Omaha rollercoaster
Hey guys, I decided I'm going to start a new blog.
I'm 34 years old, from Belgium but have been living in Budapest, Hungary for the past 6 years. I used to play highstakes spins but have been playing PLO since 2022.
I've been playing poker professionally since 2016, so it's my 9th year being a pro now. As expected in this profession, I've had to go through several hurdles and swings. And tbh basically every year since I've started I've took at least 3 months off the year from poker. My longest break was actually in 2021, where I took a full year off from grinding. Poker has been a rollercoaster, and taught me a lot of life lessons. And I wish to share all this with you.
The exception to this pattern of taking long breaks from poker has been these past 12 months. I'm happy to say that in the past 12 months I haven't took any long (over a couple weeks long) breaks from poker. I attribute one of the biggest reasons for this to my current girlfriend, who brings me a lot of balance in life, love and support.
Goals, logistics and the future:
This year's poker goals:
- I want to perfect 12-tabling and possibly 15 table: Adding more tables is a skill and one that anyone can work on. At 12 tables I find a slight lack of performance and it gets hard to keep up with the action but if I keep practicing I'm sure it will get better. Perhaps I could move up to 15 tables. Although perhaps if I move up higher there won't be enough tables running and there wouldn't be much point in playing more tables.
- I want to move up to PLO1k: By the end of this year I'd like to at least take a shot PLO1k. TBH according to some bankroll calculators using the Kelly criterion I may already have the required roll. However as a human I'd like to be a bit less risky, I'm not really in any rush.
Long-term poker goals:
- I want to be a regular in PLO2k+ games: Quite a vague goal, and how I want to move is quite questionable for now. Currently I'd be more than happy if I could play 10/20 as my main stake, but perhaps in the future that would change. Honestly I'm quite focused on reaching PLO2k and then after that it's kind of see where things take us. Perhaps I'd want to keep moving higher, perhaps I'd want to learn a new game such as 5-card or heads up, perhaps I'd want to start coaching again, perhaps I'd want to play live, perhaps I'd want to play on multiple sites rather than only GG. All I know is until I'm playing 10/20+ all of these are kind of just vague ideas of future possibilities.
Tbh poker wise there aren't so many other goals. I have a lot of systems in place to reach these goals, and I guess later in the blog I could explain some of these systems. But my actual goals are not too defined and as the journey continues, some of them are prone to change.
Why I started this blog:
Firstly I enjoy writing. Writing is a form of self-expression and as an introvert I find writing to be one of best forms of it. I'd like to share my poker journey.
It's also about my motivation for poker. If you read my blog, you'll notice that I'm not motivated much by money unless it's simply to get out of a hole. I've done some soul-searching and looked for what truly motivates me. And I've found that my biggest motivation is actually social in addition to the learning aspect.
I love to grow and learn. And this is one of the reasons I chose PLO as my main game. It's such a complex game where I feel I could study it for a lifetime and still find new things in the game.
But loving to learn is not enough. I'm a human with social needs. I got some social outlets. I got my lovely significant other, I got a dog, I got a few good friends I communicate with regularly. But it could be more. This is one of the reasons I started my study group actually. Not only to study poker, but to make studying more fun with others, to learn together with others and share our combined knowledge, combining 2 of my biggest motivations. But I still see there could be more. This is one of my reasons to start this blog now, to share the journey.
In addition it is to set myself up for better opportunities in the future. If i want to play live poker more, perhaps putting my name out there could get me some invites, or perhaps to some apps (I am NOT interested in playing on apps currently). Perhaps I want to start coaching in the future and having a blog could help get some recognition. Regardless, I'm sure until I'm playing PLO2k+ I wouldn't want to do any coaching. If I wanted to coach, I'd want to prove not only to others but also to myself that I'm a solid top reg and in my mind this requires me to be at least beating PLO2k online.
Let's start the blog off with a summary of last month, May 2024.
It was my first month shotting some 500 and it went very well. The volume was quite low, however I was game selecting a bit harder than usual considering it was my first time shotting 500. Also during such a big upswing I kind of lost a bit of motivation to grind. Actually it was my best month in PLO I had so far. My previous best was $11k, so after I hit that amount I kind of wanted to chill a bit. Not exactly the best mindset, but I kind of wanted to book my best month in PLO fearing the upswing may come to an end. Which it kind of did as you will see later this month is a lot tougher.
