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This month was disastrous, which is of course why it took me a long time to get around to posting it. There is one sense in which it is not entirely as horrifying as it looks: After the summer’s poor hold’em results I decided to take a dedicated shot at learning PLO. It started promisingly [...]

Not a good month, although at least I did in theory earn about €2k. There were some rake-races explaining the large number of hands, and also probably the bad results. At least that means I raked a fair bit, although I don’t feel any personal credibility from spending another month as a ‘rakeback grinder’. I [...]

I mentioned earlier in the month that the difference between profit and profit adjusted for all-in EV this month was going to be embarrassing, and here it is.  €5k profit running €10k above EV, so analytically a losing month. The month included a rake race, hence the large volume of hands, and probably (hopefully) also causing [...]

Up €83 for the year, having finally wiped out the disastrous run at 10/20 in the first two weeks. Obviously a very pleasing moment! Since the start of the chart was at 10/20 and 5/10, and the rest is 1/2 to 3/6, its interesting to note that if each buy-in was at the same stake [...]

Back to work after the long holiday. I withdrew all my online balances while I was away, and I don’t like using the deposit button. That combined with the fact I felt I was playing badly at the start of the year and needed to remember how to bank slow steady wins again meant that [...]