My Biggest Bad Beat Ever But Running Gooooooood

I see i havent updated for nearly 2 weeks so bout time i put sommat down in writing.   After the 1st week i reduced my game to a planned 5 hours ish per day 7 days a week for the last 2 weeks.   Something seems to have clicked and, whilst running good especially 2 of the last 3 days, i know ive been playing a hell of a lot better.  The big difference seems to be plo where im sure im getting into better spots and playing better strategy against individual players. 

Just having a little analysis now before i head to the pub as im finished early for the day. 

Done nearly 50k hands of plo and plo hi lo this month.  The first 20k were not much more than break even but that was earning about £200 a day in rakeback for 10hours ish play (basically the first week).  

The next 30k hands if i follow either the run good profit line or the ev line are pretty much as steady as can be for the 5hours per day period.  The ev line shows about £3,000 profit and my £100 a day in rakeback would add to that obviously.

 Ive been worried about complacency but seem to have been conquering that so far.  Overall for September im sat on +£4,829 but receive a £200 bonus before i start tommorrow so say £5,029.  Total rake so far for the month is about $6,200 so basing it on the 50% cash out im targetting that would be another £2,000 ish.  That said my graph shows im around £2,500 above ev.  That said we all feel we are due a good run and ive been "dry" now for many months as stated in previous less positive posts.  Anyways hoping ill have another cracking final week to the month and will report back here after that.

Just looking at my hi lo and plo split and about half my hands were hi lo and actually the results are steady but nothing to get excited over at all.   As said above that doesnt surprise me as i know ive been golden and playing better in the plo games for a change, gnnna look at those now.

.5/1plo  went 11 buyins down ( i suspect the 10hrs day period ) before finishing 6 buyins up (ev line).
1/2plo steady up finishing about 9 buyins up (ev line).
Both of above 8-9k hands, 2/4 im 3buyins up nearly but only played under 1000 hands.

Prob over-analysing now anyway its all good stuff to view.

AND FINALLY (IN CAPITALS AS ITS CRAZY)
I PLAYED A HAND ON 1/2 LIMIT HOLDEM 6 HANDED WITH 67HH
BY THE RIVER WE HAD CAPPED BOTH TURN AND RIVER 3WAY AND THE BOARD SHOWED

JX,10H,9H,8H,9X

1 GUY ONLY HAD KQ BUT OTHER GUY HAD QJHH AND I LOST TO A HIGHER STRAIGHT FLUSH WHERE WE BOTH HAD USED BOTH OF OUR HOLE CARDS.   SHAME NO BAD BEAT JACKPOT, THEY USED TO HAVE ONE A YEAR OR SO AGO BUT NUTS REALLY ESPECIALLY WHEN U CONSIDER HOW LITTLE HOLDEM I PLAY ANY MORE.

Sept So Far

Lost £400 odd the first day on an awful run.  Think i lost 5 allins preflop in row at one point on pl hi lo which could be a record for me.   A reasonable rake promotion started on the 3rd though so after a day off i wasnt quite sure how to attack it.

I began thinking i might do 10hrs a day for 28 days straight but knew this was unlikely especially at this time of year.  After 2 full days i gave up on that and just did 5/7 days of the first week at that pace.  Fortunately its split into 4 weeks so i can vary week on week but ive gone down the half the rake now but spread over 7 days instead of 5 this week.   So last week i raked over $2,500 to get a $400 bonus added to my balance.  This week all being well i will rake over $1,750 to get a smaller bonus but at a similar %rakeback value.

Back a week ago i played the $215 PL hi lo 6 max WCOOP on stars (i immediately rebuy and lasted to addon so was in for $615 total) .  After a final table last time i hoped again for good things but began slowly and couldnt seem to push on.  That said i was patient but only because i was 6-8tabling for the above rake promtion at the same time. It was very difficult to watch what was goin on all the time.  When i finally began to push things as blinds went up it went more my way and i managed to get my stack right up, often without showdown, apart from busting 1 or 2 shorter stacks.  I was actually never allin covered and called right until my bust which was around 120th/500+ which paid around 80 if i remember right.   I did get to average stack with about 150 left but just went backwrds from there, still was a good run i guess.

Obviously the above dented my month but most days overall were fairly steady profit wise.  Still had some bad sessions but there were often preceded or followed by good ones.   Im now sat on +£674 for Sept which doesnt sound brilliant but given the above start and mtt i should be really happy with, especially with the rakeback points racking up as well.   Its kind of nice to be back on just 1 site (except that sole mtt and 1st Sept) and hopefully i can keep focus and just keep things progressing.