Small winrate, big month

June 20, 2009 by Brian Townsend

This month has been strange in that I am crushing 50/100-300/600 and getting destroyed at 25/50. I am down 130k at 25/50 this month but up 460k playing 50/100 and higher stakes. About 100k of that 460k is from live play this month. This is a real nice change for me because in the past I would get crushed anytime I played larger than 25/50 while doing really well in the 25/50 games. PLO is such a crazy game with the swings. I have played 10k hands of 25/50 PLO this month and am down 21 buy ins losing at 21 bb/100 while I am winning at higher stakes I am winning at 75 bb/100 over about 5k hands. I think this variance is what makes PLO such a great game.

I think part of the reason my results have been poor at 25/50 is not just because of variance but also because I haven’t been as focused as I usually am. When I have been playing 25/50 I have been playing six tables and whenever I play more than four my results start to hurt. I think the rest of the month I am going to cutback on the number of tables and really try to focus while playing and make sure I am not emailing or browsing the internet.

Here are some hands from the past few days.

A nice cooler…

http://weaktight.com/1226148

I don’t like my line here, and I was lucky to win the hand.

http://weaktight.com/1226151

Getting caught bluffing. Again pure spew by me.

http://weaktight.com/1226154

Flop is thin.

http://weaktight.com/1226160

Underset.

http://weaktight.com/1226156

This is probably to loose, but hes reraising a massive range in this spot and I am only in trouble vs a pair and larger wrap. Still though putting in 400BB with this marginal draw isn’t great.

http://weaktight.com/1226161

This is just gross.

http://weaktight.com/1226163

Can’t ask for more than getting it in preflop with AA vs KK.

http://weaktight.com/1226164

Two spew plays against Niki.

http://weaktight.com/1226166

http://weaktight.com/1226167

Not much to say.

http://weaktight.com/1226168

Learning mix games is coming along well. I have been focusing on triple draw and limit O8. I think it will take me about a year to get decent at them, I will focus on the stud games. I have just been grinding some 2/4-5/10 online when I feel like playing and the PLO games are slow.

This past week I had an amazing time in California visiting some friends. I head back to Vegas for a week then back to California for my brothers wedding. I hope the live games start to pick up this week as they have been pretty slow all summer.

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