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Well, I've managed to at least cut out most of the 2/4, so that over 90% of my hands are at 3/6 and 5/10 now.My official plan as of now is:1) Keep playing 3/6 and 5/10 on the stake until I get 50K together2) Play 2/4 to 5/10 on my own money until I get up to 200K3) Start playing some 10/20 with 100 BIHowever, it has occurred to me to look into getting staked at 10/20 if I have another month like this last one. I do feel like I'm more secure when I'm playing with other people's money, and if I can keep raising my potential earn, there's not much reason to jump into trying to hold my own bankrol

LOL @ playing Antonius HU. I do think the stability from being staked helps a lot there as I know that no matter what happens I'll be able to play the same games and that helps steady me out before I ever get to the "panic mode". BTW, I put in another couple hours tonight and won another $7,000. I'm now averaging 51.4 PTBB/100 for July.

Nope, iggy doesn't have losing sessions online anymore. Only in Vegas when he's playing on his own money. Here's my July so far:Sustainable?

Oh yeah, didn't occur to me you could get > 20K hands playing FR only, but I suppose it might be possible at lower stakes. Never mind me if that's what you were going for.

How many tables are you playing? If you're playing 8-12 tables, then you're probably fine, but if you're playing any less, you're throwing away money by playing that tight. I think optimal VPIP for PLO is somewhere between 26 and 36 depending on how you play postflop.As for me, my only real goal is to get some real volume in July. I'd shoot for 40K hands if I wasn't already 4 days into the month with no (online) hands played, but as is I'm going for 35K. I've been killing the games lately, I just need to put in some hours so I can make up for what I lost in Vegas.

Bah, trip ended up shitty. Lost $5000 on PLO the last 2 days and spent a bunch more money too. I don't know why I come to Vegas. I always end up spending money like I'm way more rich than I am and I never do better than break even at the poker games.

Went out in the 4th hour in the $1500 HORSE. It was the softest field for any tournament I've ever played in my life, but in a limit tournament with a fast structure, there's not much you can do. Anyway, I'm about even for that buy-in with my winnings on cash games/pit games thus far, although I've spent about $1300 already including $130/night for my Bellagio room and food and I've also loaned my broke-ass friend $1000 or so who decided it would be a good idea to spend a week and a half at the series with only $2500.Everything's going pretty good overall though. Thinking I might just get drun

Kind of a nitpick, but it tilts me when people talk about "early position" when they're playing 6-max. Uh, there is no early position. The first two positions to act are 2 and 3 OTB. Also, I don't really get what's wrong with "bloating the pot" either. If you've got a hand that plays bad against AA, and there's a shortish stack that has AA, well yeah that's bad. Otherwise, it's no problem though. With weak AA type hands, you should be dying to "bloat the pot".FWIW, I wouldn't recommend trying to play 36/24 exactly, that's a little tough. I tend to 3-bet a lot myself in marginal situations and

I was going to say he looked too passive preflop, and that was probably the only real mistake. You usually want to be raising at least half of your hands preflop in 6-max. As for playing 25/8, it's OK for FR, but it's pretty TAP (especially passive) for 6-max.Here are my 6-max stats for June FWIW: (Time period obviously cherry-picked to make my winrate look more impressive.)

Well, looks like I'll definitely be coming down to Vegas for the WSOP. Just booked my room/flight today. Going to be at the Bellagio from 6/27-6/29 and at the Wynn from 6/30-7/2, playing the $1500 HORSE event during my stay. Maybe I'll see some of you down there if I'm not too busy.

Not that complicated. I'm running a little bit above expectation at 5/10, but significantly below expectation at 2/4 to the point that I'm in better shape than I should be $-wise, but worse in terms of BBs.Anyway, I'm not quite on track for my volume goals this month, but that's about the only complaint I can possibly make, as I'm having my 2nd-best month ever for cash games. Counting FPPs, I've grossed $35,000 so far. Would be nice to get off the stake and keep all that money for myself, but at least my staker's getting me some money on Full Tilt soon so I can game select better and greatly r

I'm starting to rethink my plan of moving down to 1/2 once I get off the stake. June's been ridiculous so far.

Yeah, way to go Zach. I'm sure you're disappointed that you didn't make the final table, but 15K is still a pretty nice cash.

