Hey Guys,

I am leaving my blog at Pokerstrategy to the community here at 2+2. I am full-time Plo-Player and want to play for a living. I am looking forward to discuss hands and I am planning to post a monthly graph of my results. Enjoy!

Bankrollmanagement

20 - 50 Buyin --- PLO2
20 - 60 Buyin --- PLO5
30 - 75 Buyin --- PLO10
30 - 80 Buyin --- PLO25
40 - 80 Buyin --- PLO50
40 - 100 Buyin --- PLO100
50 - 125 Buyin --- PLO200
50 Buyin + --- PLO500


Graph of October 18

PokerStars - $0.05 PL Hi FAST (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 152.2 BB (VPIP: 56.25, PFR: 31.25, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 16)
SB: 87.2 BB
Hero (BB): 100.4 BB
UTG: 286.6 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 21.43, 3Bet Preflop: 18.18, Hands: 56)
MP: 167.8 BB (VPIP: 19.92, PFR: 14.84, 3Bet Preflop: 5.38, Hands: 260)
CO: 90 BB (VPIP: 9.52, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 21)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has K T K A

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, SB calls 2.6 BB, Hero raises to 12 BB, fold, SB calls 9 BB

Flop: (27 BB, 2 players) Q 5 3
SB bets 13 BB, Hero calls 13 BB

Turn: (53 BB, 2 players) A
SB bets 51 BB, Hero raises to 75.4 BB and is all-in, SB calls 11.2 BB and is all-in

River: (177.4 BB, 2 players) 9

SB shows 7 4 2 4 (Straight, Five High)
(Pre 35%, Flop 41%, Turn 90%)
Hero shows K T K A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 65%, Flop 59%, Turn 10%)
SB wins 170.4 BB

Fold ott, raise otf or wp?

good luck with the challenge, looks like we are pretty much doing the same thing


In the hand you post I would fold on the turn, just because he is almost betting pot so I guess he is going to be very strong and we only have top pair

GLGL. Any Reason you are playing on Pokerstars instead of Party?

see you at the tables!

I already joined you blog too ..

Ty! The reasons I play on Stars: I have constant traffic all time up all stakes and the software is better. I also can use my HUD.

See you!




PokerStars - $0.05 PL Hi FAST (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 282.8 BB (VPIP: 20.44, PFR: 13.79, 3Bet Preflop: 3.01, Hands: 416)
SB: 292.8 BB (VPIP: 31.63, PFR: 22.59, 3Bet Preflop: 6.30, Hands: 344)
Hero (BB): 129 BB
UTG: 88.2 BB (VPIP: 8.33, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
MP: 138.6 BB (VPIP: 76.92, PFR: 61.54, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 26.89, PFR: 18.31, 3Bet Preflop: 6.11, Hands: 822)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has T Q K Q

fold, MP raises to 3 BB, fold, BTN raises to 9 BB, fold, Hero calls 8 BB, MP calls 6 BB

Flop: (27.4 BB, 3 players) A J 2
Hero checks, MP checks, BTN bets 24 BB, Hero calls 24 BB, fold

Turn: (75.4 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero bets 72.4 BB, BTN raises to 144.8 BB, Hero calls 23.6 BB and is all-in

River: (267.4 BB, 2 players) 6

Hero shows T Q K Q (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 67%, Flop 74%, Turn 45%)
BTN shows T 7 J 9 (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 33%, Flop 26%, Turn 55%)
Hero wins 257 BB


I assign villain primarily AA's...

Every game I play, I'm realizing more and more that this game is 15%

in

Awesome challenge OP, il be eager to track your progress.

500 zoom PLO is a great goal, IMO 500Z PLO represents a serious benchmark in the poker world

no matter what happens keep grinding dude, you will get there

+EVillain

@Allown85 What do you mean with 15%?

@EVillain Ty for your support! I'm as dedicated as someone possibly can be.. :-)


PokerStars - $0.02 PL Hi FAST (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 681 BB (VPIP: 21.00, PFR: 14.22, 3Bet Preflop: 5.16, Hands: 1,707)
BB: 50 BB (VPIP: 55.56, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 23.33, PFR: 13.89, 3Bet Preflop: 2.90, Hands: 184)
MP: 100 BB (VPIP: 53.85, PFR: 30.77, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 27)
CO: 231 BB (VPIP: 45.45, PFR: 18.18, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 57)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T 9 8 7

fold, MP calls 1 BB, CO raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, fold, MP calls 2 BB

Flop: (10.5 BB, 3 players) 3 T T
MP checks, CO bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB, fold

Turn: (20.5 BB, 2 players) 4
CO bets 20 BB, Hero calls 20 BB

River: (60.5 BB, 2 players) K
CO bets 29.5 BB, Hero calls 29.5 BB

CO shows 3 K K 3 (Full House, Kings full of Tens)
(Pre 51%, Flop 60%, Turn 75%)
Hero mucks T 9 8 7 (Three of a Kind, Tens)
(Pre 49%, Flop 40%, Turn 25%)
CO wins 115.5 BB


I have the feeling I misplayed the hand in several ways.
First I feel against MP/CO's loose opening-range I should squeeze it up with this multiple component hand, it plays better in low/mid SPR situations anyways.

