I just had a brutal day in PLO. I played 2400 hands and lost 110k. I think I played well but after a certain point you sometimes don't know. Its really frustrating when you feel you play well and just get crushed. I know this is PLO and I have had days similar in the past and always bounce back. It just shows the insane variance that I could run at -62bb/100 over this sample and be up around 9 bb/100 on the year.

I think one thing I have really improved is my game slection this year. I have been really diligent about not playing in terrible games. I still play in some games that aren't amazing. Today there were some amazing games, against some people I consider to not be great. I found one thing I do to improve my game is to verbalize what mistakes my opponents are making. So while playing I would say, things like "my edge in this game is from my opponent who doesn't three bet much" or "My opponent only barrels the flop but gives up to much if called." I find this is a really good strategy for identifying your edge in games. I think its particually helpful in HU games.

As for my month I am up about 15k because of some nice wins at 200/400 and 100/200. I hope I can bounce back, but tonight was really brutal. I am looking forward to tomorrow and putting in alot of hands.

Here is the final hand I played and I quit. This was by far the worse hand I played on the day and beyond this I think all my plays were defensible/good. This was just a spew preflop where I should have folded, but I think I was a bit tilted and I insta quit after this.


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Some days poker just doesn't go your way....