Das Poker (b)LOG

Played live for the first time in what wasn't a 5$ buyin with friends. was a 35€ buyin with weirdest format as follows:
40 people on 4 tables:
stack 2000 with
50-100 , 100-200 , 200 -400, 3-6 5-10 8-6 with blinds going up every 10 minutes (so like 5 hands what is this shit!)
then each table plays down to 4 who move on (no table balancing).
those 16 restarted blinds at 300-600 after we were at 800-1600 before.
Basically it was alot of beginners / casino fellas. took 2nd for a profit of 300 euros which is 420 (yay) dollars after a few drinks, etc.

I'm really not sure what I think about the format. I <3 shortstacked play and have a decent grasp so have a pretty big edge given this is a weird hyper turbo. but I have to go to the casino spend 3 hours etc for a small average yield.

Also opti botched a hand with Aces. In like 5 ways. blinds are 300/600 with utg limper czech who has string raised (when actually betting) at least 3 times in a row now. He has about 10K but I though he had around 4K pre so I make it 1600 on the button. nitty old sb lady flats (~ 9K)and we see a flop. I cover both by a little bit. flop comes T66 two tone. sb checks, czech looks opti happy bets like 1400 into 5500. One of my aces is to the backdoor flush and it's here I realize we are somewhat (lol given format) deep. decide to call which is huge mistake #2 (first being lol sizing pre). sb flats. turn comes offsuit 8. sb check, czech is like weee allin. I'm like meh the czech has so many 6's in his range, sb is prolly apt to slowplays. Think about it decide I want another while at the table out of my 50$. sb calls and turns over 88. czech shows a5s for flushdraw.

obv I'm happy I folded to the 7K or so. But I played super -ev here pre, flop, and turn given pot odds for "I wanna sit at da table ev" if you will.

other hand which was lawls is 5 handed and top 4 pay like
180€
270
350
490€
I am like wee this will be awesome since other bigs is to my immediate right. So I'm pretty sure everyone knows I'm a dunk foreigner by now (only 50% true cause 50% foreign and only 1 awful screwdriver =( )
folds to me as one of two bigstacks at 1.500/3.000 in sb. I shove 63o cuz czech guy (lawl u bubbled sir) only has 5.000 left and no comprende el oddos de potto (does not get pot odds). He calls J5s or something and I bink 63x dry flop. Two shorties are hella happy and like 10 people are like what dumbass nit kid just shoved 63o. czech is actually pretty calm about it.

cliffs of lame story that was fun for me:
-I suck at live poker but they suck worse!
-Bring lifetime earn to like 5,200$ about which I'm pretty stoked to pass 5K plus there are 52 cards in a deck.
-holy shit I hate roulette, blackjack, etc. lost 5€ in a few minutes and was like lol lame ---ev
-I need a suit that I own to wear in casino..

on a less fun note. 13 hours of poker in next 2 days for bc prop bet (not grinderschool like i said in previous post) and then I go on poker vacation for a bit. bedtime and up early cuz tomorrow is at least 7 hours of poker.

pwned bc prop bet, quite the workout though for a 22$ return

October was decent. made about 400 online and 400 live. Have a decent roll on stars again (530.00) so I'll be back to bread and butter at the 13.50 KOs until roll is over 1200.00 where I will take a 10 buyin shot at the 27s again.

Also I've noted there is a lot of "dead time" while I am on the computer. This is time where I am accomplishing nothing of value. Not learning, not entertained, not playing poker. Do others have this problem and how do you attempt to avoid wasting time on the comp?

One thing I got alot better at this last month was just clicking buttons and not caring about results as long as my play felt solid. Even when I was 8 tabling I only got ~6.5 tables per hour because I played such short (1 set) sessions. If I play through 2 or 3 sets I could be getting 8-10 games / hour considering average length is about 50 minutes. This obviously leads to a much better hourly. Just 6 tabling for now on one monitor.