..makes sense for me because i set myself a target and this blog should help me to achieve it. Its here to remind me of every little milestone and to not forgert a single one which means that i have to work hard on my discipline. To make a long story short - those are my goals which i want to reach until oktober 2008:

• to step up from nl50 to nl100 with 35 buy ins
• to step up from nl100 to nl200 with 35 buy ins
• a winrate of at least 4ptbb at nl200 after 50k hands
• to not play more than 2 hours/day
• to avoid any tilt reactions to bad beats
• to review my played hands in my pt database and reading/answering to hand histories in the cr forum for half an hour/day
• to update this blog at least twice a week
• to pass my last exam in July 2008
• to finish my diploma thesis until September 2008
• to sharpen up my spanish language skills by studying at least half an hour every day

Now i want to introduce myself - i am a 25 years business administration student from Vienna, Austria. And just to remind you guys from the US, in Austria we neiter have kangoroos nor koalas, but Hermann Meier, good old Arny and unfortunately Josef Fritzl (if you haven t read or seen anything about this horrible case in the news so far, google it..)

Additonally the founder of Red Bull is austrian and all the cans you guys drink over there are still produced and filled in our little country. But enough of geography - lets talk about poker.

I discovered my passion for poker in January 2007 when i got 10 dollar for free to play at party poker. It didn t take a weak until i bought my first poker book: Winning small stakes poker. Its enough to say that i wasn t aware of the fact that this book was for holdem limit players - i probably didn t even know the difference between no limit and limit at that point in time. Nevertheless i did my job grinding up the micro limits quite well and could cash out 150 dollar while still leaving 100 dollar in my account which i lost trying to be a tricky nl10 dude. Next i bought the Brunson bible and some Harrington books which improved my game so much that i could afford becoming a cardrunners member by turning my 50 dollar deposit into a nice NL25 bankroll. The switch from NL25 to NL50 was quite easy but my shots at NL100 have always been very ugly. So i ended up grinding NL50 for a quite long time and was massively overroled. I gave myself another shot at NL100 and it worked out quite well. But then i had to cash out my whole bankroll (the exchange rate was extremely bad) because there were some bills which had to be paid and fortunately i did a nice 3 month trip to Florida and Latin America with my girlfriend. Unfortunately i lost the majority of my PT database and so these are my last stats before the cashout:

Back in Austria i deposited 500 dollar and started grinding NL25 6 max again. I moved up to NL50 with only 15 buy ins because i thought i had quite an edge against the other players. I have been grinding this limit now for about 3 weeks and i am pretty happy with the result:

Next step is win another 7 buy ins at NL50 so that i have the 35 buy ins for feeling comfortable at NL100.

I keep you guys posted.

GL at the tables,

Lukas