Btw I think so far I'm doing a good job in converting hyper regs into PLO. I'm glad some of you guys have found my post useful and given PLO a try.

Also, happy to see the thread going over 2 pages! Thanks a lot guys!

Hi there
I am very interested in railing some of the games you play i musta not found it or u dont want people to know? youre sn that is or just pm me youre skype lmao

Mela the PLO preacher

Hey there,

I'm not quite sure what you mean, but yeah, I haven't revealed my SN on 2p2 yet. Not too keen on the rules here, but outting someone's SN against his/her will is prohibited iirc. That said, I'd appreciate if you keep it to yourself, if you indeed were railing me. :O

Haha yeah something like that, I honestly didn't expect this much, but so far I've got 5+ PM's from HUSNG regs who said they want to give PLO a try. Maybe my posts weren't totally worthless!

No What i meant is, if u have not posted you're SN here yet.. (obv not)
and what i said or meant to say is i would like to rail you if somehow possible

I'll be in Australia all of 2014, still haven't made up my mind regarding Sydney v. Melbourne though.. Suppose I've got like 30 days more to do so haha.

Oh I see, now I get it haha. Yes you're right, I haven't posted my SN here, sorry about that

I see, what are you gonna be doing in Aussie? For all I know both cities are good, but I had more friends who live in Melbourne than Sydney.

Hopefully playing poker, Tony Abbott/Australian Senate-willing and all. I've heard Melbourne is more hipster-ish and Sydney is more tourist-filled. Maybe it's something like Portland vs. L.A. I really have no idea. I'll probably end up just spending a few weeks in each place before I sign a lease anywhere, but I expect to be in the country for at least a year, maybe 2.

Not excited about paying taxes to the US government even though I'm earning income abroad.

Actually now that I think about it I'm not sure if I've seen you mention where in the world you're studying and playing poker from. Canada?

Oh I see, hope your poker adventure goes well no matter which city you choose to be in. Afaik most of your poker income shouldn't taxable, no? :O

I have been doing okay in some of these, especially the volume and studying part. Only thing is, I had tons of expenses IRL which stunted my BR growth. That also makes me feel like I've been slacking, so I'll make a new set of goals in regards to this.

Basic ones:

a) Play 2.5-3k hands of PLO everyday, 6-8 tabling
b) Make every session no longer than 1.5 hours and take a 5-min break in between sessions
c) Keep distractions away (Skype, phone, etc.) while playing
d) Mark EVERY hand where I was unsure of my decision or villains showed up with unexpected hands, review them later and NOT during the session
e) Start mixing in $0.5/1 at $3.5k, $1/2 at $7k, and move down to $25 PLO at $750 or so (hopefully never)
f) Warm up & cool down before and after the session; review all marked hands

Challenging one:

g) Shoot for >10bb/100 for the next 100k hands or so (basically by the end of this year)
h) Cut down IRL expenses
i) 10k+ by Christmas

I'll update about the progress, wish me a luck guys!

portland vs LA is actually a really good comparison for melb vs sydney. weather wise too. extremely different cities. gl

Here's a couple hands I played.

1) A rare occasion where middle set is ahead of top set (on flop)

Hero (BTN): $85.75
SB: $49.52
BB: $69.60
CO: $54.84

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has J T Q T

CO raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.50, SB calls $1.25, BB calls $1.00

Flop: ($6.00, 4 players) T 6 K
SB checks, BB checks, CO bets $5.00, Hero calls $5.00, fold, fold

Turn: ($16.00, 2 players) 4
CO bets $15.00, Hero raises to $60.28, CO calls $33.34 and is all-in

River: ($112.68, 2 players) 5



I meant to get it in on flop but somehow ended up flatting. I'll blame it all on TN2.

b) A pretty standard way to play nut blocker imo:

PokerStars - $0.50 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): $141.59
BB: $48.02
BTN: $50.50

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has 2 A A 3

fold, Hero raises to $1.50, BB calls $1.00

Flop: ($3.00, 2 players) 7 3 T
Hero checks, BB bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50

Turn: ($6.00, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BB checks

River: ($6.00, 2 players) 5
Hero bets $5.00, BB raises to $15.00, Hero raises to $50.73, fold

Hero wins $34.50

I was going for the turn x/r. Once he checks back I think his range consists of lots of 2p/sets, some straight, weak flush, etc. I don't think he can find a call with 2p/sets on this board when I donk on the river given nothing missed, and he might fold 96/64 as well, which is a huge win for me. Once he raises my bet there's no other play than jamming, and he tank folded.. Maybe he had Kxss or Ks himself?

