Ok, long time no hear - yes I'm still alive :)

This is a little post about last 2 months and some results and plans
for this year and the actual ongoing GSOP.

My 2009 went fine so I finished 79th in years rating at ongame and was
at 120days ranking 12th at best case... I guess thats not too bad
for the first year of semi-professional playing MTT's :)

Last week I cracked the 100k in prizes at ongame and with 36k in profit
I still feel I can improve but more or less still a good result. It feels like
mixing my game with some new things or a bit coaching to have some
other pro's ideas can help - so Cre8ive I can't await your free coaching :)

Sure I'm sometimes too stats-oriented but what else is left after playing
thousands of hands than just comparable stats ?

Finishing the story about 2009 I wanna say thanks to some heros
specially from ongame... Why ? Coz some of them criticize me at the start
but a lot of them became good friends on my way to get this all even more
professional day by day :)

Shouts to (order at random): Ripcheader (some kinda paradigm),
I.am.on.tilt (congrats for 3rd at PLO1k event at aussies),
Roflmao (for listening to my bad beat stories - but they get less mate :-D),
7Heinzinger7 (soo young and already wise as my grandpa),
xmisstilt (the angel at the site), and last but not least
CorpseGr (yes - YOU - allthough you criticize me still I think you push me in
the right corner and i defend and keep on fighting back with results)

Ok, I hope I don't miss some important...

Now plans for this year and the actual ongoing GSOP:

At least push prizes significant over 200k and profits hopefully into 6 digits
and FT one of the GSOP events in the series IIII (GSOP Leaderboard top30)
and may I play a live event to proof I'm total FAIL :)

Greetings from FAILABAKUS

so november has gone and with some nice results lately (2 FT's in
the 50k again) I really hooked up myself to 2k plus in november after
three and a half weeks massive downswing :-)

getting myself more busy at pokerstars and playing their new 180 ppl
turbo's with 3.3$ buyin and rebuy at first 30 min I found my way back
to get close to positive ROI at stars. I won't remember wcoop where
I played arround 20 events and started well with some cashes and then
couldn't make any cash at all in the second half of the series. it was an
absolute rollercoaster from 3k- to 2k+ and then to 3k- again :-(
but these 180 ppl SNG's really got me back from 3k- to 1k- last three
weeks and I hope to be positive at all at the end of the year.

as I read some other blogs I noticed its getting winter and more ppl
play online poker again (probably more fun players?) !!! thats why my
title of this blog "more fish in winter ?"

as I focused on playing poker semi-professional since june this year
I had really no experience if the amount of fish is rising these days and
if this is rising more than the return of some pro's that I also recognized.
so the sommer is often a chance for some pro's to recover TOO...

So I would like to start a small discussion here - what do you think is
rising bigger ? The amount of fish in winter or the comeback of relaxing
pro's from sommer ? PLS comment here to get a picture of it :-)

I definitely say - MORE FISH these days !!!

this is a little resume about my last 6 months of playing poker
more serious or in a semi-professional way. looking back at my
cold numbers I played 672 mtt's last 180 days with 130 cashes.
my actual ROI is at nicely +82% and I made arround 2,5 % of those
mtt's top3 places... so all in all it looks good to me but looking
deeper into the numbers I see that the july was a big profit month
coz I managed to get three deeper 4 digit scores and october was
nice too. the november is already ending and I really see no big
difference in the stats this month but it could may be the first red
one so I wondered what I did wrong here ?
the only thing thats different if I resume the month by myself is the
fact I missed to go REALLY DEEP (top3 or better) in a bunch of FT's
in the bigger MTT's I play (50k 2 times, 18K 1 times and 5.5k 2 times).
So I thought about what was wrong there or was I able to be better
and if yes how ?

This all brought me back to the question: "What is the best tactic
on a final table ?" imagine we talk about the huge diff in the prize ladder
if it comes to top5 or top3 and I love to share an idea I had to may
analyse my exit-hands at these "MISSES" in november.

So far I know I was well placed in any of these above mentioned five
final tables (at least a top3 stack at a longer time at the table) and still
wasn't able to get deeper. One or two of these exits were not able
to avoid: KK vs 1010 / QQ vs KK - both hands got 3 betted preflop
ALL IN by myself and I don't really see any chance to play it different
but the other three exits where mostly JJ vs Ax or JJ vs higher pocket.
OK - an amount of three hands doesn't say much but here is my idea
of it - I really think I have to take care of the hand 1010 and JJ in these
spots. Rather playing them if possible to the flop than reraising them all
in preflop or calling all ins with it preflop... May its my crazy mind but this
goes somewhere to analyse exit-hands specially those at important FT's
where I'm in good stacks and really can wait for absolute monsters.
On the other side I really think I'm very carefull at these situations already
not playing too aggressive or overpacing - once again it would be helpfull
to have your thoughts about it.

If you would have the above info's would you just say "UNLUCKY" or
would you advice me to play different in these spots ?

PLS POST GUYS !!! and also GIRLS :-)