January results and febuary goals

Hey !

In this entry, I will talk about my last week with Artanis11, my results for january (including garphs) and my goals for febuary.

Week with Artanis :

Lex lives in a lovely town called Culemborg (which is near Utrecht). It was fun and his family was very nice to me. Sad part is I lost my Iphone over there and it kinda put me on tilt. Badfuly, we did not grind at all (and the few we played, we lost bout 3k mainfuly thanks to a coin flip lost at 10/20). Anyway, I'm looking forward to invite him in Paris (Paris > Amsterdam >>>> Utrecht btw) and show him what a true balla city is.

January results :

Given I was on vacation for 2 weeks, I did not put in enough volume but results are still very satisfactory.

Stats :









Garph :















Standard 10k day :













+3k ungraphed
+3k bonus


Febuary goals :

- 100k hands
- 2.5BB/100
- Doing sport 4 days a week
- Getting involved as much as I can with my students
- Plan a trip in USA (if you live in USA/Canada and want to meet me, just let me know)
















Amsterdam and one of its many rivers.

Deauville report

Hey everyone

It’s 2.30 A.M. in France and I just went back from deauville’s casino. Tomorrow I head back to Paris and you know what ? I’m glad. Deauville is a fun city where everything seems doable as long as you have enough money. And I did a lot of things that I had not been through before.
The hotel was fkin amazing (view was awesome, pic comin’) and employees were always there in order to get everything fine for rémy and I.















The casino was also nice. The building was beautiful and class. I have not played live at all (and nearly online aswel, 2h and +2.2k) but I saw some huge cash game running, very impressive. Here is a hand :
Blinds 50/100
Utg folds
Utg+1 folds
Utg+2 folds
Mp limps (~10k euros) for 100e
Mp+1 folds
Co folds
Btn raises to 400e (he is a swedish and seems to do quite well)
Sb folds
BB calls

Flop 36J full spades (1250e)
Sb checks
Mp donkbets for 800
Btn raises to 2.2k
Sb folds
Mp tanks and shoves for his remaining stack (9k or so)
Btn calls quickly
Turn and river blank
Mp shows J9 with 9 of spade
Btn shows AA without any spade

Ship it 21k pot lolilol

Anyway, games were very juicy as you can witness but I have been too tired to sit in and play. My bad coz my coach agreed to take a share of me.

I also met ADZ124, shaked his hand this morning during EPT break. We talked a bit and he has been friendly to me. It was nice to finaly see him.

Tonight, a friend who had met cuts (a French high stakes player) the day before invited me to join cuts’s suite at Normandy hotel. I must admit I had some bias about him and prolly the same for him bout me. Right after shaking his hand he asked “why are you a fan of ADZ124, seriously ?”, I replied I was not and to be honest, I don’t give a shit of what ADZ124 did to him. The we talked a bit and it was surprising how this young man seemed to be sad. He told us he had no pleasure playing poker anymore and he just wanted to make the most money as he could before leaving. He seems to wonder a lot about his life, his goals and what ppl thinks of him (especially why they are friendly to him and his money). Anyway, it was interesting to talk with him and see how he deals his success. It makes me think how everything is “éphémère” and artificial.

To conclude, I’m glad to go back in Paris. I’m not used to hang out a lot. I mean, I’m not confortable with ppl. I have always been this way and I won’t try to change it. I believe it’s not an issue when you are aware of this.

Friday I go to Utrecht for some grinding time. I hope to make a lot of money and I know I will learn a lot from Artanis11’s game.


I’m done for today, I will update this entry to insert some random pics. Have a nice day. I’m fkin tired right now.















balla right ?















Me, laughing this hard it prevents to see my eyes.
Okay, I admit I was drunk.

bb

HEYYY GUYS !

Ok, last fews days, I have not played much. My envy to play poker comes by periods. Sometime, I can't stop to grind for 2 weeks straight and sometime I can't motivate enough to play 4 hours per day.

I have a busy week coming. Tonight, a friend comes from Vannes (my former city before moving in in paris). It's gonna be a lot of fun and it's prolly scheduled to have a couple drinks in Paris's bar. Next monday, I take a train to Deauville. My laptop (that I bought one month ago) is already broken and it PISSES ME OFF cause I need one to play next couple weeks. I have to buy another one coz I can't wait to have it fixed (balla right ?).

Yesterday, Artanis11 did a final table@109+r, congrat to him. I don't know how he does to play donkaments. He finished #3 btw.

I plan to get into coaching next month. At the beginning, I will do it in french because I'm not confortable at all with english. So, if you are french and you play fullring (nl200+), pm me and we will discuss details further.

