Alchemy of Poker

 Dear Alchemists, I hope you all had a nice Christmas time with your loved ones and could relax a bit. With me it went also so far quite well up to that I to my whole stress before it managed to tear me the third time my cruciate ligament. Unfortunately, I fell down in the evening and went to the MRI shortly before Christmas to have it examined. The nice doctors told me there that my knee was very good except for the fact that my anterior cruciate ligament was missing. Since I already had such an operation twice on my left knee, I can tell the people who have so far been spared that it is not as bad as it always sounds. From the physical side, you can actually walk again after 6-8 weeks and the pain is also within limits with the right anesthesia. What is a bit unusual for me is that I now put more weight on my operated knee, since my healthy knee is now also gone. At the beginning, this meant that my operated knee sometimes hurt more than the damaged one. It had to get used to the new

Dear Alchemists, I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and that you and your loved ones are healthy so far. For me, this Christmas season has been pretty Unfortunately I couldn't extend my streak and win another two weeks. I could play this time even only three sessions and have these completely in the sands set. This has different reasons on the one hand I did not run well and on the other hand I had several insecurities in spots where I was just not sure and often made wrong decisions. For this reason, this week I have been more concerned with educating myself on the theory side of the game. Going back to the lab is especially advisable in such moments, as it is the best way to clear one's conscience. I always find it very challenging that even after playing so much poker in the last few years, several sessions when you have lost always try to scratch your self-confidence. This always makes me especially aware of how challenging poker is in general and why I love the

Dear Alchemists, From a poker technical point of view this is the first week since the start of my challenge that didn't go so well. I simply had a lot on my plate privately and had almost no time to play. I don't blame myself if I made the wrong decisions that led to this result. At least I was able to learn some new poker material, because I managed to finish reading "Whe Math of Poker by Collin and Douglas, which I can really recommend to anyone who is looking for a logical approach to poker. I also started reading the new book by Barry and Dara "Endgame Poker Strategy - The Icm Book. Since I have already read the two books in the series and found them great I am really looking forward to it. For me as a SNG and MTT player, there are a lot of things in it that I already knew, but also a few subtleties that I had not yet noticed in the way. I'm super excited to see what the rest of the book is like. I have so much time to read, unfortunately, because I stupidly