You’re welcome! Sounds good!

Yesterday's session was more of the same runbad...lost top set+bdfd to gutter and sfd, lost top two and wrap with AT986 on A87hh multiway to another wrap to the jack and a bad flush draw. L/rr bad single-suited AAT32 and flop was not me (could have flatted this pre but I thought I could get it heads up with the whale...$70-->$435...unfortunately that didn't happen). -$650.

This guy who's known for action has been playing a lot lately and told me (again) that he didn't think I deserved the ban but it wouldn't have been a good look for the casino if they didn't 86 both of us for the night. He kept asking me where I lived and every time we sweat a hand together he's threaten to crash at my place if he lost. He also told me I'd like his wife. Hahahaha!

Had a dream I was watching this dude play video games and I asked him how much he makes on a good month and he said $60k. I think it's time to change professions! Dreams are reality, right?

i wish i had places to play plo5, online i haven't found anything i can play in midwest US, only live plo(4) game in the glorious st louis metro area is an occasional 1-2-10 at one of the casinos here

Made $300 at 2/2 plo5 with AA, lost $1,000 at 5/5/25/50 (basically break even for these stakes), not getting hands, whiffing flops, par for the course lately. Pfft.

Yeah I guess I should be grateful in a sense that I even get to play, even if it comes with its downsides on occasion. Thanks for chiming in and gl.

This session I think I was playing a little too tight limp folding KK to a large iso raise. Probably have won a big pot against bottom set and gutshot. Oh well. At least I’m not tilting too bad. Won one early on top two plus overpair plus fd against bottom set but otherwise very card dead unfortunately. Got me into this folding rhythm / passive mindset, and probably missed a bet in one hand because of that and probably should have called with kings that hand (it was a large raise from a tight player so he probably had AA but still). Can’t complain still up a good bit this month, although not looking like $20k.

Also folded a royal draw to a psb ott and got there…!

Care to describe hand? Sounds way too tight.

It was a paired board Ah33Kh I had AQhTh56...we were multi-way, limped around, V potted it otb, he could easily have KK or 3x here, maaaybe AK against which I am in better shape. Seemed like I was chasing a 1-outter potentially. Do you call for implied odds? I asked him if he had a big hand afterwards and why and he said he didn't.

I'd fold. I forgot paired boards exist

Another bad 5/5 session, played relatively well, just didn't hold with my big hands (top set+nfd chopped against middle set and wrap in 3! pot), lost a couple AAs and an AKJ97ds SB v. maniac btn open, did not flop that well thre ways on 988hh without my fd. Fish rivered a set of 2 with KJT22. Also got bluffed off AA in a multiway semi-protected pot with an all in, should have bet turn for protection IP but as played it wasn't a bad fold. Still up for the month but definitely downswinging now...! Again! Arrrgh!!!!!

Flopped a set at 5/t/25, then just lost it all to the straddle and blinds, got QQ once, didn't hold against A7dd, TT<56s too, for a $35 loss overall. Got no hands at 5/5 plo (which wasn't very good by the time I got there anyway after a home game where I was also card dead). 2/5 plo got AA533ds and GII against another AA and KK and the other AA won. Also 3!/called a 4! with QJT98ds and lost to AAQQJ, J-high flop, all the money went in. -$150 on the last day of the month. Good riddance! Looking forward to October. All things considered, still posted a decent monthly profit even though I was not playing by best a couple sessions.

Started off the month posting a small win, new must-move system at 2/5 plo means no more table transfers. Lost $500 at 5/5 with AA, game broke, left for 2/5 plo, won with AQQ44,flopping bottom set and holding against two wraps. Very card dead until got AA AI pre, another AA folded pre (?), and I still lost to the short stack HU all in who had some garbage, then made the nut straight and redraw ott, someone potted turn (?), I re-pot $120, I thought there was a good chance we were chopping when be donked the board-pairing river since it's hard to put him on a boat calling such a large turn raise not getting the right odds. Gave him too much credit as he had top set and a bad flush draw.

Funny part of the night was when I shipped bad AA pre over a lag raise, a short stack l/rr $150, call, call, I re-jam $850, last guy to my right shows ssAA and says "now you're playing bingo" and mucks, starts gloating when I lose and says I played dumb. Other people defended me and he said "well he lost the hand." It was funny the guy didn't think you could play fine and still lose. He looks like he may be on steroids because he's always getting into arguments and starting fights.

A few hands later there were a couple all ins and I had raised pre and folded. I joked, "I had aces."

Played a pretty straight-forward session, held with AA a couple times, folded AKTT7 on QJ7KK to a large river raise...V said he thought I had a straight when I bet flop, turn, and 1/2 pot otr...he just had QQ. Some dude at plo was supper chatty and annoying the hell out of me, commenting on my play, so I moved to 5/t/25 where AS USUAL I was card dead for a couple hours and lost one small pot with top pair against top pair. Chatty Cathy left plo so I moved back there where not much happened except I won with AA+nfd+gutter against a worse draw. That's pretty much it. Won a few hundo on the day, +$770 plo, -$450 nlhe. At least I am winning again!

Bad AAs should fold if the action convinces them they are up against a random AA. Likely a call on last hand depending upon player but often straights also have two pair or set in 5 card as their redraws. I gather your redraw was the bigger straight?

No I had a K-high flush draw. He didn't have a straight, he just had top set and a 9-high flush draw. The dude didn't have bad AA he had ss AAKJ8.

So he had Qs full of Ks and you had Ks full of 7s.

I think you may be mixing up hands. There was a boat over boat where I folded incorrectly (QQ v k7) and a different hand where I had a straight and the board paired otr giving v a boat (but not me). I had the k-high flush redraw in the second hand.

Now I saw the results for the hand you posted in the PLO forum, so I´ll comment here since my opinion isn´t unbiased anymore. I guess the villian overvalued his hand a bit since it´s unlikely it was an expert raise to get a tight player to fold a boat, but yeah, tough spot aganst a loose passive villain. However, one more aspect that would be for "call" would be that you hold the king, therefore blocking boats that beat you. From the villains POV he probably thought that he "got there" on the river and needs to extract some value, not thinking about the fact that there aren´t really any hands that he beats that would call.

Last night's session was meh...would have tabled changed to much better game but the new system disallows it. 4! AKK76ds and spr was over 1 on JT3 heads up and rather than just ship it I checked it back in position. V jammed a 5 ott and I just let it go...he claimed he missed and lost the main pot to the short stack who was all in, but I can't trust this V at his word since he has a tendency to slowroll and the short stack had the nut boat so I didn't see his cards. GII with nut wrap and nut flush draw to same V on 983 at spr 5.5, he had 998 and I made my flush ott but he still boated otr. At this point a seat for 2/5 was finally open and I decided to leave for it where I was card dead as usual in hold 'em and just bled down here and there.

Lost a couple $300 buy-ins rather quickly at 2/2 plo, first with AAJ99ss (some donk l/rr me with double-suited garbage and made the nut flush), then l/rr AKQQ2ds over a very loose/maniac iso, jammed A-high flop, but he turned two pair with Q9443. Chopped against 2x on 225cc with AAc733c at 5/5, the game was medicore so I left, came back a couple hours later after being card dead at 2/2, played HU with an action player, got a lot of premium hands, ended up breaking even because he won the big pot we played where I flopped top set and he flopped the nfd and we gii at spr 7.5 and he binked otr (I even turned my on nfd). I stacked him at the main game with a wrap against his bottom set and called it a night down a few hundred.

Lost a dsAA at plo, lost a AQJ94ss l/rr over a loose open (would have won heads up but got a couple cold callers with K-high speculative crap), left for 2/5 no limit since the must move was not good and the main games were better and it would be a while before I was called for those. Got 88 BTN, sb 3!, bb cold called, I ship $250, they both call and I lose on an A-high flop to A3o that turned a straight. Make a come back with KTdd on Qd9d3s against a jam, turn nut flush against a worse flush draw. Then bluff catch with TT over three streets against same flush draw V on 83d5d8x7y, can't fold facing $300 into $600 otr against someone who jammed an 8-high flush draw earlier. He had A2o. Up about $700 at 2/5 for a neat little profit on the day (down $250 plo).

Started the afternoon after work with a stop at Fish Taco for...fish tacos, followed by a half-calf espresso and flan at Spanish Diner:








Drove to mgm in the setting sun



and soon played 2/5, was immediately doubled up with 99 in a straddled pot aii in pre, then got stacked for even more QQ <AKo in 5! pot ai pre with straddle on again. Now annoyed, they call me for plo5 where I win with dsAA multiway and then KJT87ss over some maniacs who were just there to gamble. Called for 5/5...except, false alarm, my seat was not ready. So tilting. Go back to 2/5 plo for a couple hours card dead and called back to 5/5. After nothing for a while I get AAQJ4 and flop T44, V donks 1/3 pot out of sb, I call, turn 9, 1/3 again, I call, river 6, he pots, I fold wondering if I should have let it go on the flop. Against TT/4x probably not terrible calls.

Am then card dead for a loong time finally get AKJTTds and V who has been opening a lot opens in co, call, I 3! and we get it in three ways and I lose to "loose" V's AAJJ8 (he just showed down a k-high so he's not only opening premiums). Nothing else really happened the rest of the session except I set over setted someone for a smallish pot to recover some of my losses. Ended down $400 on the day overall, -$800 5/5, +$700 2/5 plo, -$300 2/5 hold 'em.

Sold another strat guide the other day too. Too bad I've been running so cold lately!

Played decent, up $2,300, mainly from 5/5. One questionable spot was getting it in at spr 4 with AdKKsJd8s on J65dds. Dude to my left potted it into two other players - but he is very active and I thought before raising I could be ahead of him a decent amount of the time (something like J6/J5 with a worse draw), unfortunately he woke up with bottom set+flush draw blockers+straight draw and I got it in pretty behind. I've been trying to make some slight adjustments to my game like paying more aggressively in certain spots I used to play passively (especially with hands like top two and middle and bottom sets) and this was one of them. Didn't work out this time unfortunately.

I quickly got a triple up with a rundown and then took a dinner break to refresh and came back, won a 4! pot with AAK77 against one of my nemeses and called it a session (he l/rr small to get it HU after I made it $125 over his and another limp, I gave him the bad news with a raise to $930, jammed AQT, turn 3, river J). Also made a bluff catch with just KT on A884K in a bomb pot facing a near pot-sized river bet from action button. Picked up a live read and I blocked some value so I flicked it in and was good!

Forgot to add a couple hands...KK+non-nut low wrap lost to top two high oesd and I gambled multiway all in pre once with AQQT6ss to ace and lost, called once on a paired board with AA+nfd from action V. Probably could have booked a much bigger win last night if I played certain spots differently. Given that I have been downswinging / BE lately I am happy though and I don't think I played awfully by any means.

At least I am winning this month now!

Played fine, got it in good a couple times, once with AKK92dd on Axdyd (second nut flush draw+top pair+wheel gutter) against AJ+worse diamonds and a double gutter, another with AA against KK and a bad rundown ai pre, lost both. Lost a few more bomb pots at $50 apiece too. Made a little back at 2/5 plo and lost a little at 5/T after 5/5 broke for around a $2k loss on the day.

Decided to hold off on buying a new bag for the time being...felt like I didn't play consistently well enough last month to deserve it.