Me = good player when plays A game....I think Problem is that I play my A game rarely.

- Has plagued me for many years. I have tried everything, but its essentially up to me.
- Have mucked around with PLO since beginning of the year while still playing 6max NL but now want to play focus on PLO.
- Now have a job in Melbourne, so cannot rely on volume and pay the bills by being a rake back pro/I don't need to pay bills from poker due to having a job so no reason to play when I don't want to.

GOALS: End of year, be well rolled for 100PLO....there is no rush as I will not be withdrawing from my roll at all (well I hope so anyway).

1ST STEP: Win 20 buyins at 5PLO.....will look to play some deep tables, but mainly 100bb tables.

NEED TO PLAY A GAME OR PLO VARIANCE WILL KILL ME, RUNNING BAD AT GETTING IN THE WRONG END OF 60/40 FLIPS IS NOT FUN.

I will also be studying the game and any study material I write will be written up at: http://plojunior.blogspot.com/

Max hands in a session = 250 hands.

If anyone sees me playing 10PLO+ on Stars before I win 20 buyins at 5PLO will get transferred 10$ on Stars. My PS SN: Jubinator. (I may change this rule but must post here prior to playing if I bink a tourney for millions or something )

GOGOGOGO

Hands:249
Biggest Stack: 263bb
Profit/Loss: - 17bb
Most it could have been I felt. Played well, took reads and actually read them!

3 hands of the session: I must have stacked some one early but can't recall it :/

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

820 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 875

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
Ks9sJdTc	52.56%	431	0
KhQh5c4c	47.44%	389	0

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

666 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 632

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
8d5d8c4s	20.80%	31	215
7d5c6s6h	44.89%	299	0
AhQd4d5s	34.31%	121	215

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

820 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 825

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
Td7d9s5s	59.02%	484	0
Ad8dKc2c	40.98%	336	0

Hands: 252
Biggest Stack: 211bb
Profits/Loss: +83bb

Few hands:

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

666 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 982

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
KdJdJh9c	60.21%	401	0
Ts7dTc5c	29.13%	186	16
ThTd9h3c	10.66%	63	16

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

40 trials (Exhaustive)

board: T429

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
8h8d7d5s	65.00%	26	0
AhKd5d3c	35.00%	14	0

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

820 trials (Exhaustive)

board: KK5

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
Tc5c9d5h	73.17%	600	0
JcKsAdAc	26.83%	220	0

gl, I recognise your SN from DC I think?

Hope to have another crack at the ploz myself later this year.

Cheers, yea you will recognize my SN from there.

Good luck later in the year, embrace the variance!

Have played another 2 sessions of 250 hands~ since last post.

They were a game of to halves.

1st sessions I should have finished earlier was getting tired and not focused fully on thee pokerz. Made a couple mistakes but I knew right away, they are generally times when I am facing a large turn bet and I think WTF AM I DOING IN THIS SPOT!!!

Session 2 just wrapped up, played a lot better, it is surprising how much FE you can have on the river in PLO, if the board is something like 234ddQ6dr....you can just apply so much pressure on the PFR and they cannot call despite getting 10:1 on the river (well some players will call AA**).

After ~1000 hands
Total Profit/Loss: -51bb

We both flop the woooorld

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

820 trials (Exhaustive)

board: AJ8

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
Tc4c9s7s	54.63%	448	0
AhAdKhJc	45.37%	372	0

We both flop the woooorld

Have played another 1000 hands or so.

Am down 2 buyins overall, that was 6 at one point. Losing this hand: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/38...draws-1054931/ didnt help. But serves me right for overplaying a non nut hand in PO

Also going to implement a 4 buyin stop loss for the day. It is not much in PLO but my history sees me tilting a fair bit and I do not have to play heaps at this stage.

Havent played much at all since last update, kinda annoying but o well. Overall down about 4 buyins since started the thread.

Played a couple tourneys earlier.....then bout 45mins in the fire alarm in hostel went off lol. So had to go outside, got talking, forgot about tournaments, got back to have a couple BB left in each....fail.

In cash games, I actually changed tables a couple times as there was this reg who is solid (not many at 5PLO obv) but wasnt fun being OOP to him so made life easy and changed tables. Have done that less than 10 times since I started playing poker prolly.....
Gonna play 800 hands or so tonight.

