Yup, title says it all.

I've been playing PLO25 primarily the past 3 months or so, and won at about ~2bb/100 hands which is umm yah not satisfactory =/ I think I lack some important skills necessary for PLO in particular (but I guess are important to any form of poker). I tilt too much, and when variance hits me hard, I start thinkign too highly of my game or questioning my game too much.

So I decided to give NL25 a shot, because the variance is much lower, and well, CR simply has much more content, so I would probably improve a lot faster. Also, it's a nice change of pace from PLO.

So anyways, after having gotten CR several days ago, I decide to watch a few holdem videos, including CTS's sick videos and some small stakes holdem ones. Wow, those videos were very eye-opening, and made me realize how exploitable my past play at NL25 was (i.e. ABC TAG autopiloting without considering all the other factors).

I started playing NL25 last night, and started to focus on each and every hand and think about it completely the way Taylor, CTS, etc. go through in their videos, and this is has done wonders for my game. I have been making way better reads than I was months ago, and I am already up almost 6 buyins in 1.2k hands..... obviously running good, but I feel much more comfortable with this game in the last 2 days than ever before.

The reason I switched to PLO was because i found holdem boring (not surprising I was a marginal winner previously), but now I realize how interesting it can be. =)

So I've set some goals for myself.... I'm going to watch some CR video stuff everyday (try to, some ppl think this is overkill on 2+2 but meh, I enjoy the videos for the most part!). I also have the goal of making 70ish buyins at NL25 by the end of the month (against, some ppl at 2+2 think this is overkill, and should move up way earlier if I can make that much, but I'm a bankroll nit, and want at LEAST 50 buyins before I move up to NL50).

Now some fun hands from my first 2 sessions back at NL25.

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It's great to get action 3 way when you have a set! =) Good thing no spade hit on the river...

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Villain was a fish who was betting everrrry street. I didn't want to commit too much chips on the flop as flip, but turn was gin, and I am WAY ahead of his range there.

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Villain here was a fish..... this is one of the differences with my play now (after watching some CR videos) and my play before. I just to play so scared, and convince myself villain has a Q bla bla. But now I realize, this guy is a fish for a reason... his range is so much wider than a Q here. So my only question should be - how do I get all the money in?

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Weeeee......

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Okay this was an interesting one..... villain had JUST sat down, so no stats/reads. But he limped in EP, suggesting he is not a good player. By the river, I mean sureee he could've been slowplaying a flopped set (which is now a full house). But my line looks SO weak, and if he was betting for value, I think he's more likely to bet much smaller.

Andddd a graph: