dinobravo

Hi all, haven't posted in a while.

Did not play much poker over the last few years, a few sessions here and there, but nothing more.

Tried NL25 and ran pretty good and moved up to NL50 and ran amazing, 5000BB over 22k hands.

I wonder if I just got amazingly lucky or played well or some combination?

Looking at stats in PT4, didn't see anything obvious, but then I saw my graph and was really surprised.

What do you make of this? Anything we can conclude based on that?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

I just joined Run It Once and trying to see what the site has to offer for my profile, before I decide to subscribe or not.

Here's my story. I am 44, father of a young kid, with a full time job. I have been playing poker for almost 15 years. I've played mostly online. I played around 1.5 millions hands online. I started playing limit from 25c/50c up to 5/10 and since I switched to NL, mostly NL25-NL50, sometimes lower, sometimes higher, up to NL200.

Globally I'm a slight loser, lost maybe 3-5k in those 15 years.

I own about 20 poker books, read most of them :) But haven't read anything seriously in the last 5 years. I haven't played much in the last 2 years, less than 100k hands I would say, mostly NL25-NL50 and probably a slight loser. I did have a nice winning streak 2 years ago at NL100 zoom for a couple months. Cashed out enough to pay for a nice Disney vacation for the family (humble brag!). But overall, I lost a bit over that period.

Decided that I want to go back to playing seriously. But I am really out of touch with the state of the game and modern concepts. Also my mental game is pretty weak, I tilt, I go from my A game to my F game really quickly when I get unlucky. Also I have a hard time focusing, I used to play at least 2 tables of zoom (sometimes even 4) or 4 to 10 tables of regular game to keep me focused. I knew I wasn't playing optimally, but I was making up some of it in volume, at least from rakeback (which I understand is not so good anymore).

I am in Canada, so have access to Stars, but not sure it's the right place to play anymore.

I am willing to start at the bottom to re-learn the game, work on my mental game and bankroll management.

I can probably only put 10-20 hours a month of both playing and studying, not sure what the right balance should be.

I have Poker Tracker 4, but willing to invest in different, newer or better tools if necessary.

I tried to learn PLO a few years back and really love the game, but I am much more used to Hold'em.

I also prefer cash games because I can start and quit whenever I want. Can't play MTT because can never play for long period. But I did play a lot of SNG and tried a few Spin n Go (positive ROI over a few hundreds games). But small sample size, I know.

So please, I am looking for suggestions on where to start, which videos to watch. Which article to read. Which more modern books to get? Which sites to play, which stakes, which games?

Thanks in advance!