Cmon, man. Your story like my poker and trading life , also was success almost 15 years ago 😂. Let we dinosaurs rise again.
Wish you luck. And I also play PLO10))
Let’s show this young jackanapes
P.S.sorry for my not fluent English.
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I finished the 10k mark and had a break for the last couple of days. some autopiloting showed up in my last sessions so I know stepping away from the tables for some days and clear up your mind is always a good idea when it comes to poker.
Lets have another look at positional stats:
Compared to the 5K screenshot it did not change much. Im happy to turn down the fold to 3bet stats a notch. For the RFI stats especially in CO, BU & SB I steal too much in terms of GTO. The question is if I can compensate this deviation on other fields.
Since I assume on PLO2 people are playing too much hands I will be more involved in a hand than I will be able to steal.
When playing vs bad players IP I think this is fine while on SB/OOP I guess the high RFI should still be throttled down. Good news is: If I filter out the HU hands in my DB i come down to 39% RFI on SB thats good news for me.
Speaking of SB, I also had an eye on my SBvBU stats:
well, there is no improvement unfortunately. That means I have to intensify my SBvBU studies for this month.
Goals for August 2022
- 15k hands
- 25 videos of 3bet pot OOP
BTW: poker a good pokerbuddy of mine is going to marry next month. I need a haircut and a suit. Lets see what we can afford...
finished my saturday session and on the first saturday of the month people seem to spew their paychecks away on the tables 
PokerStars - $0.02 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
UTG: $2.19 (109.5 bb)
Hero (CO): $2.05 (102.5 bb)
BTN: $1.41 (70.5 bb)
SB: $2.39 (119.5 bb)
BB: $1.66 (83 bb)
SB posts $0.01, BB posts $0.02
Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has A♣: A♠: 8♦: 6♣:
UTG calls $0.02, Hero raises to $0.09, BTN raises to $0.16, SB calls $0.15, BB calls $0.14, fold, Hero raises to $0.82, BTN calls $0.66, fold, BB calls $0.66
Flop: ($2.64, 3 players) Q♥: 9♠: 5♦:
BB checks, Hero bets $1.23 and is all-in, BTN calls $0.59 and is all-in, BB calls $0.84 and is all-in
Turn: ($4.91, 3 players) 2♠:
River: ($4.91, 3 players) Q♣:
Results: $4.91 pot ($0.20 rake)
Final Board: Q♥: 9♠: 5♦: 2♠: Q♣:
BB shows 6♥: J♠: 5♣: 7♠:: (Two Pair, Queens and Fives)
Main Pot: [$4.41]: (Pre 30%, Flop 41%, Turn 42%)
Side Pot: [$0.50]: (Pre 36%, Flop 44%, Turn 42%)
Hero shows A♣: A♠: 8♦: 6♣:: (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)
Main Pot: [$4.41]: (Pre 50%, Flop 50%, Turn 58%)
Side Pot: [$0.50]: (Pre 64%, Flop 56%, Turn 58%)
BTN shows 7♦: K♦: 7♣: 3♥:: (Two Pair, Queens and Sevens)
Main Pot: [$4.41]: (Pre 21%, Flop 9%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins $4.71
let me share again some audio that gives me vegas feelings 
the track 'until the end' + the one that follows:
sometimes you wonder how these vpip60 maniacs are surviving so many hours...
sometimes you manage to stack em! iso3bet MPvsEP might be superloose but without the suit to the ace I rather iso3bet vs EP OR 74% plus I couldnt fold this hand after seeing him basically openraising all those trash hands
PokerStars - $0.02 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
CO: $3.82 (191 bb)
BTN: $1.45 (72.5 bb)
SB: $2.12 (106 bb)
BB: $0.80 (40 bb)
UTG: $4.70 (235 bb)
Hero (MP): $6.39 (319.5 bb)
SB posts $0.01, BB posts $0.02
Pre Flop: (pot: $0.03) Hero has 4♣: T♠: A♦: Q♠:
UTG raises to $0.07, Hero raises to $0.24, 4 folds, UTG calls $0.17
Flop: ($0.51, 2 players) 9♦: A♠: J♥:
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.28, UTG calls $0.28
Turn: ($1.07, 2 players) 8♣:
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.03, UTG raises to $4.12, Hero raises to $5.87 and is all-in, UTG calls $0.06 and is all-in
River: ($9.43, 2 players) 7♥:
Results: $9.43 pot ($0.38 rake)
Final Board: 9♦: A♠: J♥: 8♣: 7♥:
UTG shows 2♥: T♣: 7♣: T♥:: (Straight, Jack High)
(Pre 53%, Flop 11%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows 4♣: T♠: A♦: Q♠:: (Straight, Queen High)
(Pre 47%, Flop 89%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins $9.05
hi efkai and all of you here on the blog.
hope you guys had a great day.
nice conversations here though.
