2900 hands later...

And I'm still showing profit. Don't have the stats in front of me, but in the neighborhood of 13.5 BB/100 hands. Is that good? I'm not really sure. As long as my graphs are showing an uptick, I think I'm golden. I'll correct these numbers later if I'm way off.

Can I say again how much I love multitabling? It's easily the most important thing in my recent improvement. A Hud helps a lot too, but by keeping my attention focused on four tables at once, I'm dumping hands that I might have played if I were a single table noob.

I'm new to the Hud concept, but I've been finding some players that are playing nearly 80-90% of their hands (VPIP). These guys are the fish, right?

It's working!

Running PTO and Pokerace Hud. Through WinXP on Bootcamp. It's all very snappy and I'm not noticing any lag or slowdown. It's very helpful being able to look at my stats. I've only logged a meager 500 hands, but I'm finding multitabling to be extremely good for my game. I'm still dealing with the speed at which I have to make decisions, but it's so much easier to lay down junk-ish hands and awful draws.

So far so good, but it's way too early to say I'm teh expertz leet PLO'er.

A whole new world.

I've decided to take a break from tournaments. Despite some early success, I think I've opened up a little too much and have started playing too loose. I've also forgotten some golden rules and gotten a little sloppy. Might be time for me to focus on starting fresh with a different discipline. Consider it a New Year's Resolution.

I'm going to switch over to PLO cash for awhile and start near the bottom. I'm starting at PLO$10 with 20 buyins to see what I can do. Sadly, I think I'm going to need to do an install of XP in bootcamp (on my Mac) so I can start running Pokertracker. I'd do everything on the Mac side, but crossover and PT3 don't like each other. And I refuse to buy a PC. Just can't do it.

I'm going to be very strict in my approach. No more than an hour a day multitabling four tables at 10¢/25¢. $200 starting roll.

I've also started going back to the gym. It felt really good to hit the treadmill and weights again. I ran into my old personal trainer on Monday and the pangs of guilt were too strong to stay away. Oddly enough, after three solid months of not going, I set a new personal best for the mile. Weird. I use the Nike sport kit with my iPod and I absolutely love it. Very motivating to keep track of your runs, and to watch subtle improvements.

I also subscribed to Deucescracked. Let me just say that this is a terrible investment, and nobody looking to improve their game should do it. You will learn nothing from the pros and it's like throwing away your monies.

Okay, WTF?

So I just got busted in the strangest way in the nightly $30 PLO game. Check out this nonsense:

PokerStars Game #23680982663: Tournament #131676782, $30+$3 Omaha Pot Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/01/07 23:28:55 ET
Table '131676782 11' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: rockbot (6325 in chips)
Seat 2: cabriboy (3215 in chips)
Seat 3: datEman (3710 in chips)
Seat 4: djg420 (5639 in chips)
Seat 5: MR CH0W (5290 in chips)
Seat 6: 121themac (2905 in chips)
Seat 7: mattythatguy (4176 in chips)
Seat 8: Joe_Banks (6090 in chips)
Joe_Banks: posts small blind 50
rockbot: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mattythatguy [Js As 6d Ah]
cabriboy: raises 200 to 300
datEman: folds
djg420: calls 300
MR CH0W: calls 300
121themac: calls 300
mattythatguy: raises 1650 to 1950
Joe_Banks: raises 4140 to 6090 and is all-in
rockbot: folds
cabriboy: folds
djg420: folds
MR CH0W: folds
121themac: folds
mattythatguy: calls 2226 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1914) returned to Joe_Banks
*** FLOP *** [4s 2h 5c]
*** TURN *** [4s 2h 5c] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [4s 2h 5c 8d] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Joe_Banks: shows [4d 5s 3d 2s] (two pair, Fives and Fours)
mattythatguy: shows [Js As 6d Ah] (a pair of Aces)
Joe_Banks collected 9652 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9652 | Rake 0
Board [4s 2h 5c 8d Qs]
Seat 1: rockbot (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: cabriboy folded before Flop
Seat 3: datEman folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: djg420 folded before Flop
Seat 5: MR CH0W folded before Flop
Seat 6: 121themac folded before Flop
Seat 7: mattythatguy (button) showed [Js As 6d Ah] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 8: Joe_Banks (small blind) showed [4d 5s 3d 2s] and won (9652) with two pair, Fives and Fours

Afterwards he types, "thought there'd be a lot of dead money out there". Come on? Really?

I just checked this guy's stats, and they're through the roof.



What the dealie-o? Someone help me out here.

Happy New Year

Hope everybody has a safe and enjoyable new year. As per usual, wifey and I are staying home. The in-laws will be on a plane having spent a few days with us (which was great) and we generally can't stand the whole "let's go out and overpay for a terrible night" thing any more.

Took down sixth in the $33 PLO last night. Would have been better if villain hadn't hit a two-outer on the river. Sick.



Granted I was fairly behind preflop:

Omaha Hi: 500000 sampled boards
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Ks Kd Jd Td 190542 38.11 309458 61.89 0 0.00 0.381
As 4c 4d Ah 309458 61.89 190542 38.11 0 0.00 0.619

But after the flop and turn...

Omaha Hi: 40 enumerated boards containing Qs 3c Jh Th
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Ks Kd Jd Td 32 80.00 8 20.00 0 0.00 0.800
As 4c 4d Ah 8 20.00 32 80.00 0 0.00 0.200

Bummer. At least I'm one better than my usual finish!

EDIT: I'm dumb, he had more than two outs. Any queen (3), any three (3) and any of the two remaining fours (2) = 8 outs.

Nemesis - Have you got one?

I do.

And the disappointing thing, is that I probably won't see him again. I checked his stats, and they're very noob. He's never cashed in a PLO game, yet here he is, playing against me in tonight's $33, and he's winning with Godawful cards. Just terrible. I make a snarky comment about how awesome A238 unsuited is a monster. He now is chasing me around to each table commenting on how low my stack is, which is fine. I made some comment when he donked off half his stack with trash. Whatevs. I can't wait to see him crash and burn, which is inevitable based on his style so far. He pots nearly every hand he gets into. Now that he's off my table, he's been seated next to a guy I know is very good, who has him easily covered. It could get ugly.

I never really get into it at the table, but once I got a look at his stats, and his brash attitude came out, I really detested the guy.

Oh God, now he's up over 28k and in fricking first. HATE.

Tell me I'm not the only one to get into these moods.

I'm starting to notice a pattern...

That's another 7th in the same tournament. WTF?