A few hands from the mix: open a J low in 2-7 single draw, beat the draw, call a small jam with a 9-low draw in single draw, scoop, making a 9 low both times (we ran it twice), open 8-dugi in co in badeucy, get 3!, two cold callers, I 4! to $650, they all call, I improve to a 7-dugi 8-low and pat and scoop!

3! a 7-dugi and improve to an 8 low and value own myself against a pat 7/7 V just flatted with pre. Oops!

3! 234 in 2-7 triple draw and V makes an 8 and I make a 9, thankfully river went check/check.

Opened 235 in badudi, bb 3!, I just called, 1,1; 1,1; he bet river I folded unimproved.

PLO5 afterwards, 3! QT986ds, we go five ways all in and I go runner runner Q-high flush for the scoop. Everyone was super pissed at me this hand, sorry! Wrapped it up up around $4k on the session. Running hot again! I think I am finally out of the hole I created playing the big mix the past couple months and running poorly at plo!

Won an all in pre at plo early on with AJ987ds then lost most of my profits at 20/40 mix in big o rounds. Back at plo with a maniac so far running bad.

Checked my income app and I’m doing really well. Didn’t lose as much as I thought in the big mix. I can easily close over $200k this year if I keep up the volume. Goal: $200k by year’s end! Next year I wanna make over $300k!

Maniac stacked most of the table including me. Folded the winner once to him too. He just quit, at least I can go home soon now. Stuck!

Crazy plo action player sits down and I immediately switch to his table from a mediocre 2/5 where someone was talking about finding his long lost mother in Iran. Action and I have history because he knows I am a criminal defense lawyer (he used to be locked up) and his friend got out of prison from the governor of Virginia, something I had been seeking for a client of mine. He asks me if I am still doing that work and I said no, just poker now.

I open AKK77ss and he 3!, I jam, I lose to QT843. I 3! KKJJ5, he 4!, I flat, Ahigh flop, J ott but brings in flush, he bets 3/4 pot I fold. I open AAK84ds he 3! I jam I lose to his J9642 (he actually stacks half the table). I call open with KJT98ds he 3! two of us call, K53r flop, he does his thing and pots, folds to me $450 eff. and he says he has a set of threes, I fold and he tables T4432 and says "I lied." Lol. He says I can give him poker lessons sometime. He quits, I lost $1,800. Probably played too snug postflop against him, a little rusty playing against maniacs, they don't show up too often anymore.

At the 20/40 mix, lost big in big o rounds as usual...oh brother! AAT86 nut hearts on J63hh lost 3/4 to naked J6 no low (!), AT872 lost 7/8 to AQ62 on Q64r.

Forgot to mention maniac gave me a $150 rebate on one hand I lost...AKKQ6 on A63, he had 4457. He probably has a ton of money. Nice of him anyway.

Was good at plo, 3! Q9876ccdd and flop 975cc, get it in against JT776 and scoop. Played a little 5/T, chipped up here and there. Lost a little at 2/5 ran overpair JJ into a set and missed a couple draws.

Was doing quite well until a seat finally opened up at 25/25/50 plo, grabbed it even though the game was only going to last for another down, quickly get dealt AAT98hhhh and open to $350 and the $100 straddle just rips it for my $1,500 and we run it twice heads up and I lose both to AKJT9ds. Game breaks soon after!

Go back to plo where I get semi-decent AA and flat pre and win a nice pot with AAs full against KKs full on AKT4T against this mean dude who once told me to kill myself (justice mfer), left soon thereafter up around $1,000 on the day.

Someone at the 5/5 said I needed to clean up my look a little and get a haircut if I wanted to get invited to the juicy big games...lol...doubt that will help because I am not a fish but he had a point so I go the haircut anyway.

Well I’m a stubborn fk and don’t give up easily…big mix tonight went well! Up $7,700. Hell yeah!

