 weeks made me hungry again.

Another thing I want to point out, is that the issue with Pokerstars ( servercrash ) was finally handled in a good way for me. After 2 weeks and several mails.

I got feedback in a positive and negative way about writing in English. There was slightly more on the positive side so I will continue writing in English. I will also choose some more clear topics than "Argl".

Hi guys

First of all, unfortunately I am not tracked with Pokerstrategy. I'm one of the many people who created the stars account in order to get the 5$ starting bankroll. I could manage to collect the 500k SPs before I switched to stars in summer 2006.

A few of you asked what kind of games I am playing. As I said before, I made the transition from fixed to NL cashgames about 2 and a half years ago. In order to get the elite status this year, SNGs are the only option for me as they produce more rake than any other game. The problem is, I like the SNGs, but they don't like me!

For the first time a gave SNGs a shot 1,5 years ago. I played the 114$ and 225$ turbos, got destroyed with a ROI of -25% and so quickly lost a bunch.  ---I decided never play them again---

Today I would say, that a combination of bad play of mine and running pretty bad caused this result. I don't really had a clue what I was doing at that time. Have things changed (SNG skill)? I would say yes, but results show something different...
I came back in touch with SNGs this summer playing lots of step SNGs on stars and did pretty well. The desaster, a good year ago, was forgotten...

Nearly 3 weeks pased since I decided to go for elite and I got destroyed again :-(
So I really start worrying about if I'm even a winning player at these SNGs ( I only play the turbo 114, 225, 335, and a few 555).
I never built a roll with SNGs, so I have no approval for that, as the money comes from other games.
I did lots of education stuff ( for sure it could have been some more...), but I really think my game improved a lot. Results talking different...

As I have like zero experience with SNGs, I'm not common with bankroll requirements, variance, swings and stuff like that.
At the last 1350 SNGs ( thats the number I played in the last 3 weeks) I have a ROI of -5%. I did some research with graphs of good regulars (I play everyday with) and have found several loosing stretches like that. The problem is, they also have winning stretches around these :-) ME not 

As I played quiet a lot hands of poker before I would think that I can evaluate if the deck is with or against me. I would say that the deck hit me only twice in the face in the past as it did in these last 1350 SNGs.

Another thing which doesn't make my days better is the server crash last friday on stars. At that moment I was playing like 16 turbo SNGs and was registered for at least 5 more.
Later that night I got a mail that 2(!!) tourneys were cancelled. After several mails to Stars I haven't received any money or information or anything else... just a "we're still working on this".

This makes my head aching for the last days....but enough of complaining.

On sunday I'm heading to Miami. The plan is to chill and party one week in South Beach and then jump on the CPC Cruise. Last year the Caribbean Poker Classic took part in St. Kitts, which was such a unique spot, I'm a little sad, that they changed it to a cruise, but we will see what the cruise brings. ( It's the signature tournament of the Crypto network.)

Taking a break is pretty important as I'm in a bad emotional shape due to the loosings of the last 3 weeks and still bringing in this incredible volume.

I think it´s time for a cut here not to get this post too long.

GL@ the tables
Trogger

Hello everybody,
just a short intrudution of myself. I'm 24 years old and started playing poker in early 2005.Most of you might never heard my name before. As i never wrote in the forums and haven't played on any site as "Trogger" for the last 2 years, that's no wonder.
I started (like most of the players in 2005) with Fixed Limit cashgames, but switched to NL cash games after a year and a half. At the moment i'm trying to learn a little more about SNGs and tournaments.
The reason i,m starting to blog here,is that i decided to do a little challange for my self.
I'm sure most of you are common with the VIP Club on Pokerstars. Just for the few who aren't, it's simply the way, the more you play the more you get (not just in absolute $ also in %)
The highest Level is called Supernova Elite. I already reached this status last year ( like 37 other people) For various reasons i decided to not go for it this year.
---Untill October 21th--
My problem is, on Oct. 21th I only had like 550k VPPs (= basepoints, you need 1 million for SNE, ~200k rake)which means i need to "rake in" about 90k $ in the last ten weeks of the year. Sounds crazy, probably it is.
Sharing my race with you guys, might hopefully push my "working morals"
Today i'm standing at around 640k, so i'm on pace.
That the whole thing doesn't get to easy, i'm attending the Caribbean Poker Classic Cruise at the end of november( 16th to 23rd. Flying a week earlier to Miami)

For not getting this post to long, i will make a break here and post another upadte at the end of the week.

-Have fun and good luck @ the tables)-
Trogger

PS: I'm not a english native speaker, nor do i have good English skills, so if there are (which i'm sure of :-) any gramaticall mistakes...i'm sorry for that . I just decided to write this in English, as i'm sure that nearly everybody, who reads this blog is  common with the English language, but ther might be some potential readers who are not familar with german.