May 2024: GG PLO200 and PLO500
Hands played: 28782
Hours played: 48
Hands per Hour: 600
Hours studied: 108
Hours worked: 156
Net Won: $8560
Net won + RB: $13,000
Net Won $/hour: $270
EV: $5792
EV+RB: $10,292
EV $/hour: $214
By far my highest $/hour, and I'm sure I couldn't sustain this at PLO500 but I can't complain.
Anyways in my next few posts I'd like to give a bit of background on my poker history, I'll be uploading one post a day until we are up to date. After that, not sure how often I'll update. Definitely monthly updates, but more than that not sure yet. We'll see how much time I have for this.
Actually most of these are very reasonable plays except the T854 on A247, I would say utg very rarely bluff raises there vs your psb turn barrel and has a straight most of the time.
The AJ74 is reasonable, expect OOP to rarely look you up here. The button sometimes wakes up with J9 or QQJ but overall his range is wide enough that this is still profitable. I wonder if 3/4ths also gets the job done here.
The K883 I don’t mind just letting it go
Yeah agreed, most hands weren't too bad, though I guess a hand history without additional context doesn't really provide enough info to say whether my plays were good or not.
I mean the T854 had some kinda dynamics with a crazy reg VIP whom I got some history against, but even with my reads I think that was a pretty big mistake.
Just felt like sharing some bluffs that didn't work during my current good run.
In my situation, I learnt most of these things from my days playing NL, and also spent a good amount of time with different poker mindset/performance coaches as well as seeing a real psychologist. If it;s true that PLO boys are better organized than NL boys (which I doubt is true), the fact that many PLO pros are converts from NL would probably be a factor.
Last 30 days ( includes 60% RB from BBJ tableshare)
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Still running good and playing good. Best 30k hand stretch I've had in PLO yet. Just averaging 1k hands each day in general by simply playing most mornings.
Now that my birthday is over and parents went back home I'll have a bit more time to grind. Although I realized, I play really well when playing less hours in a day and just focusing on playing my A-game.
I've decided to reorganize my schedule to focus on simply being consistent and grinding every morning and only have one or 2 days each week where I actually dedicate more time to grinding. It's quite a big mindset shift but I won't even be focused on leaderboards anymore. I found that even if I grind a couple hours a day I can still get $100 or so just from rakeback (from both PLO200 and 500 LB combined), so my RB doesn't decrease so much. An added bonus is my schedule isn't focused around leaderboards, if I focus on leaderboards too much I find that I lose motivation to grind if I see I can't win that day, for example if I grinded a bunch the previous day then I wake up in the morning and see the first place guy decided to grind 1k more points past me making it impossible for me to grab that spot. I'd like to basically just forget totally about leaderboards and just grind according to my schedule, playing full focus, A-game poker.
Birthday week was fun, went out a bunch, saw parents, even went to the opera.
Peace
August recap
August 2024: GG PLO200 and PLO500
Hands played: 22978
Hours played: 44
Hands per Hour: 534.5
Hours studied: 54
Hours worked: 98
Net Won: $6167
Net won + RB: $9904
Net Won $/hour: $225
EV: $8009
EV+RB: $11746
EV $/hour: $267
Pretty lazy month tbh.
I was pretty proud of myself for grinding every morning up until like the 19th or so despite a bunch of social occasions due to my birthday week and lots of people visiting me. But after that my fiance had some university camp trip I decided to join in on last second and it was only a couple days long but for a few days afterwards I struggled to get back into a good routine.
Also I am quitting nicotine. Actually I never smoked, I just took some nicotine spray or nicotine gum almost everyday habitually for the past 2 years or so. But I'm trying to quit now, pretty convinced there's not really any benefits, I used to want to try it as a nootropic for brain performance and focus but now I think it's just BS. Although during the time I've been in nicotine withdrawal it's been pretty impossible to focus or concentrate, hopefully it'll get better soon.
Anyways not really too much to report. Good month in terms of run, although I feel kinda lazy and would like to put in more volume next month.
Joined into this small propbet with a few other crushers on GG to see who can make the most money. Well I doubt I'll win since I'm probably playing some of the lowest stakes in this propbet group, but it'll still give me a bit of motivation hopefully to put in some more volume.
Also noticed I can put in a grind for platinum shark. Will have to grind roughly 70k points per week for this. Def doable, so getting this extra 5% will be another motivation for me to put in some more volume.
