Hello fellow poker players!
My name is Gabriel and this is my third shot at poker.
So first, who am I?
I am a 23-year old swedish student living with my girlfriend in central stockholm. I study engineering physics (teknisk fysik) with focus on applied mathematics. I have been playing poker casually for between 4 and 5 years.
My poker history.
I started playing sometime around year 08-09 and found pokerstrategy through a friend. The prospect getting a free $50 starting capital looked appealing to me, so I signed up and found there was a swedish community trying to beat the various stakes of holdem. I thought, why not lets try to beat this game.
I started playing NL SSS, but as it turned out the game wasnt as easy as i had thought. I started improvising, playing well outside the given strategy and steadily grinded my bankroll down to 10 lousy dollars. I was like what the fuck man, how am i supposed to keep a healthy bankroll management with ten damn bucks?
This was e serious breaking point in my poker career and I really had to think things through. I started reasoning, what poker format can I possibly play with $10. Then i found fixed limit holdem. The game seemed perfect to me, with such big mathematical restrictions I realized that i HAD to stick to a strategy in order to beat this game. I started out with 0.02/0.04 which actually required a bankroll of $12 to stick to the bankroll management, but i was only 2 dollars short so I was like what the heck its the only format i can afford.
It all went smothly after that point. I beat my way from 0.02/0.04 up to 0.25/0.50 in the FL games on pokerstars and ended up with a bankroll of something like $200. At this point I also got lucky and came thrid in a $2 tournament for $600 which put my bankroll a bit over $800. After this I kind of lost interest in poker which resulted in a break for maybe 6 months.
My second shot at poker.
After a while I started thinking about poker again. I needed a new format and decided to give Nl holdem full stack a shot. I was rolled for the 0.10/0.25 tables but decided to start out a bit loweron 0.05/0.10. I moved to full tilt and started playing on the rush tables. To be honest, my game wasnt really top notch. I was playing BE or maybe slightly winning, but the bonuses and rakeback kept my bankroll growing.
After a while I started posting hands on the swedish microstakes handreview forums. I found out that the then current handcoach went tothe same university as I and I started taking some private coaching sessions. My game improved a lot and soon i was winning 5bbs/100. I moved my bankroll to the entraction network and started playing SH on 0.10/0.20. At the SH tables my winrate went down a bit to a few bbs/100, but I was still winning and my game improved significantly.
After maybe 60k hands I decided that I wanted back to nl FR, so I continued on the same stakes on FR instead. When I went back to FR something had happened. I had learnt a lot about late posion game, when to 3-bet or not 3-bet, from who I should steal from and who not to steal from. My valuebetting and FOLDING had also improved significantly. I was now a 13vpip/11pfr player and i was crushing the game. I was winning and winning, and the better I got at folding the right hands the more i won.
I moved from 0.10/0.20 upto 0.5/1, my bankroll was steadily built well over $4k. At this point I also started doing some live coaching and became a microstakes handevaluater on the swedish forum on stakes up to 0.05/0.10 on FR and SH.
After a while i got more to work to do at school and I once again started losing interest in poker. I resigned from the hand evaluation and stopped playing poker again.
The third shot, present time.
I started talking to an online friend again who was one of the top 5-card-draw players in europe a couple of years ago. Somehow talking to him made my interest in stir up again. He adviced me to try out plo hi/lo aka PLO8, and that is where I am now. I have cashed out some of my bankroll but still have something like $2.5k on different poker sites.
Right now I am starting low with PLO8. I expect to be a losing player the first few thousand hands so I am currently playing stakes between 0.01/0.02 and 0.05/0.10 to learn the basics of the game.
I am going to try and post lots of hands here, so all PLO8 players feel free to comment. Also feel free to post your own different pokerhands here, I am always up for discussing some hands.
Wish me good luck! 
