May/PLO/move to vancouver

love the plan, only one thing id mention. as i told you, how you do in PLO is heavily reliant on how well you flop in 4bet pots. The variance is insane and with this type of plan you are probably going to get about 40-45k hands of PLO in by september which could result in a huge range of outcomes. i.e. i recently had a 70k hand stretch where i was -3bb/100, immediately followed by a 40k hand stretch where i ran at 20bb/100, then an 80k hand stretch where i ran at 2bb/100.

I know you hate mass tabling and mass playing, but putting in lots of hands once you feel more comfortable will be to your benefit so you can get more realistic ideas about how well its going at each limit as you try to move up

gl, lemme know if you pick van

Plan is good, but i think the amount of time played needs to increase. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems as though you are actually playing 1 measly hour every 4 hours which is too slow for me personally.

I would personally do something like

play 1 hour session-->
take ten minute break-->
review session-->

ADD ANOTHER SESSION /SESSION REVIEW

watch 1 video-->
take ten minute break-->
spend 30 minutes posting/reading whatever forums I can find-->
then repeat it all over again.


but other than that looks great. GL

jlost is in vancouver. you should hit him up. i like reading your blogs pete, keep em up and good luck sir!

This looks pretty awesome, I think your approach is fantastic, and I appreciate the honest tone in your post. Keep up the good work xD

Good post. GL with PLO !

good job marshall always knew you were one of the better players. thanks for sharing the news, helps not only in plo but in holdem as well. Just the way you approach the game is astounding.

That's incredible

good plan. Any learning plan that allows for fast growth, (faster than the other regs) is one that is essential. I have made the mistake of playing mass tables in the past which hurt my growth and put me behind.

1. Any articles, exercises, or recommendations from coaches, you thought brought you to a new level of understanding?

2. Are you documenting your learning in any way, or do you feel the reading/posting in forums serves as a bit of a record of the kinds of spots you were focusing on, or felt comfortable with at that time?

I have had a very similar method for over a year now (just with much less intensity, playing part time). I've found it helpful every week, or every few days if I've been learning a lot, just write a bunch of points of where I think my game is improving (much like a journal). This helped whenever I took a few days to week off the game, from forgetting everything.
Taking weeks off is probably not a problem you have, but I'm going to keep doing it as I transition back into full time play, as I think it will maintain my rate of learning.

cool plan bro

On May 29 2013 02:30 SemPeR wrote: I have had a very similar method for over a year now (just with much less intensity, playing part time). I've found it helpful every week, or every few days if I've been learning a lot, just write a bunch of points of where I think my game is improving (much like a journal). This helped whenever I took a few days to week off the game, from forgetting everything. Taking weeks off is probably not a problem you have, but I'm going to keep doing it as I transition back into full time play, as I think it will maintain my rate of learning.

Can you expound on this? I'm also trying to get back into poker part-time. What's your current regiment?

On May 29 2013 02:30 SemPeR wrote: 1. Any articles, exercises, or recommendations from coaches, you thought brought you to a new level of understanding? 2. Are you documenting your learning in any way, or do you feel the reading/posting in forums serves as a bit of a record of the kinds of spots you were focusing on, or felt comfortable with at that time? I have had a very similar method for over a year now (just with much less intensity, playing part time). I've found it helpful every week, or every few days if I've been learning a lot, just write a bunch of points of where I think my game is improving (much like a journal). This helped whenever I took a few days to week off the game, from forgetting everything. Taking weeks off is probably not a problem you have, but I'm going to keep doing it as I transition back into full time play, as I think it will maintain my rate of learning.

1. no not really. ive learned a lot from the mistakes i made when trying to come up in NLHE though. i have a much clearer understanding of what i need to do and how i need to do it this time around. previously it was all a bunch of random trial and error seeing what would work and not really knowing what i was trying to accomplish. theres no articles or exercises im using or id recommend, i just have my own way that i internalize things i guess.

2. documenting the learning is a great tool. i don't do it personally but ive thought about it a lot and if i wasnt so lazy i would definitely do it. one thing i wished i did more frequently was just write a quick entry after every video i watch jotting down 1 thing that i got out of it. it would help a lot to map everything out and give me a clearer picture of where ive been and where i need to go. id recommend anybody learning to keep some sort of a journal and to write down the new thoughts u have each day. there might not be a more powerful method. i probably should be doing it.

the reading and posting in the forums definitely is a big part of it for me. i guess its like ... the more frequently i post and get positive feedback, the more it helps to reinforce that what im doing or what im saying is correct and it helps to give me more confidence when im at the tables. if im getting negative feedback then i know what to work on and where to improve. it's just a very important tool and still to this day i browse every NL forum out there that any of the top players post in as im always trying to keep up on the game and any improvements i can make.

i think taking weeks off at a time is counter productive. it's definitely good to take a few days off here and there to let stuff sink in and to take a step back from everything you've been focusing on, but if u r going weeks without doing any work id think u would forget a lot of it and u wouldn't have a lot of continuity as far as making strides from 1 goal to the next ...it'd be very difficult to build up momentum which is very important in poker.

but like i said, ya i think the journal is a great method for learning.

and thanks to u guys who wrote positive feedback for me here.