Because I don't know if I will play a lot. Here is my montly garph :




















Obviously, it's my best month ever and I'm HELL PROUD OF THIS.

During my vacation, I will try to take some pics. It's gonna be legen - wait for it - dary.

ho, here is a funny hand

***** Hand History for Game 23931627050 *****
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, January 15, 09:17:34 ET 2009
Table Aconcagua III (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Seat 1: ExMember ( $76.00 USD )
Seat 3: koh samui08 ( $616.80 USD )
Seat 4: DCal Zone ( $406.00 USD )
Seat 6: ADZ122 ( $415.00 USD )
Seat 7: gregy20723 ( $423.10 USD )
Seat 8: lessharm ( $598.20 USD )
Seat 9: Artanis11 ( $529.50 USD )
ExMember posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
koh samui08 posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ADZ122 [ Ac Ad ]
DCal Zone folds
ADZ122 raises [$122.00 USD] <=== I SET A TARP
gregy20723 raises [$423.10 USD] <=== TARPED
lessharm folds
Artanis11 folds
ExMember folds
koh samui08 folds
ADZ122 calls [$293.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, Jc, Ts ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
ADZ122 shows [Ac, Ad ]
ADZ122 wins $833.00 USD from main pot
gregy20723 doesn't show [Js, Jd ] <== ORLY ???
gregy20723 wins $8.10 USD from main pot

have a nice week end guys

Stepping back on whats going on

Last days have been something new to me. I used to grind for $75 an hour at 0.5 / 1 and 1 / 2 and now, I win $300 an hour. It is awesome, true, but I really need to keep focused on my game and my progression.

Last year, when I played 0.5/1 with an amazing winrate of 5ptbb/100 over a huge sample I thought that I could not do better anymore. But the truth is I was bad. Less than other ppl, sure, but I had no idea how to play post flop (a little on the flop maybe, on the turn, if I had nuts I would barrel otherwise I would just check it down to the showdown). I was just a 13/9 type nit who raised with ranges composed of 95% hands for value, 4% for protection, 1% for bluff.

It happened once, I hope it won't happen twice. I'm def going to try to move up as high as I can. Which obviously includes to ALWAYS work on my game. Working his game means to be open minded. To change, to question oneself, to develop new ideas is probably the mark of a sucessful poker player.

However, to be able to question oneself is not that natural. It's a matter of education I guess and it's def linked to our own path.

In poker, there is not a right or a wrong decision, there is just a better and a worse one. The "goodness" (does it even exist ?) of a decision is the result of many factors (position, stack size, history...) and this is only when you masterise all these factors that you are good at poker.

To conclude, to stay humble is probably the key to be sucessful at poker. It permises you always re-evaluate how you did play a hand which the first step in order to take better decisions.

Anyway, I just ended up my last session for today. +3.5k today. I played very very solid today. I feel like I have never played this strong ever and believe me, this is an awesome feeling. I'm 20k up this month. 20k was my monthly goal and it's already done. I'm very happy with but don't worry, I won't stop to play until Febuary.

Also today I suscribed to bluefirepoker.com. This is a new training site lead by Phil Galfond (he is probably my most favourite player. This guy is SO humble). Quality seems awesome to me so far, I can't wait for move videos.

Next week I'm going in Deauville. Given I already accomplished my monthly goal (in term of $, not of hands), I won't be playing poker a lot. I will enjoy the city (there are probably some awesome restaurants) with my friends and poker players Adrian and Rémi.

I feel like this entry has been too long. I will try to do shorter next time.

bb

daily report

hello everyone

Today has been going quite well. I decided to start a session 20 tabling from 1/2 to 5/10. Badfuly, 20 tabling and playing LAG is REALLY hard (I admire ppl like kelisitaan for this) and I feel like I spewed some BI, eventually I ended up ~1k up. I took a break coz 20 tabling is painful and tilting and got back to the tables one hour later. I played 9 tables (3/6 - 5/10) and it went very nice (~+3.5k). I went on diner time and after having a bath I opened up 9 tables. It went quite awful, I lost 3k at 3/6 (mainly because of coolers but also a bit of badplay obv, btw HI to kemikar, I now know he read me) but won ~2k at 5/10 (where I got coolered by keli on my last hand for a buy in, HI to him too).

Also, I don't really know what to post on my blog. You might be interested in daily session report or maybe you want to know more about me or how I handle my poker career. Anyway, just let me know what you prefer.

