Slowly grinding

My day:

By popular demand, I will attempt to detail some intriguing tales of my life if there are any during the day.

Roommate started playing The Sims 3 at 11pm yesterday, I slept at around 1:30am, got woken up at 2am, 4am, and 7:30am and he was playing Sims each time I woke up. I left for work at 10am and he's still playing Sims. I come back from work at 5pm and he's simulating.

No idea if he slept or not, he's too absorbed in his game for me to find out.

Hands:

Sick heater continues.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/793201 - $7.75 - I can't really fold to the raise on the river. Might be a bad idea to 2 barrel a short stack but it seems profitable since people will fold 99% of the time.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/793199 - $21.30 - Basically the best flop ever for me and the guy liked his 3 pair / straight draw, luckily for me.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/793177 - $0.82 - I'm a 62% favorite in this 3 way all-in on the flop, and the 5% to win gets his 1 outer on the river to nab main pot. Then again the king does help me win side pot so I can't complain too much... Moral of story, top pair + draws is very strong against people showing AA/KK strength preflop.

Results:

1224 hands
+$32.12

Summary:

This seems way too easy, am I just extremely lucky?

Graph:

Today:

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Hands:

Biggest pot I lost today was $4 while chasing draws, won a couple set over sets, no difficult decisions worth posting/thinking about.

Results:

854 hands
+$19.56

Summary:

Feeling good about this whole endeavor, BR almost at $200 right now.

Graph:

Today:


Overall:

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Most hands played in a session so far, 1.2k. Was 7-8 tabling.

Hands:

Lots of losing hands to consider today.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792133 - $8.02 - Slight underdog here. Okay at these stakes since people will often have trash hands / weak draws I think.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792129 - $10.02 - Bad beat.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792159 - $11.65 - Thought I could bluff him off. Probably not a wise play but his turn raise made me think he hit the straight and wasn't on a flush draw, hitting straight with a flush draw would probably just call I think.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792161 - $6.16 - Blah, don't know why I called river. I guess I didn't expect a two pair or a set to play the way villian did.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/792162 - $24.57 - Was scared of set, turns out I'm dominating.

Results:

1232 hands
+$8.65

Summary:

Played slightly looser (played more 3 card broadway + x hands etc), worked out well overall I think. Got a lot more action and if it weren't for bad beats/good rivers for villians, I'd be up more.

Graph:

I'll be honest I don't think EV line for Omaha given by HEM is an accurate indicator of luck. There's a large number of reasons that people smarter than myself have posted online, so google if you're curious. Either way my allin luck was slightly bad today.

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I've been 4-6 tabling, decided to try 8-tabling today. Was alright, there was a 1 minute stretch where all 8 tables suddenly demanded my attention on top of some text messages so I got distracted, but otherwise I think I can handle 8 tables fine, and probably more.

Hands:

I had a ton of small pots today that somehow all added up for a very nice gain. Here's the biggest wins / losses in nonchronological order.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791486 - $12.85 - I only have middle set here, but villian had tried mass shenanigans before this hand with marginal stuff so I felt like I was good. Also he would have reraised flop, in which case I might have folded.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791487 - $6.99 - Bad beat.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791488 - $8.51 - I think I handled this well.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791490 - $7.49 - I think this is ok too, being in position is really nice.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791491 - $6.75 - Villian was probably fed up by my continuous continuation betting.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791493 - $7.80 - Not sure if I should have shut down here or not... Flop is dangerous but maybe if I took advantage of villian's passiveness I would have stolen the side pot.

Results:

935 hands
+$20.01

Summary:

I tried 3betting more, got a couple of 4bets in too. I think I lost more than I won on my 3bet hands. I really like 3betting with straight hands, AKQJ, 5678 etc, but overall the betting was probably good for my image at the tables. Sadly my 3bet% for the session is exactly my overall 3bet%. Still need to 3bet more. Oh and, I need 350 more FPP to get to silverstar, 11 more days.

Graph:

I guess I'll include daily graphs from now on. Whoops, graph in bb's, doesn't really matter.

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This is my first post!

I'll keep track of my attempts to become decent at Omaha here. This is my first attempt to maintain a bankroll. I have 7.8k hands of PLO5 logged so far. PLO5 games on Stars are deep stacked ($10 buyins), but hopefully that doesn't affect my play in higher stakes with smaller buyins. My goal is to get to $400 then move up to PLO10. Sitting at $140, long way to go.

Hands:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791078 - Gotta get this all in given stack sizes I think.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791082 - I only have second nuts, but I felt like this was ok to get all in.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791084 - Villian stack size obligates me to raise/fold, surprised to find myself slight favorite.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791093 - Interesting hand, as the villian I would probably go all in here too. The higher end of villian's OESD is negated by my higher draw which probably accounts for the odd difference.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/791097 - Villian is a fish, I was expecting a set.

Results:

735 hands
+$6.52
17.7bb/100

Summary:

Overall I'm happy with my play. I do play too tight compared to what various online forums have suggested, and even though I've been trying to 3bet more / play more hands, my sessions have me at 19/10 with very little std dev. I'm not confident with 2/3 barreling, I will probably lose a couple buyins experimenting with my reads.

Graph:

The sudden $20 drop at around 3.2k hands was due to some tilt that lasted exactly 2 hands. Even with those hands I'm at a good 16bb/100, without them I would be at 21bb/100. Hope I can keep it up.

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