Obviously made my "disappointed" post before reading this. A+++.I still don't quite get how he can simulatenously be exposed to the sun and have a top boat encasing his whole body though. Was he exposed to the sun just long enough for the insects to come and then covered back up again?

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I'm turning into an information nit. Someone was asking about HUDs and how helpful they were on the Omaha forum on 2+2 and I had a whole post explaining how important they were and which stats were useful which way when I started to think about how many people I see from my regular Stars games dropping in on the Omaha forum with their 10 posts or so. And then I started thinking about half of them probably didn't even use a HUD and would be almost forced to after reading my compelling logic. So I just deleted the post.I don't know, I guess I've just reached the point where I don't even want to

Oh sorry, I stopped reading and started skimming right before the part where you agreed with me. :)You didn't really do any relevant math after that though. You just showed that getting it in 70/30 is better than getting it in "55:30" (whatever that means) which I think is pretty intuitively obvious. Maybe do that same comparison for getting it in with 20 60/40 edges compared to 20 60/40 edges plus 100 53/47 edges and you might have something a little more relevant.

Well, you put a lot of numbers out there that may include the textbook definition of variance, but aren't really relevant to what poker players would care about in that context. What most people mean when they talk about reducing variance in poker is reducing the maximum size of their downswings.For this, the relevant number is (winrate/standard deviation). Getting that number as high as possible is what cuts down on "variance" in the crudely applied way it's usually thought of by poker players, and in the way that is most desirable. LAG players deal with variance by having more edges to push

BTW, I think you're slow, not Omaha. I had a lazy month in May too; I only played 71 hours. Still got in 22K hands though.

Didn't make anywhere near as much as I was hoping last month. Finished up $3200 or so.For this month, my only real goal is to get the volume up as I've been slacking a little bit on getting hands in. I'd like to put in a bare minimum of 30K hands this month and ideally, I'd like it up in the 35K-40K range. Obviously, I'd like a big winrate too, but the volume's something I know I can control, and monetary goals tend to add undue pressure if you take them seriously. (Not that I took mine seriously at all last month.)

Are you sure you didn't make some simple mistake like look at the rake in terms of BB/100 instead of $/100? I can't imagine that you'd actually pay more absolute rake at 2/4 in the long-term. The only other explanation I can think of is sample size problems.Playing PLO, I get raked $31.34 per 100 hands at 2/4 and $36.89 per 100 hands at 5/10.

May's been a struggle thus far. I'm starting to feel like I'm a really marginal winner at mid-stakes, and that it might not be the worst idea to try to build up maybe 10K for a bankroll and just play 1/2 on my own instead of playing 2/4 through 5/10 on the stake. I do feel like trying to go back to HU was a detour though, and that I'm probably at least a passable winner if I stay away from that. I don't know what happened to my HU game, but here's a timeline:Nov-Dec 2007: Average > 15 PTBB/100 over ~25K hands. Win 75 BI in all, the vast majority at 1/2.Jan-Mar 2008: Win HU PLO tourney on 2+

Your routine sounds about 100x too complicated to me, but I agree that it's important to make sure you're focused and playing your best poker.My routine is basically:1) Get my iPod ready (very important, I skip this step fairly often and it hurts my game a lot)2) Go to the bathroom3) Get a glass of water handy4) Close Firefox (super super important, at the very least I need to close it as soon as I get my 3rd or 4th table open)Those don't have to go in order either, but it's really important to make sure they get done and if I did all of them every single time I play poker, I'd probably win tw

My only real goal for May is to net 10K in profit (20K gross before splitting it w/my staker). Last month, I only netted a little over 4K, but there was about a week and a half where I was playing bad poker. Also, I'm going back to adding in HU now and I think if I do it the right way, that should increase my profitability as well.

The factor you're listing here is so small that you can basically consider it irrelevant in realistic scenarios. If we assume equal skill and 15x the starting stack in a 400 person tournament where the average player takes 1.5 rebuys, our percent chance of winning without taking the add-on is (24,000/1,500,000) = .016 = 1.6%. By taking the add-on, our chance of winning goes up to (26,000/1,502,000) = .0173102599600 = 1.7310%. The net gain is .13102%.Now compare that to an 8,000 chip stack in the same tournament. The 8,000 chip stack originally has a chance of (8,000/1,500,000) = .0053333 = .05