Alchemy of Poker

Hello Alchemists, unfortunately I had little time to play poker in the last two weeks, because I had to work a lot for my PhD. Together with the end of the school year I unfortunately didn't make it. But to show you what else I've been up to I've written an excerpt of my talk at the GdCP (Society of Chemists and Physicists). Feel free to write your opinions, if you think it's cool or rather nonsense. Writing about: Collaborative, creative, transparent, and test-proof use of generative AI in teaching-learning processes. "The team of authors from schools and universities is researching the transparent use of artificial intelligence (AI) at all levels of the educational process. Students in a specialized didactics seminar are to use generative artificial intelligence to research and compile information, translate texts, create graphics, and develop media for a series of lessons at the Europaschule Bornheim. It is important that this is done in a collaborative and tran...

Dear Alchemists, today I would like to continue my mini-series and again link a worldly topic with poker language. After talking about general life and GTO last week, today I want to write about love and Equilibrium. Having come out of a toxic relationship myself a year ago, it is natural to assume that this could not have been the end of the line. So if you realize too late in a relationship that you have not improved your skills enough and are ultimately being taken advantage of, you should first get back to a more normal level, with or without help. Today, fortunately, more people are also getting help from the head and not just the body for illnesses. If we break down this state, which I called GTO last week, a little further, we can rightly say that we have reached interpersonal equilibrium. So if we conduct a relationship on this basis, no one should make a profit or a loss. Now let's ask ourselves the consensus question: Do we want to have a relationship at all, in which eve...

 Dear Alchemists, I have decided to fill my blog in the future not only with more or less diary entries. I would like to try in the future at least to improve my writing style and offer you at least a little bit of content.  For this reason I have decided to choose a topic, if I have the time, and write a short text about it. As a topic for this blog I somehow found this topic good: What are the similarities and differences between our general life and GTO.  As you know, in poker language GTO means Game Theory Optimal, now if we relate this to our life, GTO could be called the life we generally call "normal".  Nevertheless, this raises the question of what lives are "normal" in this day and age? Are they the lives that have grown up in a post-war model of family consisting of husband, wife, at least two children, dog and marriage? Many would have answered "yes" to this question in the past and couldn't be further wrong today. Of course, many may share ...

| twitter | discord | blog | private coaching | twitch |  Kind regards Dear Alchemists, Thank you so much that so many of you have stopped by. I'm getting better and better at streaming. Although my total winnings are not so strong this week, I still have to get used to all the things. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed sharing my sessions with you guys and I hope to do it again soon. Next weekend I might only be able to do Sundays as I'm getting a visit from my family, which I'm really looking forward to. I still find it super exciting to learn all the streaming skills on the side and hope to have more deepruns to show you soon. You are also very welcome to write topics here that I can work through for you in the livestreams. So if you have hand histories or questions about poker or for me, you can ask them at any time. I have also prepared the next video for pokerstategy and will probably record it this week. Thanks again! Liebe Alchemisten, vielen vielen Dank, dass so v...

Dear Alchemists, I will be streaming again today and tomorrow. I would be happy if you drop by. I'll answer any questions you want and I'm grateful for help with streaming. You can find the approximate start times on my Twitch page. Think I'll start between 4 and 5pm today and Sunday I'll try to make it around 11am. I will try to stream in German and English. Please just write hello and I will answer your questions in your language. |  twitter  |  discord  |  blog  |  private coaching  |  twitch  | Liebe Alchemisten, ich werde heute und morgen wieder streamen. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn ihr vorbei schaut. Ich beantworte alle Fragen, die ihr möchtet und bin für Hilfe beim Streamen dankbar. Die ungefähren Startzeiten findet ihr auf meiner Twitch-Page. Denke, ich werde heute zwischen 16 und 17 Uhr anfangen und Sonntag versuche ich es gegen 11 Uhr zu schaffen. Ich werde versuchen, deutsch und englisch zu streamen. Bitte schreibt einfach Hal...