Playing 10/10/2(50) plo a few hours into the session, raised, everyone limp folded. I said "thanks guys" and racked up pretty tilted about getting no action down a few hundred in a largely uneventful session. Perhaps ill-advisedly sat in the big mix, and could not lose a pot, ran particularly well in big o A5432ds scooped with nut low and flush, AK52 1/2 and 3/4 on 943r, 2ott and 6 otr against 9465. Won KK43 on A82, scooped against a low and forced a better high out. Drew two in the bb to an 8 versus a jack and made a T in 2-7 no limit single draw, bluff caught correctly with A23r in badugi, did not turn my hand into a bluff with 77522 in 2-7 triple draw after first draw even though I could have, drew instead and lost to a T.

Nice to run good for a change in a tough field at that. One of the regs predicted I would be playing with him in the 500/1,000 mix in Vegas, haha. Was feeling in such a good mood I drank a corona with the guys. Now my nickname here is "the word" because of the dude who falsely accused me of calling him the n word.

I would post chip pron but the image function is not working for some reason.

Lol at your new nickname.

Are the mix regs purposely venturing to your home casino for this game? I find it interesting how Maryland seems to be a hotbed for mixed game aficionados.

Always a pleasure keeping up with your adventures.

Hello again and thank you! These games have been running here for quite a while now, but I only started playing regularly a few months ago. I can't comment on how or why the games came to be, that's simply before my time. On the whole, the level of play is considerably higher than what I have seen at plo at the entry level. The games only run 2-3 times a week though.

Discipline, mang. One day of good results does not make playing this game a good idea.

You’re probably right. It’s still tempting to keep playing (even if only occasionally) since I can see my study and experience starting to pay off and my runbad in the big bet games starting to revert to the mean. If I improve enough I can see this game resulting in some really big changes in my quality of life and income. On the other hand, my friend who has also been playing more than me just had a really bad run and he’s a plo crusher and a superb poker player who’s been playing professionally for years.

Who am I to think I have what it takes to hang with some extremely talented players? I wonder if I should dream so big.

I’ll take your argument under advisement, counsel.

It's not so much the "do I have what it takes to hang" issue in terms of skill, but in terms of bankroll (both mental and actual). The cost of even a moderate amount of runbad in this game is just nuts. The most common flameout for skilled pros is moving up too much too fast. Don't add your name to that list.

Also a great point. If I keep playing it will be in moderation to avoid risk of ruin with a stop loss. I don't want to end up in the poker graveyard!

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Last night went to Live as the lists at MGM were too long and I am not in the habit of waiting for a seat for hours. 2/2 plo went well, won AKK pre against QQ and a bunch of smaller pots here and there,up $1,100 there, hen left as the game got worse and played 2/5 where I was delighted by the game quality, lots of high vpips. Sadly, did not run well but still about broke even, the game was so soft.

Images are up again, there's the beautiful haul from the other night at the big mix (orange are $1,000):





You can see why it's so tempting to keep playing!

sick pics enjoying the writeups man keep crushing

Thank you!!! Hope all well. A little slow so far today but at a great table. Plo is great.

Ran well at plo in the early going, then left for a better-looking 5/T where I won JJ ai pre but lost AJ to JTo on Q73AK, played some 2/5 as 5/T got really short-handed, triple barreled QJo on 9962J and lost to a slowplayed KK, got stacked with AA ai pre at plo and called it a day down $700. But it started so well! That's poker. Having a great month so far anyway, the $8k win at the mix really helped. Could definitely be another chunky winning month.

I would like to push myself and aim for $225,000 in profit by the end of the year. That means I need to make around $20,000 a month for the rest of the year. Already more than halfway there this month.

I feel like I have really started to earn a loose aggressive image in my plo game among the regs over the past several months and get less credit for big hands, I have noticed my bluffs getting looked up often, so I am going to switch gears and really focus on value betting for the time being.