Also planned a holiday in October right after the deadline for improving to platinum shark is finished, although that's kinda far away still. But basically, all this together and I'm hoping to put in some decent volume until the end of the year.
Hand vs an aggro fish, funny enough, the only part I really wanted to fold here was the Flop
[converted_hand][hand_history]GG Poker - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
SB: $740.41 (370.2 bb)
BB: $533.97 (267 bb)
Hero (UTG): $330.83 (165.4 bb)
MP: $73.00 (36.5 bb)
CO: $441.42 (220.7 bb)
BTN: $148.21 (74.1 bb)
SB posts $1.00, BB posts $2.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $3.00) Hero has J♠ K♥ A♦ T♠
Hero raises to $7.00, 3 folds, SB raises to $23.00, fold, Hero calls $16.00
Flop: ($48.00, 2 players) 8♣ 2♠ K♦
SB bets $48.00, Hero calls $48.00
Turn: ($144.00, 2 players) 9♣
SB bets $110.88, Hero calls $110.88
River: ($365.76, 2 players) 2♥
SB bets $365.76, Hero calls $148.95 and is all-in
Results: $663.66 pot ($4.00 rake)
Final Board: 8♣ 2♠ K♦ 9♣ 2♥
SB shows J♣ 7♣ K♠ K♣: (Full House, Kings full of Twos)
(Pre 60%, Flop 90%, Turn 85%)
Hero shows J♠ K♥ A♦ T♠: (Two Pair, Kings and Twos)
(Pre 40%, Flop 10%, Turn 15%)
SB wins $657.66
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Love when people don't believe you
[converted_hand][hand_history]GG Poker - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
BTN: $667.45 (133.5 bb)
Hero (SB): $648.83 (129.8 bb)
BB: $920.09 (184 bb)
UTG: $500.00 (100 bb)
MP: $331.92 (66.4 bb)
CO: $551.41 (110.3 bb)
Hero posts SB $2.00, BB posts $5.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $7.00) Hero has Q♦ K♠ K♥ Q♠
fold, MP calls $5.00, CO raises to $22.00, BTN calls $22.00, Hero raises to $98.00, fold, MP calls $93.00, fold, BTN calls $76.00
Flop: ($321.00, 3 players) 7♠ 3♠ 2♠
Hero bets $64.20, fold, BTN calls $64.20
Turn: ($449.40, 2 players) 6♥
Hero bets $148.31, BTN calls $148.31
River: ($746.02, 2 players) T♥
Hero bets $338.32 and is all-in, BTN calls $338.32
Results: $1,422.66 pot ($7.50 rake)
Final Board: 7♠ 3♠ 2♠ 6♥ T♥
Hero shows Q♦ K♠ K♥ Q♠: (Flush, King High)
(Pre 64%, Flop 82%, Turn 90%)
BTN shows T♣ 2♦ 3♥ A♥: (Two Pair, Tens and Threes)
(Pre 36%, Flop 18%, Turn 10%)
Hero wins $1,410.16
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hey man, randomly stumbled upon your blog. fun to go back through the pages and see the process. always been contemplating to switch from hsnl to plo myself, but still dread going down in stakes so much just to learn for months on end. admire you had the guts though.
i remember you posting in another friend, saying you 100% know S Guignard isnt cheating. guy has been banned on GG, ACR and Winamax, possibly other sites too, ive no clue. have you been fooled by him or what made you say that back then?
keep up the work!
Following GL. When do you think you'll take shots at 5/10?
hey man, randomly stumbled upon your blog. fun to go back through the pages and see the process. always been contemplating to switch from hsnl to plo myself, but still dread going down in stakes so much just to learn for months on end. admire you had the guts though.
i remember you posting in another friend, saying you 100% know S Guignard isnt cheating. guy has been banned on GG, ACR and Winamax, possibly other sites too, ive no clue. have
Thanks for your words.
Well about Seb. I still don't believe he ever cheated.
I was one of his main coaches and saw him rise from a lowstakes spin and go player and quickly move up from the lowest to highest stakes in those games (with the help of staking) in only a years time. I was sort of a mentor to him in a ways, back when I actually coached some people. In fact, while he was playing spins, I was contemplating quitting spins many times, as I wrote in this blog, and I would talk to him about it, and in many ways I believe I had a big impact on his decision to also leave spins and start playing cashgames. From a very early stage I recognized the talent he had for the game.
