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 the disappointing results.
I think the games have probably been a little worse recently, so I’m going to try improving table selection. I also think I may have been playing some hands that were profitable last year, but aren’t profitable with a couple of aggressive regulars behind me and only one fish at the table. I’m going to try adjusting some of my opening %s to get in fewer tricky positions, and I have a few other ideas that I shouldn’t mention in case any opponents are reading this.
A decent proportion of these hands were PLO, which I started learning again as a back up in case good NLHE tables become too hard to find. That probably also helps explain the worse than usual results for the month, because PLO doesn’t seem to be working for me yet. I have a few books to read and videos to watch. At the moment I’m playing super-tight, never hit a flop, and rarely manage to bluff successfully, which isn’t a combination that usually makes any sense. I’d like to think its possible that I’ve been running badly for flop hand values making the whole thing much harder to learn, but I don’t know what the chances are that that’s true.
July is off to a better start AND I’m still running above expectation,so hopefully both earnings and fortune continue I guess.
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- Why we ‘add 10% nonsense to their range’…
- Some poker-theory work
- August 2010 Graph
- June 2009 Graph
- This month so far
Wed, Jul 14, 2010
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