To finish, I booked my train tickets for Deauville. I will be there from 01/19 to 01/23. And the next day, I will go to Utrecht (netherlands) for a week to meet a friend and a poker player, the wellknown Artanis11. I hope we will have a lot of fun and we will try to discuss poker stuff in order to improve our level.

bb

a little update

Hi everyone

Last couple nights, I have had some issues to sleep and it prevented me to play yesterday. Anyway, today, I was back to the tables and I did pretty well. Actually, most of my winnings came from sobraoboy (he's def the spewest player in the world) and I enjoy everytime he insults me in the chat. I played 16 tables (from 1/2 to 5/10) and ended 3.5k up until midnight where a couple of setup made me lose 2k. I'm still 1.5k up but it's getting frustrating.

Whatever, today, I also received The poker mindset which I have heard a lot of good of and I hope it will help me to be less result oriented/short term oriented, it's something I have to work a ton on.

My coach and I have done a session tonight, we played some 5/10, 3/6 and even one 10/20. No interesting hands, nevermind.

Tomorrow, I will try to play less tables at 3/6 and 5/10 to focus on regulars and try to spot their tendancies. And I announce you that I might go to the Deauville EPT, I won't play it but I may play some side events but I will def hit some cash game tables. Tell me if some of you will be there, we might take a drink or whatever.

cu

ADZ122

A great day

Today I woke at 3PM after a v long night, when I woke up, I knew I was going to have a very good day. I had a rendez-vous with my coach sport to make a program based on my goals. I wanna lose some weight (around 7/8kg, im too lazy to convert in lbs) and keep my self in good shape to permise me to be more focused and less tilted when I play poker.

After 1 hour of sport (40 minutes of running, 25min of musculation), there was stuff I had to take care (cleaning my flat, buying new light...) then I was ready to start a long session. As I said about my 1k shot yesterday, I was to grind nl400/600 16 tables to get my losses back. Obv I won back my losses of yesterday and even ended up with 2.5k or so of winnings.

After dinner, my coach and I decided to start a 600/1k session, we did not do very well (everytime he spectates me I run bad anyway) and he told me I could keep playing 1k. I finished 1.5k up, playing v solid poker (even if I ran bad, one more time). I will post some hh's tomorrow, there are some interesting hands and I will also post hh's where I put sobraoboy on tilt.

Tomorrow, I will pratice an hour of sport (I try to go 4/5 times a week), play poker for 2 hours or so and go in Paris with my brother to do LES SOLDES (a period when goods are up to -80% cheaper, yea my brother is poor, he does not play poker).






















cya guys

1k shot

Hey guys !

Yesterday I took a shot at nl1k and it did not go as I expected. Nothing too bad but I could have done MUCH better. Anyway, I should not have played, I have had a bad night and I slept smth like 6 hours (and I ran bad obv).

Here is the stats :






Today, I plan to go back at 2/4 and 3/6, win it back and wait until I get confidence back aswell to think about 1k.

Some graphs

Here they are !

I don't have my old PT3 database (from march to half november), I searched garphs I posted some month ago when I started. I hope my january graph will be much more than all of them clustered.

Here is my first 100% fullring month :






















June (full of nl100 I believe) :























And nothingelse til november :

My first month as a pro. It misses smth like 50k hands of nl100 where I barely break even (sick yea). And you can also notice a steady decline of my red line (which I thought it was normal for a fullring player until I met my coach).
































December :

Introduction

Hey everyone. Welcome to my blog, I will try to update it as much as I can. To introduce myself, I'm Robin and I'm 20 years old, I live in Paris, France and I play poker for a living since november 2008.

What did I do before turning pro ? I was a student but school bored me (even if I was quite good) and I decided to take a shot on pursueing what I was always thinking to : to play poker for a living. You might think it's quite risky blabla. I'm 20 and I don't plan to play poker for my whole life, I just want to take a sabatic year. I will go back to school next year anyway.

About my poker carreer : I seriously started to play poker march last year where I discovered fullring at stars. Being able to play many tables at once was smth I really enjoyed. I just had $113 on my stars account and started at nl5. One month later, I was to grind nl100. I stayed at nl100 for a while because I was a little scared money. We are now in november, I decide to leave school and I turn pro. Naturally, I could not play for a living playing nl100 and it came obvious I had to move up as high as possible.

Today, I mainly play nl400/600 on a 35k roll and it's scheduled to play nl1k tomorrow thanks to my coach (who also stakes me at nl600/1k). I'm really grateful to him, since we started I have improved my game A LOT and his trust means a lot to me. I hope he won't be disapointed aswell.

Tomorrow I will post some garphs (that's what you are all waiting for I guess).

Robin "ADZ122" C.