When I know how hard working, and how much of a talent this young man has for poker. It was no surprise to me when he immediately started crushing those shortstack games on Winamax (which are very similar to spins), giving him confidence to start playing shortstacked on other sites, where he had a huge edge on the competition. Well, coming from spins he knew exactly the GTO solutions at 0-40bb deep, while most other regs playing cashgames don't study these stack depths and it is only fish who sit at such shallow stacks. It is no wonder that he took a lot of money from regs by exploiting them (not by playing GTO).
Obviously when some new reg shows up out of nowhere crushing everybody, it looks quite suspicious. But having coached him, spent some time with him and talked a bunch with him on how he views the world and knowing where his beginnings come from and how he grew into the player he is today. I really doubt he ever cheated, I mean he has no reason to cheat. Why do I think he got banned from these sites? Well probably because he got mass reported by all the regs losing to him (including yourself of course), and as he wasn't already established such as Linus or Stefan or Makeboifin or whatever AND since he was playing shortstacked which is kinda "ratholey" I guess the sites saw that as enough reason to ban him without any evidence of him cheating.
So yeah, I still talk to Seb a bit, actually a bit of a coincidence you bring him up since we kinda stopped talking for a long time, but he got in touch recently and he told me about all this. Well IDK exactly what to believe. Poker is a pretty dark world sometimes, everybody out there trying to take from others constantly, only trying to do what's best for themselves. It's a zero-sum game and while it's a beautiful game, sometimes I dislike the fact that it's so predatory and cut-throat. Well Seb wanted to take all the money by playing honestly, holding the lobby and battling, and he was doing that, and then a lot of regs decided that if they could group together and all mass report him then maybe they can get him banned, which is obviously good for their own bottom line, but how is this fair? It's just politics.
I'll admit, the sites all banning him shows evidence that he did cheat in some way. However, knowing him personally and him insisting to me he didn't cheat, well I believe him on that front. So I'm not going to take sides here.
All I will say, is that I care about integrity, and I care about justice. This is because of certain things happening to me in the past, where people should get what they deserve. Perhaps he got banned on those sites, but the future can bring good karma if that was undeserved.
Well there's no telling what will happen. All I know is that Seb insists he didn't cheat and that he is filing a lawsuit against Winamax and GG to get unbanned and he seems quite confident in his case, so I guess, we'll see what happens from here.
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Anyways back to PLO.
Uhm, if things go well prolly Christmas period. If things go poorly then I guess sometime before Summer next year.
Well in this hand I enjoy folding with 1bb left behind, oh beautiful redline
[converted_hand][hand_history]GG Poker - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
BTN: $774.10 (154.8 bb)
SB: $495.00 (99 bb)
BB: $220.06 (44 bb)
UTG: $755.07 (151 bb)
MP: $966.70 (193.3 bb)
Hero (CO): $500.00 (100 bb)
SB posts $2.00, BB posts $5.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $7.00) Hero has 5♠ 4♠ 7♥ 6♦
fold, MP raises to $17.00, Hero calls $17.00, fold, SB raises to $73.00, BB calls $68.00, MP raises to $309.00, Hero calls $292.00, SB raises to $495.00 and is all-in, BB calls $147.06 and is all-in, MP calls $186.00, Hero calls $186.00
Flop: ($1,705.06, 4 players) J♠ T♥ Q♦
MP bets $471.70 and is all-in, Hero folds
Turn: ($1,705.06, 3 players) A♣
River: ($1,705.06, 3 players) T♣
Results: $1,705.06 pot ($7.49 rake)
Final Board: J♠ T♥ Q♦ A♣ T♣
MP shows A♥ Q♣ A♠ 6♠: (Full House, Aces full of Tens)
(Pre 51%, Flop 26%, Turn 34%)
SB shows 9♠ 8♣ T♠ 6♣: (Straight, Queen High)
(Pre 31%, Flop 36%, Turn 33%)
BB shows 7♦ 9♦ A♦ 8♥: (Straight, Queen High)
(Pre 18%, Flop 38%, Turn 33%)
Hero shows 5♠ 4♠ 7♥ 6♦: (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 0%)
MP wins $1,692.57
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The first hand you should fold pre flop. It doesn't play well vs a 3b. Your utg so hes going to be very strong when he 3b you and you don't have any big suited cards here. His range just crushes your hand here. If your not utg and maybe in co or btn its fine to play but not this particular spot. I like your blog. Nice results nice to see someone whos real grinder at plo on here.
