its like breathing

http://thegrip.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/ohio-state-goalie-has-weed-leaf-on-mask/

pretty crazy that the dude is playing for a major university and somehow this flies. saw it today in a game on tv and nearly shat myself.

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some day you will run worse than ever thought possible.

that day has arrived more than a few times in my life, and unfortuantely has arrived once again in 2009.

it's funny that its coinciding with my SNE chase, but i have undoubtedly been running massively below expectation for the first two months of this year. i guess it all started when i lost a 200bb pot near the bubble of the PCA main event to a 6 outer. i've been playing PLO which is admittedly a new-ish game to me, but i just did some database leak plugging and it's undeniable that i'm running hugely below expectation. if you just look through the hands i've posted on LP, they're most of my all-in pots that don't include me having the nuts vs some rando donk's TPTK etc.

i've lost almost 80% of my 80/20's over 100k hands, that's pretty stifling. i'm not quite losing but more so breaking even, a result of my volume (good thing i'm not playing 20k hands a month or i'd probably quit over a stretch like this!). today i ended a session early (first time all year) only down 2 bi, but if you plug in my equity i shoulda been up about 10 skalansky buyins, pretty massive. it was the first time i've felt tilt as a result of this stretch. you can see the graphs i've posted in this blog, some crazy stuff.

it's tough when you're running bad because there's a sense of "well, what can i do?"

i've just worked on plugging small leaks, and it's probably been a positive in that sense, but i have the kind of expenses + tax time that I really can't just be breaking even all year long. i'm hoping i'll hop out of the funk. as it is this month, i'm break even or slightly down, mostly thanks to 5/10 shots vs. moneymaker and some gross beats in a soft 5/10 NL game. so i guess i'll have to take some time off 5/10. i might just go back to hold em, where suckouts don't necessarily feel as brutal. i was banking 50-100 buyins per month pretty regularly last year, so this is definitely becoming trying, but i shouldn't have been so accustomed to running good either.

i'm sort of rambling on some self-therapy here but i think you guys get the point.

graph of month @ PLO so far -

stuck like 2k in holdem as well.

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well obviously i was JK'ing about quitting. im not a quitter. played another session to pull a sick profit on the day -1.5k in rake boo yeah!!!

i don't know whats up with this graph. i only played 6k hands and am supposed to be up 600, not down, but you get the idea.

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well, i have decided i'm going to revert to hold em for my SNE grind. I just completed losing around 30bi or so in the last three sessions, and although I'm pretty sure it was "standard" variance (got it in deep a decent favorite multiple times and lost), what i'm not sure about is my ability to go through stretches like this (or even worse) and maintain SNE pace.

it's tough as well because in general i'm not as confident in my play as i would be in NLHE so the opportunity to "second guess" myself comes up way more often.

for your viewing pleasure here is my month at PLO


as you can see, pretty rough stuff. quitting a winner for the month though! unfortunately i'm down about 5k in NLHE playign some 5/10 over at FTP before I had to cash out my roll, so i am indeed stuck in the month, hopefully I can get in the swing of things in NLHE and at least break even. a losing month would probably mean i'd have to give up on SNE altogether, but I'm confident

For shits and giggles, this is my year graph at the PLO. I guess the swings are standard but I'm going to give it a rest for a while regardless, I may get back into it if I can find some decent coaching or something of the sort. It's actually missing another 5-10k in winnings from my laptop DB, but as you can see it's not the results I'd expect from my holdem play. At the heyday I was a 5ptbb winner but I think this is more something like 2.5 which isn't really acceptable for me. (Not because 2.5ptbb isn't an acceptable winrate, but rather if I were to go for SNE playing holdem at the same winrate it would take more hands which can be accomplished in the same amount of time, and thus my real life hourly would be better)



Trying to stay positive, 30bi in 3 days is pretty unreal and something that probably couldn't happen at NLHE, but in a sense I was probably due for an epic bad run.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Sean.

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enjoy

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thoguht i could play moneymaker heads up

noob sucks out twice then coolers me

still a winning day though!

sne 4 lyf

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SNE Grind day. Went OK.



Month so far:

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i think im just going to start posting my daily graphs from every session cause theyre always absurd.

it says two days cause i played till like 1am, if you care.

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game is a joke right

pretty sick session

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