After 555 hands I'm going to call it a day and just play the PLO8 MTT I'm in. I'm extremely tired after having stayed up 'til 5am listening to the Pats - Cards preseason game over the 'net. I didn't want to sleep to long as I have to get up for work tomorrow, 3 weeks of vacation are at an end.

So how did I do and why:

Up $80 over 555 hands PLO50 for a 14.28bb/100. I was extremely cold-decked for the first 2-300 hands and had some pushes go the wrong way, so I had to resort to stealing and trickery to stay afloat until I was dealt:

Paradise Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
7 players


Stack sizes:
Hero: $60.20
UTG+1: $46.70
MP1: $17.75
CO: $52.65
Button: $85.05
SB: $69.25
BB: $116.35

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is UTG with
Hero calls, UTG+1 raises to $2, MP1 folds, CO calls, Button calls, SB calls, BB folds, Hero calls.

Flop: ($10.5, 5 players) (Middle set and flush draw/blockers in EP. Can we say checkraise?)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $2.5, CO calls, Button folds, SB calls, Hero raises to $23, UTG+1 folds, CO calls, SB folds.

Turn: ($61.5, 2 players) (Hmm. Did he draw to the straight. I don't think so and I have the mother of draws anyways if he did)
Hero is all-in $35.2, CO calls all-in $27.65.
Uncalled bets: $7.55 returned to Hero.

River: ($116.8, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $116.8)


Results:
Final pot: $116.8

So that was all good and well. I then proceeded to bleed most of that away until i started hitting some sets and getting payed handsomely, like boating up with AA in a 3-way pot and such. So I'm coasting along, feeling great and invincible and thinking I can outplay anyone and donk away like $40 on a fancy tricky play right into top set. Smooth. After having lost $55 on MTT's I should probably also limit myself to 1 MTT/day and max $20 since I'm not at all sure it's +EV for me. So all in all a winning day, albeit a small one.

I felt I wasn't really playing at the top of my game all day, probably due to lack of sleep. I wasn't playing bad either, just a so so day.

Resolution: Stop losing $$ in stupid MTT's.

Update time. Had my first day at work after the vacation which was so so. Good to meet the co-workers again but not so fun to be stuck there for 8 hours+. Got home for my afternoon/pre dinner session which started off as quite a downer. I found $200 I didn't think I had on neteller which I decided to deposit on UB with the idiotic intent of playing LO8 to clear the everlasting bonus there. The only game running was a 7-handed 3/6 that I jumped into, fully aware that I shouldn't play anything even remotely close to shorter than *FULL* ring. I was down like $20 or so when the game got 4/5-handed and very aggressive and I quickly went down $80. After balancing on the brink of "bankrupcy" for a while I pulled off 2 scoops to get back to +1.5bb and immediately left. Hopefully I learned the lesson this time. If you ever see me at a shorthanded LO8 table you can watch me for the ideal "how not to play" strategy primer (or tell me to leave). I also entered a $30 MTT $2k gtd on UB in line with my 1 MTT/day resolution. Hopefully playing only one MTT a day will make me more focused in them, providing some greatly needed improvements in results. I got like no hands whatsoever, then pick up KK only to run into a set...almost curtain time. With 300 left and blinds 15/30, I push from the sb with KQs (3 limpers), folds to the button who calls. He had limped in with A2 and I don't improve. So things were looking so so when I find a 10 handed PLO200 table on UB with 3 players vpip 50'ish and lots of small stacks. Fluctuated around 200 for awhile when I misclick-call a raise from the bb preflop and this happens:

Strengthend by that I fire up 3 PLO50 tables and play decent poker. I then misplay AAxx ss a bit on the 200PLO table and is rewarded with this: . Shortly after that I drop the 200 table and proceed to pick up this beauty: . That and some other nice hands gives this "decent" session result:


LO8 3/6: Hands 147, +$9.75
PLO 200: Hands 122, +$357.55
PLO 50: Hands 123, + $193.60

for a neat BR increase of about $530, or 20%

/Anders

Ok after my dinner break I felt very invigorated, to quote an old computer game that I can't remember the name of. I made my debut at LO8 5/10, which was a bit intimidating to be honest. I played rather passively and lost a bit. I had a swingy session all in all really. The only part I'm really satisfied with is the token SnG's, played 6 for $48 and won 3 tokens worth $72. Now I have to find a way to turn them into cash..

I tried the $24+2 deepstack 6k gtd and got of to a very nice start. Was at about 4.5k when I call a small PFR with 44 and get the flop 347. To make a long story short the PFR had 77 and I was short. I went all in with QQ and lost to 56s and that was that but I felt I gave myself a chance at least so not so disappointed with that. As I'm writing this am running a couple of tables with a mix of PLO50, PLO200 and LO8. If it doesnt turn around soon I'll call it a day and log my first losing session since this project/journal/diary started. Since it doesnt appear to be meant like that since I just stacked off to a guy who was smart enough to call all the way with AA I better cut my losses. Im feeling rather tired and this session has probably been a few hours to long which is a lesson I hopefully can learn something from.

Results (total for the day):

$'s for tokens:$48 for 3 tokens worth $72. Neato.

Hands Result
LO8 5/10 75 -$124
LO8 3/6 269 +$147
PLO200 14 -$61 (A flopped straight OOP, board pair, I fold).
PLO50 504 -$62 This includes a nasty drop from +70 to -130. During those hands it was all good times at my tables since I was handing out stack right to left.

Total BR change for the session: -$166
Total BR change since project start (I only include this so I don't have to end this entry with a negative number..): +$731