UPDATE: Down 600$ in 200 hands of 5/10

Boss, $30/$60 Limit Hold'em Cash, 2 Players
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Preflop: Hero is SB with 8 Q
Hero raises, BB calls

Flop: (4 SB) A K 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls

Turn: (3 BB) Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB raises, Hero calls

River: (7 BB) 3 (2 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero calls

Results: 13 BB pot (0.3 BB rake)
Final Board: A K 8 Q 3
Hero mucked 8 Q and lost (-6.5 BB net)
BB showed T J and won 12.8 BB (6.3 BB net)

Decided that if I lose this hand then I am gonna quit. Played 220 hands, a lot was headsup, wtsd 39,5% and won 37,9%. Love poker. Gotta fvcking love poker. FVCK ME

Back in school, winning in life but losing in poker lately :(

Hey guys. Been bad at bloggin lately, very expected thou. Got down to spain about 2 weeks ago now, have been a lot of fun and so far the school is pretty chill but the partying and the heat has severely pacified me. Been playing here and there and won 250$, 100$, 50$ and then this saturday I played a longer session and the doomswitch came on and I lost 620$ at pretty low stakes. Ran bad at PLO but equally bad at FL, no biggie but it sucks a bit since the rest of september has been so bad. I am currently down the biggest amount so far this year (about 2k$) but havnt played much and feel confident in my game but as I am limited to one single site then it will be hard to recoperate (spelling?) that before september ends.

Been doing allright overall this year in PLO and I am somewhat forced to play it now but I am thinking about just going with the very limited FL-action there is at the site. I wont play 1/2$ but might step in to the 2/4 that is running frequently and wait for 5/10 action which also comes at times and use the waiting time to learn spanish.

Oh btw, I have been extremly close to go out to the casino several times but it still hasnt happened due to some homework and missplanning. Even thou it is a bit of a hassle going to casino gran madrid, I still am quite allright with commuting nowadays with my ebokreader + smartphone with tvshows and audiobooks so the perhaps 70 min ride (+20 min of transfering, waiting etc) might not be so awful.
Even thou the pokeryear started out decently and has recently declined a bit then I would still say I am in a good place in general. Life is very good at the moment and have no major problems losing 2 months in a row (especially after such a steady winning streak!). Last month was a high winrate at both games (FLHE & PLO) but lost like 4k$ of EV at higher and this month I have just played well in small volume and got royally screwed. Shit happens.

HM1 vs HM2 - Comparison

I have been playing several years with HM1, then played exclusively with HM2 for 8 months and now when HM2 got a rare error which only could be solved with a full format, I have been playing 2-3 months now with HM1 again and I felt like it would be time for a comparison. One would think that HM2 would be a natural evolution (and better) then HM1 but with my experience then this is perhaps not all that clear.

One note that I would like to make is that I have indepth analysis with HM1 but since my game is pretty decent (and that I have been more lazy) then I havnt really investigated all the new more advanced features of HM2.

Part 1 - HUD, differences etc

The biggest difference for me going back and forth was the HUD. The new popupsystem seemed like it would be a wonderful upgrade. You can change font, color stats, use lines etc. These could seem like minor details but if you have constructed your own popups in HM1 then you would enjoy these changes as they make everything more clearer and smooth. I personally go with a medium-high amount of stats but I removed some to use more popups because it looks nicer and prevents me from all in all being a statsjunky. So I believe I showed like 15-18 stats and occasionally use popups. I also play mainly FLSH so a lot of the less obvious stats like CBet% 3bet pots OOP in SB etc isnt all that interesting.

Another difference which I like is that you can overlay your different panels and it looks a lot nicer.

Now to the actual functionality. This is where HM2 crumbles. Everything related to the HUD is just mad slower in all the 2-3 installations+formatting I have done with HM2. First I thought it could be that I was a beta tester and it was an early version but I did my least clean format + install in 2012 and everything I dont like is still there.

1) The most annoying thing is that the popups are very much delayed and you often have to wait for them to popup. It doesnt really matter whether you change the popup speed (to what u had on HM1 for example) or if u switch to click to popup. They come up slowly and I have often missed the opportunity to check the stats while playing. Very annoying.

2) Check last pot. This is by far the buggiest of them all. It is impossible for me to get up the last played hand from the HUD in a reasonable amount of time. Once I click on the last pot it usually takes 30+ seconds for it to popup and I believe it is popped up below the tables but I am not sure about this. I was very glad to easily be able to go back and mark interesting hands while playing once I switched back to HM1. 

3) Stay on top in general. I am not really sure how to describe it but all notetaking and changes to the HUD is usually very hard to do. If you would like to change what HUD to use in HM1 then you can go to settings and if something pops up and steals focus then you could go to table manager and continue. This is not the case with HM2. You have to doubleclick on settings again and be superquick to take the menu off somewhere where there is no table and just hope to finish finding your hud before another table takes your attention. This completly sucks. I do not remember how I did it with HM2 but something similar happen when you try to take notes. There could be a long delay and then the window for notetaking gets placed and you have to do it extremly quickly as well.

