PokerStars WCOOP
I had planned on taking the rest of the day off as I was a little upset with how the WCOOP event turned out for me. As I had not yet signed up at pokerstars, I had used a Pokerstars Codigo Promocional in order to get a $600 bonus (as I deposited $2k) and be able to participate in the WCOOP. It did not do well but I felt pretty calm and focused so I decided to throw in a session of PLO.
I hopped on a $400 PLO and $2000 PLO table. There was an overly aggressive guy with a nice stack at the $2000 table and he was overplaying some hands. Long story short he flopped top and bottom pair and I flopped a big draw, he bet the pot and I raised the pot, at which point he probably should have just folded but he of course moved in and I called. The turn card made my draw bigger and the river blanked me off. Total for the session? -$2315.87 in under a half hour.
When you are paying the bills with poker and you can’t afford to lose your bankroll, yes you technically have the bankroll for $30/$60, although I don’t even have the standard bankroll for $2000 PLO so that’s double dumb. But when you’re playing for a living I should really be more conservative with my bankroll.
From now on 600 big bets and 50 buy-ins is my rule. No breaking that, I can’t afford to be doing dumb like playing $2000 PLO. After Friday’s WCOOP event I’m going to cash everything out and take a week off. I really need to drive home the discipline factor to myself. I’m going to re-read Barry Greenstein’s book for stuff like that, and re-read the Theory of Poker just to resharpen my game.
Then I am going to come back and give myself hours and a game, none of this play what I want when I want crap. Right now I am going to play drill sergeant with myself. My target will give me approximately 1600 hands a day. At 2 BB/100 I should be able to pull in $640 a day on average. Frankly I don’t see a need for me to be making more than that at all right now. There is just no need to risk felting, I can be happy with $640 a day for quite a while before I move up. I need to put more structure in my poker life. I am rambling and nobody is listening, but I feel like this is therapeutic.
Tags: $2000 PLO, 2 BB/100, discipline factor, drawing hand, PLO, poker draw, PokerStars, Theory of Poker, tounament event, WCOOP