[Hagga11]

My journey so far at PLO:

Joined March 2019 without any PLO knowlegde. Started with PLO25 Had a big break between Sep 2019 and March 2020 and I am know taking shots at PLO100.

My May 2020 graph is attached. Hope that works, I am not quite used to this forum 😀

Have a good weekend 🙂

[Adelaney]

Baaaam welcome to the new forum Kai and thanks for being the first to create a new progress log!

Crushing it so far in May let’s continue that way!

Have a good weekend and good luck if you’re grinding!

[JNandez]

Subscribed!

Looking forward to your next posts, here on the new forum.

[MrLuque86]

Subbed as well!

Lets Crush!

[Hagga11]

Thank you all @ADelaney @orestto @Luuk @JNandez

 

copy&pasty of my recent post about my new goals, just to also have it in here:

 

„Reach PLO100 was my longterm goal when I first started with mastermind in March 2019. I guess I have to set up some new goals now:

• Play 100k hands in plo100, hopefully with positive wr (beat plo100 in general)
• not cash out toooo much to slowly build my poker bankroll
• reach plo200 and beat it longterm
  -…
  -…
  -…
• working towards my ultimate longterm goal, which is being my own boss at some point and travel the world while playing poker

My real life goals:

• spend time with the people which deserve it and/or support me with my goals
• spend no time with people that just take and use everything to their advantage
• don’t get stressed to much at work, they should be happy as long as I work for them!! (Hopefully I won’t tell anybody that I am making more money at poker than at work atm before I finally leave there )
• eat a bit healthier
• get more hours sport in again (hard for me, due to no soccer and gym atm because of corona)
• continue to make my flat more nice
• take more care of my money and don’t throw it around“

[Hagga11]

I need to learn how to f***ing take breaks and not try to be at the tables every free minute. I play when I shouldn’t that’s why I am down at least 6 or 7 of these 13 stacks at the 40k hands line. I played just now and it was the worst session I probably have played since I joined mastermind. Had some bad luck and then was spewing around like a little kid. shame on me. I hate myself right now. (plan was not play poker today, but had a free hour) Should have just rest for an hour, it’s not that I don’t need that!!!!

[MrLuque86]

Hey @hagga11

In a way im happy you share this! it shows you are honost to yourself and others and you are not afraid to tell yourself you made mistakes. Remember this is all part of the process. As long as you have some takeaways from this and create a strategy on how to deal with this situation better in the future you will only grow from this.

Keep it up!

And feel free to share how you see yourself managing this situation better in the future!

GL & lets Crush

[Hagga11]

@luuk Thank you for reminding me in what is important.

Yesterday I had another bad session and was playing way to long and I ended up being down another 10 stacks, where a few of them were again unnecessary. Yesterday evening I recharged my batteries and had a good night of sleep at my girlfriends house, to finally get some distance between me and poker.

Told her after she asked how poker is going (that happens very rarely), that I just lost 2.5k in the last few days and at least the half of it is because of incompetence in terms of taking rest and because of me playing on autopilot.

I wanted to change something today, so I simply took the Editor before the session and wrote down some rules. I will open them every time from now on, before I play and read them and look at them during the session, if necessary.

Had some setups and beats again at the beginning and middle of the session, but I took my breaks, was staying positive and played my A-Game most of the time (which was very rare in the last days). And then finally the goodrun came in again. Back to +2,5k winnings this month, but the money and the results aren’t worth, what I (hopefully) have (re-)learned this week.

There are a few ways to deal with a downswing and I want deal with like Luuk said: I want to grow during a downswing and not play like a little kid!

[Hagga11]

Had a few more rather unlucky sessions and ended May on PLO100 with about 5 Stacks up and 1300$ rakeback.

In general, I am able to “play” on PLO100, but I am not able to crush it yet and the amounts of money won or lost in a short time period are influencing me to much. I have had worse sleep and mood changes. I was also way to greedy and I was playing, when I just shouldn’t.

So there was a need for changes, not really in my longterm goals ,but in my system.

I am reading „atomic habits“ (3 chapters in) and it is already eye-opening in some ways to me.

Biggest takeaway so far: Not your goal-setting is what is important, important is the system that you are shaping – a system that makes you reach the goals in the long run.

