poker journal wed april 16

Going to fire a session of online poker. My plan is 4 tables of NLHE $2 for 30 minutes.


My goals are to mark a few hands for review. Do an immediate post session recap. To monitor my mental game and to improve at observation and analysis specifically through looking at showdown hands.


Let me first reflect upon poker. What are my goals. What am I going to do to achieve those goals?

I want to improve at poker. Today I am going to play a session, and then I am going to do hand review and analysis. Additionally, I will read some forums. I will also take some walks.

Self check. I got okay sleep. Not great. Could have used more. It is still early in my day, relatively. I did some light cardio already. I've got water and my coffee. I think I am ready. Almost ready. I am going to read and post a bit on r/poker first. 



Post session recap : 


Okay. That was wild. I ended up playing up to 10 tables of 6 max PLO. $10 and $25. On two sites. My reasoning was, I am wasting time with this penny ante shit. At least at $10 and $25 plo I will have a decent hourly. It was a fun session, and I won like $70 or $80. I played pretty good, and the games were very soft. I think in my next session, I will dial it back a little bit and play 6 tables of PLO $10. Then evaluate from there. My mental game was not really tested in this session. I was definitely a bit desperate during all ins. Would like to be more nonchalant. I did great on volume. 900 hands over 2 hours. 





I don't mind that I called an audible and really switched up the grind. However, I don't want to make a habit of it. And I don't want to do that so dramatically either. I want to plan for what I am going to do, and then I want to follow the plan. I trust my calm and collected judgement a little more than my heat of the battle judgement I guess. Still, I believe my reasoning was sound. This wasn't a problem. But from a best practices standpoint, I want to set up a game plan before the session, and then implement that game plan during the session.

Okay. Time to draw up a new poker business plan.

Right now I am playing PLO $10 and PLO $25. Mostly PLO $10. I am going to get a hand sample at PLO $10 and $25 and then think about moving up if I am beating the game over a reasonable sample.

I feel pretty good about my play. The games were soft. My play was good. I was decently focused for a two hour session. I am improving there. 

400 hands an hour. If I can win at 10 bb / 100, with an average big blind of 17.5, that is $1.75 per 100 or $17.50 per 1000. Playing 2000 hands a day I could expect $35 a day. Not exactly life changing money but still decent.

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