Although, you have made good points. I shall make an effort to be more careful giving advice and choosing words. You seem to be quite good at both (even more impressive because english is your second language, correct?)


Busted super early in the $340 PLO aria. Played a hand badly. Bit embarrassed to post this because I am staked on this tournament. Here comes a donk award:

75/150 blinds, hero has 14,000ish

Pre:

aggro looking oldish guy with gold necklace makes it $525, young white guy calls CO, fish calls btn, hero calls in BB with Qd9d8c7c

Meh call here. Doesn't play that well 4-ways. Relative position is cool, can donk b/f lots of flops.. Marginal.

Flop ($2150)

Td8d4s

I don't act and oldish looking guy bets $1800, dealer says nothing and action continues, young white guy calls, fish calls, hero raises (effectively jams)...

Yeah.. So this is bad; flipping/slightly behind oldish guys get it in range;

board: Td8d5s
Hand Equity Wins Ties
Qd9d8c7c 45.19% 1,401,451 28,080
15%Ad*d, KdK*d), T9JQ, T879, 8765, TTRR, 88RR 54.81% 1,702,869 28,080

I don't think hes going to b/f this texture very often. so were basically getting it in as a slight dog vs his range a lot of the time. Maybe he b/f's like 10%. Then, sometimes young guy/fish will wake up with a draw that dominates ours (or a set).

As played I jam, old guy snap re-jams AdA8d7, young guy snap jams TT64ss(yay), and fish folded.

Obviously ~worst case scenario, but hand misplayed. Call or fold best on the flop. I spewed.


Then, I proceeded to play $1/3 and $1/2 cash and played another hand badly. Btn straddle, spaz aggro reg limps bb, young internet limps UTG, nittish guy limps, whale limps, hero(~$460) makes it $55 with KKQ8hh, spaz calls, young internet calls, nittish calls, whale folds.

Flop ($225)

Jh 5s 4c

spaz checks, young internet bets $100, hero tanks 30 seconds and raises, then realizes nittish is holding his cards and in the tank, nittish folds, hero does his raise..

Yeah, this is bad too. I think villain has a wrap or JJ here and folding his best. Calling and re-evaling turns is okay. Raising is bad.

So yeah, played C- game today. Certainly worst play of the series.


On a positive note-- met up with doorbread/Phil Galfond+friends and played some open-faced chinese poker in the rio lounge. Was kind of strange to hang out with a guy that knows nothing about you but whom you've spent hours listening to and hearing about. Good experience though, turns a meh-bad day into a good day.

EDC ticket hunting tmrw..

Not sure at all what you are doing in this hand, flop is a clear bet, why would you want them to realize equity and there plenty of turns you like, blank hearts potentially, A, K, J, Q, T, 9, 4, 7. As played, not sure what he can be turning into a bluff besides actually missed spades so am I much as I like hero calling, I find a fold here. Also checking turn would be absolutely criminal, why would checking be better?

Also really dislike these hands as well, and I agree with all your comments besides pre in the first hand being a call, its a clear call for pot odds alone, it just means you can't be a donk on boards like this, when two players call the lead, your flush draw is dead so often.

Posture is def huge for both live and online. Also make sure you are drinking enough water... Lots of studies out there wrt being properly hydrated and its link to brain function.

gl

nice progress, gl!

Graph since start of thread?

djross, I agree betting AQQT is better than checking on the flop. I underestimated the number of barrel cards on the turn. In retrospect, I think barreling A/K/Q/T/4/7 is good. So betting 15/45 cards with high +EV, and checking, to ch/fold 30/45 cards with high -EV. Considering cbet success, flop value, and our SDV, those numbers are good. In game it felt like I was going to be barreling 8 cards, in which case I prefer checking.


My posture was horrible from Grade 5-Grade 12.. or as my sister refers to them "The basement years". Certainly below average posture until about this year where I have attempted to stand up straight for extended periods of time for the first time in my life.


Graph is tough to produce. I will tell you I have not made much monies playing poker, but I have certainly enjoyed my life doing so.. Check this thread

I'd check AQQT on the flop, that hand like totally sucks in every way possible IMO. Betting TP2K with no draws at all in PLO 4 ways is like betting bottom pair in NLHE 4 ways. You also only have half as many outs to improve vs. AKxx/A7xx/A4xx compared to having Ace + 3 unpaired cards.

