haven't played at all

so in the last couple weeks i have barely played any poker.

a couple reasons for this:

1) my girlfriend has changed jobs and no longer works many evenings. this is when i use to play most or all of my tournaments.

2) i got my new puppy last week and he requires constant attention.

so i've basically come to kind of a cross roads. i might have one or two chances a month to play tournaments which doesn't cut it.

basically i no longer have large chunks of time to dedicate to tournament poker but i do have lots of small windows during the week when i can fit in 1 or 2 hour sessions.

soooooooooo, im going back to cash games.

but not nl holdem. i've decided to join all the rage and start playing pot limit omaha.

plo is a pretty fun game and it's going to be a very big challenge to become a winning player but i look forward to it.

i started messing around with it a couple weeks ago and started off pretty poorly. i started out playing like an absolute maniac at .50/1.00 6 max and lost several buy-ins by felting AAxx and KKxx hands.

it got me to thinking about my recent cash game failures and what the root cause is. i finally came to the conclusion that when i took my stab at nl 6 max games i was basically playing with ego and under the idea that i didn't have anything to learn which is ridiculous.

i didn't spend anytime reviewing pokertracker, posting hands or analysing play. i pretty much thought i was playing great and just tilting off massively when things were'nt going my way.

when i first started in poker playing limit holdem i got whacked just like everyone else. what i did to improve was study, read, post hands and moved down to the lowest limits and started from there.

so my plo journey starts at .25/.50 6 max. i'm going to play at least 10k hands before moving up or down. 10k is not a lot of hands but i have plenty of bankroll to handle these limits.

my current br is at about 13k after i took some more money off line to play some live sats to the wpt at fallsview casino near home here.

im not sure how many hands i've played so far because i haven't got my pokertracker omaha registered on my laptop yet. since i have the puppy and my desktop is downstairs i really have to play on my laptop upstairs to keep my eye on him and run him outside when nature calls.

i think im down somewhere around 2 or 3 buy-ins over 1500 hands on my laptop and im unsure of what the results look like on my desktop but i think the sample is pretty small. 2 of the buy-ins i've dropped are due to mis-reading the board so i have something to work on already.

i look forward to getting good at this game so from now on im going to be doing my best to record results and post hands here.

tg