Got a couple nice comments from folks at 2/5 and 5-card today, made me feel like a pretty well-respected player. Still ran like ass at 2/5, made back some at plo, for a $350 loss.

Up $1,700 today, all 5/10. Sometimes my aces hold and I win flips with AK. Action player seemed a little miffed when I left. “You got your double — triple up. That’s all that matters, right?” Me: “You can win it back, I’ll be back.” Honestly was extremely tried. The game was good and I was winning.

Up $400 something, from 5/10 (back at MGM). Even after the bbj hit, the wait yesterday was still too long for the middle of the afternoon, part of the reason why I started going back to MDL. 3! AKo, b/j K-high flop, called by KQ. That's pretty much it, had to leave for home game where I had fun and broke even.

Topic of conversation yesterday: what are the differences among nits, tight players, peddlers, and rocks? (It's not a riddle. It's a serious question.)

Ran fine at plo5, ran like crap at 2/5. Down $750 on the day. Like I can’t believe how crappy I ran. Oh AA didn’t hold today that’s for sure.

WHY CAN’T I BEAT A FISH WHEN I ISO HIS GARBAGE LIMP LIKE...EVER?! IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO WIN A 65% FAVORITE?

Last hand before I called it: iso $25 KTo versus fish garbage limp (like any two limp almost), BB calls, fish calls, flop K-9-3ccc, checks through, turn Ts, giving me top two, reg donks pot, $75, fish folds, I shrug call. River: brick, reg pots $275, I tank leave the table.

35% chance is still quite high of a chance your going to get beaten. You may not wanna hear that.

Poker can teach you a lot about life. Learning to be content in all situations is one of them. Being content doesn't necessarily mean you stay where you are it might be being content with having a goal and then moving towards that. goal.

I'm content with hearing your stories about being beaten by tuna and then perhaps hearing about you winning thousands of the sardines in the near future.

Will be watching this thread.

Thanks, LiveMTTLover. Appreciate it! Running consistently below EV in these spots can be frustrating is all, but I take your point. Speaking of sardines, can't wait for my puffer fish t-shirt to arrive soon. It's hilarious and I always love a good double-entendre.

A little MGM autumn atrium action:

Value owned myself with AQ on A8454 v. A8 (what turned out to be a passive nit called me down the whole way), then won a big one after topping off with quads, then won JJ v. AKs in 3! pot, dinner break with friend, then 5/10 where I lost everything I made at 2/5, half to l/rr AA AI pre v. QJhh, whale ran it once and made his flush. (Others were small losses here and there.) When I say "whale," I mean playing style and appearance. I wonder if whales tend to be obese, which is where their name came from? Anyway, still ended up a little because I won the high hand promo for my quads.

Did well until getting back from dinner break, made a big preflop error completing J7o SB multiway and getting into some hot water on 89Tr against the table action player who coolered ME. You know you f-ed up when you're the one being coolered by the table spot. Ended down $100 on the night, when I should have been up $500 if I'd played better and folded pre. At least I found the ez fold otr when he raised my $320 to $1,000.

Was going fine until my middle set got rivered by a higher set against the only other decent player at table on J53AQ (KT/backdoor flush was somewhat worried about when he overbet jammed river $250 into $200, but after flatting flop and turn and still beating lots of Ax/2p, can’t fold even versus such a large bet).
-$500 2/5, now at 1/3.

If poker weren’t going so poorly lately I’d probably be quite a bit happier.

I am feeling super confident in my reads lately. Cold 4!/snap folded to 5! from tight player who 3! a UTG open, later told he had AA after I told him I folded KK. He walked over to our 5/10 later and told my neighbor the story and said I was a good player. Later won BvB against neighbor and he complimented me. Pretty rare at the poker table. Yeee!

AA player: “You think too negative like you’ll lose. Think positive like you can win more!” Lol. Against you? I don’t think so.

ru still enrolled with the jnandez program;
if ur, pls tell me why ur continuing;
if ur not, then pls tell me why not;
if u don't want to post it in your thread, then pls pm me;
thanks, in advance;

I stopped six months in. Got 80% of modules done in ten week transformation but then got tired of his voice and the $100 a month when I wasn’t using it enough to justify. Watched the little plo5 content on there too. It was worth it I just wish I got through the content faster.

