Plan; Mental return!

Hi guys. How have you been? Me personally havnt played poker since the 3rd which is a long break which was planned and I hoped to continue playing after that but it appears that I will have to put in an extra effort in school. I am studying structural analysis right now which is hard but not impossible but I dont know, my head doesnt get a proper understanding of the principles as it usually does so if I dont do something I will fail this class. That would suck.

Been playing a bit starcraft thought when I've been to tired to study and I found that both (SC and poker) more or less has the same function for me so maybe I should uninstall SC2 and use these hours to play instead.

The break was a bit problematic to my vip-levels at stars. I truly hate vip-systems with requirements since it always gives you this feeling of waiting longer and longer to cashout bonuses etc and there is now so freaking much cash I would appreciate that I am saving since I will reach a higher vip-level in the summer. I truly miss weekly steady rakeback, that is freaking freedom.

However, I did what I normally do given numbers etc and did some calculations of how much I would gain if I "upgraded" to a few different vip-levels. It appears that the sum I would save atm was a bit lower then I thought. In the start of the year I was doing okay towards supernova but me moving out of the country midyear and running bad then the maximum I can reach is platinum. I am silver atm after the break but gold is easily achievable and probably platinum as well. So seeing the number of fpps i have and the amount I would lose cashing in at the lower value bonuses made me more relaxed. I get robbed theoretically but my current low volume gives low rake the the dollar-figure is less important.

I am excited though again about poker, I look forward to try again with PLO and perhaps I will even megagrind the nano-stakes FLSH to get some volume in. Like 9tabling 0.5/1€ if there is.

OHH, another thing I will try to do later is to start propping and just pull up some tables and hope to get some action. Propping is such a great thing but unfortunatly it requires special conditions in order to suit you. Right now I dont mind having a table in the background while I am studying and when an opponent comes, ill play them HU with 100% RB but I understand that doesnt really fly with people that like to put a solid 3hour grind-sessions with good volume.

Another thing I would like to do is going back to scratch with FLSH and play 1 or 2 tables and talk about basic things in a video.

DrugsOrMe

Still taking a break but instead been railbirding Isildur and the highstakes scene which is not normal. Noticed that DrugsOrMe is playing and remember that I played some FLHU vs him 50/100$ and kicked his ass :). Haha its sad to see where I am now in poker given where I was. I hate life!!

One month break

Gonna take one month break from poker. So its to the 4th of june. Might change my mind but doesnt feel like it atm.

Primarily because I am running really bad but also because I have some outside economic situation that I would like to know the result of b4 I decide on perhaps redepositing some past winnings back into the pokerbankroll again or not.

Could also be nice to free up some time, I hope that I will not fill it with exclusively watching tv-shows but something more giving.

April summary

All games in april in USD

It was going great except from the last day where a very slow but steady result turned into a loss in one days havoc. Was winning a lot of days at PLO10€ and was up a small amount in (400$ish) and then a little RB. During this mainly PLO-times I totally started to get why the NL/PLO-people have such a lack of about rakeback and so on. It truly feels like small shitty amounts when you look at HM2 at a day-to-day-basis. Of course, it is more significant in FLSH since its so disgustingly over-raked but still, its so freaking important for your winrate.

The volume this month btw was very low. I mentioned this before perhaps but for 3 weeks I had 3 hours taken out of every day for doing (foot)rehabilitation and you know, adding that to my already timeconsuming studies then that meant little time for poker. I btw did this spreadsheet just to see what my winrate is at PLO given the fact that half my action is at one site that all in EV doesnt show and another site where it does. Also, my winrate has been very high for a short period of time at one as well as I have been losing at another. So I did this spreadsheet to calculate a BB/100 that was as accurate as possible taking into account the all in EV when its correct but disregarding it if it is not. Considering that I played some pots like complete shit then I am pretty happy with my WR even thou its for very few hands.

So it shows that 851 BBs under EV so 17 buyins in april.

Wanted to check out the same BB/100 but for the last 2-3 months and apparently played about 10k hands and that was also fine even though not very impressive, especially given the stakes and I do realize its "lol samplesize".

Here it appears that I must have been above all in EV first 1,5 months since here we have 652 buyins under ev, 13 buyins.

All in all, it is perhaps the wrong focus and it is inconclusive but I do enjoy making excel-sheets etc and it does give me something. Also, it is a way of BR-management of course.

Anyways, then we had the last day where I lost 600$ish and ended up the last day with a losing month being 98% in the green or rather, light green. That day (yesterday) was pretty frustrating, it felt like I had never seen more top2 vs sets in FLSH which has some truth to it and after the session I was writing a blogpost saying that I planned to take a break from poker due to weak results the last couple of months. That feeling is somewhat cured by the PLO-results actually and the shitty feeling I felt yesterday is gone and I just want to get some volume in this month and do around 15kish hands.

Got holidays this week and might travel to Paris but if not then I hope to get some action in, say 2-3k hands of PLO per day or so. Want to play a bit tonight but am feeling kinda tired and had some Sangria so that is probably not the best idea.

