So I have decided to document my process of battling in the micro streets of PLO and hopefully climbing the stakes all the way to Mid-High stakes (AKA The Dream).

Poker is not and will not be my source of income, I have a steady variance-free job that allows me to pay my bills and live a pretty decent life where I currently live.
The reason that I have decided to create a blog is to come out of the lone wolf or darkness if you want to call it that comes with playing poker online.
I have had moderate success playing live in the past with more than 100k in cashes nothing crazy or super impressive but I was definitely profitable and also a long-time winner playing cash live (who isn't lol) .

Online has always been my Achilles heel, never had success on my own, and played spins back in the days for a good stable where I also coached and ran horribly that really affected my mindset and even made me quit poker as a source of income and since then I've been playing only as a hobby.
This year has been really good for me mentally and I have made some progress in different areas of my life like taking more care of my body ( Dropped about 20 lbs and gained muscle) I'm playing sports competing in a local amateur league, and I have joined Freemasonry(if you don't have anything positive to ask about it please don't, normal questions that don't come from a fanatic I will happily answer it).

All of these changes in my life have made me a stronger person both fiscally and mentally and I think that I can take the online poker challenge a go, or so I thought hehe
As with anything in life you do without rules or a structure it goes poorly therefore my results have been mediocre, I have a very decent understanding of the game of PLO, especially from watching hundreds of hours of one of my favorite players Jnandez87, but using a poorly or non whatsoever BRM and playing for playing without any real goals have kept me from achieving anything that busting my roll.

My objective with this blog is to be able to connect with like-minded ppl, present myself as I am, with lots of flaws but lots of desire to be better, and not be ashamed to accept that I have in the past joined high stakes with just a couple of buy-ins thinking that I will run hotter than Ilsildur only to realize that is just a stupid idea, and I would love to think that not everyone lurking these blogs are 1k 2k nl crushers with a stronger mindset than Buddha, and just like me are a normal human being trying to be better each day a little bit more.

Started with a $1000 BR and will shot 25PLO as soon as I make 10 BI of 25PLO(BR $1250)





“Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Even when your spirit is calm do not let your body relax, and when your body is relaxed do not let your spirit slacken. Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body or your body be influenced by your spirit.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

Hi, subbed. If interested I am currently grinding PLO10 and 20 while I grind $1/$3 live and have access to Vision. If you ever want to chat about a hand or two, let me know so we can both improve together! GL

PLO is kool I am planning to play tournaments online, grinding that small must be very hard since a BB is next to worthless and a panhandler gets more for his time. Balls

The first week is a wrap, it was a short one since I only played 3 days so obviously is a very small sample to jump to conclusions, overall felt good did not experience any crazy tilts or boredom due to the stakes but I made some mistakes that ended costing me a few stacks, I feel like in these stakes using blockers to bluff is a mistake since a lot of ppl are overcalling weaker flushes straights, etc and is better just to focus on going for value.
Hopefully, I can run well this next week so I can get close to shot 25PLO, on a very positive note I felt very relaxed after losing flips which happens every other hand in PLO knowing that I was playing with 100 BI so the pressure was off.
If I were in a different situation trying to climb fast with crazy risks I would just put more money and skip 10 PLO and even 25PLO but I need to beat the stakes, I think that for both my game and my mindset I need to know that the level I'm playing I'm there because I earned my way my spot and not just because I have no BRM or just deposited more money.

Current BR: $1013.59 After RB, not bad since I spent $27 in mtts that went south, I admit that trying to qualify for the mystery millions for $10.8 a pop was very tough to pass the opportunity but 2 shots went south

have a great weekend ev1, I will go to a bday party with my gf, earlier I took my dogs to the park, I'm trying to be consistent with doing outdoor activities with my family (gf and the pups).






Hey bud nice meeting you and I really appreciate your offer and as soon as I have my pm's activated I will sent you a pm, in the meantime I will catch up with your blog and hopefully we can get a small study group going soon

Hahahahaha I get it man don't get me wrong, but I figure that if I can't beat these stakes then what is the point of even sitting at anything higher, that will be just torching money, anyways will see how it goes

gl mate you got this

Time for an update, we managed to log our first session today of PLO 50 shot taking, i ran very good at 10 and 25PLO so I decided to shot a little thin 50 to try to scape faster the high rake environment



Sick start ran very hot at the end of the session gotta keep going this definitely give me a boost of confidence to join this pool because I'm sure and not op top of this pool but I will try to adapt to it.

pending LB and GG Cheers if I hit my br looks like this



Wish me luck and run good yall

Need that run good for shot taking for sure.