Monthly Summary

Quick little day 3 update first tho. I played 1300 hands today and won about 2 buyins or $420. Almost all of this was HU so it was still a long day (ptracker says 6.5 hours, yesterday it says I played 8 hours, kinda sick imo). I’ll admit I did cave at the end of the day and play a little 2/4 6max plo. It was very swingy and I ended up about even. I feel like I’m a pretty damn mediocre plo player atm and I think I’m gonna get Parlay Slow from deucescracked to give me a few lessons if I continue playing plo in the future. I have been getting the itch to play some holdem lately. No poker tomorrow tho, gonna take it easy and hang out with the gf.

Without further adu here’s the graph:

ptracker:

and of course all in luck:

I also played about 6000 hands of plo and 2500 hands more of holdem on my laptop. Ended up losing about $1k on the laptop in holdem and winning something like $500 for the month in omaha(lost a bunch playing 2/4 at the beginning of month when I had no idea what I was doing) so total for the month without rakeback is like ~$11k or so. I think the graph pretty much says it all and explains my break from holdem for a bit for plo. Losing $15k is a lot of money to me.

This month I kinda feel like I’ve achieved a lot of goals I set out to do as a poker player. I feel like I’ve moved up to 5/10 and started beating it for the first time and I even managed to stack some of my idols this month. As far as further improvement in holdem I don’t think there is that much room for more unless it’s in the form of tilt control and making sure I don’t spite call 3 bets with QTs and stuff. Next month I am considering just grinding a lot of 5/10 without looking at any results for a whole month and just focus on making the correct decisions and playing my A game. Not sure if I could do it cuz I’m kinda a monkey when it comes to looking at the cashier but it seems good in theory and I may give it a go cuz I spend way too much time worrying about how I’m running and such and it’s just a bad mindset to have. Then again I could also see myself running bad/getting bored with that and go back to plo. We’ll just have to wait and see how it goes.

If you haven’t seen leatherass’ blog recently on stoxpoker you should check it out. The dude is the ultimate grinder 8 tabling 5/10 for 8 hours a day and has played 500k hands so far this year and is up a cool 1/2 mil.

Hope your months went well both in life and in poker and if they didn’t, well, just remember things could always be worse