Friday, Aug 16th, 2019
6:44 am


Overall I have been playing / running pretty well over the last week or so. One thing I do need to do is increase my volume. I think anywhere between 5-10 hours per day is what I could put in. I probably played about four hours yesterday. As I said, lately (over the last week) I have been running pretty well, winning every day and winning decent amounts. This is great, but it is also not a test of my mental game. Poker is easy when you are running good, it is when the fates conspire against you that you are really tested, and that is where in the past I have often been found wanting. Yesterday I had a great morning session, in that I lost a buyin and a half, while playing good. I reacted well and appropriately, injected logic telling myself that variance is part of the game and necessary for poker to exist, and about 1.5 hours into my session I took a break. I ended up winning strongly for the rest of the day.

Right now I am playing 4 and 5 card plo, up to PLO $200, although most of my volume is still at PLO $100.

Session Goals :

Play well.
Focus.
Stay tight, especially if losing.
Think about my decisions, don't just click buttons.
Evaluate my mental game, and my emotional state.
Put in volume.
Evaluate my session once it is finished, and later do hand evaluation and away from the table analysis to identify leaks.

In for some PLO action
GL!

thanks dude.

Yesterday went okay. The wheels sort of fell off the wagon on my second session of the day. I think I put in about 5 or 6 hours of volume over three sessions. I was definitely playing too many tables at one point and my decision making skills sort of fell apart.

Notable hands :

Three handed I game, I complete the sb with 34457 and call the raise to $6. The flop came 842 rainbow, giving me middle set and an openended draw. We are $300 (150 bb) effective. I check, villain bets $8, I check raise pot to $36 and he calls. Turn is a queen, for a board of

Q842, completing the rainbow. I bet 2/3rds, $56 into $84, and villain raises pot and we stack off. He has KQT98 so no direct outs on the flop, and eight outs on the turn. We run it three times and I scoop.

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with only like 50 bbs villain should definitely just 3 bet / stack off with KKAJ, even against a relatively tight opener like myself

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about to put in another session :

goals, play as long as possible, so long as I am playing well
focus tightly on my games
don't play too many tables
think about your decisions

best of luck building the time machine, noble endeavor

haha, oops I mean dec 31st 2020.


Yesterday was a great day. +$1500. My first session of the day was four hours of pure uninterrupted grinding, and then I put in maybe another two hours after a break to hit the mall. I'm staked so I only get 55% of that, but still a great result and definitely one of my biggest wins lately. I was bogged down in makeup for a bit, but the last eight days or so I have been having excellent results and I'm making progress in terms of steadily upping my volume.

I also started taking shots at 2/4.

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pretty questionable flop raise by my opponent in this next hand imo, with the nut draw you are happy to encourage other people to get into the pot. dunno if defending this hand from the bb is +ev or not with the dangling 2.

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Just about to fire my morning session.


Session Goals :

put in the hours. Looking to repeat yesterdays four hour morning session, unless things are going terribly, in which case I can take a break.

play well, make reasonable decisions and have reasons for everything you do.

focus on process, not results.

observe and evaluate your mental game / mental state.

have fun.

100K is a nice number to shoot for. Good luck.

from title and post count, was very disapointed this wasn't an epic thread of failure that got bumped

either way, sucked in now, subbed and gl

GL on time machine grind

hand review 1

I think isoing with this hand from MP is a bit overly ambitious. I have a dangling two and we definitely don't want to be opening too wide 175 bb effective with the button who was playing pretty aggro. Obviously something like T9876 would be fine, as we do need some middle cards, but by opening this sort of hand and every other like it we end up opening too frequently.

The flop is pretty interesting. We have bottom two, a four card wrap and a ten high flush draw. It is also five way. We have ten straight outs to the nuts, and while neither a ten high flush draw nor bottom two pair are strong hands in their own right they do certainly have some value.

On the flop we face a pot sized lead and elect to flat. We know 8 cards so there are 44 remaining. We have 10 nut outs. We still have three players left to act behind us, and chances are someone has superior spades. What is UTG going to show up with here? He is betting in a five way pot, so I would expect him to have at least a set, or a strong draw. He is also 200 bb effective himself, so SPR is still quite high. What if it gets raised behind us?

Even if our flush draw is dead, and someone else has top set, we still have reasonable equity, because of our ten nut straight outs.

5-Card Omaha Hi Simulation ?
600,000 trials (Randomized)
board: 9d2s6s
Hand Equity Wins Ties
99 40.41% 237,574 9,844
7s6cTs8h2h 29.70% 172,213 12,068
AcAsKs 29.88% 177,824 2,969


Of course that isn't the worst case scenario. It is not exactly unthinkable for our straight draw to duplicated, in whole or in part.

On the other hand, against "just" 999, we are a very slight favourite. Maybe I should raise. I could potentially clean up spades, and even by calling I am almost committing myself to stacking off anyway. Anyway I decided to call, and the button over called.

So the turn came a Qc and now the UTG player checked. I decided he probably didn't have a made hand, like a set, and was probably on a draw, otherwise he would pot what is likely the best hand and try to force some draws out. I decided to pot it myself. I do have twos and sixes. It's unlikely the queen turned anyone gin, and I have a bunch of potential outs to fall back on (many of which are of questionable worth). Without a queen in my hand I definitely risk running into queens up, which my loose opponents would probably not be folding. I actually pick up another rank on the turn, the jack, although my ten becomes non nut. Maybe it's better to err on the side of overly aggressive as opposed to running the opposite and less obvious but more serious risk of playing too passively.

the last few days have been pretty swingy, down 1k, up 1k, that sort of thing. Right now I am +1400 on the pay period (from my last profit chop to now), so that is pretty good. Honestly I haven't been handling the negative variance that well, but at least I have continued to grind and put in the hours. I just received a $1680 profit chop from my last play period, so that puts me on the board toward my 100k challenge.

Challenge 1.68% completed! Or around 2.45% with my share of this period's winnings.

Way too frequently and not only can we be abused because of it, we're often put into **** spots like the action that followed in your hand.

Hand's kind of confusing on the flop but seems like sb, bb called pre and x flop and utg led? I think your hand's a super easy fold. Not only do you have a **** made hand, you have a **** draw than can be dominated by something as simple as 789 w/bigger spades.

When he x's turn (and I assume we're hu), I think we have an easy bet despite his strong range otf. We have outs when behind and sometimes we're flipping vs. 789ss type hands. Perhaps we're slightly behind a pair, overs, same sd, and fd. But if we check turn, we very rarely win without improving.

Tough spot and interesting hand ott and I'm sure I said nothing but garbage above . Pre and flop are just way too loose though so don't get in this spot in the future.

Yeah, a big weakness of mine is that when I am loosing, I play looser, and often get into tricky spots that I could have easily avoided in the first place. Strict preflop standards are an important first step in beating five card plo imo, and make the later streets much easier.

hand 1

hand 2

hand 3


hand 2, maybe I can find a fold on the flop. we have only 9 nut outs, getting 2:1, and are not closing the action. knowing 8 cards there are 42 remaining, so we are 33:9 or almost 4:1 against turning the nuts. since we are not closing the action, our effective odds are even worse. villain donks pot four way so is probably decently strong. we do have top pair so we do have the potential to dominate other draws to some degree, and all of our straight hits do give us backdoor boat possibilities.


back to peak, +2k on the payout period, just waking up and about to drink some coffee then hit the grind.