I can resonate with your story and somehow my story have some similarities with yours.
me as well started to play again poker and kind of enjoying playing online poker.
from which part ofgermany you coming from efkai?
I live in germany as well.
best regards
sorry for my english as well and for using only small letters:) 😜
are you guys playing professional moment? and by that I mean poker is your main job at the moment ?
I want as well to give it a try at poker but I don't know if its the right thing.
I would be glad to hear some opinions of you guys if you've already that far ahead and what's like to be just living and breathing poker.
best wishes to all.
by for now,
costa
hi costa! dont worry, I mainly use small letters too 
not playing professional right now, these days making a living from poker is very hard. I advise you to go for it but dont expect easy money, at least on stakes where you could pay the rent. GL & HF
thank you so much for the nice words efkay . I am trying this days but like you said this is very tough this days because almost everybody has some basic skills and not easy to make a living just from poker. its a lot of fun but probably not sustainable long run.
coaching or paying subscriptions to former players would make difference in your opinion? I am thinking about that as well even tough its quite diffcult to find a good. any recommendation would be appreciated efkay.
thanks in advance.
have a great day all together on this blog.
bye for now guys,
costa
My advise for you to get better: Get access to a site with up2date content for the poker format of your choice where they provide coaching videos. Reason for videos: you can view them over and over again, replay if you dont understand something, recall if you forgot something.
If you start from scratch reading 1-2 of the best books for your format is also very good, if not better to get fundementals: when you are reading a book there is absolutely zero chance the content wont get into your brain because for example when I watch a video a catch myself not listening closely and have to rewind.
I would not go heavily for a coach as a beginner for several reasons: you have so many leaks in the beginning and unless you have a high amount of money already the coach simply wont have enough time to go through everything. It is also like you pass the work you have to put into the game to someone else.
If your coach is good he will give you help to improve on your own, if not, you will be as smart as you before the coaching a couple of days later and the money is wasted.
Later on when general learning material does not go into detail enough to improve your game a coach might be a good thing. But you can keep coaching aside for later, i.e. when you already make some decent income of low-midstakes and can pay the coach with grinding profits.
In 17 years of poker I had exactly one paid coaching session: It was a NLH $162 Final Table and I knew another grinder that offered final table live coaching. We called up in skype and I will never forget the awkward situation where I timed out pocket Kings just because I was explaining too long to my coach why I do this and that. Obv finished 8th or something couple of hands later. (shoutout to 00Visor :f_drink:)
While statistics/HUDs nowadays are not a thing on most pokersites, having a database of your hands is still one of the best things to have because with HM3/PT4 you are able to analyze your game and fix leaks by yourself.
Last but not least, post hands and discuss your lines, especially the ones that are not too obvious badbeats or bluffs where you have won. You might want to find buddys that playing regulary but stay away from large groups, 1-3 regulars in your contacts should be good.
TLDR: Books > Videos > DB > Hand discussion > Coaches
Good luck!
thank you so much efkay. first for taking your time to write me and secondly fro sharing your experience which is very helpful to know from someone like you who have played for 17 years. thanks a million.ill keep in mind the things you said and later on when I will be playing better ill be thinking about coaching. I found some video and advices on the Jonathan Little website which was a former pro high stakes poker and which charges 79 dollar a months and you have access to lots of poker courses ,hand quizzes,advance coaching classes and new advance classes every week. not sure if to try but I see that he has a lot of material there regarding videos and classes. I might try for a month and see if I see any improvement in my game or something. thank so much again for taking your time efkay and for sharing. I appreciated. have a lovely day. best wishes.
bye for now,
costa
maybe one day you'll be back at the tables. its a lot of fun playing though . kind of addiction this poker somehow. :))
its a lot of fun too plo.
you started playing again ? or it was an old picture ?
are you playing ,or you was playing on GGpoker or another sites ?
what you think is the best site to play at the moment efkay?
I think you should read the first pages of this blog I came back to PLO 4 weeks ago, that is the current graph.
I play at stars because german regulations killed most other options. especially for PLO. I dont advise my german fellas to play at GG because how they handle the new regulations is absolute rake trap.
more info in the german forum: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/de/forum/thread.php?postid=20681735#post20681735
that's so true about GG with the new regulations totally agree efkay.
best of luck at the tables efkay and everyone here on the blog.
have a lovely day all together.
bye for now,
Costa