Ohh no!

Yoyo! I just finished a session and god, I played so awful last half hour. I am so disappointed,. First I was getting sucked out on quite heavily (down 3 buyins in all in EV first 150 hands) and still managed to show a profit, then just gave money away and called down so freaking light. Continued to have bad luck bu still, so poorly played.

Shouldnt play so tired, down 175$ for the day slightly under 500 hands played. Ciao y'all, busy times, not likely to play much this weekend.

Homegame and decent slow-but-steady-streak!

PLO-graph for 1-21 apr

9 of 10 winnings days in april! Woho!

Hellu!

School has kicked in and I had an amazing barbeque yesterday with some new people and they actually started to talk about a game of poker. Normally I am not to keen on poker in social situations since I play enough already and want to seperate the two but of course its more fun to play then to observe so I put the gigantic stake of 5€ in. It was a sit-and-go and I counted 54 chips each and we had the rules of starting with 0.5/1 and up it for every two people that went out. My friend bet/3bet all in with AJo on KQQJA on the river and went out as the other guy called with AT, haha lol on that.

Then I got shitty hands and people doubled and trippled up and when it was 4/6 in blinds I went all in on 632 with 2 clubs and got called by 33 and lost. They actually got surprisingly good hands come to think about it, this was like 20 hands in and one guy got AA and KK and then this set, hehe.

Anyways, it was fun to play with having a girl to either side to talk to that had this exciting mysterious feeling about poker that we all might had in the beginning but that now has vanished.

Online in april I have played 6950 hands according to HM! 4578 of these hands being PLO and I have a WR of 5,4 BB/100 and I am down about 6 buyins in all in EV. The graph shows more but that is on a site that only shows  all in-hands when you lose so if you only take stars.es then its about -6.

I have been playing PLO10 and occasionally good PLO25 and as you see, I have won 9 out of 10 playing days in april! As you see, these winning days have been pretty small but I cherish it still, looking forward to play some more when I have the time.

Gotta transfer over some poker-stuff to my kindle and some pokervideos for my tablet so I can perhaps read some on the bustrips. I am doing this sprained ankle-rehab right now which takes a bunch of time after school (about 3 hours every day) which sucks but at least I can use this time commuting catching up on poker-theory which havnt been a big part of this year. Not, that I have played much either.

Got some exams coming up but I hope to have the study discipline so I can perhaps get up to 12k hands played for all april.

PLO - winning!

Hey guys! I am just fine. Been to the gym again after the holidays (it was closed) and did some bicycling which was nice. A poor thing in itself but it is acceptable in shorts spurts or with something to listen to. Btw, I knew a long time that I can take books online here in Spain via my swedish library but I was not really sure what to read so I didnt read that much for 1-2 months. Now though I found this kategories which made it very easy to browse and find books you like. Gonna read about some italian wines (history etc) and then I am likely to read some philosophy. Its nice to have something else than poker and school to think about and the good thing about books is that the subject changes frequently in comparison to your line of work or poker.

Anyways, now we just started but I believe school is gonna get heavy soon but I hope to be able to play a decent amount. So far march actually has been quite good to me, at least decent. Won small sums at microPLO and I have won 5 ouf of 6 days! The day I lost I really played shit btw, oh god, it was embarrasing. Had 2 beers which is nothing really but hadnt eaten and noticed that I wasnt playing that great. Alcohol and poker is usually not a problem for me at all but this time it was.
Have played 6,1k hands of PLO now and have an all in BB/100 of 4,4 which is not amazing but played some hands pretty bad plus that session when I lost too much so I am actually happy about that. Of course this could all change very quickly but I hope that I can finish most of my school work in the weekdays and then party one of the weekend-days and then play a bunch the other two nights of the weekend to get some volume in.

Difference in my game:
I feel I have more understanding of the situations and I am a bit tighter but also more aggressive in spots that I was a bit weak in before. Today I made a very aggressive bet/3bet on the river with the nutflush-blocker which I probably would have given up on 3 months ago. Btw, the phenomenon on the A-flushblocker is a pretty old topic but I struggle to decide on the frequency I should bluffraise with it. Of course it depends on the player but the nature of microstakesPLO is that you only have maximum a couple of hundred hands on the opponent but probably around 20-50 on most of them. So you normally cannot take "it depends on the player"-approach but have to do a general approach and i dont know. I normally find though that people do not tend to call down very lightly in PLO in general, especially not on flushboards without a paired board so I think I will smash A-blocker quite often.

Noticed btw that I lost on pokerstars.es but won steadily on another site. To few hands to draw any conclusions but I might have to think about that later. Have to start watching some PLO-vidz again also. I have a bunch in store. Also I realized I made a quite huge currency-problem, I was playing at like double size stakes on one of the size because I didnt calculate. No biggie but now I stay at mostly PLO10€ with adding the best 10c/25c if I dont have enough tables.