Otf I though I could lure in MP to join with weak hands by just calling, and if co has the full I have 9 outs.

Ott I just called because the 2nd barrel showed somewhat strength and against trips+ raising would be risky cause I would primarily get it in against better side cards or a made full where I am dominated. On the river I am not sure if you can call here.. I thought I cannot fold anymore as my turn-calling range is capped so villain might be bluffin?

I resetted my PC because I thought I had an virus.. but it was just the internet provider who has cut down speed lol. I made a backup but it seems that half of the hands got lost. That's 170k hands wow im so pissed off.

The challenge is not going very good neither.. I was able to take several shots at PLO5 but I had to move down every time, 2 times because of a mix of bad luck and bad play, 2 times because of bad luck and yesterday I had a very tilty session where I lost 9 buyin (45$, the only tilt-session this month though). I will have to grind for weeks probably to have a solid bankroll for PLO5 again, because the $/100 is so low even with a WR of 20bb/100, that is very frustrating. On the other side I feel, I have improved a lot. I am very focused on fixing leaks and avoiding unnecessary moves and mistakes.

The graph only contains a third of the hands so it is not represetative at all but as promised I show what I have:




And finally a hand, where I'd like to know how far u can go defending against loose players where u only have a small sample. I think the 3 on the turn does not necessarily fit his flop check-raising range so I called another time. But I guess even against very loose aggro fishes you have to play straightforward vs a checkraise.

PokerStars - $0.05 PL Hi FAST (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 236.2 BB
SB: 71.6 BB (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 63.64, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 12)
BB: 131.8 BB (VPIP: 8.40, PFR: 6.40, 3Bet Preflop: 2.06, Hands: 254)
UTG: 110.2 BB (VPIP: 15.65, PFR: 10.75, 3Bet Preflop: 2.58, Hands: 437)
MP: 260.8 BB (VPIP: 42.86, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 14)
CO: 127.6 BB (VPIP: 21.05, PFR: 15.79, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 8 8 K K

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3.4 BB, SB calls 3 BB, fold

Flop: (7.8 BB, 2 players) 3 J 4
SB checks, Hero bets 5.2 BB, SB raises to 23 BB, Hero calls 17.8 BB

Turn: (53.8 BB, 2 players) 3
SB bets 45.2 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 45.2 BB

River: (144.2 BB, 2 players) 4

SB shows J Q 6 3 (Full House, Threes full of Jacks)
(Pre 37%, Flop 67%, Turn 90%)
Hero shows 8 8 K K (Two Pair, Kings and Fours)
(Pre 63%, Flop 33%, Turn 10%)
SB wins 138.6 BB

I'd be tempted to just fold when raised on the flop. They usually seem quite cally and when they start raising they have it I found. If i did call I think it is a good call you make on the turn though.

First I have to tell you that I have a new BRM. I basically take the 50buyin of the current stake +10 buyin of the next stake for shots then move down - approach from donkr. His statement, that every shot up to plo200 would be succesful at the first time I find it quite optimistic :/. Well, this month I was able to grind in 25 stacks on PLO2 to have enough to take that shot at PLO5. Thoug I had the impression, that PLO5 is much more aggressive, but I sticked to my straightforward value-oriented style. After losing more coinflips and some situations where I was ahead, I also tilted 2-3 stacks away by calling down marginal hands. I lost 10 Buyin in 2 days (which put my winrate from 10bb/100 down to 5bb/100 over that sample) and now I'm down again on PLO2... I dont plan to give up btw. I am going to grind back again that 10 stacks and take a second shot, with the winrate 10bb/100 I had, I hope I will achieve that within 2 weeks, I also will get some rakeback.

hopefully at least you will be able to move up quicker with more shots even if a few don't go too well

good luck in 2019 Godofwar

PokerStars - $0.02 PL Hi FAST (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB (VPIP: 21.71, PFR: 12.40, 3Bet Preflop: 8.00, Hands: 133)
SB: 28 BB (VPIP: 46.51, PFR: 23.26, 3Bet Preflop: 10.53, Hands: 44)
Hero (BB): 148 BB
UTG: 183.5 BB (VPIP: 42.86, PFR: 42.86, 3Bet Preflop: 100.00, Hands: 8)
MP: 145.5 BB (VPIP: 28.04, PFR: 16.40, 3Bet Preflop: 4.62, Hands: 190)
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 20.50, PFR: 17.99, 3Bet Preflop: 4.49, Hands: 282)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3 A J 8

fold, MP raises to 3.5 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 3 BB, Hero calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (10.5 BB, 3 players) J T 5
SB checks, Hero bets 10 BB, MP calls 10 BB, SB raises to 24.5 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 14.5 BB, MP calls 14.5 BB

Turn: (84 BB, 3 players) 7
Hero bets 81 BB, MP raises to 117.5 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 36.5 BB

River: (319 BB, 3 players) 3

Hero shows 3 A J 8 (Two Pair, Jacks and Threes)

Main Pot [84 BB]: (Pre 28%, Flop 31%, Turn 19%)
Side Pot#1 [235 BB]: (Pre 43%, Flop 63%, Turn 58%)

MP shows Q A 4 K (Flush, Ace High)

Main Pot [84 BB]: (Pre 38%, Flop 29%, Turn 36%)
Side Pot#1 [235 BB]: (Pre 57%, Flop 37%, Turn 42%)

SB shows J T 5 9 (Two Pair, Jacks and Tens)

Main Pot [84 BB]: (Pre 33%, Flop 40%, Turn 44%)

MP wins 308.5 BB


The flop call might be bad? I have 31% so t is a good opportunity to squeeze out the player behind me. Turnplay I guess I have at least 5% due to FE makin the shove +EV.

Unfortunately I was not very successful this month. After 30k hands I established a new bet-sizing system and made a lot of errors which costed me my nearly all of my winnings.

Usually when I play a Zoom session, I can play without making any mistakes. But when I do make some mistakes, which happens because of the high-speed playing 2 tables, there is a high risk to tilt off into another mistake, which happened quite a lot this week so far. So I decided to reduce the hands to play from 2 zoom tables down to 1 zoom table and 2 regular tables, so I can focus on the decision better.

I also registered to a local, softer pokersite and I am splitting my bankroll now. Instead of the 50+10 approach I am taking a 30+5 brm on eache site so alltogether 60+10. I play on Stars to get volume and have hands for analysis and the other site to get my hourly rate going as I am doing not as well as expected. As I am mixing in 1 regular table, I will not achieve the volume I calculated from the beginning, so I am going to expand the hours I play per day from 4-6, in the first days this was exhausting but now I am getting used to stay focused all day. The key elements of being able to focus long and over and over again are nutrition, sleep, oxygen, exercises to be relaxed and have well-being and the last thing is: focus as a result of willpower can be trained just like a muscle. My daily routine looks like this:


9:00 - morning ritual including breakfast and household (cleaning, chop firewood)
10:00 - work on my ranges and gameplan, sessionreview of the foreday, sharing handhistories, study theory and ranges
12:00 - little snack of fruits, bodyweight workout, then go for a walk (or shopping food for lunch)
13:00 - cook and have lunch
14:00 - golden hour (I meditate or just do nothing and take a 20min regeneration nap)
15:00 - first mixed session
16:00 - second mixed session
17:00 - third mixed session
18:00 - supper and break-time
19:00 - first regular session
20:00 - second regular session
21:00 - evening ritual including cold shower to boost my immune system (this is the first winter I did not get ill because of that), listening to music or an audiobook to mentally calm down and then it is free time till I get tired and fall asleep

I've heard the audiobooks "Concentration" by Marco von Münchhausen, "Daily Self-Discipline" by Martin Meadows and the last one I strongly recommend: "Time-Management" by Brian Tracy

I am also setting constantly goals to improve my theory and to avoid making mistakes ingame. I have monthly monetary (which represented to desired bb/100) and theoretical goals which are devided in tertiary subgoals of 10 days, so a month has 3 subgoals. The goal to the end of the year is to finish the challenge by shotting at PLO500 with a 10k$ br.

The monthly goal is basically to win 10bb/100 over a 25k sample on stars with an error-margin of the marked hands beyond 15% and to win 20bb/hand on the local site over 10k sample and to study the content of "Strategies to beat small stakes plo" by Matthias Pum (summary is finished, application works partly) and "Mastering PLO" by Oklowitz/Taschner, creating all preflop ranges and translating them into a syntax (EP to CO finished so far) as well as making some simplified postflop gameplanning.

Challenge FAILED

I am no longer playing Zoom on Pokerstars. I have to abort the challenge, because, well I need some money now to pay my spendings, at least 200 bucks for food and I am sure to get that amount of money with playing on softer sites. With the third month being 20 stacks down at stars obviously I am not skilled enough to beat the competition there and the rake is pretty high aswell. Yea you could sure argue it is variance but at those micros things should go faster. At the local site, where I registered, I won 20 buyin in a single week whereas on stars I broke even over months. Considering hand discussions, this blog seems to be dead anyways.

From the experience I made this year, I recommend to play in soft environment. Jokerstars especially Zoom does not make any sense to me as a mediocre player trying hard to get better, their weird rakeback-system does not shy away any regs, it is still full of regs. 10$ rakeback for 120 hours of play is not worth it. Being exhausted leads to less focus and therefore to bad decisions. Sometimes I am wondering how this could happen, that I cannot even beat a 2c-5c game where I was able to get my monthly income of 1500$ on NL100 some years ago where I played Zoom aswell. My 8k$ Bankroll shrinked down to a 80$ Br. I will try to focus on single decisions more and give me more time during the hand, as I experienced that to be more profitable somehow. I set myself too much under pressure trying to max my volume without getting the net$ results expected. But I succesfully established my habits and now I must stay patiently, study and grind every day and aim for the best, time should be working for me.

..this thread can be closed

well that is to bad.. I followed the thread! What do you do for a living?