Also curious as to how you picked up PLO. Was it primarily through jnandez or did you play a lot of hands online etc. as well?

Do you feel like your edge is big enough (in comparison to NL) vs. the player pool out there to justify the time spent improving at it and extra variance?

It wasn’t really strategic at first, the game was running and I tried. I was clueless of course. I enjoyed it and wanted to improve so I studied. Online classes books experience - live mainly. Not a whole lot online.

Like all games some tables are better than others, but in average games it’s profitable. You just really gotta stay disciplined and get it in really good (like, the nuts with a few exceptions) or with an awesome draw that’s likely to beat the current nuts. Oh and play super tight preflop.

Bad players make similar mistakes in both games: play too many hands with non-nut potential and stack off light postflop. But then there are the added reasons to play PLO like the extra math involved that fish don’t learn. Like flopped straights can be drawing to a chop a lot or be behinds good draw. Same with sets (especially middle and bottom sets, since set over set isn’t really a cooler at plo5).

And starting hands are super important. Fish probably don’t know how strong rundowns are as a class of hands, or how badly mediocre AA fare against certain hands (especially said rundowns).

Playing plo makes you a better hold em player too. You see draws better, you learn more about blockers, and you must develop your reads too. Plo also offers unique bluffing spots. I recommend it if you want to become a good poker player.

Stuck $1,900, AK v QQ aipf my first hand at 2/5, lost $600, made and lost it back, then 5/10 open AdAs, apparent action player who looked strung out calls (once he just open jammed $1,200 bvb with 33), flop JT4ddd, it ALL WENT IN, I couldn’t wait to shove all $1,500 in there against this guy after he check raised me otf. Unfortunately he flopped a K-high flush. Won some back from him with QQ v his A7ss BTN v BB aipf. As the session went on he punted a lot but also had it and chose good bet sizing in spots so can’t say if my read was spot on. He might have been a pro with a huge bankroll. They tend to play like whales sometimes. Obviously my decision to jam flop was player dependent.

So it goes. Now sad and licking wounds at plo.

So my read was actually good. The player I GII against at 5/10 lost all $6k in an hour on a huge $3.5k river bluff, whale called him with A-high. Very sad to run so bad against him, with AA. Seems par for the course lately.

Capped off the night with PLO5 where I ran rather well, until near the end when I 4! AAss and got called by JJxxx for $450 and he scooped both runouts somehow. Left a bit sad but at least I wasn't deeper in the hole. Ended the night down $1,600.

Wwyd? All in otf with top set in PLO for $2,200 pot, run it twice, you table your hand and clearly won top run out, and V tables QTT4 with two hearts, the bottom board shows three hearts (unpaired, his only live bdfd got there), but V mucks fourth card. Do you ask for entire pot?

Omaha went great, up $1,300. Lost a BI at 2/5 just now AA 4! v A9dd Q64ddd he flopped the nuts...?! Shipped flop, snap call. Wow. ��

Thankfully I am sitting next to a cute out of town online high stakes grinder who is nice and introduced me pluribus 10,000 hand history videos.

gah Dumbo be careful man... you’re torching money on monotone flops

Diamonds are not Dumbo's best friend. So first time it was with nfd against action player in srp with spr 20 (some might say a tad aggressive), second time it was against unknown with SPR 1.5 in 4! pot (reasonable with black AA to deny equity from and JxJd/KxKd-type hands). No matter what I do, I am wrong!

My puffer fish shirt should arrive today though, all will be well.

Ended up $700 yesterday despite another AA debacle. Won some back at 2/5 from fish with AQ on AJ6hh, he donked pot in srp out of BB (...?), call, turn 7d, he jams, I kinda hate life but toss in the chip unblocking hearts, river 9, he has 98 OFFSUIT. Ok....

Up $1,200 today, $400 high hand, first hand at 1/3 while waiting open 55 GII 130bb deep on AT5 v AT, turn quads. Then ran well at plo, up another $500 there. Back to the day job.

Great song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCDZKUESIPA.

Great shirt:

Lol, I forgot it's a long holiday weekend...off to the tables after a little work. (May as well.)

Like a fish in the sea short stacking at the 5/10 after rungood at plo and runbad at 2/5. Love the action! Feel happy.

Edit; just l/rr jam QQ $600 lost to J8s...they don’t fold here.