Thanks to everyone who watched.  I will also stream my Saturday session tomorrow. It will start tomorrow around 18:00. GMT+1 

  Dear Alchemists, I am happy to announce that my new video about pushing in MTT is in the starting blocks. I will also add a StartupRanges for you to the homework post as soon as I can. Also very cool in the last two weeks was the interview I did with Paxis for you guys. I had a break-even week myself, which I can be happy with. Sometimes it's not so easy to cope with the fact that one side is negative longer than the others because of the volume. I think the advantage of only being able to play one side is that you only have one value to pay attention to. Strictly speaking, by adding the sides it is the same, but I just don't want to have to send money from one side to the other all the time and bear unnecessary additional costs. Nevertheless, I will produce in the next two weeks the folge video of our series. See you soon. Start bankroll:  $3000 Last weeks Profit:  $29.22 Overall Profit:  $3869.79 Today's Bankroll:  $6869.79 Goal:  $15000 Liebe Alchemist...

Dear Alchemists, I am still deep in the downswing, but I am satisfied with my game. I'm erasing much less and can concentrate much better again. The rest will come by itself now. I think I might be able to play during the week again, which makes me mega happy. I think with more tournaments in total I should be over the hill soon. The poker meeting today was very cool again, I made two small mistakes, but that's normal. From a sports point of view it's going very well. I've already lost 9 kilos and hope to lose a few more. It is finally not as I have wished, but it goes forward. Thanks again for your support, that means a lot to me. I have already recorded the next video. Also here again the please: Send me your tournament histories, because I would like to review the one or the other as a whole for a new video. Start bankroll:  $3000 Last weeks Profit:  -$134.56 Overall Profit:  $3840.57 Today's Bankroll:  $6840.57 Goal:  $15000

Dear Alchemists,  I'm in a downswing, but I'm more motivated than I've been in a long time. Today I participated in my first Stammtisch for the German pokerstrategy community and it was a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to repeating it in two weeks. Until then I try to concentrate mainly on learning and producing the next video of my series for you. Enclosed I have listed my goals of the year for you today, so that you have a rough idea of what I am doing.  In two weeks, I'll write you the second part on my blog and show you what question I ask myself to achieve my poker goals.  - 1) Spend some time with your loved ones. - 2) Be a successful low stakes mtt reg and work on my game constantly.  - 3) Play 22$ mtts regularly - 4) Read at least 4 books (poker and other stuff)  - 5) Finish the main parts of the TMC - 6) Start working on your health - Stop drinking too much alcohol - Exercise enough to keep the fat percentage below 20%. - Eat higher qualit...

Dear Alchemists, I hope you all slipped healthy into the new year and that you and your loved ones are doing well. I am very happy that I finally took real steps forward. I unfortunately had to face other challenges on top of my difficult breakup in the middle of the year. On one hand, after my knee surgery at the beginning of the year, I had another surgery in December. Ran into the wrong people on the way home, unfortunately, at night, so I had to have my nose operated on. Very unpleasant, but also really urgent. I didn't even realize that you have to operate on something like that within a week. Fortunately, everything went well during the operation, so after about four weeks I finally have no more problems. On the other hand, I had to look for a new apartment because my landlord sold my apartment. Since I couldn't afford 420k for an apartment in Cologne, I've been busy looking for an apartment lately. In Cologne this is a real challenge. After countless viewings, I was ...

 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 stupid...

Dear Alchemists, I am happy to inform you that I am slowly getting better. Both physically and mentally. My optimism and my family have helped me out of the worst of it and I believe that it would get better every day. Sometimes you have to heal yourself first to help others. The sad thing is that often one's own hardships come about because one wanted to help others. Especially when it is hard to admit to yourself that it is not possible to help everyone all the time, as much as you would like to. Poker technically, I have to refocus first. I had a lot of concentration problems the last few weeks and had a hard time getting myself to play at all. The sessions I played were rather modest, so I have to repeat a lot of things. I think that this process will be finished soon, because I already took some small breaks during the poker sessions. The planning phase for the next videos for you I have also completed. I will record the next videos for you in the next week. As soon as I have ...

Dear Alchemists, unfortunately I have no positive news for you this week. Disappointingly, I was not able to play poker or produce videos for you in the last two weeks. But I'll make up for it in the next week and will record several videos for my beginner MTT course. On the personal side, I'm finally getting fit again and will be able to start jogging again soon after this long time. I am really looking forward to it. Furthermore, my personal differences unfortunately ended badly, so I decided to separate from my wife. Sometimes you fight and do everything in your power to make it work, however, it always takes two there. No relationship is perfect or even close to it, but if you don't want to work on it anymore, there isn't much hope either. I am someone who very, very much does not like to give up, which is why I gave everything I had until the end. The thought of maybe finding someone in the future who appreciates me and my character doesn't make it any less dif...