Top Winning and Losing Hand from last 20000 Hands

So its time for review.

Hands
16: 3086

Hours
16: 7:45

So passed 20000 hands 05th to 16th Dec.

Total Hands: 20240
Total Hours: 65:29
Days: 12
bb/100: 52.42
EVbb/100: 41.00

Breakup

2PLO
Zoom Hands: 5565
bb/100: -19.99

Regular Hands: 14657
bb/100: 79.72

5PLO
Zoom Hands: 18
bb/100: 95.56

So played some 5 PLO by mistake and that can pretty much be ignored. Overall good results which I am happy with. A note on my zoom play. The styles required to play zoom versus regular tables are somewhat different. So moving back and forth between regular tables and zoom requires me to make some adjustments which looks like I didn't do to well since my focus was on the softer regular tables where I put 3/4 of my volume in.

Without revealing too much I will say this that at regular tables you should be playing more for showdown equity while at zoom you should be playing more for steal equity. Earlier in previous reviews I was more focused on zoom and was winning there while my regular table game suffered. I need to work more on transitioning between the two since I seem to be having difficulty going back and forth.


So its time to check how I did with following my rules I setup for myself.

1. Will not play poker the day after review, will probably study or take the day off but definitely no playing. Yes taking today off playing, might study a bit but mainly focused on the results, what they mean and looking at the way forward.

2. Will check results and do a review every 20000 hands (Instead of 10000 hands). Yes I stuck to this.

3. Will take shots at the next stake when I have 20BI for the next stake and move back down if my shot is unsuccessful. I will follow this upto 25PLO (Old number was 10 BI shot). Yes I stuck to playing 2PLO and now I do have 20BI for a shot at 5PLO.

4. Will play 4-6 regular tables or 1-2 zoom tables. I plan on upping this by 3 regular tables or 1 zoom table once I have reads on 90% of my player pool but that will take time so for the ongoing 20000 hands will stick to 6 regular tables or 2 zoom tables as the maximum limit. Yes did this 95% of the time. This rule was the second hardest to follow of them all.

5. Will play 1500 hands daily. Since I am upping my number of tables it will allow me to get in ~350 hands/hr and am looking at around 4-5 hours of play/day so am looking at 1500/day (old figure was 1000 hands per/day). Yes I did this successfully.

6. Will be sticking to work 25days and taking upto 5 days off and also to the study 1 hour number for now. Yup doing the first part pretty much. As for studying part that has been the hardest rule to follow and need a separate rule for it. I added in reviewing all my notes before starting my sessions for the day as part of the rules and that has shown results. Need to push myself further with studying. Its the only area in which I feel I let myself down.

7. Will post daily going forward. Yeah did this or close to it.

Looking forward am going to take a 20BI shot at 5PLO. Now here is where I need to be extremely careful considering my history. I need to play my same game, its the game that has been successful at 2PLO and I need to give it a proper shot at 5PLO. I messed up at this juncture last time and just played horribly once I jumped up stakes. I need to remind myself here that nothing has changed besides the stake. I still was and still am playing poker and I need to play good like I have been and not make any drastic changes to my game. What I am doing is working. The process is working and I need to stick to it.

On the side note I have not talked much of the other aspects of poker the non table aspects. The physical and mental health aspects. The exercise and meditation aspects. I might decide to in the future but just a note here that I have changed to exercising at least a bit almost daily. Also I am looking to add some daily mental health things to my routine not sure what yet.

Overall am very happy with the process and how things are going and just need to stick with it and do more of the same.

So had a nice day off. Did end up doing some poker related stuff but didn't play and did not really study either. Did play some 6PLO for fun.

Hands
17: 0

Hours
17: 2:59

So its time to take a shot at 5PLO. Like the last time around I do feel apprehensive and also have doubt in my head. I think what will help here is me not jumping straight into 5PLO and start 6 tabling and make the change from 2PLO gradually. So like add only 1 table of 5PLO with rest tables on 2PLO and continue doing that through the next 20000 hands as I get more and more comfortable. Good luck to me!

Staying healthy physically and mentally is definitely important and helps stay disciplined and playing your A-game and staying off tilt during play. GL at PLO5, as you said, no need to change anything if it's been working for you so far,maybe just tighten up a tiny bit in marginal spots until you get more familiar with the player pool. Shouldn't be too different tho.

