movin on up

So i've played the last two nights getting about 700 hands in each night. this puts me pretty much at 10k hands for .25/.50 and since i'm winning and feel like i'm getting a good handle on the game i'm going to move up to .50/1.00.

here's the pokertracker details

and here's the graph

the graph starts off pretty rocky and i didn't get into the green until about the 5k hand mark but that's probably mostly due to learning the game. the graph is definitly more volatile than the old limit holdem graphs i used to do but it's also only 10k hands so it might straighten out a little bit over time.

the pokertracker stats pretty much round off to 21/12/1.9 which is probably pretty accurate to what i'm playing now. early on i think i was playing closer to 24 vpip and then tightened up to 17ish before slowly adding some hands to my range in late postion. i believe the last couple sessions i've been playing anywhere between 19-21 vpip. im also working on closing the gap a little bit between the vpip and pfr% but it will never be identical. i have started raising a little lighter in position against chronic limpers since i find that when playing plo position just dominates.

my vpip from position looks like this:

pretty standard i think although i'm losing more money in the sb than i should be but at the same time making more money in the bb than i should be. i'd like to get utg into the green as well.

i'll probably play quite a bit over the next few days and look forward to the next level.

tg

where are the swings?

for some reason my poker stamina is non existent. it seems like everytime i get an hour into a session im just beat and sit there watching the clock because i know i have to get more hands in. it probably has a lot to do with lack of sleep since my pup likes to get up around 6ish most mornings.

i'll play tonight and hopefully get 2 hours in. this past weekend i played about 1300 hands which isn't a lot. i was hoping to jam 3k in but fell well short. i also started 5 tabling at one point and did quite well with it although it's not ideal to do on my laptop. i want to move back down to my desktop where i can easily handle multi-tabling with no overlap and have a second screen to run quick sims after hands. the problem i have right now is that i've been taking a mass amount of notes on my laptop which are not transferable to my desktop unless i overwrite the year and a half of notes i've accumulated on that. i might be able to export them to another file and then manually put them in or something. pain in the ass.

so with 1300 hands played on the weekend it puts me at roughly 8600 hands played at .25/.50. as it stands now i think i will move up to .50/1.00 when i hit 10k although im a little weary. i think i have enough game to play that level and if i dump a bunch it won't affect my bankroll but i've yet to see the massive swings of variance that are to be had in pot limit omaha. i think i started off stuck 5 buy-ins but since then have steadily posted wins to the point where im up 6 buy-ins. i'll post all my pokertracker stuff including a pretty graph once i hit 10k. my last session of 1300 hands was a little rocky and i was probably down close to 4 buy-ins at certain points but managed to come out of it up a fraction of a buy-in.

this could be due to the fact that i play fairly tight but im unsure. 8600 hands is not a lot so i'll just keep concentrating on learning and improving and hopefully everything else falls into place.

hand time:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1537472 - i like my line here. i'm definitly committed against the short stack pfr but by just calling it gives me the opportunity to get away from it cheaply if acehogan was going for a c/r as well.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1537465 - folds like this are becoming much more routine.

EDIT: pokerhand is down again so i'll leave the rest out for now.

tg