I was focussed way to much on my results (and), especially at the beginning of my restart in March 20. Everbody wants to have great results, everybody has that goal. Some make it, most don’t, at least in the long run.

Why is that? Because the most players are lacking in a good and widespread system.

To be more focussed on shaping a continuously improving system, I stepped down to PLO25 Zoom. Why? As a working dude, I don’t really need poker winnings to pay my bills.

The swings on PLO25 don’t affect me at all, so I can put all my energy, that is left for, poker into improving besides the tables and play my A-game at the tables.

Sure, playing on a higher limit was fun and exciting, but it won’t make me a better poker player, if I just hop on another limit, where some people are already playing professional, without a good system. It rather makes a pure gambler. That’s not what I want to be!

There will be a few habits I already have reactivated and launched and there are a few more to come.

It will take time to manifest them, I hope the „atomic habits“ will give me a good guideline therefore.

I will showcase them here step by step and start today with:

Habit Nr. 01: Breaks

There have to be at least a break every 45 minutes. During that break of minimum 10 minutes, I have to leave my desk. No poker related stuff is allowed during the breaks.

Have a good weekend everyone and GL at the tables J

[Hagga11]

Sorry for the bad formatting btw.. Las post was written in in a .word file and just copied in here.

Habit Nr. 02: Focus on what matters

I’m a person now, that isn’t looking at their results ingame. I will look at my graph after each session for analyzing purposes, for example to get aware of potential periods, in which I haven’t been playing my A-game and then being able to search for the trigger. So in general, I use my graph as a tool only!

[EARTHISFLAT]

hi. I think it’s quite important to take a look at the graph while playing. after years of analyzing graphs at NL I know myself pretty well and can spot immediately by just looking at the graph if i’m on Agame or Cgame or tilt…. you should know how much you are usually losing at nonsd like over 100 hands beacuse the redline is not affected by allin equity and it’s much more reliable and has way less variance than blueline since most pots you play+blinds affect it so it realizes very quickly.

how can this help? let’s say you usually lose 10bb/100 at nonsd but this session you already lost 400bb/4BI at nonshowdown over 1000 hands played – this means winrate is much worse at -40bb/100 and you can start asking yourself if you are on tilt playing loose and just putting a lot of money in the pot by either making bad calls or being waay too aggressive or too loose preflop etc – you need to know your own game.

this is a tool for long sessions to constantly take a look every hour at how you’re doing.

if you are playing short sessions and try to be super focused on quality of gameplay it doesn’t really matter because you take a break anyway

[Hagga11]

@EARTHISFLAT makes sense in general what you are saying and I probably should have used the graph earlier the way you do it, as I wasn’t making much breaks (even if I knew that is bad for me)

But the new me is making breaks and I have the will to play focus or don’t play at all. So there isn’t a need to check my redline. My Red line is also stabile, since making breaks. On later stages of plo 100 in this month it was a mess.

Habit Nr.03: chillax

There is no need to play every free hour. I will just play, when I feel like it, when I have a clear mind and the time (at least 2 hours). If I am out of energy, I will use some of my free time to regain it. I know what things to do in the future to re-energize. I just did not do it. I am now doing it.

 

 

 

[Hagga11]

So far so good, recapping my habits Nr. 01 – Nr. 03, I can say it works really good so far.

• I make breaks
• I do not focus on my results ingame, I am foccusing on making the correct play.
• I am not playing, if I shouldn’t (because of whatever, tired for example)

It is no mentioned here as a new habit by now, but I am automatically playing less and studying more. When at the tables, I can feel that I am much more focussed and I feel that I am improving.

I am at page 71 of „Atomic Habits“ and it already has changed non poker related things as well, some of them I want to mention here:

• I have no phone in the bedroom anymore
• I am going to sleep exactly at midnight (1-2 hours earlier than in the past)
• I am waking up at 7 (10 minutes earlier than in the past, to have my breakfast at home)

I need to keep this up, this totally leads me into the right direction, in direction „becoming the person that I want to be“.

Habit Number 4 – Pregame-routine:

I believe, that every engine needs to warmup, so why not also the humans engine, the brain. I will use the PLO trainer and go through the preflop spots in which I have the biggest % difference when compared to GTO.