I am sticking with my fitness goal as well and already see some results. Someone even said I looked good the other day! Mainly doing easy floor routines like push ups and sit ups.

I am keeping up my play volume and put in at least 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, even when I feel like quitting early like I did last night. I put in longer hours when the game is really good though and when it's just average leave after a normal day's work. I played over 270 hours last month, probably excessive and I barely made any profit due to learning mix.

I feel like I am starting to plateau again and wonder what the next step is, if there is one. (Is it really a "plateau" when you're making around $200k a year?)

It's been hard to break into the biggest plo and hold 'em games regularly due to the nature of private/invite games and the bigger public plo games only run in Florida. The game at Live, which I had an easier time getting into, is dead due to a series of robberies. I have an open invite to the big mix, the biggest game I have an invite to, but it's my worst game by skill and experience. It's tempting to work on my mix game to start winning there, my friend is a great player and is earning a solid 1bb/hr.

What to do?

Good luck! Sounds like the public games you can get into are biggish, but probably not big enough to get to 500k a year or whatever goal you may have in the future.

Make sure to take a day off now and then if you need it!

Yeah something like that, I may be able to get up to $300k but beyond that may be a stretch. I slept for 20 hours today if that qualifies as a day off! Lol.

Last session was a doozy, played from 11pm until 8:30 pm the next day to reset my sleep and wake up while the run is out, ran well enough at plo until lost nfd to set+straight spr 2 against action V, left for 5/T where I got my AA busted by T5hh on T72hh (V thought playing 5/T meant playing T5 lol), T ott with spr sub one I got stacked after c/r flop. Oh well.

Went back to plo for a bit to brush off the hold 'em runbad and lost turned top two nfd gutshot to flopped top set. Then a big mix seat opened up and I played for an hour totally exhausted but happy to get a little more experience in, only lost $450 - about one round of blinds. Chopped against the same V in badeucy with a T-perfect 234r and stud with top set AAA to his low. Lost around $1,800 on the day, a reasonable loss, especially since I played nearly 24 hours.

Played overnight again, lost in the 20/40 mix in the big bet games (big o and plo5) but held my own in the draw games, so I'll take it! Won some at plo after some initial runbad for a few hundo loss on the session, was headed much worse at one point so I am not at all upset. I sense that as I keep playing more mix hands and learning I am continuing to improve, it's a really good feeling. I am proud of myself for sticking with it. It makes life more enjoyable when I am being intellectually challenged and learning new things.

I do believe in myself and think if I keep at it I can be a solid winner in mixed games.

Had a wild dream last night I was playing poker and someone string bet on the river and insisted he bet more and I wanted the footage looked at to figure out what he bet, then someone kicked me in the abdomen and a server asked if it hurt and squirted me with an antiseptic lol...wtf?

Last session won TT976 on T97 in 3! pot to J8 and a wrap, got me into profit in plo, but not quite out of the hole due to mix--AKQT7ds lost to 6xxxx on A66 against 6x in big o spr 1, AKTT8 multiway all in in plo5 lost too, those two hands really made up most of the session, got outdrawn in 2-7 single draw and badasey too with a pat J and 7dugi 8 low and value owned myself with queens up in stud 8 when my board looked like a low and ran into buried trip 7s.

I've notised I am a little too loose with my showdowns in the mix...need to tighten up that leak. Something I dealt with early on in plo too due to inexperiense with relative hand strength. Most of my losses stem from playing a little too wide preflop, figures. Gotta remain disiplined.

Running like absolute fire this morning at plo, up over $4.5k in a couple hours. Now a break for latte and coconut gelato at the cafe. It’s Friday the 13th and I was a little worried I would run bad. Nope!

Will review my hand histories in the mix strat thread while I enjoy and perhaps dabble in the big mix later this afternoon. Will see how I feel.

Raaawr!!

Cool article on the tendencies of elite professional poker players: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...9.2023.2179997 (as contrasted from degens).

The run good continues today!