August recap
August 2024: GG PLO200 and PLO500
Hands played: 22978
Hours played: 44
Hands per Hour: 534.5
Hours studied: 54
Hours worked: 98
Net Won: $6167
Net won + RB: $9904
Net Won $/hour: $225
EV: $8009
EV+RB: $11746
EV $/hour: $267
Pretty lazy month tbh.
I was pretty proud of myself for grinding every morning up until like the 19th or so despite a bunch of social occasions due to my birthday week and lots of people visiting me. But after that my
The first hand you should fold pre flop. It doesn't play well vs a 3b. Your utg so hes going to be very strong when he 3b you and you don't have any big suited cards here. His range just crushes your hand here. If your not utg and maybe in co or btn its fine to play but not this particular spot. I like your blog. Nice results nice to see someone whos real grinder at plo on here.
Trainer only has 150bb deep on PLO500 so not sure how much of a difference it is in terms of EV, but folding AKJTss (suited to JT) would be a 9bb mistake.
The first hand you should fold pre flop. It doesn't play well vs a 3b. Your utg so hes going to be very strong when he 3b you and you don't have any big suited cards here. His range just crushes your hand here. If your not utg and maybe in co or btn its fine to play but not this particular spot. I like your blog. Nice results nice to see someone whos real grinder at plo on here.
As the other guy mentioned, it's basically a breakeven decision with our specific combo, but with any Single suited combo AKJT just isn't really being folded much, in general I wouldn't focus on these minuscule innacuracies but rather focus on big heuristics that I can implement.
What's more important though. Is that I mentioned this guy is an aggro fish. Well I didn't give his 3b % but it was over 15%. Against such stats it would be a big mistake to fold.
TBH most of the hands I'm posting aren't super interesting in terms of analysis. Lots of standard stuff where neither player would/should play so different. Although maybe I'll try to post some more value in terms of hand histories.
Here's an interesting hand where I misplayed OTF, and from the turn I'm in the streets.
[converted_hand][hand_history]GG Poker - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 4 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
CO: $200.00 (100 bb)
BTN: $606.44 (303.2 bb)
Hero (SB): $402.31 (201.2 bb)
BB: $166.76 (83.4 bb)
Hero posts SB $1.00, BB posts $2.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $3.00) Hero has 7♠ J♠ 6♣ T♣
fold, BTN raises to $7.00, Hero raises to $23.00, fold, BTN calls $16.00
Flop: ($48.00, 2 players) 7♥ 3♥ 7♦
Hero bets $15.84, BTN calls $15.84
Turn: ($79.68, 2 players) 8♦
Hero checks, BTN bets $79.68, Hero calls $79.68
River: ($239.04, 2 players) J♥
Hero checks, BTN bets $119.52, Hero raises to $283.79 and is all-in, BTN calls $164.27
Results: $806.62 pot ($3.00 rake)
Final Board: 7♥ 3♥ 7♦ 8♦ J♥
Hero shows 7♠ J♠ 6♣ T♣: (Full House, Sevens full of Jacks)
(Pre 53%, Flop 79%, Turn 85%)
BTN shows K♣ 2♥ J♦ A♥: (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 47%, Flop 21%, Turn 15%)
Hero wins $801.62
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In this hand, I realized, sometimes it is nice to have AAxx in your flatting ranges.
