I think its time to take some shots at the 100/200 mixed games. In the past month I built my 50k up to 100k which is a great start. This gives me 20BI for the big bet games and 500 big bets for the limit games. This month I have finally turned my Stud results around and am doing great in all three games. I am getting completely crushed at O8 though. Here are my results in each respective game along with some comments about how well/poorly I am playing.

PLO:



I am not to worried about these results. 1700 hands in PLO is nothing and my results over the past month is better than any of the other mixed games. Basically I need to remind myself that limit players don't fold. My bluffing frequency against them is very low right now, but I think I need to drop it to almost zero. They are so used to going to showdown, that most don't adjust well in the big bet games particularly PLO.

I know when I first started learning limit holdem all my experiences were in NLH. So I wasn't showing down nearly enough and it took me a very long time to adjust.

NLH:



No real comments need here. Running really hot, though I am not worried that I don't have an edge in NLH. People seem to be very happy to get it in with AJ/AQ vs me so I think I may need to tighten up my 3 betting range a bit. Other than that I think I am playing great.

LHE:



Although I am a small loser over 1800 hands I am not to worried. I have the third best results over the past month and am doing well overall. I think I am a bit to loose with my call downs. I think tightening up a bit on some of the ace high call downs would help my win rate.

Stud:



Some nice initial results. Obviously 2k hands is pretty meaningless, but I have felt comfortable while playing. I think my results have been good to my hand reading. I can really tell what hand ranges to put people on since there is so much information in Stud with seeing your opponents boards.

I also think in the mix games people generally play very weak and don't value bet well. A 30/60 stud game is much tougher than stud that is played in the mixed games.

To improve further in Stud I need to put in a bunch of hands and spend some time with troutulator determining equities. I spend a few hours going over some things which helped me alot. I basically have a general idea of how often people have what types of hands in there range. I think for now my base knowledge it stud is decent enough that I could beat 30/60 online Stud stud game right now. But I think it would require more study to beat a straight 100/200 game. That said I think I have enough skill in stud to do well in a 100/200 mix game.

Stud 8:



It feels good to run hot in a game while learning it. I think there are a few reasons for my results in Stud8, with the major one being the boomswitch. I have not put in much time to improve my stud 8 game, beyond watching as many videos as I could find. As I mentioned before Chipsahoya's videos helped me immensely. It will be interesting to see how my next few thousand hands of Stud 8 go. Although I have had great results, I don't feel nearly as comfortable as I do in Stud high. My hand reading in Stud 8 is not nearly as good as Stud high.

To improve my game I think I need to spend time with troutulator looking at how my equity changes on different turn cards. For example if my opponent calls a raise with a 6 he catches an ace on 4th, I know this is a good card for his range and a bad one for mine, but I am still unsure of how bad and what pairs I should consider folding at that point.

Razz:



This is by far my most improved game thus far. I have come so far in this game over the past month. I have spent alot of time looking at equities and running numbers and its really paid off. I also had a computer program designed which helps me with these calculations. I think I just need some more hands now. I feel as though I have all the tools at my finger tips to solve any razz situation, which I don't have in PLO. I think I just need to grind a few more hands going over some more equities to get a more complete picture of the game. That said I feel very good about my razz game and that the work I put into it really paid off.

Omaha 8:



Well now we are on the ugly. I think its pretty clear that I have some MAJOR leaks in O8. I seem to tilt really badly while playing, which I don't do in any other games. I am so embarrassed of these stats. I have started working with an O8 coach who is reviewing some videos that I made to find some leaks. I could stop playing the 75/150 games and focus on the 30/60 while playing O8 alone. That would probably be wise as I am on a 300BB downswing. Pretty ugly and I have alot of work to do in O8. One positive note is that even though I am losing I am still playing. Its good to put the most hands in a game where your results are the worst.



Overall I am really happy with my results. Its great to be already thinking about playing 100/200 mixed after only grinding the 20/40 and 40/80 for a month. I hope that I am playing 200/400 and 400/800 mix games by the end of the year. Then hopefully I will be playing 1k/2k by the start of the summer and will be ready for the mix game action live during the WSOP. That may be way to ambitious though, so I will take what I can get.