Hey all,


My name is James and I'm in the pacific northwest.

I have been grinding PLO20/25 for a while now.

To hold me accountable to play well, I'm starting this thread.

I play mostly on merge nowadays.


Anyway, I will be posting results, graphs, interesting/perplexing hands, etc.

Hopefully, I will be able to keep this up.


Tentative Goals:

Play 2k+ hands/day

Rake $500+/wk (I get 50% RB)

Run Good


My current BR sits @ $1,288.11.

Cheers!

OK. I'll start with a couple interesting hands that came up today.

Hand #1

OK I don't know how to convert Hand History.

So here it goes.


Merge, $0.10/$0.25 Pot Limit Omaha Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $25.78 (103.1 bb)
BB: $25.30 (101.2 bb)
UTG: $52.15 (208.6 bb)
Hero (MP): $36.43 (145.7 bb)
CO: $16.90 (67.6 bb)
BTN: $26.19 (104.8 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 7s As 5c 3d
UTG folds, Hero raises to $0.65, CO folds, BTN calls $0.65, SB folds, BB calls $0.40

Flop: ($2.05) Ah 4s 7d (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $1.36, BTN calls $1.36, BB folds

Turn: ($4.77) 3h (2 players)
Hero bets $2.38, BTN raises to $11.91, Hero folds


As soon as I clicked bet button, I was like WTF. By betting, I'm only getting called/raised by hands that beat me and will be chasing away all the hands that I beat with the exception of maybe A4.

I think, clearly, that I should have c/c to re-evaluate otr. I have 6 outs to a boat if I'm behind. I can also make a crying call otr to realize bluff catching equity.

By betting, I opened the door for villain to raise with his entire range to get me off.

So that was a mental blunder on my part.

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I'm really beat so I'll just post more tomorrow.

Thx, guys, for reading.

James

I think your goals are quite bad, you should focus on winning rather than raking Xamount.

On the hand: I think i would Bet fold turn here alot because our equity might not even be 6 outs. Villain could have 77+fd or better. I prefer bet folding this spot. Check calling the turn for a possible 6 outs (obviously his bet sizing matters i think i would Check call for half pot and evaluate river, but if he had potted it i would fold and be happy about it.) seems quite terrible esp without implied odds.

Hey, thanks for reading. I am always open to constructive criticism and will always appreciate it. =)

As for the goal, I thought it was assumed that I would be winning. But I guess I needed to be clearer.

Therefore:

Addendum to "Tentative Goal"
Win 15bb/100+

Cheers!

Mid-day Break: Feb. 22, 2012

Hands Played: 2026

Net Won: $110.20

Win Rate: 21.72bb/100

Rake Paid: $46.00

Current BR: $1,398.31


There were a couple hands I would like to post. A couple hands I totally butchered. And some tilt inducing hands as well. I'll try to post the hands later tonight.

I'm going for a short nap and hopefully will be able to put in a sesh or two starting around 6 pm PST.

Hey guys,

Just finished the day.

Put in the longest session ever (4:24) since moving to Merge for 1679 hands.

I guess that's the only upside since it was a tough sesh. I started out being down 5 bi's and had to grind my ass back up to near even. You know how it goes. You are so close to even and then BOOM, you get coolered or sucked out on or w/e.

Down $10.69 for the session @ -6.37bb/100. =(


Cumulative Report: Feb. 22, 2012

BR @ $1,387.52

Net Won: $106.96

Win Rate: 9.36bb/100

Minutes Played: 780

Hands Played: 3,877

Total Raked: $86.03


I'm gonna go for a short walk and try to post some hands.

Cheers!

i know this pain, Had a session last year when i took at shot @25plo ran really bad dropped 13 buyins grinded it back was only down 3 buyins then BOOOOM dropped 7 more and i called it a day lol. PLO is the devils game, Post some hands plox.

Hey 7ylerdurd3n.

Thx for coming back! Good to know that someone's reading.=)

As per your request, I'll post some hands. First, I'll post hands that I butchered.



I don't know what I was thinking. Bare top two vs two opponents who are showing interest interest in the pot. I guess this is one of my leaks...thinking that since I have a blocker to top set...ugh....but so easy to give a set (222) to one and a draw to the other...and gtfo of the way.

Again...UGH!!!

Hand #2

How to 3bet OOP w/ marginal holding and overplay bottom 2 putting V on OP.
=(

Butchered Hand #3

How to overplay Aces and step right into the trap.

UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK...looking at the butchered hands makes me embarrassed. LOL.

But we first need to be BRUTALLY honest w/ ourselves first in order to improve, don't we?

OK. This is a sick hold.

Gametime, I thought I had at least 55%, but I actually only had 44%.

OK. To cap it all off, I'll post the WORST SUCKOUT EVER!!!

No words or explanation needed. Better to run good than be good for sure!

wow u tend to 3bet alot out of the SB with marginal holdings.

Hand 1: i check call here if the BB reraises and co ships its an easy fold.

Hand 2: i just call pre our hand is pretty good + if the BB comes along it would make it more worth while mulitway. As played on flop i Check call and donk/bluff alot of turns vs villains range.