[converted_hand][hand_history]GG Poker - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
BB: $382.63 (191.3 bb)
UTG: $200.00 (100 bb)
MP: $207.05 (103.5 bb)
Hero (CO): $400.15 (200.1 bb)
BTN: $372.10 (186.1 bb)
SB: $433.79 (216.9 bb)
SB posts $1.00, BB posts $2.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $3.00) Hero has 3♠ A♦ A♥ J♣
fold, MP raises to $7.00, Hero calls $7.00, 2 folds, BB raises to $29.00, MP calls $22.00, Hero calls $22.00
Flop: ($88.00, 3 players) A♣ 7♠ T♥
BB bets $88.00, MP calls $88.00, Hero raises to $371.15 and is all-in, BB calls $265.63 and is all-in, MP calls $90.05 and is all-in
Turn: ($973.31, 3 players) K♣
River: ($973.31, 3 players) 9♦
Results: $973.31 pot ($3.99 rake)
Final Board: A♣ 7♠ T♥ K♣ 9♦
Hero shows 3♠ A♦ A♥ J♣: (Three of a Kind, Aces)
Main Pot: [$622.15]: (Pre 44%, Flop 74%, Turn 68%)
Side Pot: [$351.16]: (Pre 69%, Flop 95%, Turn 100%)
BB shows 2♦ T♠ A♠ K♦: (Two Pair, Aces and Kings)
Main Pot: [$622.15]: (Pre 25%, Flop 5%, Turn 0%)
Side Pot: [$351.16]: (Pre 32%, Flop 5%, Turn 0%)
MP shows 9♣ J♠ T♦ T♣: (Three of a Kind, Tens)
Main Pot: [$622.15]: (Pre 30%, Flop 21%, Turn 32%)
Hero wins $967.32
[/hand_history][/converted_hand]
And sometimes it is worth it to jam preflop without AAxx
[converted_hand][hand_history]GG Poker - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
SB: $572.15 (114.4 bb)
BB: $85.35 (17.1 bb)
UTG: $200.22 (40 bb)
MP: $500.00 (100 bb)
Hero (CO): $1,445.43 (289.1 bb)
BTN: $500.00 (100 bb)
SB posts $2.00, BB posts $5.00
Pre Flop: (pot: $7.00) Hero has J♦ A♦ 9♥ Q♥
UTG raises to $17.00, fold, Hero raises to $58.00, BTN raises to $198.00, 2 folds, UTG calls $181.00, Hero raises to $799.00, BTN calls $302.00 and is all-in, UTG calls $2.22 and is all-in
Flop: ($1,207.22, 3 players) T♦ 6♦ 5♦
Turn: ($1,207.22, 3 players) 6♣
River: ($1,207.22, 3 players) A♠
Results: $1,207.22 pot ($7.49 rake)
Final Board: T♦ 6♦ 5♦ 6♣ A♠
Hero shows J♦ A♦ 9♥ Q♥: (Flush, Ace High)
Main Pot: [$607.66]: (Pre 35%, Flop 88%, Turn 86%)
Side Pot: [$599.56]: (Pre 48%, Flop 96%, Turn 100%)
BTN shows T♠ K♣ J♣ 7♠: (Two Pair, Tens and Sixes)
Main Pot: [$607.66]: (Pre 41%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
Side Pot: [$599.56]: (Pre 53%, Flop 4%, Turn 0%)
UTG shows 8♥ 8♦ 4♦ 2♥: (Flush, Ten High)
Main Pot: [$607.66]: (Pre 25%, Flop 9%, Turn 14%)
Hero wins $1,194.73
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It's been quite a tough month so far.
At the start of the month I was dealing with nicotine withdrawal so I found myself tilting and getting quite anxious frequently. I made decisions too quickly.
After the first week, I was mostly over the nicotine withdrawal and I started to play quite well. However the run hasn't really been so much on my side this month. Just a very swingy month with money flying in every direction.
Quite happy with my play, also feel like I've improved significantly since I've started playing PLO500 in May and more in tune with population tendencies and how some other regs are playing at this stake now.
I'm game selecting much less now, which may be a slight mistake, but I enjoy playing vs the other regs. One thing I'm very happy with myself about is that I've been grinding basically every single morning. Other than one night when i went out with a friend and had some drinks which made it hard to wake up with drive the next day, I've simply stuck to my routine and grinded every morning. Additionally I put in some extra volume on certain days. And I'm very proud of myself. I hope this sort of lifestyle can keep going, as it is sustainable and pretty much impossible for me to fail as long as I keep going.
I've been reading a new book by Ryan Holiday called Courage is Calling. It touches on a lot of topics I think can be relevant to poker tbh. Playing poker requires courage, and there isn't a single sessions where I don't feel a bit of anxiety or nerves. In the past I would even avoid playing any poker altogether due to such anxiety or nerves. It's good to be building my courage. Some methods I am doing to improve this is through the use of daily cold showers. Cold showers are quite uncomfortable so I face my fears before entering one, but when I'm finished I'm proud of myself. And my brain is filled with dopamine.
Been watching a bunch of Andrew Huberman as well. He touches on the topic of Cold showers quite a bit in some of his podcasts. Also started doing daily meditation and NSDR. TBH there's a bunch of **** I've been doing recently contributing to all of this. The run hasn't been good. But the habits I've installed and my consistency has been excellent and I couldn't ask for more. And I'm sure the results will come.
