Some help from an unlikely friend...

August wasn't exactly my best month when you remember my previous post from a few weeks ago.
I was stucking in a stupid -10 BI downswing, wasn't playing my best poker and maybe 6-tabling wasn't helping it when I think about it.

I was actually playing more than I had ever played and raked in a few thousands in short order.
All of that is over now after I have gotten help from my former nemesis: PLO.
I've recently fallen back in love with the game and made a 180 degrees turn this month to finally be in the green! I have no clue how much PLO hands I've played, maybe 2k, with NL, that amounts of about 7k hands for the month.

So far my results have been really good, with very few losing sessions; and because of that my confidence is way up. One of the things I still need to work on is to no play with scared money. Every time I gather up a big stack at a table I tend to just leave not wanting to lose it. But having a big stack in PLO is such a huge edge and often short stacks are afraid to play against them because they can't just push all-in at any time.

Anyways, I've also unlocked $30 from FTP's Best Bonus Ever and I am now looking forward to their Take 2 Bonus as well as Stars' WCOOP Reload Bonus which I have yet to start completing.
Either way, August was good and I'm ready for September.

ronee

STEAMING!!!

I don't like to rant, but here are the two biggest hands of my night's session.
Had to quit right after.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4597111

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4597113

WTFAERZDR#%^%$&!!~!@$#@%#$^

ronee

Look out belooooww!

So far, pretty big downswing in August, maybe -10BI, and it's probably my worst downswing as far as I can remember.
Anywho, those kind of hands kind of sum up the bad beats, and I'm leaving out the crappy plays I'm making as well... :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4556369

I've played over 2000 hands in just a handful of days, which has got to be a record for me.
I've also unlocked $10 from Full Tilt's Best Bonus Ever

ronee

One outer

I wasn't involved in this hand.
But man that's gotta hurt:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4516680

That guy was a total jackass too. He was tilting to death, raising every hand and insulting everyone who beat him in a pot.

I was on the receiving end of his last rant when I busted him with a set against his flush draw. He turned his flush but I rivered the FH, which is standard in PLO. I'd post the chat here but he's not worth it, although hoping that somebody dies ain't cool.

ronee

PLO is a streaky game

If I couple my NL and PLO gains, I end up with a small loss for July, maybe a buy-in or so.
I've run pretty bad in NL lately and I won't bother with my AA vs QQ busting preflop or KK vs AK, that's just standard I guess. That prompted a few tilted hands and light calls that I now regret.

I've identified a few leaks in my game as far as calling with marginal hands out of position and trying to hero-call when it's pretty clear I am beat. I'm definitely gonna work on that for my next sessions.

If I am not 6-tabling, I just play one table of PLO while watching TV or something. Last night's session was quite fun as I hit a couple of monsters, even though I only got paid off on the last one that's cool though.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4510459

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4510460

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4510461

EDIT: one last hand from my recent session. Sick sick sick.
I am up around $40 in my last 3 PLO sessions at $0.05/$0.10

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4513476

ronee

Slow days

After my rush last month, I had a horrific session earlier where I lost about -$30.
Most of that was due to tilting after losing a buy-in with TPTK and have a guy with second pair call my all-in on the turn and river trips.

Not that I am losing my confidence or anything, I have felt like playing live a little more lately.
The results have been great so far, as at one point I was up $60 in three weeks,...until I lost $15 last night. My g/f wanted me to pick her up so I just donked off the last game, calling a push with K3 suited.

Anyways, I have upgraded my internet connection (which is slow as hell in tahiti) and that should ben taken care of tomorrow. I thought it'd be ready tonight, in which case I would have put in a session but too bad. If all goes well, I'll be able to play 6-8 tables very soon, mainly at 0.05/0.10.

By the way, after Full Tilt Poker's horrible out-of-beta anniversary software update, I'm gonna stick to PokerStars for a while. Lots of people have been complaining about crashes, lags, invisible cards and UGLY ASS (really!) small cards (try to shrink your table and you'll know it's impossible to multi-table on FTP these days). Hopefully those will get fixed soon.

See you

ronee

Live poker has been...

Wow, I was gonna make a stupid post about how live poker has been boring me lately and how I'd rather stay home and play 4-tables than drive half an hour to play 30 hands of poker... Turns out I just finished a short session of 150 hands on Stars and boom!...won $21 just like that!

I've been killing it on Stars lately (brag alert!) and I am up $40+ in less than 300 hands on that site. Coupled with my Full Tilt winnings from this month, I am up $81 for June, woot!
This almost makes me wanna stop playing until July 1st rolls around :D

A few hands for you:

I was hoping for a fold and I was able to suck out on the river.
I think it's the right move given my fold equity and 50/50 is what I was hoping for.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4398869

That sucked hard! I am just happy I didn't reraise him all-in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4398870

The biggest pot I played tonight.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4398872

Lol, what a hero call. I had 2 seconds left before I finally clicked "Call".
I just relied on his click-tell (he instabet after my river check) and it just looked like a please-please-fold-to-me-pretty-please bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4398873

Laters!!

ronee