Hand 3: 3bet pre. Good aces always gonna 3bet. No point 3betting rundowns then never 3betting AA. As played on the flop donk flop. Bet fold turn.(had u 3betted)

Hand 4: wellplayed nothing to see here, iam shoveling money in this spot everytime

Hand 5: Given ur preflop action fistpump that flop they can show up with 35xx. spades. btm set etc which we have decent equity against. Shove flop When CO raises not too worried when BTN calls cant fold too much dead money.

Feb. 23, 2012 Mid-day Report

1st Session

MEH

At first, my computer started lagging and my HEM kept crashing which tilted me to no end. I took a short break @ around 250 hand mark. I was up $2 and change at this point.

Then after vacuuming indexes on HEM and restarting computer, I fire up 9 tables @ 25, all excited to attack the fishes and to rake $120 needed to get extra 5% of RB.

Apparently, the doomswitch found me. Quickly down 5 bi's + in a matter of 200 hands. =(

Grinded my ass back up yet again to even and I called for a break.


Results

BR: $1,391.42

Net Won: $ 3.90

Hands Played: 956

Win Rate: 1.63bb/100

Rake paid: $ 37.19


Hoping for a couple of better sessions later today.

Cheers!

Feb. 23, 2012 Mid-day Report PartII

The table keeps breaking and I was getting too annoyed. So I decided to call it quits for now rather than to play angry.

I'm learning to post pics and HH...all by myself. LOL. I'm kinda proud of myself for doing so.

Heh. Let's see if we can't up the graphs, results.

Here it goes. (Keeping fingers crossed)

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/210/223353pm******

That obv didn't work. =(

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


HEH....This is exciting.


LULZ.

Anyways, back to Mid-Day Report


BR: $1482.69

Net Won: $95.17

Win Rate: 25.53bb/100

Hands Played: 1,491

Total Raked: $47.47

Hope I can play a session of 1k+ hands later tonight.



GB!!

GJ on figuring out how to post graphs. now learn how to post hh's.

Post more HH's!

i suggest @the start of ur sessions that you play extreamly nitty for just 1 or 2 orbits that way you dont have one of those -5buyins 200 hand sessions then grinding to Breakeven.

UGH!!!

The tables keep breaking. I don't know what it is about today. =(

I don't like playing shorthanded...because I stack tables and I can't see action on the tables.

Like my tables nice and big so they fit my HUD w/ 25 stats. LULZ.

So another quickie sesh w/ only 208 hands. =(

I guess my quest for 55% RB for this week has failed. I needed to put in 3k+ hands today...only managed about 2k.

I think I have one more sesh left before the days done and over with. Hopefully, I could put in more than 1k hands then.

Thx Tyler for keep coming back!!

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As of Feb. 23, 2012 17:56 PST

BR: $1,501.16

Net Won (2/23): $113.64

Rake Paid (2/23): $51.31

Total Hands: 1,699

Win Rate(2/23): 26.75bb/100

I'll post 10 biggest pots of the day. I'll try to add commentary as well. =)

Hand #1

CO: 24/19/6.1 over 129 hands. Steal 37%. Aggro pre, Avg. post.

Hand #2

Oh my, this is a completely butchered hand. No excuses.

Hand #3


SB 53/20/10.1 over 296 hands SB vpip of 68
BTN 17/13/4.0 over 601 hands

Hand #4

Weird hand.

This is the guy who got stacked in Hand #2 w/ AAA.

SB: 71/36/12.5 4b: 12.5
BB: 89/72/68

[converted_hand][hand_history]Merge, $0.10/$0.25 Pot Limit Omaha Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

CO: $23.04 (92.2 bb)
BTN: $16.05 (64.2 bb)
SB: $29.35 (117.4 bb)
BB: $79.75 (319 bb)
Hero (UTG): $57.74 (231 bb)
MP: $26.03 (104.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 4 7 8 5
Hero calls $0.25, 3 folds, SB raises to $1, BB raises to $2.12, Hero calls $1.87, SB raises to $8.48, BB calls $6.36, Hero calls $6.36

I limp UTG w/ a small one gapper. WTF??? I rarely limp. Actually, I don't even remember limping. It must have been a misclick. Anyways, SB raises and BB min 3b's. I call and SB 4bets BB calls and I call. At this time, their range is so wide you can't really put them on anything. I guess that's a mistake. Highly volatile environment when you have to play on absolute strength of your hand.

Flop: ($25.44) 9 9 6 (3 players)
SB bets $20.87 and is all-in, BB folds, Hero calls $20.87

SB shoves and BB folds. I have a low wrap + small bdfd. If he has AAxx, I like my chances. If he has a 9, I'm screwed. If he has a bigger wrap, I'm screwed. I should have folded here, never mind getting 2.22:1. But I stupidly call, ofc. I wasn't too far behind. But lose on the river. Oh well, such is life. EASY COME, EASY GO.

Turn: ($67.18) 5 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: ($67.18) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: $67.18 pot ($3 rake)
Final Board: 9 9 6 5 A
SB showed 7 A T K and won $64.18 ($34.83 net)
BB mucked and lost (-$8.48 net)
Hero showed 4 7 8 5 and lost (-$29.35 net)