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Joe Czech Republic. Sep 06 2009 16:15. Posts 5987 | | |
I didnt post any poker updates during the summer, so I feel like writing at least a short summary now.
July
I decided to dedicate July mostly to learning and playing PLO online and see how it goes. To be honest, I didnt really do much learning, only seen like 1 or 2 videos and the rest was just learning by playing. I played mostly 2/4 and 3/6 PLO at Microgaming. I finished the month in positive, but quite below what I hoped for. I made around $4,000 + some rb.
As for the competition, the fish players were making more big mistakes than similar players make in NLHE games, but I felt the regs were rather solid and some definately (and unsurprisingly) had an edge over me.
In the end of the month I went to Venice for the Italian Poker Tour. I was the first to go out from the main event though after my AA lost to KK 600bb deep aipf first level. Surprisingly, the guy who knocked me out wasnt an Italian gambler, but a young German player. Well he said he saw a picture card in my hand when I was checking my hole cards. But my friends went quite deep, 2 made the money and overall it was a fun trip.
Btw for anyone living in Venice, how often do you see anyone jumping down from the top of the Rialto bridge? We saw couple of drunken foreigners do it, they got even an applaus from everyone who were watching, like even waitresses stopped to watch, so I figured pretty unusual. Anyways, I prolly wouldnt do it even for good money, seemed a bit dangerous.
August
In August I decided to come back to NLHE as my primary game and only play PLO when I spot a huge fish. Since there were some interesting rake races at Unibet (some specifically for Czech players) and I didnt have any big travelling plans for August, I decided to go into a grind mode and play a ton of hands. I have been a bit lazy as far as putting in hours and hands goes in the past several months and except for June the results werent very good either, so I felt like a big-grind month would be good for me. But in the begining of the month I hit a big downswing and in the middle of the month I was down about $26,000 playing mostly 3/6 NLHE. Most of it was due to bad allin luck though and I felt my game was quite ok. Of course I did a bit of analysing of the big losing hands etc. made a few slight changes in my game, but basically continued to grind a lot of tables all the time. Luckily for me, it finally started to work and in the end I managed to finish the month in positive numbers, around +$5,000 + rb.
Well so I made around $8-9k in the 2 summer months, which sux. At least I have a decent rakeback so I got another about $10k for that 
September
On a most recent note, I played the WPT Slovakia tournament, which was a 4,400€ freezeout. I was quite looking forward to this event, but it turned out to be quite below expectations. Only 100 people played the main tournament, the side events were cancelled and only small number of side games were running (but they were good games). In the main event I got knocked out 21st when 18 were in the money.
Right now I am back at home, currently ill and trying to get back into shape as fast as possible, because a) my futsal season is starting the next week and b) there is quite a few decent tournaments I want to play in my country this month.
Thats it for now.
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Big_Rob_48 United States. Sep 06 2009 16:36. Posts 3432 | | |
how do you go on a 40 buyin downswing at 600 nl and have it not be more than bad luck.... that has to be like the worst run bad ever? |
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You'll be at UO Prague, right? |
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Joe Czech Republic. Sep 06 2009 18:16. Posts 5987 | | |
| | On September 06 2009 15:36 Big_Rob_48 wrote:
how do you go on a 40 buyin downswing at 600 nl and have it not be more than bad luck.... that has to be like the worst run bad ever? |
Well i mixed in a bit of NL2k too and of course there are hands that i am not proud of
But one day i played a very long session of nl600€, like i dunno 5k hands and ended down about $10k and hem said that allin-ev-wise i was suppossed to end up about $1k. |
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Joe Czech Republic. Sep 06 2009 18:17. Posts 5987 | | |
| | On September 06 2009 16:36 DustySwedeDude wrote:
You'll be at UO Prague, right? |
Yea I should be there. |
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Big_Rob_48 United States. Sep 06 2009 18:42. Posts 3432 | | |
dang, battling back over 50 buyins from that is quite sick and motivating, thanks for the read |
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