Been a while since I posted but you know how it is this time of year. I have been playing some online poker due to having more down time and I have to confess that I have been making some people very happy this Christmas. I lost $1100 playing $2-$4 PLO, $1600 playing heads up NL400 and a further $43 at $10-$20 limit and I am counting the $43. So yours truly had his worst session in ages and dips over $2700 and on Christmas Eve Eve as well.
Actually I cannot complain, the results were nothing short of variance and I have been due a bad run. The $2-$4 PLO games have toughened up considerably of late and maybe I had no value and I sure didn’t game select. I think that I am going to stay clear of PLO games unless I get PLO trackers. I use Poker Office for hold’em but I am not sure if they are compatible with PLO or not so that is something that I need to look into. I know several very strong players though at PLO who are struggling to make money at $1-$2 never mind $2-$4.
I guess I should face facts and admit that I have never been a great PLO player and stick to what I know. Actually I know full well that I can crush NL50 eight tabling and easily beat NL100 full-ring for a good earn rate. My problem is that the levels cannot motivate me but I know that I could make $10k/month playing NLHE small stakes but that would involve playing full-time.
Next year I may just target $5000/month and be happy with that but I seriously think that I am kidding myself if I think that I would grind 25 hours a week every week. My new years resolution starts here and it isn’t just because I am knee jerking after losing $2700. I am no longer playing PLO ring and I haven’t got the time to study it these days. I am also no longer playing limit hold’em as of now.
Next year I am doing three things, multi-tabling low-stakes full ring at NL50-NL200, playing heads up NLHE at NL200-NL600 and playing poker tournaments with buy-ins of $100+ and that’s it. No more messing around with games that I either don’t understand as well as the average player base or games that I am out of touch with. So I am hoping for a profitable 2010 on the tables…….if a little unspectacular……unless I pull down a large MTT.
Have a good one
Carl “The Dean” Sampson at Poker Loco
