The hand converter is working tonight, had to reinstall it and that fixed whatever issue was happening.

Graph for about an hour of play each day this month. I have literal 0 hands from the march to april 1. Not as many hands as I thought I'd played but no real long session just short bursts.



I'm ok with the results, honestly haven't really looked at them so it was a surprise seeing I made no money. I had 50 hands of plo50 where I ran a bi above EV and then I ran way below EV on the rest which was plo25. EV is at 12bb/100 so I can't complain about that especially when I'm playing a very bluff heavy attack your weak range style in a plo25 field of all stations. Rake has also been fun, forgot about how bad it was here(22bb/100).

Once I'm satisfied with my play and study I'll probably just go to a mix of plo50 and 100 again and build the roll there.

Moved back to a mix of plo50 and plo25. So far I've been successful in playing at least an hour everyday but haven't gotten much more in than that since the last post. I've done more study than play in that time so can't be upset about that. Haven't gotten any training videos in but I'm at the folks' place tonight and tomorrow so I plan on catching up with those later tonight and tomorrow.

Feeling really good about my play right now, and probably had my best day of play and decision making in months last night. Having that confidence back is a major difference maker as I had been pretty down on my abilities which maybe a contributing factor to how poorly I've played.

The podcast with Joey was a boost there as well as watching a couple hours of a stream where a plo player from Reddit was playing anything from plo10 to plo100. Watching that really was eye opening as well knowing that the competition was making such huge ranging mistakes and is general not a thinking player. One hand he was talking about how this guy only 3-bets aces and that's it and he gets 3-bet and calls in position. He has a SS bottom-one gapper rundown and calls. He flops a pair+open ender and a bfd on a rainbow board that heavily favors his range as it's all middling/low cards. He talks about how this guy always folds to raises postflop with his aces so we don't have the equity to call with an SPR of ~3 so he folds.


one of my "fun" hands from last night.

Hero covers all, 25 hands at table
btn 100bb, loose passive fish
sb 200bb, loose passive fish pre, hard rock postflop

sb post .25, hero posts .5 in bb, folds to btn who opens for 1.75, sb calls, hero has AJJT and 3-bets to 7, btn calls, sb calls.

Flop: JJ7
sb checks, hero checks, btn checks

Turn: 3
sb bets 7.75, hero calls, btn folds

River: K
sb checks, hero bets 12.75, sb calls

SB shows AQKK and has Kings full of jacks
Hero has quads and wins the pot and cries


Couldn't figure out what sizing to use on the river, hard to have anything so I bet really small hoping that a random king would call or possible Ts or 9s would call. Didn't think villian would ever have an overpair much less that.

CO is btn from prior hand
MP is some crazy loose passive station with no fold button prior to river unless someone bets pot. Playing 95/5 through 20 hands and has 200bb and hero covers.

Same table about 30 min later:
sb posts .25, bb post .5, mp raises to 1, co pots it and has $5 stack, folds to hero who pots it with KKJTss, MP calls, CO calls his last cents.

Flop: JT3r
Hero bets 2/3 pots, MP calls

Turn: A putting two clubs on board
MP: leads for ~42 which is like 90% pot, hero folds

River: brick
MP shows KQ55r and wins with the straight
CO show AAT5r


Both these hands are a reminder of how soft the games are. The last hand especially how this guy takes 0 consideration into ranges. He basically leads pot into me on the turn when it comes a card that smashes my range so hard and is typically bad for his range. I figured at the time he just hit aces up and was going nuts as I had him labeled as a pretty bad fish so it was an easy fold. If he would have checked called I probably would have bet near pot on turn and bet another 100bb on non-club rivers. He threw away $100 bucks with that play.


These are only the two real hands that stand out to me from memory, I did end up losing 100bb last night to somone who bluff 3-betting me on the flop when I had top set when they had to hit either backdoor quads or a bdfd and they hit the fd. I'm running a lot closer to EV outside of that hand though which is always fun. I'm up about 250 through my last 5 hours of plo50/plo25 so running hot too boot.

good luck buddy, i subbed

- flipperstf from reddit

On the river with quads there, I tend to fire near pot. Calling ranges seem real inelastic at that point where he is almost always calling or just never calling.

I can't imagine ever firing pot on the river there for a few reasons. Just because I'm playing against a fish I don't want to play totally unbalanced, just because they are a station doesn't mean I'm not going to bluff them, I'm just going to bluff them less than I would against a reg. I still have to have a semblance of balance in my bet sizings even if I take minor exploitative adjustments.

I also don't think I have near enough bluff combos in my range to go full pot. I have to go half or less in this situation. What hands take this line on the turn that would pot the river? I would have to be potting with 30% of my range here to make a pot bet viable and I won't ever be doing that so I am basically required to size down.

The thing is the strength of villians range. What type of hands do they have when they lead the turn but choose not to lead the flop and check river, let's look at his range. His very strong hands are likely to check on the flop and go for the checkraise as this is a flop that the 3-better has a nice range advantage. The hands that he's likely to lead with should be hands that want value but aren't strong enough for the check-raise or semi-bluffs. Weak Jacks and inside wraps and potentially Queens+. We take aces and AKK out of his range as those hands should be 4-bet pre. I doubt he would lead bluff in this situation as he is a total fish so those are taken out of his range if he would lead flop. In a normal situation I would be c-betting 1/3 pot in this spot but I decided to make an exploitable check instead with my exact holdings.

On the turn after the flop is checked around the dynamic changes. I have been dealt a lot of premiums so far and my 3-bet at the table over a small sample size at this point is 30%+. I have no idea if villian knows this or not and since he was so bad I assumed he didn't know. I think villian is likely just taking a random stab on the turn, it's unlikely that button has a jack because he would have bet it, I think he assumes I would have bet a jack or an overpair if I had it. His leading is likely QQ+, wraps, and random air. The way he had been playing at this point I put his air as being a much higher percentage of his range based on a note I had that said he likes to frequently stab once and give up after being shown weakness/passivity. At this point in the hand I can't raise him as I think he folds 100% of his range that doesn't contain a J or a boat and since we have both jacks it's out of the question.

On the river once he checks to me his range is super weak. This is a fish we're talking about so he would likely bet all his strong hands on the river, he isn't thinking about balance. With the strength of his range being in the toilet I don't think he can ever call me if I size up and polarize my range here. Also the general population tendency is to only polarize their range when they have the nuts so people very rarely ever call a pot sized bet on the river until you get to 400plo or higher on this site. I did tank and use my time bank on the river trying to figure out my sizing and thought most of what I have typed here and decided to go super small in hopes of him finding a hero call.

Not entirely sure my bet sizing was correct but I am sure going full pot is going to be lower ev longterm than what route I did take.

Yeah I don't disagree with anything up until the river, but you stated that he is a rock post flop. Yeah he can fire an airball at the turn and show up with AK at the river, but given the strength of your line I just don't know how often you expect him to call with the hands you are trying to extract value from.

And I'm not saying mash the pot button but 2/3 to 3/4 pot seems better versus what might be an inelastic calling range. Just given what you posted about him being a rock post, I don't know how often hes going to be ch/calling with 2 pair given the strength of your line. That being said, I tend to degen it at higher stakes and people may be more willing to call larger bets.

I've kept up the play and had a streak of playing very well after my last post to come crumbling down on me last week. I had basically a 3-4 hour session where I played horrendous. Making all kinds of bad decisions/plays and just getting tilted. It basically started off with me tilted at the stupidest thing ever. I was running a few BI below EV in 100 hands which is w/e but then it happened. I misclick min cold 5-bet from the BB with pure garbage and then was forced to call off the 6-bet gii with my **** hand and I lost it mentally. Not my proudest moment.

Also my roots are coming back to me. I'm play sure a nitty strat and just making so many bad folds when I honestly should be putting it all in the middle. I just can't help myself, it feels like my play in that regard has regressed a couple years. I know the correct play, I even tell myself I know this is the play and then I click that other button because I subconsciously don't think I can take the variance which is absurd and probably a sign I should just give it up but we all know nobody can quit PLO. It mostly comes from a day where every 4-bet pot went in the direction of villian who was holding complete garbage.

I'm not totally convinced that PT4 is calculating EV correctly either, I have a couple -$50 EV hands from the middle of the month where it was all-in pre where I had AA HU and it says my all-in equity is 0 so something is weird there. I also am missing about 5k hands that aren't in the graph because ignition bugged out on me and said the hands were downloaded but they weren't and i won't let me download them again because they were already downloaded. First time I've noticed that. I ended the month up 150 playing 75% plo25 and 20% plo50. Graph is below for what is recorded. The graph is for the whole month of April minus my play yesterday which I can't download until tomorrow so some of the hands overlap my prior graph for the first half of the month.




As for studying I kind of slacked off for a week. From my last post to a few days ago, I didn't really put any time in so I spent a good 10 hours in the lab last weekend. Learned a few things and recognized a problem from my SB play that I'm going to fix. Hopefully I actually act on my information instead of being a ***** afraid of variance. Any time there is an option I've been taking the lower variance one regardless of EV and that has to change. Just going to have to force myself to take a normal spot. I feel like a batter in baseball that took a pitch to the head and is now afraid to get into the box and take another full out swing and that is just frustrating.




Plan for the next month is too continue to play my hour a day. Keep studying and to deal with my anxiety over variance.

I put in some decent volume for me so far. Here is my play from the last couple nights. Feels good to just say it out-loud how bad I was playing and I know the right decision but I'm never making it. That has helped me a lot. I think I made the right decision in almost every hand here. Running real hot in 2-bet preflop pots and running very poorly in 3/4-bet pots. Aces aren't ever holding but the money will come.

I will try to post these more frequently if I can get some good volume in. I really like some of the other players who post their graphs all the time and give a few hands or talk about their play.


No real interesting hands as I'm being super lame atm and just playing a standard short stack strategy. Buying in for as short as possible and punishing the **** out of people and printing slowly. Might be doing this until I can print my way to a decent bankroll where I won't busto it.

75% of the play is at plo50 and the rest is at plo25. Pretty much all small pots except for one big one where people went insane. Got a heads up all-in with AA76r against AKK6ss with 40 bucks of dead money in the pot from the entire table calling my 3-bet and then the guy to my right 4-bet and I got to 5-bet jam and they all folded. I was ecstatic about that.Who doesn't love a 125bb HU all-in with aces and almost 100bb of dead money in the pot.




Forgot to mention this. I am also playing hudless. I am just disabling my hud because I think it's causing me more misinformation than actual help. I'm playing strictly off notes and balanced strat. I'm liking it so far.

Playing some pretty average poker at best right now. I know I am making a lot of mistakes again, thankfully they are pretty minor mistakes. Doesn't prevent the fact that I'm running like a god right now. I don't actually know the stats but it feels like I'm flopping sets every other hand.


Graph is messed up but it doesn't hide that I'm above EV. I just don't think I'm above EV as much as it says because there are two hands in my db it's screwed up. The first I was all-in with AAQ5ds preflop for 50bb and the pot was 100bb HU. The other player had KT75ds which I dominated both flush draws of his. He flopped the boat but it has me as 0% equity in that hand. The other was I 3-bet with AAKQss get two callers. Flop JT4ss giving me the wrap and NFD, I pot, one caller shoves the other folds, and he shows T4xx and holds but it also has me as 0% equity in that hand so I'm not sure what's up.

Not shown is my session from today which was about 500 hands where I won about $120. Not sure what my EV was but I would be shocked if my EV was anywhere near my winning. It felt like I won a lot of the all-in flips. That sesh will be provided next update.





Hands:
Can't read my hand and fold quads.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=39715



Oops, I won. Really curious if villian should call off the river. It seems insane but I don't think I'm ever bluff 3-betting river. I am bluffing a lot on the initial half pot sized bet but it sure looks like I'm repping 6s hard.

PokerStars - $1 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 160.51 BB (VPIP: 42.86, PFR: 26.53, 3Bet Preflop: 10.53, Hands: 49)
BB: 98.2 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
UTG: 153.75 BB (VPIP: 53.19, PFR: 25.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 47)
Hero (CO): 98.5 BB
BTN: 142.08 BB (VPIP: 10.87, PFR: 8.70, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 48)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A T J A

UTG raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 3 3 6
UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 2
UTG bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB

River: (17.5 BB, 2 players) A
UTG checks, Hero bets 8.75 BB, UTG raises to 30.75 BB, Hero raises to 90.5 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 59.75 BB

Hero shows A T J A (Full House, Aces full of Threes)
(Pre 71%, Flop 10%, Turn 3%)
UTG mucks A 5 J 3 (Full House, Threes full of Aces)
(Pre 29%, Flop 90%, Turn 98%)
Hero wins 195.5 BB



The I'm terrible at this game, single hand where I made the most mistakes this month.

PokerStars - $1 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 103.13 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
CO: 113.14 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 41.67, 3Bet Preflop: 33.33, Hands: 12)
BTN: 71.36 BB (VPIP: 41.67, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 12)
SB: 123.26 BB (VPIP: 41.67, PFR: 41.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
Hero (BB): 55.5 BB
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 9.09, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J Q 9 7

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 11 BB, BTN calls 7.5 BB

Flop: (22.5 BB, 2 players) 5 K 8
Hero bets 13.95 BB, BTN raises to 60.36 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 30.55 BB and is all-in

Turn: (111.5 BB, 2 players) K

River: (111.5 BB, 2 players) 9

BTN shows 6 8 K J (Full House, Kings full of Eights)
(Pre 53%, Flop 86%, Turn 100%)
Hero shows J Q 9 7 (Two Pair, Kings and Nines)
(Pre 47%, Flop 14%, Turn 0%)
BTN wins 107.5 BB


They just have it, don't like my flop play at all. Was trying to check-raise shove because they were betting super light to checks. Would play turn and river the same way again.

PokerStars - $1 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 125.55 BB (VPIP: 32.14, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 28)
SB: 85.97 BB (VPIP: 35.71, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 28)
BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)
UTG: 152.36 BB (VPIP: 46.43, PFR: 28.57, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 28)
Hero (MP): 30 BB
CO: 126.58 BB (VPIP: 11.54, PFR: 11.54, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 27)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A 5 A

fold, Hero raises to 3.5 BB, CO calls 3.5 BB, BTN calls 3.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (12 BB, 3 players) T K 7
Hero checks, CO checks, BTN checks

Turn: (12 BB, 3 players) A
Hero bets 6.93 BB, CO calls 6.93 BB, fold

River: (25.86 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 19.57 BB and is all-in, CO calls 19.57 BB

Hero shows Q A 5 A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 73%, Flop 61%, Turn 25%)
CO shows J J 7 Q (Straight, Ace High)
(Pre 27%, Flop 39%, Turn 75%)
CO wins 61.75 BB



They always have it x2

PokerStars - $1 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 103.63 BB (VPIP: 34.15, PFR: 17.07, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 41)
MP: 129.71 BB (VPIP: 36.59, PFR: 21.95, 3Bet Preflop: 17.65, Hands: 41)
CO: 95.5 BB (VPIP: 15.79, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
BTN: 176.75 BB (VPIP: 51.28, PFR: 30.77, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 39)
Hero (SB): 23 BB
BB: 145.08 BB (VPIP: 13.16, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 40)

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q A J

UTG raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, BTN calls 3.5 BB, Hero raises to 15 BB, fold, UTG raises to 49.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 8 BB and is all-in

Flop: (50.5 BB, 2 players) 3 9 6

Turn: (50.5 BB, 2 players) 9

River: (50.5 BB, 2 players) 4

UTG shows A 3 A K (Two Pair, Aces and Nines)
(Pre 64%, Flop 51%, Turn 78%)
Hero shows K Q A J (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 36%, Flop 49%, Turn 23%)
UTG wins 47.98 BB



Had some HU action in the mix.


PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 94.38 BB (VPIP: 70.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
Hero (SB): 36.8 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 Q 4 8

Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) Q 5 7
BB checks, Hero bets 4 BB, BB raises to 18 BB, Hero raises to 33.8 BB and is all-in, BB calls 15.8 BB

Turn: (73.6 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (73.6 BB, 2 players) 5

BB shows 5 3 6 6 (Straight, Seven High)
(Pre 47%, Flop 18%, Turn 65%)
Hero shows 7 Q 4 8 (Two Pair, Queens and Sevens)
(Pre 53%, Flop 82%, Turn 35%)
BB wins 71.6 BB




Same guy as above, he said he'd quit me unless we moved up to plo100. He was up at this point due to variance but I can't turn that down. Ended up taking $100 off him in about 10 hands before he quit me.

PokerStars - $1 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 144.1 BB (VPIP: 66.67, PFR: 66.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
Hero (BB): 31 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 2 K J 4

SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) T Q 9
Hero checks, SB bets 6 BB, Hero calls 6 BB

Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, SB bets 18 BB, Hero raises to 22 BB and is all-in, SB calls 4 BB

River: (62 BB, 2 players) 6

SB shows 8 J Q 9 (Straight, Queen High)
(Pre 50%, Flop 26%, Turn 14%)
Hero shows 2 K J 4 (Straight, King High)
(Pre 50%, Flop 74%, Turn 86%)
Hero wins 61 BB


SBs play here is suspect to say the least. Sure a fish might not 3-bet the aces but once I 3-bet and the other guy flats I can't figure out how he didn't 4-bet but what can you do. Hand is very straightforward for myself.

PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 130.94 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
CO: 101.64 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
BTN: 87.5 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 4)
SB: 254.66 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
Hero (BB): 30 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K J K

fold, fold, BTN raises to 3.5 BB, SB calls 3 BB, Hero raises to 14 BB, BTN calls 10.5 BB, SB calls 10.5 BB

Flop: (42 BB, 3 players) J A 6
SB checks, Hero bets 16 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 16 BB, SB raises to 106 BB, BTN calls 57.5 BB and is all-in

Turn: (205 BB, 3 players) 7

River: (205 BB, 3 players) 9

BTN shows 6 Q Q 5 (One Pair, Queens)

Main Pot [90 BB]: (Pre 31%, Flop 6%, Turn 0%)
Side Pot#1 [115 BB]: (Pre 43%, Flop 6%, Turn 0%)

SB shows T 2 A A (Three of a Kind, Aces)

Main Pot [90 BB]: (Pre 36%, Flop 88%, Turn 97%)
Side Pot#1 [115 BB]: (Pre 57%, Flop 94%, Turn 100%)

Hero shows J K J K (Three of a Kind, Jacks)

Main Pot [90 BB]: (Pre 32%, Flop 6%, Turn 3%)

SB wins 199 BB

Do you use card catcher? I've had alot of issues with it as well.

I use both the card catcher and card converter. I've had my fair issues with the card catcher the last few weeks. I don't think this is on one of those though. The hand is in PT4 exactly how it happened, no issues so it's something with PT4.

I have each hand in my database three times under different aliases for various study reasons and each time those hands are screwed up and they were all imported with a different tool.



I had a lot of anxiety when playing yesterday so my session was very short lived. I couldn't get myself to do the right plays and ended up dropping to plo25 because of it. Ended up running up 4 stacks there in 45min paired with losing a stack at plo50 so I ended up $50 on Sunday. No idea on EV as my card catcher didn't work.


Made up for the lack of play by doing a bunch of studying. I've still got a few minor issues with my preflop play from SB and MP. Also think I might be value betting too thinly on rivers. I thought I wasn't going thin enough lately so I've been making that my point. After a couple hours of reviewing my play I watched a couple Lautie videos and a Galfond video and they decided to check back some hands that I would for sure have gone for value. They explained why they didn't go for value so I think I may need to review my value/bluff bet range on a certain river spot. It appears that I'm value betting thinner and to make up for that I'm also bluffing wider but that may come to hurt me against stronger opponents who are check-raising rivers properly, which is something that I am really haven't ran into at all online in the last couple years.

Overall had a pretty good weekend results wise but not too happy with my play in some spots. Will be working on fixing that. After studying basically all afternoon I got some Player Unknown battlegrounds in with my boys. Ended up getting a chicken dinner, which we get our fair share of those. The thing about this one was that I actually contributed a large amount to the win which felt great. Usually I just am there as a distraction because I'm so bad at the game so that was nice turn of events.

I kind of fell off the radar for a bit. At the time of my last post and probably the next month after I was playing poorly and running poorly and kind of in a bad place. I basically withdrew everything off the site and expected to be done.

I got sick of my IRL job, and put that as first priory. Did some studying of data systems I haven't used, and went on the job grind. Got a few offers in a city where all my college friends are at. Decided I didn't really want any of those jobs, ended up landing a new one a couple hours away from them which isn't bad. Got settled with that and the move, took a week to bike across my state. Then I did some family stuff, sister got married, buddy got married.

I played the **** out of POE while this was all going on so that took most of my free time. Decided that I wanted to give poker a try again. Didn't think I would really do anything with it, was mostly just to screw around and have some fun. I had 65 left in the account I gave myself from earlier to **** around with. Played some PLO5, almost went broke, had 100% of my site roll on the table at once which is fun. Ran that to 100, played some plo10 at this point. Lol 10bi BR, at 90, moved back to plo5, went back and forth for about a day and got out of the "danger zone". Ran it to 300, moved to plo25, (still lol BR). That started to go really well, ran it to 1500.

Played a few $20 tournies and $10 with some freeroll tickets as a promo system. Ended up playing some PLO8 ones because those seemed the softest, almost hit the expiration date my last couple so I had a day where I had to use them or lose them. Played two satties to $150 plo, stone bubbled the first, got my ticket on the last one. Played the event, which was already going, couldn't believe how soft it was. Was 9-max and usually at least half the table was playing it as if it was plo5hu. Ended up running extremely well going deep, final table bubbled it for 1k. I took my tourny winnings off the site as I wanted my cash to be seperate and I have no idea how to get tournis into PT in the first place off ignition.


At this point I figured it would be worth tracking my hands again. I reupped by sub to the card catcher and started tracking. This is somewhere in the last few days of September. That is where the graph starts. I realized quickly that when I'm refreshing the graph as I play, it's basically just a tilt machine. It took me to about the 12k hands mark to realize it. At this point I had some buddies over from the nearby town and we were drinking and watching movies and playing board games for a long weekend. They knew I made some money playing poker in the past so they had me play. I 4-tabled for about 2 hours while drunk with a bunch of drunk people playing plo25, with the boys screaming and yelling behind me. Trying not to get them to influence my play but that's probably impossible. Thankfully we ran hotter than the sun and got a ton of action and the graph went straight up.

This last week i started upping the volume, playing for 2+ hours each day, sometimes 3, doing at least an hour of studying after the play. Been on a heater, feeling more confident. The more I study the more I realize all the changes I made to my game in the last year have been in the wrong direction. I keep playing more and more like my first half of 2016.

Now for the only thing people actually care about. This is basically my play for the last month. I didn't track my play prior to that card catcher expiring and assuming I would just go broke and be done with the terrible BR.


EV is at 11.8 bb/100, 90% or so plo25 and the rest is plo10 when I couldn't get 4 tables of plo25.

Started tracking at about 1500, we're sitting at about 2300 right now. No denying that I'm running well. Until a couple days ago it felt like I was losing all my 90%+ all-ins, and winning just about literally every hand I had 51%-90 equity. I'm sure I had some bias with my memory.

Probably my favorite hand recently from memory. Not too often you have 60%+ equity against top set of Aces. I was raising to try and get A+:T-K to fold and got shoved on.

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 9 7 5 8

fold, MP calls 1 BB, CO raises to 4.4 BB, Hero calls 4.4 BB, fold, fold, MP calls 3.4 BB

Flop: (14.6 BB, 3 players) 8 6 A
MP checks, CO bets 10.6 BB, Hero raises to 46.4 BB, fold, CO raises to 133.44 BB, Hero calls 81.4 BB

Turn: (270.2 BB, 2 players) T

River: (270.2 BB, 2 players) J

CO shows A Q A 6 (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 56%, Flop 38%, Turn 20%)
Hero shows 9 7 5 8 (Straight, Jack High)
(Pre 44%, Flop 62%, Turn 80%)


At this point I'm trying to figure out when I'm going to take shots at plo50. My initial thought was at 2500, I would shot take and then move back down at 2300. I've used that in the past once when I was moving back up. I'm also no idea when I want to shot take plo100, 7500 is my guess for now but I'm so far off that I don't really have to worry. The only set in stone number I have is that I'm not playing plo200 without 20k. Looking for some semi-aggressive shots as the player base is very weak. I just had to open my eyes a little and come to facts from my prior posts. I'm not playing near my peak skill level like a 1.5 years ago but I'm slowly making my way back.

I might not post these often or at all going forward, probably just going to fly by the mood I'm in. It's a miracle I'm still playing and didn't bust when I had a 10BI roll no matter how large the edge is.

Nothing like a long day of getting destroyed at work to come home and play a 10 hour session of the relaxing game of PLO.

One of the $100 losses was me 4-betting with AAxxDS and getting a caller, flopping top set, checking back on an extremely dry board, and then getting potted turn, and potted river, They had top two and backdoored quads so 0% equity.

Biggest loss of the night was when I was $225 deep, villian covers me, I have KKQ9DS, he's drunk going all-in every hand (75/70/65/100)and sitting on a $800 stack all made in an hour. Someone opens, he 3-bets, I 4-bet, other guy is all-in for his 100bb, he 5-bet shoves, I call. He shows down QQ85r and flops 855, hero cries.

Only other exciting hand was me flopping middle set with TT99 on QT7, betting flop, betting turn, and gettting shoved on for nothing by a short stacker who shows QQ and the river gave me quads.


Overall not happy with my play. I thought I played too passive and ****ty in some spots the first 500 hands, I was basically check folding everything, missed a lot of check-raise spots after review.

One thing I am proud of is my play, got really focuses after the losses. No tilt, just pure can-do attitude and grind. If this would have happened to me a year ago I'd fall apart and lose 1/4 of my account or more chasing.

99% PLO50

subbed keep it up!