All in all, the HUD should in theory be better but in practice it certainly is not.

(Ill continue with more steps as I have more time)

BAAAAH! Down like 130 BBs in a day

Yesterday I started pokerseptember with losing about 1100$ at mostly 3/6 and 4/8 with a bit of PLO mixed in. Lost 250$ at PLO while my all in was +10$ at 0.25/5 and just ran like mad on FL. Won 43,2% of showdowns in 1200 hands, safe to say it was one of the worst days so far. First session I played I lost like 800$ and then the second one I lost the rest and maybe I should have quit since internet was lagging quite hard and I got disconnected a few times. Normally it just lagged, all my actions where delayed but then I had nutflush and got folded to the river in a $100pot to a 10$ bet which sucked so bad. Having bad connection on poor clients is not a good thing. In that regards then I am sad to not be playing stars so much since I enjoy their system and I do not lose shitloads of cash. Gonna move to a new place next week and truly hope the internet will prove to be stable.

Today I deposited on party for once. Not really sure why. They used to have awful games and the worst reward programme of all time but I have shitloads of points that I would enjoy to cash out. Not really sure on how much time I need to spend on my current stakes to reach gold or whatever but that would be nice since I previously have raked a bunch and never used a single point in their shop.

Ohh btw, got a bit pissed off with the knowledge that I have lost 7000 points due to being inactive at party for 6 months. For you that doesnt know, 2 party points is apparently 1$ rake or vice versa so in any case that is a very harsh fee. Its not so hard to subcome this fee but I think it is pretty detering for players in general. Poker is about freedom and having demands on your volume is not very cool.

Continued to run bad today. Believe i 3bet flop 754 and I capped turn A vs a steal and river was a A vs a guy that went all in with his last 20$ on the river and he showed A7o. Then I lost to a gutter and also lost AA vs a runner runner flush on a retarded board (like T22 vs 96s) and suddently I was down 350$ in 15 hands. Always nice with a good start.... Feels OK thou but I sure would like to get a month with a nice profit of like 4-5k$ soon. Feels like I deserve it.

August summary

FL SH graph for august

PLO graph for august

Yoyo! Time for the august summary. It started out kinda slowish and was at breakeven at around the 23rd when I went on a vacation but turned out to be allright, well, that depends on what you count. If you count the cents and dollars then I earned around 1400$ which is not great but if you factor in that I had acceptable winrates at both PLO and FLSH then its allright. I played 16k of FL SH, won 1k$ in play and won 0.43 BB/100 and in PLO I played 4458 hands, won 4,7 BB/100 (i guess that is ptBB/100) but ran bad at equivalent to approx 1/2$ and lost 3 major pots of around 1900, 1,2k and 1k$ and ended up down 781$ while I was up 4,2 buyins.

Also played 1200 of FL08 and I remember running mad bad (gonna coin this expression btw) and the stats show me down 953$ there.

Another stat is that I played 72 hours for the month.

In terms of how well I played then I think it was usually pretty well. Think I mostly played good FLSH but remember one or two terrible PLO-sessions where I gave away a bunch of cash. All in all, I guess I have to be allright with it even thou I would have hoped the monthly result would have been a lot bigger. Ohh, I won an ipad 3 as well so I guess I should count 800$ extra profit.

The summer was a bit disapointing pokerwise but I feel pretty disciplined and happy with life in general so even thou I didnt have a huge influx of cash then I am still pleased. School starts in less then two weeks, hope to get a good grind on but the internet is currently awful here. Not sure what the problem is and I dont really want to deal with troubleshooting so I might change location until I go back to spain.

Btw, been checking out some galfond videos, usually I do it while having baths :). I like these scheduled moments and combine it with something since it reminds you to do that stuff that you want to do but really dont find yourself doing. These "setups" can include deciding to always watch a video while riding the bus, go thru one step of leakbuster while you are cooking or whatever. Btw, talking about leakbuster. I am thinking about buying it and go thru it for PLO. Just have a problem with it. It appears as if it is very targetted towards some kind of GTO-static-style. Dont want to go into the old GTO vs Explo-discussion but I remember the FL SH-stats where pretty off and it didnt factor in all the exceptions of fish but mainly tried to get you unexploitable. I dont care about what is generally a good BTN calling vs CO percentage, if I have a drunktard that pays off every hand then I can increase that amount a lot. And that would probably be a leak. Anyways, I guess it will definetly do more good then harm so it is probably wise to invest and go thru it anyways. I am not really sure thou how much I should be investing in learning and getting better in PLO (or play it at all for that matter). I am doing allright in FLSH and I probably want to cut back to even playing less then I currently am while studying so if I only have time to do like 8-10k hands per month then I would have loads of losing months since 8-10k hands is nothing in PLO.