Flatting to grab more EV at the next street by allowing your opponent to fire again is not something that is possible in this spot?
Or is your hand still a bit too vulnarable for this?
Or does it makes raise ranges too weak?

Thing is I am very rarely crushed on flop, but I don't have lots of clean outs either. If he's leading with NF, I'm far ahead on this flop but my flush outs are dead, and he won't continue very often unless he hits flush or improves significantly on turn. If he's leading with top set, I have all my combo draws to go with, but my pair outs are dead. Also, he might slow down on all scary turns with the top set, which is an okay outcome but nothing spectacular. In short, I don't have great IO when flatting; my only clean outs are non-diamond A and 9.

That said I'd just raise flop and either fold out his ~30% equity, or get it in vs his bottom set or top two + redraw, which I'm doing very fine against. Even against his top set we're just flipping (depending on his side cards), and the only hands that have me crushed are KK with a better flush draw (like AdKKxd). If I run into that it's obv a cooler

Thanks for the answer. I understand it now given your words. I am still a long way away before my questions start making sense as my visualized ranges are way off.

No prob man, I'm by no means an expert in PLO but will try my best

Played about 4k hands so far, it was okay volume and table # wise. I'm also happy with how I played for the most part.

Hope to play ~10k more hands over this weekend, but atm I'm not feeling super well so we'll see how that goes.

I probably shouldn't drink the whole bottle of Bacardi in the future, I ain't that young anymore

good luck!! Good to see a fellow couch surfer on here lol.

Haha, you are are a couchsurfer mela? How come I didn't know that?

Thanks, good luck to you too! Couch surfing is a lot of fun - actually I have a surfer over this weekend at my place.

Haha yes I am, I think I saw your profile on CS too. I recently joined the site though. :P

Sometimes your plan doesn't work, yet you get lucky.

BB: $101.50
UTG: $90.77
MP: $90.65
Hero (CO): $57.07
BTN: $14.50
SB: $50.00

SB posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has K T T 8

UTG raises to $1.50, fold, Hero calls $1.50, fold, fold, fold

Flop: ($3.75, 2 players) 8 2 6
UTG bets $2.75, Hero calls $2.75

Turn: ($9.25, 2 players) 4
UTG bets $6.26, Hero raises to $18.00, UTG calls $11.74

River: ($45.25, 2 players) A
UTG checks, Hero checks

Hey, I meant to say, thanks for dropping by my thread!

Again, sometimes you get lucky:

Hero (SB): $136.00
BB: $169.98
UTG: $48.50
MP: $95.97
CO: $57.55
BTN: $41.33

Hero posts SB $0.25, BB posts BB $0.50

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.75) Hero has 5 8 7 9

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5.00, fold, BTN calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.50, 2 players) K 7 A
Hero bets $7.00, BTN calls $7.00

Turn: ($24.50, 2 players) 3
Hero bets $23.40, BTN calls $23.40

River: ($71.30, 2 players) A
Hero bets $41.50, fold

Hero wins $68.80

BTN had about $6 left on the river.

Since 21st Nov:



Made a sudden trip, and then had a couch surfer over the weekend.. so I couldn't put in tons of volume. I'm happy with how I played though. Hopefully I can play another 10k hands before Thanksgiving holiday.

Something I constantly forget:

Flop comes rainbow ~40% of the time, twotone ~55% and monotone only 5% of the time. However, on monotone boards random AA** will have flopped a flush about 20-22% of the time, and most of them are nut flushes. Surprisingly, even when I flopped a flush on this board, he will have the nut flush 15% (!) of the time.