Yeah I agree in hind sight, thought we were 3 ways which is a clear bet imo, 4 ways is a lot worse.

hmmmm your ranges imo are off for a tournament structure in your q987 hand, which makes it a lot worse imo. If old guy cbets he has a better fd than you a very high % of the time imo, bc of he is betting a wet board into 3 people with the strongest preflop range. I would put him on aaxx w diamonds very very very often. Then guy who calls usually has t8xx or rap, so yeah easy c/fold, i would def not lead either. I think its just a c/fold, and if it checks through, you can possibly bet some turns, or check again if you hit a flush or something

also think your preflop call is kinda bad in tourney strcuture, i would def call or squeeze or do something in cash tho. Basically I think playing it is plus ev, but I think its a higher variance plus ev that is not worth putting yourself in lots of marginal spots when your chips have too much value. Im not positive if this is right, just my opinion

folding>raising>calling OTF. Made a huge mistake there.

Also agree that marginal spots aren't worth chasing in soft mtts. Getting in 1-2% +EV spots isn't good enough.

Last night played a quick $2/5 session at Aria. Super card dead, one close cbet spot, no close vbet spots, couple close bluff spots I didn't bluff (would have worked 2/2). vpip ~12%, pretty sure I have super nit image in eyes of a couple regs..

I'm going to take today/tmrw off. I'm at 89 hours so far, ~70 cash game hours which puts me on pace for monthly goal.

Got 3-day EDC pass for $340 yeyeye gonna head there tonight with doorbread

We def need a detailed trip report of EDC, I've heard some awesome stories from previous EDCs.

Any idea how to convert hand history if I haven't got Omaha Manager? Lost a massive all-in (250BB) when I was like an 85% favourite on the turn, makes me feel physically sick. I feel like posting the hand, not that it can be analysed much lol.

EDC day 1 was pretty crazy.

The day kicked off around 4pm when my housemate and landlord decided they wanted to come with to EDC. We started hunting tickets on craigslist. It’s a complete sellers market. Every 5-10minutes an ad is posted and 4-5+ snap respond to try and buy a ticket. Most of the sellers try and get $450, which is a reasonable price point.. but some fish sell at $300-350. My roommate and me are both value-hunting life-nits and decided we needed to get max value. About an hour of dashing/texting/ticket verifying and a good adrenaline rush we managed to get 2 tickets at $350.

Next step was to meet up with doorbread/Lori(landlord). We went off to rio and met with them. doorbread brought a friend named Matt and off we went. We left around 7pm.. Traffic was clear and the trip took about 30minutes. We had minor parking difficulties but managed to get ‘er done. Doorbread/Matt went to go meet a guy to buy a ticket while the rest of us drank wine in the car and watched a bunch of people walk to the raceway.

The place is huggge and there are a ton of people. They had ~100,000 people show up day 1. That’s about 5 NHL arenas packed with people shoved in a racetrack. The place has several different stages, carnival rides, food/water stands. Tons of stuff to do. When we got in our energy levels seemed really low compared to the people around us… order of business #1 was to find drugs. Asked ~5-6 people before finally running into “partyboy” who had managed to smuggle in a small fortune worth of drugs to sell at sky-high prices. I completely over-did it and took something every 15 minutes without being able to feel anything until it all hit me like a brick wall an hour later.

The experience at first is really hard to explain. The easiest way to describe it is that you’re in a constant state of trance. Distracted by various things around you that holds your focus intensely for short periods of time. You feel like your part of the energy in the crowd. Sensations feel stronger. I ended up starting off the night dancing/making out with Lori and getting separate from the guys. We stuck near each other for most of the night and danced and chatted with people. I was overwhelmed a few times but certain DJs/light shows and periodically went to a grass area to catch some air.

The girls were amazing. Tons of girls wearing bikinis/tape/underwear etc. Most of which seemed to be bodybuilders of some sort. Everyone was in wicked good shape. Lights and asses were the main distractions for me. I was pretty close with Lori the entire time and didn’t want to get separated because I would be alone and wicked high/disoriented. She was pretty cool though and seemed to let/encourage me do some exploring and chat/dance/flirt it up with some hotties.

Somehow at the end of the night (~4am) I sobered up really quickly and ran into the guys. We went back to the car and headed home. I had a great time. Today: less drugs, more girls.

Tough beat. Converting should be easy.. tons of conversion options within Omaha manager HH.

Wait, what's that? I don't have Omaha Manager

Starting to think it's a losing proposition to go all-in with aces against anything but short stacks in heads up pots. Typical situation is I raise, get called in a couple of spots, button 3bets, one of the blinds calls the 3bet, I 4bet, button goes all-in and the donk in the blinds calls with some junk. So it's a 3way all-in and I don't think I'm much of a favourite. Someone seems to suck out every time and my aces lose. I'm sure I could pick better spots than getting it all-in in these spots.

Don't listen to OP, buy Pokertracker 4 Omaha instead (well, it's about equivalent to Hold'em / