Thanks Mephisto, glad you like it.

I didint manage to get to the casino on Friday. I have been avoiding alcohol for a while and training hard so after two glasses of whine and some beer I was in no shape to head to the casino after the dinner.

Did not play any online either until today. Did not feel to sharp starting the tables after two days of drinking, but still managed a solid session of 5 hours. Was up 200 after the first three hours hitting alot of my pocket pairs who then held up every time. Last two hours nothing held up instead and ended the session with still up close to a 100, so it was still a decent session.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 108.76 BB
UTG: 116.36 BB
Hero (MP): 369.56 BB
CO: 82.72 BB
BTN: 92.44 BB
SB: 99 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 4 A 8 A

UTG calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 4.4 BB, fold, BTN calls 4.4 BB, SB calls 4 BB, fold, UTG calls 3.4 BB

Flop: (18.6 BB, 4 players) J 3 A
SB checks, UTG bets 1 BB, Hero calls 1 BB, BTN raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 42.8 BB, BTN calls 34.8 BB

Turn: (105.2 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero bets 100.72 BB, BTN calls 45.24 BB and is all-in

River: (195.68 BB, 2 players) 5

Hero shows 4 A 8 A (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 67%, Flop 67%, Turn 78%)
BTN shows Q 7 K Q (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 33%, Flop 33%, Turn 23%)
Hero wins 187.68 BB

This hand was awkward on the flop when I was checking my phone and almost folded my top set vs a min bet. Just managed to press call before auto fold. That mistake was probably the biggest reason I managed to stack him.

Not much more to say about the other hands today, I did however sign for the 11usd sunday storm and managed to grind a pretty nice stack. But I ended up busting early on anyway.

BR at 785 and if I can manage another good run tomorrow im finally gonna be able to do an update here on 2+2 when im actually above my starting 800 :P.

Played two sessions yesterday. The first one lasted only little more then an hour when I broke my mouse so it started double clicking randomly from time to time. So rushed to the store and got myself a new cheap gaming mouse which I actually kinda like. After getting back home I started the tables again and when I was close to calling it I got join at a table I where a 89%VP / 80%PFR /60%3bet whale was sitting very deep. He was also using three bullets almost every hand he played, and with the pots being 3bet more then 50% of the times the pots got big fast.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 599.6 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 696.28 BB
BTN: 138.44 BB
SB: 1635.08 BB
Hero (BB): 96.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 8 A A 4

UTG raises to 3.4 BB, fold, CO calls 3.4 BB, BTN calls 3.4 BB, SB raises to 18 BB, Hero raises to 64.2 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 46.2 BB

Flop: (138.6 BB, 2 players) 6 A 6
SB checks, Hero bets 32.4 BB and is all-in, SB calls 32.4 BB

Turn: (203.4 BB, 2 players) K

River: (203.4 BB, 2 players) T

SB shows 8 6 5 9 (Three of a Kind, Sixes)
(Pre 42%, Flop 5%, Turn 3%)
Hero shows 8 A A 4 (Full House, Aces full of Sixes)
(Pre 58%, Flop 95%, Turn 98%)
Hero wins 195.4 BB

First hand I played with him and I was looking to gamble with him early with him being so deep I wanted to double fast and be able to play big pots with him. With this hand it was very easy to just jam alot pre and push in the rest no matter the flop. Luckily the perfect flop came aswell.


PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 169.52 BB
MP: 412.84 BB
CO: 778.72 BB
BTN: 325.36 BB
SB: 243.68 BB
Hero (BB): 505.36 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 6 8 3 5

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 8 9 8
SB bets 5.76 BB, Hero calls 5.76 BB

Turn: (17.52 BB, 2 players) 4
SB bets 16.76 BB, Hero calls 16.76 BB

River: (51.04 BB, 2 players) K
SB bets 48.88 BB, Hero calls 48.88 BB

SB shows T 4 5 K (Two Pair, Kings and Eights)
(Pre 62%, Flop 8%, Turn 15%)
Hero shows 6 8 3 5 (Three of a Kind, Eights)
(Pre 38%, Flop 92%, Turn 85%)
Hero wins 142.48 BB

Not much to say. I call pre with a garbage hand in position and hoping to hit big and just call as he throws his money away. Didint want to raise river since we are so deep and even he wont call here with worse often enough to make a raise worth it.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 663.08 BB
BTN: 155 BB
SB: 859.6 BB
BB: 245.32 BB
UTG: 989.12 BB
Hero (MP): 275.92 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A J A J

UTG raises to 3.4 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls 6.6 BB

Flop: (21.4 BB, 2 players) 8 J 3
UTG checks, Hero bets 13 BB, UTG calls 13 BB

Turn: (47.4 BB, 2 players) 4
UTG checks, Hero bets 29 BB, UTG raises to 58 BB, Hero raises to 219.4 BB, fold

Hero wins 156.44 BB

Miss read my hand preflop and Thought I didint realize until the flop I had pocket JJ to go with my aces and that I actually flopped a top set. Regretted my pot size bet on the turn after he min raise me. Think a raise closer to 41usd would have been better to keep him in the pot with such a monster.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 1375.6 BB
MP: 432.72 BB
CO: 525.44 BB
BTN: 407.8 BB
SB: 194.6 BB
Hero (BB): 281.16 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 4 Q 6 Q

fold, fold, CO calls 1 BB, fold, SB raises to 4 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB

Flop: (12 BB, 3 players) J 2 3
SB bets 11.48 BB, Hero calls 11.48 BB, CO calls 11.48 BB

Turn: (46.44 BB, 3 players) 5
SB bets 22.24 BB, Hero calls 22.24 BB, CO calls 22.24 BB

River: (113.16 BB, 3 players) 4
SB bets 108.36 BB, Hero calls 108.36 BB, fold

SB shows T 4 4 K (Three of a Kind, Fours)
(Pre 34%, Flop 17%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows 4 Q 6 Q (Straight, Six High)
(Pre 66%, Flop 83%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 321.88 BB

Called for the 5 of hearts on the turn, but the 5 of spades as alright aswell. Didint want to scare him away on the turn when I hit the nuts so I decided to call and hope for a brick. The reg behind me called aswell so was fortunate another spade didint fall or it could have gotten ugly. Wasent the best river and I chose to just call because of the other reg behind me. Would have had to foleded if the reg behind had pushed. He is one of the tightest regs on the 25PLO so he would never get out of line there or raise with anything but the absolute nuts. Luckily the river trigged the whale into another maniac bluff and the reg folded so I could scoop a nice pot.

Thanks to the whale the session ended in a positive note and the BR is at 895! Been a long time since I was dreaming of pushing it over 1k so hopefully I didint just jinx it and can keep running hot for a few more sessions.

Jinxed it with my last post. two tiny wins and a 200 dollar loss last three sessions leading to a 170- total. Felt like I played fairly good given the cards I was delt the last sessions, with the exception that I over played a couple a hands I 3bet. I have a hard time laying down my really strong starting hands when being card dead and given no action when finally making a hand. So after 3betting a couple hands it should have been pretty easy to just fold when I knew I didint get the right pot odds, but that AKQJ double suited looks so pretty pre flop.

And now pokerstars implemented the 4 tables ring game rule so you cant play more then four at once. It dont affect me much right now when im playing on two sites at the same time, but when I only play pokerstars I prefer 5-6 tabels and 4 would just feel to slow. I understand the point for less multi tabling to make it a better environment for the recreational player and in that regard the change is fine with me. But at the same time I feel like this is to push more people into the zoom games so we can rake even more money. We need more spread of poker players on different sites since pokerstars got such an huge player base advantage atm they basically got monopoly and can make what ever rules they want and we will keep playing there. I tried party poker around a year ago and the only thing that was better with that site than stars was the cash back system. Party had alot tougher players, laggy client and alot less players.

The Swedish government also made some new law so we dont even get the loot box system stars use. We get absolutely nothing to play there, but the player base makes it worth it anyway. in 228 hours of played I have raked 2.3k dollars and won 1.4k so having like 30% rake back like I would on party I would be making alot more money. But then I think I would win less and it would even out. I think im still gonna try Party again in a couple of months and play 3 sites at the time, but only use Party for 1-2 tables and really try and get on the low stakes table with good action and avoid the regs. then there is the Swedish poker site which got few people playing omaha, but the tables usually got quite good action so might consider playing alittle there aswell. Got to much stuff coming up to so all these plans will have to wait atleast a couple of weeks and Ill keep grinding with what I got for now. Still even then if I change it up with mores sites the main goal will be to keep the four tables im allowed open at stars at all time and then adjust other sites around that.

BR 715...

Stay strong dude, I’m currently $700 under EV in PLO25-50. It sucks but unfortunately it happens.


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Thanks and right back at ya, thats some rough EV...

Just completed a session and today was the lowest number of tables ive seen since I started. Could barley keep four tables up at the time with decent action in the 3:15 hours I played during that use to be peak hours. Cant believe the reduction to 4 ring tables max had anything to do with it since that shouldent affect anything for the recreational one tabling players. Was still a good session banking a 100usd profit and got two hands that I think can be worth discussing.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 100 BB
CO: 124.96 BB
BTN: 148.48 BB
SB: 104.64 BB
Hero (BB): 209.32 BB
UTG: 80 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB, UTG posts penalty blind 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.4 BB) Hero has A A 4 7

UTG raises to 3 BB, MP calls 3 BB, fold, BTN calls 3 BB, SB calls 2.6 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 5 players) 8 6 A
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, MP checks, BTN bets 10.76 BB, fold, Hero raises to 28.72 BB, fold, fold, BTN raises to 100.52 BB, Hero raises to 172.32 BB, BTN calls 44.96 BB and is all-in

Turn: (305.96 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (305.96 BB, 2 players) T

Hero shows A A 4 7 (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 60%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
BTN shows J 9 6 8 (Two Pair, Eights and Sixes)
(Pre 40%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 297.96 BB

Im gonna slow play this very often in the BB when its basically a family pot and a pot bet would bring most of them along alot of the times, and then my hand rarely play well post flop. This time I managed to score a flop thats as good as its gonna get and with alot of players in the pot. I get alittle panicked when its checked around to the button and thankfully he bets. I chose to raise pretty small and as I hope for lots of action but its get folded back to the BTN. and because I only called pre with AA he wont think I got top set and if im lucky he got a set of 8s and will shove here. Then it turns out he had alot worse hand then I ever thought he would have here when he shoved.

He truly over played his hand. The guy on the BTN is a reg with bad stats (to high on everything except for 3bet were he got almost none). He does however have two pair and a flush draw which at first glance will look very strong. He knows me to be a tight reg aswell so when I raise here he should know that I got a really strong made hand or a huge draw. his 6-8 two pair also block good vs potential sets I can have. so with my cautious play style he really should put me on atleast ace high flush draw here. Then he also knows I got atleast one pair, and if I dont already have him beat with a better two pair I will have decent outs to make it along side my flush draw. And to be fair I would make this play with hands like AJT9 with flush draw, but then his hand still only have 34% chance of winning. His hand is also a terrible starting hand and should be folded pre flop. And on this flop with the action being as it is he really puts himself in a position where he will always be an underdog, its just a question how bad a shape he will be in.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 122.16 BB
UTG: 212.56 BB
MP: 103 BB
CO: 91.24 BB
BTN: 41.84 BB
SB: 92.24 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has T J 2 8

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, CO calls 1 BB, fold, SB calls 0.6 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (4 BB, 4 players) 8 6 7
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, CO checks

Turn: (4 BB, 4 players) 9
SB checks, Hero bets 2.4 BB, fold, CO raises to 4.8 BB, fold, Hero calls 2.4 BB

River: (13.6 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero checks, CO bets 6 BB, Hero raises to 20 BB, CO calls 14 BB

Hero shows T J 2 8 (Straight, Jack High)
(Pre 58%, Flop 65%, Turn 100%)
CO mucks 4 6 T 3 (Straight, Ten High)
(Pre 42%, Flop 35%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 51.32 BB

(this hand is against a bad recreational player ive seen before, forgot to mention that in the text below)
Ill skip right to the turn where im finding myself in the big blind I insta check until the turn where I get the nuts. Pot is very small and even to I have the nuts I dont like my hand with no redraws and no realistic position of getting alot of money in being favored to win. I bet half the pot and get a min raise. The reason I dont raise again is because I dont want to build a pot where alot of the time my opponent got the same hand and sometimes a redraw for the free roll. His min raise is also strange but it can be a bait where he hopes i got the same straight and push back. When the river is a brick I put him on two hands, either the second nut straight or the more likely nut straight. So being out of position its an easy check where this type of player will most of the times bet both straights, and when he does bet I make a small raise he wont be able to resist if he happens to have the worse straight. Worse case scenario he got the same straight and goes all in so we have to pay max rake... Almost sad it can be considerd to just call with the nuts because of rake.

On a nother topic.
Im gonna try and find a few hands in situations I have not found myself in recently. Those hands are similar to the one above about having the nut straight, but in this scenario its against regs that pot bets on the turn effectively committing me to the pot. And in these spots where I have had no redraws and been out of position I have chosen to only call with the purpose of going all in if the flush comes in or if the board pairs. This is because I put my opponent on the same nut straight and with no redraws my only chance to win is hope for a scare card and bluff him of the same hand. This is in situations where there is already alot of money in the pot so when I intend to bluff the river I only got around 20% of my stack remaining. Its enough to sometimes make you oppnent fold a nut straight thinking you just donked them. Funny enough the two examples of this I want to share my read has been wrong and my opponents have actually not had the straights in these situations so when I have check called on the river they were just bluffing trying represent the straight. But its a play you definitely should consider if you have the nut straight with no redraws and the only thing that makes sense when analyzing the hand is that you opponent got the same hand and is free rolling.

Ran bad yesterday and after a long session I ended it down 240. Usually get quite tilted when losing, but last few losing sessions actually didint bother me. Played well and even to there were a few spots I could have lost less. Then today I felt like I was playing really well and ended first session up 125. Then I made a bad decision to play another sessions when I felt stressed and forced action playing way to aggressive with several hands. After two hours I had to call it because I could not play well at all and was down 150 so even with a good session early in the day I still ended the day in the red.

So now im down 250 in two days and a bad beat irl where I need to buy some new climbing stuff where I had to withdraw another 250, so BR down to just above 300 again. Going away for a while aswell so not gonna be able to play until Sunday. I have a good feeling about September so looking forward to the next session.

Took longer then expected to get into the next session, and it turned out to be a rather short one. But it ended with a profit atleast which was needed. will probably mostly do shorter sessions for the time being with the time I got available.

Good news is that I will be getting some well needed cash and wont have to withdraw any money from my stars account in a while (not that I could with a BR of 350usd...). About 6-7 years ago I owned an apartment I bought pretty cheaply. and then after a while I moved away to another city but kept the apartment because I didint know if I might wanna move back. And after a few months I let my bro move in there who needed a place and I wasent using it so it was no biggie. A year later it was clear I wasent gonna move back and I made him a deal he could buy my apartment for the same price I got it for instead of market price who had gone up quite alot, and then he could stay there as long as he wanted and we would split the profit 50/50 when ever he moved out. And today it happend, wasent the best of times to sell and we would have made more if he sold only like 2 months ago :/ but still after taxes and all those payments im looking at 10k euro which I can really use at the moment. I felt really good about myself all those years ago helping him out and not going for the extra money back then when I wasent in to good a financial state myself. And now when money is running low again this feels alittle bit like karma.

With this I think im gonna subscribe to runitonce and look through the omaha content which I can probably benefit from alot and is something Ive been meaning to do for a few weeks now. And with the 1k usd I get a month from school Im feeling confident I can get my challenge goal done with out having to do any withdraws until its done!

Been a while since last update and if anyone remembers me, im neither dead nor broke yet!

Been slacking hard and only two sessions in the last three weeks... first one of these two was a roller coaster swinging down 150 and then a come back getting to 100 profit in like an hour. The comeback was very needed to since my BR was in real danger of just wiping out at that time and I actually thought I would bust it that day. Then I had to move to a new apartment and I just stopped playing poker for the last few weeks up until today where I played 90 minutes and grabbed a 37usd profit, leaving total BR at just above 400.

Not that motivated to play atm, but I know if I just put in a few sessions it will come back. But Im also heading to Miami in the beginning of November so not sure if I should get into playing more hours now or wait until after. I should try and play some more upcoming two weeks since I wont probably play at all in November. Except for maybe some live games in Miami which would be cool.

Was concerned I was not gonna find motivation to play any at all before heading to the states, but after last post I managed to pla a few sessions even to they were short ones. Really need to get a second screen as I felt I got bored way to easy playing four tables.

Also deposited some cash back on the swedish poker site "svensk spel" and played what roughly translates to 0.20-0.40usd blinds, playing 200 big blinds deep. A lot of weak players there and the action is usually quite good even to its very little people playing, and I had a good start there in my first two sessions which I hope will lead to that I can build a bankroll there aswell. So my plan is to play two tables there and four tables on stars when I get back from my vacation.

BR pokerstars 599.

Back in Sweden since little more then a week ago and have been doing a couple of sessions aswell as catching a cold thats made me stay in my apartment for last few days driving me crazy. Played two short sessions today where I ran ran bad in both and decided to quit the first sessions when being down just a tiny bit. But it didint take long until started the tables again, and again I ran bad losing a couple of all with 65-70% favored which is not unlucky to lose with, but it can get to you after a couple of them in a row. Also played on svenska spel two tables where I just couldent hit anything and was down about 150 dollar which I got back after a guy went on tilt and started punting, and another guy who wouldent stop betting half the pot 3 streets every hand. He left pretty fast unfortunately when he was sitting at the table with 400usd and I had about 180.

Also made two bad plays today (lying to myself here, made more), and both were intentional in the way I knew they were bad plays as I was making them and still I didint stop myelf, so need to work on that.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 16.68 BB
BTN: 353.52 BB
SB: 315.52 BB
BB: 89.64 BB
Hero (UTG): 95.2 BB
MP: 362 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Q K J 4

Hero raises to 3.4 BB, MP calls 3.4 BB, CO calls 3.4 BB, BTN calls 3.4 BB, fold, BB raises to 20.8 BB, Hero calls 17.4 BB, MP raises to 90.4 BB, CO calls 13.28 BB and is all-in, fold, BB calls 68.84 BB and is all-in, Hero raises to 95.2 BB and is all-in, MP calls 4.8 BB

Flop: (300.52 BB, 4 players) A J 2

Turn: (300.52 BB, 4 players) J

River: (300.52 BB, 4 players) 7

Hero shows Q K J 4 (Flush, King High)

Main Pot [70.52 BB]: (Pre 19%, Flop 20%, Turn 63%)
Side Pot#1 [218.88 BB]: (Pre 22%, Flop 24%, Turn 78%)
Side Pot#2 [11.12 BB]: (Pre 27%, Flop 30%, Turn 97%)

MP shows 6 K K T (Two Pair, Kings and Jacks)

Main Pot [70.52 BB]: (Pre 34%, Flop 22%, Turn 0%)
Side Pot#1 [218.88 BB]: (Pre 47%, Flop 35%, Turn 0%)
Side Pot#2 [11.12 BB]: (Pre 73%, Flop 70%, Turn 3%)

BB shows Q 8 9 T (One Pair, Jacks)

Main Pot [70.52 BB]: (Pre 26%, Flop 40%, Turn 22%)
Side Pot#1 [218.88 BB]: (Pre 30%, Flop 41%, Turn 22%)

CO shows J 4 5 5 (Three of a Kind, Jacks)

Main Pot [70.52 BB]: (Pre 21%, Flop 18%, Turn 16%)

Hero wins 292.52 BB

Was down about 80 bucks here and when I called the 3bet and someone else 4betted and I just thouth "okay guess its time to go punting". But not a good hand to tilt with being high cards but no nut flush options. I do this type of calls about 2-3 times a month so its an very obvious leak and I still cant stop myself from doing it. Some time I actually do this with the intention of quiting the tables after for about 30 min if I lose to take something to eat or drink and then stretch a bit and un tilt. That helps a lot and I can reset my mind quite fast and start over, even tho the tilt lies a lot closer to the surface and if I lose a few more buy ins after that then I almost have quit for the day. Only time this is not true is when im down a lot, like 10+ buy ins, then I usually play my best poker because im completely dead inside and I have given up on any dreams of making a come back that day.


PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 62.16 BB
BTN: 283.2 BB
SB: 196.4 BB
BB: 178 BB
Hero (UTG): 492.04 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has A A J 3

Hero raises to 3.4 BB, fold, BTN calls 3.4 BB, SB raises to 14.6 BB, fold, Hero calls 11.2 BB, BTN calls 11.2 BB

Flop: (44.8 BB, 3 players) 3 4 J
SB bets 28 BB, Hero calls 28 BB, BTN calls 28 BB

Turn: (128.8 BB, 3 players) 9
SB bets 123.32 BB, fold, BTN raises to 240.6 BB and is all-in, SB calls 30.48 BB and is all-in

River: (436.4 BB, 2 players) 7

SB shows A T 4 A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 60%, Flop 68%, Turn 83%)
BTN shows K 5 T 2 (High Card, King)
(Pre 40%, Flop 32%, Turn 17%)
SB wins 428.4 BB

A hand I felt I miss played every street. Should have 4-bet pre to try and get heads up. And since I didint and that dry flop came I shoud have raised the original raiser to defend my two pair which will be the best hand 95% of the time. And the way I played it now made me get to the turn in a way where every decision just feels awful and I got no clue where I am in the hand anymore. This was in the end of the session and I had gotten into passive mode wanting to protect my winnings which is as pretty common state of mind for me when im winning small and know im gonna quit quite soon.

Need to work more on my poker and was looking at Runitonce again as I mentioned here before to give a try and I think ill do that very soon and get that 100usd monthly subscription. The only thing I dont like about the site is the actually site, even to the content might very well be super good I have a hard time navigating on that site to kinda scope out what videos they have. And where I really want to start is hand range pre flop where I will make a ton more money if I can get that sorted better as I find myself in post flop situations that are really hard.

Anyway BR at 820. Need 5328 more hands which is the exact number I need to have played 100k hands on 25PLO high 6 max, so will do a post then with a graph and a lot of random stats.

Kul dagbok, håller på med en challenge $100-$10000 så vi möts snart . Hojta till om du vill diskutera Händer etc eller dylikt =)

Gl with your goals. PLO threads are always my favorite. First hand I wouldn’t even be opening that utg especially at your stakes with the rake. Non-nut suit, easily dominated and obviously the 4 dangler is essentially useless. Probably open CU+. Second hand I agree with everything you said. No reason to not 4 bet that pre and you 100000% need to be jamming that flop as played. I’m also going with it on turn as played. Block top set and other sets should be rare based on opps ranges.

Thanks for the comments Travbana & Smitty.

The hand KQJ4 double suited hand you commented on Smitty I agree and is borderline to play UTG. it depends on the table a bit since it can vary a ton at this low level, and I think you can even make a case to limp with this hand here sometimes. Limping is a thing I recently come to accept as a legit strategy as I before when learning to play NLHE limping was associated with beginners and fish, but back then c-betting flop small like is very common today was also unthinkable then.

At the same time I only limp very little and when I do its mainly in utg & utg +1 position. And im not balanced at all here where my opponents could read into it easily that I never do this with premium hands and never limp 3 bet for example. But it doesnt matter to much at this level since I mainly target recreational players that wont notice this. Also at 25USD there is currently not a reg that is abusing my leaks, and at the same time I dont abuse other regs leaks that much either. I mainly pick up alittle extra pots from the other regs that fold way to easily, but when they decide to defend I dont rarely put them to the test.

and as I been talking about a bit in this thread is that I had some desire to order a second screen which I now did! So in the next few days my new 31 inch curved screen will arrive, and when that is set up ill sub to run it once and check through the Omaha content. First time I pay for content and where I have only watched very little GTO content on youtube, so I have a good feeling this will be very helpful.

BR at 980 atm and will start up tonights session in a few hours so who knows, maybe its time to hit the 1k mark again for the first time in way to long.

A decent 4 hour session where I didint get much going on stars that ended in a tiny profit that left the BR just 3 dollar shy of the 1k mark... So close!
Went better on the two tables on svenskaspel where I managed to make around 320usd, so all in all a very good day.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100.8 BB
SB: 136.4 BB
Hero (BB): 172.08 BB
UTG: 228.8 BB
MP: 143.08 BB
CO: 89.56 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 6 K J 4

fold, MP calls 1 BB, CO calls 1 BB, BTN calls 1 BB, SB calls 0.6 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (5 BB, 5 players) 7 5 3
SB checks, Hero bets 4 BB, fold, CO raises to 16.8 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 12.8 BB

Turn: (38.6 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, CO bets 36.96 BB, Hero calls 36.96 BB

River: (112.52 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 53.88 BB, CO calls 34.8 BB and is all-in

Hero shows 6 K J 4 (Straight, Seven High)
(Pre 51%, Flop 59%, Turn 75%)
CO shows 8 J 5 5 (Three of a Kind, Fives)
(Pre 49%, Flop 41%, Turn 25%)
Hero wins 174.36 BB


Miss read this hand completely. With basically a family limped pot I assumed the other guy had to have the same straight when he raised me pot on the flop. And since I didint have any redraws I decided to slow play it to turn which was a brick. And I decided to not check raise turn since I was convinced we had the same hand and I could not improve. So here I decided to go all in no matter the river and if the board paired or flush draw got there I was just gonna hope he didint have it and that he might even fold on a scary river so we dont have to split the pot. As it turned out he had flopped a middle set so glad the board didint pair in the end. I like this play in this situation since I think almost every time my opponent will have the same straight and free roll so at least I would normally get a chance to win this pot with the chance of bluffing him of the same hand in the end.

PokerStars - $0.25 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 69.08 BB
BTN: 100 BB
SB: 164.88 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 98.6 BB
MP: 253.16 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has K Q K 5

fold, MP raises to 3.4 BB, fold, BTN raises to 11.6 BB, fold, Hero calls 10.6 BB, MP calls 8.2 BB

Flop: (35.2 BB, 3 players) 3 9 6
Hero checks, MP checks, BTN checks

Turn: (35.2 BB, 3 players) 2
Hero checks, MP checks, BTN bets 20 BB, Hero raises to 88.4 BB and is all-in, fold, BTN calls 68.4 BB and is all-in

River: (212 BB, 2 players) 4

Hero shows K Q K 5 (One Pair, Kings)

BTN shows 7 5 A A (Straight, Seven High)

BTN wins 204 BB

Couldn't believe he called this bluff. The guy that called me is a super nitty reg and the random guy is a lose recreational player. So I really didint think the reg would be able to find a call here since I thought it looked strong I checked flop and then check raised the turn against two players. He even had the Ace of diamonds so he couldn't really put me on a flush draw either. He did think for a long time to and in the end I just think he just made a frustration call that showed me drawing close to dead. Was a risky bluff with two people in the pot, but the rec player was obviously empty and the reg I didint think would stand to the pressure of an all in, I even thought he would fold his Aces with a flush draw in there. Looking back at it I wouldn't do that bluff again, better to do it in situations where I have a really strong draw to go with it so when I get called I dont stand there empty. But at the same time I want regs to be aware that I am willing to push my stack in light since I will have the goods here most of the time and want them to pay me of with weak to mediocre hands.

BR at 997 so back at it tomorrow again.

Ps. Sorry if my english contain more spelling errors then normal, very late and to tired to try and proof read it.

At micro stakes the overcall in the blinds vs a 3b is very transparently KKxx a lot. Don't like the bluff at all, you rep so, so few combos of made hands or even high equity bluffs.

1st hand wp and good thought process imo. 2nd hand agree with the previous poster. Kind of torn what to do on that turn, but I honestly think fold/flat is close with a player acting behind you and no backup. I just think you’re going to still have flush draws, gutters, etc. in your range that would be more effective as a bluff.

I agree , coldcalling 3b are usually KKxx or big broadway wraps like QJT9 etc, I’m not quite sure what you are trying to rep on the turn ,54?
Gl at the tables 💪

And while most regs at micros obviously are awful, I think you're being slightly arrogant if you think that your tendencies to play too wide in ep and the blinds is not hurting you.
Non zoom sees the weaker players who you can more often claw back with post flop play here, but you should cut an enormous part of your preflop ranges if you want to ever move up. I say this as a 100 and 200 reg who thinks pretty much every reg until 200 is awful.

Yeah I agree with you guys on this one. Didint rep much in that bluff, but as much as he folds I thought it was very unlikely for him to call against that pressure.

And I agree with what you are saying to Aofrantic, I definitly need to tighten up my pre flop game. Yesterday I did especially bad at that, and I was getting very few good hands to actually play, so I should have sucked it up kept folding. Pre flop range is the first thing I want to work on in my game, and I know I cant get much further on my own. Since im quite new at playing omaha as my main game I still do learn on my own and from my mistakes, but I need out side help if I ever want to get actually good at this game. So first step on getting help to improve is subscribing to run it once as I talked about before. Also think this short comment you left is gonna help quite a bit aswell tbh, it says what I have been thinking about and your comment feels a little like a kick in the ass to apply more discipline and not just "yea I should probably not play this marginal hand"

It's tough, especially when you're starting out. But hands like your A569 single suited earlier in the thread are huge leaks plenty of players at your level have. Its just not a hand that flops well and realizing your equity in the sb is not easy, it leads to an increase in variance.

It's easy to be in a pool of bad players and play down to their level. They limp or call weaker hands? You think you can get away with it by your post flop edge. But you're just hurting yourself.

@aoFrantic, there is a lot of players at this lvl with 50% vpip and most of them limp a lot aswell with their weak hands. Usually you decide how big the pot is gonna be in the end since they rarely donk bet or check raise. Played another session today where I focused a lot on pre flop and it felt a lot better as I didint end up in as many difficult situations with marginal hands. Need to keep doing it and work on it even more to really get to feel and understand the difference it makes.

Not many interesting hands today and I struggles in the beginning but started picking up some bigger pots after an hour or two which landed me in a win today of 80usd and pushed my BR over mini goal of 1k! Been really fun playing since I got back home and I feel really motivated to push it towards the next stop of 2k before making the last effort towards the goal of 3k! Getting to 3k will give me a decent BR to try my luck at 50PLO again, and by then I hope I have been able to harness enough skill to beat that game aswell.

BR at 1074!

50 is softer than 25 for like half the day with less rake. Take shots when the pool is weak

Yea I was doing that in the beginning of the challenge. but now im going to try and finish it just playing 25PLO on stars til I its done. Then ill probably go straight at 50PLO and also taking shots at the 100PLO if I see someone at the tables I recognize from before that is weak.

Over 100k hands today after two sessions. The first one was yesterday night and it went very poorly, and it was some really good action so was unfortunate the cards were against me. But I have been running really good so should not complain to much. And today I had a nice bounce back right away winning 150usd. And as passing the 100k hands mark! Im gonna upload my graph of those hands.

https://imgur.com/a/KYgL0VC

Im a lucky guy winning almost twice as much as my expected ev, but Im not so sure how much information that actually tells. Either I have been a lucky donk my whole life so why would that change now?

Also winning 6.73$ an hour is not really what im looking for. all tough half my winning have some now in the last 12k hands I hope that is something I can keep going with or atleast get my winnings up to 10usd/hour. getting it up to somewhere around 15 seems a bit to hard. and looking at 8.02bb/100 is pretty decent I think, and I think getting that up to 10 should be quite easy if I work on my game.

https://imgur.com/a/BL5mraj

here are some statistics for anyone interested (feel free to attack them). I havent looked much at them for a long time and I hope I find some helpful stuff on run it once to compare stats like this, and a proper way to look at your own stats to try to spot leaks and improve them.

My new screen still havent arrived and I got a text today from the delivering company explaining it will arrive shortly and the delay is because of the massive black friday sales. Gonna be nice to use two screens again, but I think ill stick to 6 tables for now atleast since even with that amount my brain can freeze lag when I get into action on several tables. It happens very rarely to so might try 8 tables later on.

Bank roll at 1092$ and I have really been enjoying the game last few weeks and looking forward to do some more training and improve my game.