After talking to Jossnaz today I've immediately decieded to withdraw a large chunk of my bankroll from PacificPoker. I've put into motion a withdrawal of $10,000 which should be processed in 3 days to my moneybookers account (for some reason, Pacific's withdrawals always take 3 days no matter what) and from there I'll probably ship those $10k to my Austrian bank account and invest it in something "safer" then what I am investing right now.
One of the main reasons for withdrawing and shipping the money to Euros is that Dollar is getting weaker and weaker and weaker and I don't want to be the speculator saying when it will go up or will it go further down or whatever. One thing I am certain of is that it won't go up quickly enough or soon enough, so there's really no point in waiting for that to happen when I can change the USD to EUR ASAP and start investing.
The other reason is obv. that I don't need $20k to just sit on an online gaming site; I am even thinking of withdrawing additional $5k which would leave me with around $3.5k and I think it should be enough for NL200 and small NL400 stabs like I am doing now. About that, I'll think later..
I think I've pretty much decided on a laptop I'll buy.. It should be 13.3" Toshiba U300-111 and should cost me a bit less then $2k here. The other models are just way too expensive for me to consider right now. Maybe I'll look into buying a laptop in Austria if it's cheaper or something and then just traffic it to Croatia.. dunno.. Must thnk about that.
So, poker.. Inspired by I have started to work (on my own) on incorporating more bluffing and thus aggression into my game. So far, and it's a very small sample still, it seems to work out nicely but I can see that it completely changes my game so I am a bit afraid of that TBH.
Until I started doing this, most of my profits basically came from winning at showdown and finding lines to get me to showdown with better hands. That means that I also went to showdown quite a lot for a sTAG(!?). On the other hand, I was losing money on the hands that didn't go to showdown, so in between those two were my poker profits.
So far, I have noticed that my WtSD has lowered significantly, that my aggression numbers went up and that I win at more showdowns. This time around, I win some money in non-showdown pots as well.
The key would be obviously to keep going to showdown and winning the pots that I was winning before (lines that take me to showdown), and the rest of the time bluff my way up the non-showdown winnings.
Obv. I need to work on this and hopefully I will find a stable, optimal and precise balance between the two.
Here's the graph of the month so far.. I am running a bit hotter on All-In EV it seems, but in the grand scheme of things (referring to all time graph obv.) it's not that much and it's not even that much noticable..
(6:35:48 PM) giantgrwth: I once beat up an attempted murderer, 25% true story
(6:35:59 PM) hard2tel45s: boxing?
(6:36:06 PM) giantgrwth: Yea
(6:36:14 PM) hard2tel45s: sweet
(6:36:30 PM) giantgrwth: He was my best friend too, lol
(6:36:48 PM) hard2tel45s: well u were in the crazy bin bro