Yeah thanks for the advice. I have been trying to make sure to exercise daily and need to implement some mental health time in my daily routine too. If you have any suggestions feel free to give them to me.

I found the aggression at 5PLO to be much higher and I did not adjust well to it at all initially, will talk more about it in my next post.

So first off sorry for the lack of updates. Will explain what happened further into the post, but I clearly messed up and need to get things back on track.

Hands
18: 2073
19: 1910
20: 60
21: 1611
22: 3058
23: 1062

Hours
18: 6:06
19: 4:22
20: :17
21: 3:19
22: 4:36
23: 1:59

So here is what happened. I started my shot at 5 PLO and was mixing 2PLO with it. I got hit hard by the increased aggression at 5PLO. It was literally going from 1 aggressive player at the table to 3-4 at almost every table. I am only talking about regular tables here since that's all I have played for now. The aggression increase is drastic and it comes from having more Maniac/Nut opponents but also from TAG/LAG players. It is not good aggression, in the sense it seems like people are just fighting for every pot no matter what they have. This change from 2PLO to 5PLO definitely hit me hard and I was unprepared for it. I definitely got into spots that I was not sure what to do and how to react.

So I tried to play my same game but it didn't seem to be working. It did not help that I got hit by variance and was down 9BI at 5PLO. This also had me on tilt somewhat and I had to step back and rethink things. So due to that and also because I did check results when I was not supposed to. I took the next day off which was 20th. I have now changed my game and geared it even more towards playing for showdown equity and also using the overly aggressive nature of my opponents against them. I am still on the 20BI shot at 5PLO and am now 12 tabling the regular tables mixing 2PLO and 5PLO.

I am at ~10000 hands so half way to review. I do feel like I need to ramp things up and put in more volume and also add in some physical and mental health goals to my overall rules/plans. This all will happen but it will be next year since with Christmas being tomorrow and new year around the corner. I will be taking days off.

What I am looking to do for this year is finish up the 20000 hands and do a review before the end of the year. Also looking to stick to the rules set out earlier. Happy Christmas Eve to everybody.

Been in a very contemplative mood with it being the end of the year. What comes next is on my mind in relation to this thread and just me in general.

Hands
24: 3027
25: 1582

Hours
24: 5:00
25: :37 (Didn't track properly so disregard)

Hands wise am at ~14000 hands. Took yesterday off and today too was off. Am still looking to finish putting in 20000 hands and do a review. I am unsure if this thread will go further or I might do something new. In many ways this thread was a trial for me and I do have some ideas what I am going to do next but need to sort it in my head. Other than that happy holidays to everyone.

Happy New Year everyone . So its time for the final review for this thread. This thread has reached its end date and I am just working out the details for the new thread which I will link here.

Hands
28: 4240
29: 34
30: 1071
31: 297

Hours
28: 7:12
29: 2:01
30: 3:46
31: 1:03

So got in 20025 hands from 18th to 31th Dec. Took longer then normal but it was the holidays so whatever.

Total Hands: 20025
Total Hours: 40:18
Days: 14
bb/100: -.17
EVbb/100: -4.43

Pretty meh results. Basically up a bit at the end of it with being down a bit EV wise. Got hit hard with the increase in aggression at 5PLO and took me a while to figure things out as I talked about before. Did run bad also initially like 9BI below so was not the good start to 5PLO I hoped for. I am still on a 20BI shot at 5PLO and that will continue on. I think me increasing my tables affected my winrate which is expected. Overall my heart was not in this last 20000 hands as much, with it being the holidays. Not much else to say here I played worse then usual and the results show that.

Put in ~70000 hands since the start of this thread on 15th Nov so not bad volume wise. I could have done more and will do more in the future . At ~15bb/100 in this thread so not bad considering I did tilt once pretty bad and there were a few times that I did play sub optimally.

Looking forward I have some ideas as to where I will head from here. Things will continue but not in this thread and not exactly as is. As per the thread title, this thread has reached its end date. Will post the link to the new thread once I am ready which should be tomorrow. Those who have followed/subbed/posted in this thread I thank you kindly for it and hope to see you in my new thread .