Originally posted by Rhodriguez
Maybe I should start to become a (master) meditator.
I found the exact same idea few days ago, as coaches recommend to take it "light" in the 2nd phase of poker career (2nd phase: player has been more than 2 years professional). Such a relief that being just a meditator is correct...
Found a few poker charts on my laptop. In grayscale and looking beautiful - if a poker matrix ever can look pretty. Wasn't happy with the results two months ago but now I'm proud what I achieved then.
I wish I was better, aka would do it at all, tracking what I was doing for how long. Yesterday and today were very good and productive mornings. If I could conserve those in amber to use them as a blueprint in future... the 2nd idea is to do each day at least 72% of what I did on average the last seven days. Or building a poker pomodore.
On January 1st I want to quiz myself. Till then learning and repeating and see how I can perform on a set date.
A PLO book ages ago gave the advise to win small pots. The idea behind it was that picking up those will increase your stack. And due to the nature of pot limit compared to no limit you effectively only risking opponent’s money against opponent's money.
Small investments to win big later. The big spots that are 50:50.
I feel like I should do smaller study investments too. To get small rewards quicker, that then can be reinvested again. This instead of one big investment that pays off only at the end. Right now I mostly defined the terms in a Voltaireseque way. But can't apply anything useful.
Originally posted by Rhodriguez
A PLO book ages ago gave the advise to win small pots. The idea behind it was that picking up those will increase your stack. And due to the nature of pot limit compared to no limit you effectively only risking opponent’s money against opponent's money.
Did that advice have anything to do with Stack-to-Pot Ratio? It seems to me that SPR is much more important in PLO than in other forms of poker.
Did that advice have anything to do with Stack-to-Pot Ratio? It seems to me that SPR is much more important in PLO than in other forms of poker.
Very good! Quickly skimmed through and the book spent a lot of time about SPR, how many bets that are and which style and hand strengths to play for each SPR.
SPR = 1 : 1 bet
SPR =< 4 : 2 bets
SPR =< 13 : 3 bets
SPR > 13 : 4 bets
On the streets you can decide if there are enough betting rounds left to get the money in.
The book seems now better than it was then...
I narrowed down to five areas to study. 100 minutes each day. Will aim for 90 minutes and four topics. One can rest each day. Fits much as a routine.
Originally posted by Rhodriguez
Very good! Quickly skimmed through and the book spent a lot of time about SPR, how many bets that are and which style and hand strengths to play for each SPR.
Which book?
Apologies if you mentioned it by name already.
No, haven't mentioned it. Jeff Hwang: Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume I: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play. Like the title says it focuses on a certain part of the game - which I might have misunderstood. As I have it in the library I should reread and I think is might be especially valuable in live games.
Mainly five card plo, hi/lo and hi. No nlh.
Summary:
861 Hands
$+72.69
$1983.36
Summary:
861 Hands
$+72.69
That's super nice! I look to aim for results like this in online poker in ~3 years.
You and me both. Thanks.
Would need to play two stakes higher to regularly win this amount within such short rate. Sometimes I ask myself, should I again focus on PLO and is it worth to learn NLH? Then I recall that my mental weary is much quicker and my results start to suffer. And I want to play mixed games (NLH/PLO). And of course live. Which is easier done once I'm proficient in NLH.
Never forgot that solver solutions are sub-game perfect. And the EV is not carried on / summed to the decision but backpropagation from the final result. For example if raising to 9bb gives you an ev of -8bb. Then on the flop betting could have the ev of 3 bb while check/fold would be 0bb. In total betting would be -5bb. You never should be on that path. Prune this branch before studying.
Of course study 90 minutes will be difficult when it takes me 30 minutes each time to unpack and begin. But then I achieved a good state and was able to learn for 25 minutes. Almost missed the station I planned to get off.
Scooped another 3 bucks to my bankroll. Mainly due to quartering a fellow warrior at the table. I did some questionable calls myself where I risked being quartered myself. Always the big question what is the better option? Losing half of the amount I have to call with or half of the pot that would belong to me. And then of course, can't fold all the hands. Gives only a false impression of being disciplined and on tilt when you finally call.
