(Im)Perfect Omaha - Day 20 - Playing, well, Imperfectly

Some good news and some bad news this blah Monday morning. First the bad:

I've missed a couple of Omaha days this past week, which fails my original stated goal of playing at least 100 hands of "perfect" Omaha every day this month. Worse, I've tried to make up the missing days by squeezing in play here and there. That's bad enough, but to compound the problem, I've been not playing as perfectly as possible. I had some stuff going on in my personal life this past week, but that shouldn't be an excuse. Grrrr. The results speak for themselves:
As you can see, for the first ten days of September I was playing very well, but then for the next ten days I essentially haven't posted any gains at all. The graph has basically leveled off... but also has a bunch of big up and down swings in it. I attribute this to a couple of things, but I think it's primarily due to the fact that I'm, well, not playing perfect Omaha lately. Instead, I've been just sitting down to play and getting in a quick 100 hands. I haven't been preparing, nor have I been thinking deeply about each hand, nor how I should play it. Instead, I've been resorting almost to rote Omaha play. This hand looks OK, I'll bet. This hand looks weak, I'll fold.

This is *not* how to play poker, folks.

The lesson to all this is just a reminder of how freakin' hard it is to play perfect poker whenever you sit down at the virtual felt. You literally have to remind yourself before, during, and, yes, after each and every session that you will not gamble, you will play position poker, you will get off losing hands, you will count the Capelletti points, you will not chase, you will not play by rote, you will think of each hand as a life or death proposition, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera....

ALl of this was easy in the beginning, but this past week I lost sight of it and slipped off the perfect mountaintop. Grrrr. The only thing to do now is just re-focus and re-concentrate on playing perfectly for the remainder of the month.

Okay, now the good news. I've been playing a some seriously intense sessions of hold'em this past few weeks, and my results have been pretty good. I've been multi-tabling $10 and $25NL full ring Rush , but with a smattering of $5 and $50NL thrown in for fun. Sometimes I've played just one table (read: $50NL), but mostly I've been hyper-playing four games at once for highly-focused 30-60 minute sessions, where I've been averaging around 1000 hands per hour. My ptbb/100 rate is a little lower than normal (6.7 vs. my usual 8), but because of the sheer volume per hour of hands, my $/hour rate is higher than normal ($12.7/hour vs. my usual $8-10). Here's the graph:
And here are the key stats:
It will be interesting to see if I can keep all this up. I'm also interested in "smoothing" out the graph a bit, and getting rid of the big swings. For that, I'll spend some time in PT3 looking at the hands for which I had big wins and losses, and see what, if anything, I could have done differently.

All-in for now...
-Bug