Plan
My monthly targets for May were:
Due to holidays, etc. only played two weeks in May. My targets will therefore be:
- Play 400 hands of cash on NLHE $1 6-max (Speed) with target of breaking even
- Play 2400 cash hands on PLO $0.50 6-max (Zoom) with target of breaking even
- Play 10 NLHE STT hoping for +10% ROI
Monitor
Overall results for the month:-
Pokerstars : -$ 479.35
Black Belt Poker: -$ 464.88 (-£304.45)
Live play : -£ 0.00
Pokerstars results break down as follows:
Cash results ($-387.25 overall)
8 Game ($2.00) $ + 4.61
PLO Zoom ($0.50) 1638 hands $ - 5.31
PLO Zoom ($1.00) 844 hands $ -386.55
Tournament Results ($-92.10 overall)
SCOOP $-90.10
2x MTT (Passport) $ -2.00
My SCOOP adventures are summised at http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/poker-scoop-2013-results.html
8 Game wins/losses by game type for this month (albeit very low volume):
2-7 + 7.02
Limit HE + 3.56
Omaha HL + 6.02
Razz - 4.55
Stud + 5.77
Stud HL -24.70
NL HE +19.65
PLO - 8.16
BBP results break down as follows:
Cash results (£-286.56 overall)
NLHE Speed ($1.00) 496 hands -£278.30
NLHE Speed ($0.50) 228 hands +£ 8.26
Tournament Results (-£17.89 overall)
1x MTT £ 0.00 iPOPS sat
3x 10 seat STT -£ 11.91 Maui Jackpot
6x 6 seat STT -£ 5.98 Rio Jackpot
Reflect
Although I managed to play the requisite number of PLO hands, I had tried going up to $1 (single table ZOOM). Sadly this proved to be an expensive experiment. Although I felt I was playing fairly decent and not making too many mistakes, the swings are obviously magnified, so a couple of bad sessions saw a huge amount of bankroll chewed up. In the end decided that sticking to $0.50 PLO is probably best for the moment and just try to play better ! The small loss in PLO $0.50 is quite encouraging, however am having 3-4 buy-in swings so is a bit scary at times....
My NLHE at $1 wasn't going great, so decided to drop back down to $0.50 until my bankroll recovers (assuming it does...) Although some of the buy-in drops have been flips, I still make the odd mistake that costs dear, so have to do more studying of my results to work out what I can do to fix this habit.
June Targets
- Play 1600 hands of cash on NLHE $0.50 6-max (2 table Speed) with target of breaking even
- Play 6400 cash hands on PLO $0.50 6-max (2 table Zoom) with target of breaking even
- Play 20 NLHE STT hoping for +10% ROI
Should be back to a more normal schedule for June, and with dropping down in stakes should also be able to play more confidently.
Strategic Objectives
* Keep to Poker Plan
OK this month.
* Focus on less variants of cash games
So far, so good.
* Break even on all cash games
Not consistent enough yet, but getting there
* Fiddle around less with MTT/STT variants, concentrate on NLHE and 8 Game
Achieved this month, apart from getting side tracked by holidays and SCOOP !
References
January 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/poker-financial-results-for-january-2013.html
February 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/poker-financial-results-for-february.html
March 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/poker-financial-results-for-march-2013.html
April 2013 Cash Challenge http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/blogs/read/4020786/sceaga/First-month-results/
April 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/poker-financial-results-for-april-2013.html
