Hello!

A short story about me, I'm a 26-year-old guy from Northern Europe, no wife nor kids, hoping to go pro and maybe settle down somewhere warmer! I'm also working on some online business that I hope will generate whatever income after some time.

Decided to make a blooog here and try to become a winning PLO player, I will start out at PLO10 and follow Bugs bankroll management from the Donkr series. So the first goal will be:

( ) Grind in $400 at PLO10 for a 10bi shot at PLO25

Will be playing reg tables on Pokerstars for now, might deposit some on RIO and GG later.

Hoping that this thread will keep me motivated, avoiding spewy plays and having good BR management!

GL ALL

The first week is done, didn't get to play as much as I would like to... So will need to get in more hands next week!

(X) Grind in $400 at PLO10 for a 10bi shot at PLO25

So the first goal is accomplished, ran extremely hot I believe, but also very confident that I'm beating PLO10 for 10bb+. I will stay a bit longer on 10 before moving up to 25. There are many leaks I need to work on, the most significant is probably that I get a bit tense when playing and I don't feel very relaxed, it makes me stressed and it leads to making rushed decisions and I don't think very well when this happens, it definitely cost me some buy-ins. Rushing up to 25 is probably a bad idea when this happens and it will cost me alot more there if I don't get rid of this bad habit.

I think its fairly easy to fix tho, some stuff I will do to combat this:

-Start meditating daily, slowly increase, 5 min to start with, and add 1 min for each day up to at least 20 min.

-Stop doing other **** when playing poker, phone away, no browsing, only listen to some relaxing music.

-Do some jogging daily, I hate jogging, but I need to have some exercise. Stretch a bit after.

-Get some blue light glasses, not sure if it works, but might give it a shot.

-Be aware of it when it happens, and try to get out of that state.

-Take a small break every 30 min.

RIO has a nice leaderboard next week, it's tempting to try going for first there! 300e for first place at plo10 is sweet, but if it gets to the point where I would have to play a bunch of tables all day long, then I will probably give up. Also, good to support that site I think.



Need to get that redline moving up! Or..

Could post some hands aswell, biggest won and lost, not very interesting, will try to post some more interesting later

I agree with the no doing other random stuff while playing poker. It's the same as chess, you are playing to concentrate and play good poker. No watching youtube, no snacking, no whatever, just poker and some beats

Indeed, especially when allready so used to multitasking and not just focus on that one thing.

Finished second for the leaderboard last week on RIO for $150, lost 4 bi playing and ran about 7 bi below ev, made $70 from STP and $55 from from RB. Too bad games is not running all the time there.

Started playing some 25 on Stars and 20 on RIO, a bit swingy start but pretty much broke even.

Stars graph 25:



RIO 10:



Against huge fish, not sure if I like the pot bet OTF, but never folding against this guy here so dunno



Annoying



Will continue to play 25 reg tables on Stars I think, BR is at $2700, so well rolled!