Speaking of diciplined. Studying and eating healthy still doesn't work for me together. Not just while but also before and as an afterburn.
What do you mean when you say "quartered"? Ist this related to some cashout option on the site you are playing at the moment?
This means, that I'm playing a hi/lo split pot game like PLO8 or Big-O. In a heads-up situation when one player has the high portion but both players share the low pot then the player who only wins 1/4 of the pot is quartered.
The start of the session began by losing 25 bucks rather quickly. The only reason I could give to defend myself would be I didn't want get bullied. Showing that I don't fear to call! But everything else was off. Out of position, questionable hand selection, marginal hand strength at best and as indicated passive.
Fortunately it got better. Slowly won pots and accumulated money. Still passive as I didn't even bet my top set. Fortunately BU did that for me.
Ended the session with a small profit. Now I don't if I should be happy, that all went well, or scold myself for not playing more frequent and longer. Could complete the goal in 100 days, maybe 5 months. But then the goal was learning nlh during the process. Which I didn't.
Monday is the first Monday of the month. So I decided that I hand in my results early. Then there will be a last bankroll update of the year for the 15th. After that the 5th day of the year 2026 will be the starting signal into 2026! The monetary poker goal for 2026 will be to win on average 22 bucks each day. There it is - poker resolution #1 for 2026.
Summary:
169 Hands
$+14.92
$1998.28
Yes, I survived plenty poker rooms that don't exist anymore!
This week I showed up everyday. Sat at my study place before eight each day. Studied not very long, twice I looked at poker, began to learn neovim. One day I installed archlinux as a second linux option in wsl. Read some documentation about pillow in python to create something small for a friend. At the beginning very frustrating. Literally wasn't able to remember anything. Wasn't sure if too old or just not used to really study anymore. Luckily it was later. Each day I kept sitting longer. Time flew again. And I started to recall the first few vim motions!
If I would do summaries on poker. The last nine days, I studied 45 minutes poker.
Originally posted by Rhodriguez
Yes, I survived plenty poker rooms that don't exist anymore!
The first one I used that disappeared was Full Tilt, then several iPoker rooms (they might still exist, but don't accept players from Canada)
Originally posted by Rhodriguez
This week I showed up everyday. Sat at my study place before eight each day. Studied not very long, twice I looked at poker, began to learn neovim. One day I installed archlinux as a second linux option in wsl.
I'm still looking for a linux distro that will run on an old laptop I have. I'll try archlinux, since I haven't tried it yet.
Originally posted by Rhodriguez
Read some documentation about pillow in python to create something small for a friend. At the beginning very frustrating. Literally wasn't able to remember anything. Wasn't sure if too old or just not used to really study anymore. Luckily it was later. Each day I kept sitting longer. Time flew again. And I started to recall the first few vim motions!
Use it or lose it.
I can read docs all day and not retain a thing. I have to actually do something before it sticks. The more I use it, the more it sticks.
Are you competent in git and python?
There is a free poker database and hud at https://github.com/jejellyroll-fr/fpdb-3
fpdb has been around for years, but this has been re-written to use python 3.
I've recently forked it, but I'm struggling, since I'm still learning.
Then good luck with the installation! Is the issue the performance of the laptop or the individual hardware parts?
My setup starts to look more and more like the others. No wonder it gets repeated in their bubble. Tmux is installed. Now I have to learn to switch multiple windows in nvim and tmux. While reading installation guides, because I had one small issue with WSL I learned also about the utils taskwarrior and timewarrior. Installed it rightaway on my tablet. Now I can track spend time very quickly. It's nothing automated but I can start it with multiple tags.
timew start poker study
timew start poker ploJust need to recall doing this. But all can be edited and added later as well if I forget it once.
Unfortunately my python won't be proficent enough to contribute. But contributing to a project would be a good idea so why not pick this project! Maybe I will clone it later. Wondering what the open issues might be...
Originally posted by Rhodriguez
Unfortunately my python won't be proficent enough to contribute. But contributing to a project would be a good idea so why not pick this project! Maybe I will clone it later. Wondering what the open issues might be...
Have a look. My python skills aren't all that great either.
Here's the project url https://github.com/jejellyroll-fr/fpdb-3 br>
This is based off of the original python 2 version.