Holding Myself Accountable as PLO Pro
Hi all,
I am a PLO pro and I want to use this blog to hold myself accountable for both playing and studying goals.
Background
I started playing play money poker online in college after (most likely) coming across random poker videos on Youtube.
After I graduated, I played some microstakes MTT online before I started playing NLH cash in my local casinos.
I moved up slowly from 1/2 to 5/10 but no longer felt I had much of an edge in 5/10 live.
At the same time, I began playing PLO online. It started at the micros, but with some game selection, I was able to become a winning player at 1/2.
This is right around the time COVID hit, and I lost all my motivation for my regular job, so I took the leap and became a full-time online pro.
Nowadays, I play on a variety of American facing sites from 1/2 up to 5/10.
2022 Results
I have reached 300k hands for the year and may play another 5-10k for the last week.
Results wise, 2022 has been fairly successful overall, but almost all of my winnings come from the first half while I broke even for the most part in the second half.
2023 Goals
I have never been the hardest worker nor put in a ton of volume playing, so this blog is my way to change that.
For playing volume, I want to reach 350k hands for the year. If I go back to playing live, each hour would count as 250 hands online.
It's harder for me to set a studying goal since I have always quit on them very quickly.
To set something achievable, I will start at a minimum of reviewing 10 preflop hands and 10 postflop hands per week. I can always increase the goal later.
I will update this blog monthly to check in on my goals.
Good luck to everyone at the tables.
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It has been a while. I want to get back to sharing my poker journey as it's fun to express myself through writing.
Continuing from where I left off, I had the longest breakeven stretch of my poker career in the second half of 2023.
I couldn't get much going but I was happy that I kept up with the volume, as I took a month-long break following my previous longest breakeven stretch.
2024 was a different story. I ran extremely hot throughout the year and the graph does not even include some untracked sites where I also had huge winrates.
2025 has been relatively slow so far because I had to play on some new sites (that are not tracked in Pokertracker) due to being outside the US. I am back now and hope to ramp up the volume.
Note that the all-in EV (yellow) lines in all my graphs are inflated a little bit. Pokertracker does not support 5-card and 6-card PLO and there is a bug in how it imports them as 4-card hands. I am able to correct for the upward bias using custom statistics, but I haven't found a way to adjust the graphs.
Lastly, remember how I was ranting about how bad I ran? I made up for all of it and more in 2024.
While I am still running 30 buy-ins below EV in my 4.5-year professional career, I am now running above EV in terms of money due to having better all-in luck in bigger games.
This is my graph for the last 4.5 years as a bit of a brag.
