Yeah, its 20% plo50, 80% plo100. I play 7-10 tables, average around 8. Will likely play less when I play plo200.

tyty, Vegas has been kind thus far.

Played a 6 hour rio session today. Played B-, missed hugeee +EV semi bluff-raise spot in a very unique situation where I basically couldn't pull the trigger. Unhappy about that spot (actually I left after that hand).

Regardless, flopped top set vs wrap and held, made a triple barrel that worked, and won $1270 over 6 hours.

Profit: $5330
Hours: 27.75

Good luck!
Have a great time in vegas.

Thx!! I'm going to save my party nights for Electronic Daisy Carnival. Will Run me $300+ for 2 nights of good fun.


First tournament today. Palazzo $600 PLO @ 4pm. Gonna do some yoga before hand and get there a bit early.

Probably no cash unless I bust early..

Busted 54th/199 in Palazzo $600. Happy with my play overall. B+/A- performance; surprising because I was sore from yoga for the first 4-5hours.

I was teally card dead for the first half of the tournament. I think the first hand I raised was in the 3rd level. I never got aces X_X.

I regret not raising pot in CO/MP first 5 levels.. Better off just building a pot when everyone has >50bb. I opened a 2.25-3x in LP/MP

As far as marginal spots; I had a close cbet spot;

blinds $250/500, hero has ~$20k

whale limps, I raise AdJhTh4d in HJ, nit calls in CO (~8-10%), whale calls.

Flop

QdTh6s

whale checks, hero ... checks, nit bets 3/4 pot, hero folds.

Not sure what to do here. We have so many good turn barrel cards.. but tons of QQ/KK/Kh/Qh rundowns in the nits range. c/f seems exploitable; but okay in this spot (with nit/whale dynamic)

Cooler spot;

$250/$500, hero has ~$26,000

fish limps, whale limps, hero raises to $2000 with KsJcTc4s, nit calls, fish calls, whale calls.

Flop ($8250)

Ks 8c 4d

check, check, hero bets $5000, nit flats, rest folds

turn ($18250)

Qc

Hero goes allin, villain calls $7500,

Villain has KK, river bricks.

Another marginal spot:

300/600, hero has 14000

Whale limps, hero raises to $2400 with KK83ss, folds to solid pro in SB who 3bets pot.. folds to hero..

need ~35% equity-- don't have it:

Omaha Hi Simulation ?
600,000 trials (Randomized)
Hand Equity Wins Ties
KKQ3$ss 30.33% 181,675 591
AA, AKQ3$ds, AKJT$ds, KQJT$ds, AQTJ$ds, JT87$ds, JT97$ds, 9865$ds 69.67% 417,734 591

Plus, would need 40%+ to call off stack in mtt.

Lol, yoga.

hehe, I'm a total fish at it. I managed to stay in the sauna for the full 1.5 hours-- but spent 15 minutes on my back relaxing. Meh, instructor was impressed with my effort.

Chilled with cushlash and met a few vegas regs last night. Discovered NLH games are dying :\

PLO $1,500 3-day event starting in 45minutes. Biggest event I've ever played, really excited! Bringing A-game!!

Posted fake-ad for mobile home.. found $3500 from 6 weeks ago, posted at $5k with financing and got 3 responses in 2 days. Market exists, will start to look for a desperate seller..

Argh.. busted in 3rd level of $1500. MP opens 2.25x , fish calls btn, I call BB 9967dd flop: Ad 9c 5s.. I c/c flop, c/r Jd turn, villain has AA.. :\

Then I get AQJT in on AA5 vs A679, 9 spikes turn.

Played some cash, played well..

A-game play overall-- funny its my first huge losing day when I play my best.. good 'ol variance. Had doorbread sit on my immediate left in the PLO MTT. Table draw sucked :\

Probably going to take tomorrow off. Maybe visit a couple trailer parks, do some yoga, try and get some phone #s.

Vegas total:

Profit: $2807
Hours: 45.25

^ you gotta teach me the secrets of getting #s

Ha, I gotta learn 'em myself. 0/0 today; ~no opportunities at the mall. All locals/uglies/16-18ers. May go out tonight, probably not though, roomies are not interested in meeting girls / love TV.

Discovered The Mental Game of Poker 2 yesterday. Bought kindle version for $10 and I can read it on my mac. I highly recommend TMGP.

Thinking/talking more about buying/financing mobile homes. Vegas market is pretty high risk though and 3weeks is too small a time-frame for a deal. Spoke with Aesah about moving to South Florida in a couple months. That market is huge/great and apparently has good live PLO action. Considering just doing colombia for ~4-5 weeks, then flying to Miami.

i'm in for going out and meeting girls whenever

Sweet.

Played PLO8 tournament and a short PLO cash session yesterday. PLO8 was pretty soft, but I busted earlish. Made a couple marginal decisions, folded preflop with 45-47% equity and 5 bbs (should shoved), and called a MP raise with A356as with ~18bb in LP, and called a Ah3htc flop.

Overall I think I played alright. There were a couple spots I wasn't sure what the optimal play was, but from what I knew about the game I played B+. With more PLO8 experience I probably would have done a couple things differently.

The PLO cash session was a good one. I was full of energy and thinking well. I'm starting to believe that posture ha a big influence on my energy levels. I've had a "warcraft 3 hunch" since I hit puberty. I've been trying to sit up straight/do yoga lately and I think this is helping blood/oxygen flow to my brain. I was actually hanging out with cushlash a couple nights ago and he thought I was taller. Booom posture.

Anywho, yoga now, V for 2pm.

whats this mobile home stuff - buy them for 5k and then just rent them out for people to live in?

Do lots of people live in these things in the US? This kind of thing doesn't exist in the UK...

They're like caravans I think.

Thread needs moarrrr updates

Basically they're homes on wheels. There are different variations like RVs, Trailers, and some of the mobile homes don't have wheels and are grounded in trailer parks.

They provide cheap housing for the financially impaired. Most of them are pretty small with 1-2br/1bt.

I'd be acting as a bank and using trailers/RVs/mobile homes as assets to secure loans. This is how a deal works:
1- Find desperate seller who needs cash.
2- Inspect home and offer cash for mobile home at discount
3- Sell new home with financing

There's more to it.. but thats the outline.


Played 2 short sessions yesterday. Book a small win, played alright. I've been making bad bet sizes vs fish. In 2 scenarios yesterday I bet ~2/3 on the turn when they will likely call more..

I've been playing $1/2 $5-bring-in PLO lately. I've been sticking to the smaller PLO games. The $5/5 plays like a $10/20nlh while the $1/2 plays like a $2/5 NLH. My BR is ~$25k and playing $5/5 PLO regularly is simply not right. I will occasionally take shots based on how I'm playing and recent results.

Yoga soon, pokers later.

Subbed.

Do you think micro plo is not beatable/ very hard to beat due to rake? I am currently trying at zoom plo.

Its beatable.. but its not worth your time. Don't stay in the micros long. I went against this advice in this thread for sub-par reasons. Many friends advised I skip PLO10/25. I think they are right. If I did it over I would start at PLO50. Over the last 2 years I've given more value to time. Time really is money. I suppose its an aging thing..


I'm reading a bit of Mental game of poker 2 daily. Today I read the first section of the "Learning" chapter. It put things in perspective for me. Particularly "Skill transference" which is the idea that some skills learned/mastered in certain environments are not transferable to other environments. If you read this thread, you know I struggle with this. Jared breaks things down into levels. Like level 2 being lower stakes soft games, level 4 being a final table in a big mtt. Skills don't tranfer directly from one level to another. For instance, a PLO100 BB squeeze vs $1/2 live BB squeeze. Or bet sizing on the turn in PLO100 vs a reg vs bet sizing on the turn live $1/2 vs a fish.

I'll write more about my readings later-- roomies are eager to hit the tables and I have the van powers.

For today; I'm going to make sure to go through an extremely exploitable thought process of thinking about what I'm trying to accomplish with my bet, think of the pot size/stack size, choosing a size accordingly, and then bet. Max value, cheap bluffs, and almost completely ignore my perceived range.

Must remember: I'm playing these games because everyone sucks; no one is going to exploit me.

Vegas totals:

Profit: $3200.00
Hours: 64.75

I only read part of your thread. I know you mentioned mobile homes have you read deals on wheels?

Yeah, I read it. Going to do a re-read before I go to florida. It's a great guide. Also read through spex's thread and another 2+2 thread where a guy documents his first couple mobile home trades.

I figured that's where the idea came from was just wondering if you read the book. Let me know how it goes. I am interested in following the progress.

Last night ran like death. Flopped middle set twice, ran into top set both times. Played an interesting hand:

8 handed, hero UTG with AdQhQdTc

straddle, hero raises UTG $30, grinder looking TAG calls(~10-15%), random azn fish calls, ipad nit/tag calls, blinds fold.

Flop($120)
Ah4h7s

Hero checks (perhaps betting is better here? sucks to play any turn except Kh or offsuit T/Q OOP. I don't expect to be blown off equity that much), snap checks around..

Turn ($120)

Ts

Hero tanks.. Thinking c/r here could work, but the times it checks around sucks... with a whale in the pot I think betting for value is best. I bet $120, tag grinder grunt calls, azn fish tank calls, ipad nit folds.

River ($480)

Jh

Board: Ah 7h 4s Ts Jh

I check, tag grinder snap checks, azn fish snap moves all-in for $380, hero ???

Anyways, thought villain was enver vbetting lower flush, I have 2nd nut blocker, and his bet felt really bluffy.. I tank call. Villain says "you got it, I was bluffing" then shows Kh, followed by 8d9d6d for a low straight. I muck.. table is confused.

So yeah, 2 set over sets and this hero call made for an unprofitable session. Had a huge blocker bluff that was successful for +$400 though..

$-484 over 6 hours, A- game.

Tennis/bball soon, pokers later.

Played a 6 hour session last night that felt like 10 hours. I was super card dead for hours at a really great game. I was on "nit-tilt" and folded hands like AsQh8s4h/AK94as in MP with nits behind and fish in blinds.

Boredom lead me to play B-game. I had low level of focus. Had some huge titted asian lady sitting on my right who would not stop talking/flirting/drinking. Had a super nit on my left who kept asking me for strategic advice including one hand where he folded AA94r preflop against a 50BB stack because he "couldn't make a straight". B/f;ed my life away, including two separate scenarios where I had underfull vs overfull. Printing so much money making folds 80% of the player pool is incapable of..

Played one hand where the dealer incorrectly chopped a 3-way all-in and I got screwed for $120. The guy who won the pot was stuck huge but eventually gave me back $100 when he won a pot. Another 3-way all-in the dealer made another mistake chopping which was caught before the next hand.. Anywho, I learned a valuable lesson for $20-- Don't trust the dealers. I was busy thinking about the hand in my head while he was chopping it up... :\

Aria PLO mtt in 30minutes.

+1

thank you for the advice.

Don't demotivate readers. PLO25 (60K hands/month) can be a bread and butter as well, even in Canada, I presume. Though not moving higher will lead to a bit of poverty, it will still suffice for survival.

FYP: hyper-ego never helps.

These events can't happen at the same time in my book

ehhh, i think "everyone sucks" is a much, much, much more accurate characterization of the Rio 1/2 PLO games than "someone sucks"