Ok so this is my first blog and I'm going to skip the part about my poker background because I talked about it in my Cardrunners interview as well as my first video with Taylor. Instead I'm going to post some detailed results and mention a few other things that I think are more important and interesting.

February of 2009 I started focusing all my efforts on 6max PLO, and these are all the hands I have played in 6max games since then(I always play 8-12 tables):

In March of this year I started feeling somewhat burned out playing 6max, so I started playing some HU from time to time. It went very well for the most part, but it is very hard to find action once you become known and extremely frustrating when people play 10 hands and then insta quit you once they are up a couple bucks. My HU results from this year:

I started coaching a few students a couple months ago, and actually found that I enjoy it much more than I anticipated I would. I have been enjoying it much more than grinding 6max lately, so I've decided to take new students and do a lot of coaching during the next 4-5 weeks before I head to Vegas for the summer. I am going to give Cardrunners members top priority so send me a message if you would like some info.

I think by spending more time coaching, and less time playing over the course of the next month it will help restore my desire to play hands online. I know I have ran well this year(esp HU), so I'm certainly not going to complain but I have started running really bad the past couple weeks and it's always good to take a little break and regroup when this happens:

I have always been pretty good about moving down to smaller games when running bad(even if I'm adequately rolled for the bigger games) so I have been playing mostly 2/4-3/6 this past week and even a bit of 1/2. I hadn't played any 1/2 since early Feb as far as I can remember, but I thought it would be a good idea since I was going to be recording some stuff for Cardrunners at lower stakes.

The main reason I am posting all of these results is for those of you who are interested in watching my videos or receiving coaching from me. I also just wanted to mention that when I write future blogs I am going to try to make them as interesting as possible and include stuff like graphs, photos, videos, links or anything else I think people will find interesting. I know that I'm not a big star like some of the other guys that have a blog on Cardrunners, so I'm under no false illusion that people will want to read my blog if it's not interesting.

The last thing I want to say is please let me know in the forums or by pm what you would like to see in future PLO videos. I have already completed some stuff that I think is really interesting and different than anything done before, but I am always open to suggestions and will make any type of video that there is demand for. gl gl

Matthew