Flopped the world:



Just done a review of some hands, still a lot to learn. e.g. raising T983ss from SB with 3 limpers is not good.

Update: Finally got a new computer, so will now be playing with a HUD. Was quite interesting looking at my stats given I have no idea how loose/tight I was playing.

Anywhere heres the graph of the challenge so far



40% complete

Nice heater at the end, keep it up

PLO is a cruel mistress, all the best for the challenge.

Cheers

Cheers, cruel is a polite word for her

UPDATE TIME:

Todays graph (actually got back to even!!!):



Overall graph:



Hand of the day:

Normally I raise here, however I felt like flatting here was slight better as 3 ways the flop can hit these villains fairly well. The player behind me was also very aggressive on flops so felt that I can underrep my hand and get him to spew chips which in turn would spew chips by the original bettor is likely to continue lighter facing a raise from the latter player than me.

It turns out I had 59% equity on flop which is EPIC 3 ways, and 'only' 53% on the turn which I considered a blank. But anyway yay for holding.

Hmm, if the 7 was a 8 I think flatting is better, but the 7 is just unco enough that I think we should in fact raise here all the time. Hmm will play around with some equities.

Woops heres the hand

Over half way there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBJtzsYQls




Biggest Winning Pot of the day:



Biggest Losing Pot of the Day:

how many tables do you play ???
also, how many BI do you aim at for being properly roller for PLO100? 50 BI?

4 -6 tables, I stick to the fast tables generally.

A few levels to graduate before PLO 100. But I would say I would be confortable with 40 - 50 buyins. I would also play 50PLO Deep/Ante tables when playing 100bb 100PLO tables, and the odd soft 100PLO deep/ante table

This sentence seems incomplete to me. What action is villain taking when you bet half pot?

Woops, if they fold when we bet half pot. They are making a mistake if they have greater than 25% equity

Last week has been a upswing then a downswing, didnt quite get to the 20 buyin at peak. Plan for the next few days is:

Tomorrow play a session after work which will bring me to 20k hands in the challenge at which point I will do some good work looking through my HEM as well as updating graphs etc here.

Then Friday night I am going to play the APPT Melbourne PLO 340$ event. Shall be good. I am playing it regardless, but I wouldn't mind selling a lil action(no markup, up to 30%). The buyin is coming from my life roll so wont effect this challenge. If anyone is interested let me know here or by PM. Really looking forward to playing a live tourney, not such a fan of playing live cash but live tournys = bring it on

Also if anyone wants me to add them to Skype, let me know. Keen to get some more PLO contacts.

Catcha'll soon

20k hands:



Bleh, know I can do better. prolly played B/B+ game on average....still lots ta learn etc. Live tourney tomorrow shall be fun

July Graph:




August Goals:

25k hands.
Play well the vast majority of the time.
Be the aggressor.
50 posts in SPLO forum.

MOVE UP.

wow, seems you have a rough time at the tables

20k hands for 16 $ at PLO...I wouldn't have the discipline to stay at this level!
GL

Lol haven't thought about it like that! Don't think I want to haha. Its all good though that I am playing for the enjoyment/learning now, rather than having to rely on rake back to pay the bills (rake back pro ftw).

Always forget to note interesting hands during my sessions, but anyway, here is a hand I played in session just before.







Villain is 33/17/28 and had this one key note on him: c/c, donk line was FD + TP

So pre is obviously fine, on the flop I am probably b/f, my hand is face up to him as AA** and I dont think he is going to be check raising lightly as his CR % was 6 after 900 hands or so.

So his flop line was likely some pair + gutter or JTQ or something weakish with equity.

The turn card is one that hits him very well, and he insta jammed it. Given the insta jam, I felt that it almost entirely ruled out an 8, if he had 98 he would get it in on the flop and if he had 8*** he would be checking again as Im am going to barrel this card with all my AA** stuff.

I then actually looked at my notes for once and saw the note and inst shipped. This resulted in me getting it in 77/23 ahead. If I didnt have the note I may fold versus someplayers (probably not him, I just found it cool that I used a note).

Session that I wrapped up 20mins ago....got back to even......kinda