Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 10 January 2012 /

One of my personal, non-poker New Year's resolutions is to organise my time better than I usually so I have taken to using electronic post-it notes on my laptop screen. It's a smart little program that, as you would expect, displays little yellow post-it notes which I can write on. Sounds cack I know but they are effective as hell.

At the start of each day I create a note for every client I have and write on whatever work I need to do for them. As I complete a task I delete it and the plan is by the end of each day my screen is clear of post-it notes and I am a happy Pudding. Unfortunately it rarely works like that and I have a number of personal tasks still to complete, one of which I never managed to cross off yesterday that read "Update Betfair blog."

I had already mentally visualised what and how I was going to say in the update that never was during the course of the day and was quite looking forward to my brag of winning more than five buy-ins in around 1,400 hands playing Pot Limit Omaha cash games but it appears the Poker Gods (amen) caught wind of my forthcoming brag and decided to kick me square in the knackers and almost put me back onto square one.

The reason I never got around to updating my blog at the planned time was because it was after 19:30 and I decided to play some poker instead, silly me. The blog could wait. My session didn't start off on the best foot, missing a nut flush draw and rivering a second-best two pair to lose 16 or so BB, thankfully I played it like a passive fish. The Poker Gods the continued to set me up against gimps playing from a 30-55 big blind stack in pots where I simply had to call and ultimately lose, before something inside awoke and a fantastic idea was born.

"Hey Pud," the little voice quizzed from inside my dense head, "How about you play like a complete donk for the last 30 minutes of your session? You could make ridiculously bad hero calls and pay off people like you are poker's biggest philanthropist. How's that sound?" Obviously I did not answer because that would be stupid, who talks to voices in their head? I just did as the voices said because that is perfectly normal.

Jesus Christ I played badly. Oh hello there Mr I play 75% of my hands who has just check-called the flop and turn and has now lead into me when the flush draw comes in. I call with my chuffing ten-high flush, have my cash, go on take it. Oh hello there massively draw heavy board. What the world's most passive donkey in the history of submissive asses has started betting like mad. Here you go have some of my bankroll as I only have bottom set but I call anyway. I think you get the picture.

To cut a long story short I played the grand total of 291 hands and managed to leave 416 big blinds at the felt. What a great result that is! Thankfully I had run hotter than a McDonald's hot chocolate the previo0us five days and was up more than five buy-ins so I'm still up for 2012 as a whole but if I play like that again I certainly won't be. The month to date has seen me play 1,672 hands of PLO and I am up the kingly sum of $16.60, not as nice as at the start of yesterday but profit is profit at the end of the day. Tonight should see me jump back into the saddle at some point and I am contemplating entering a tournament or three as I've not tortured myself enough this past week so feel like taking part in poker's very own version of S&M.

Until next time, thanks for reading and don't make hero calls in PLO cash games!

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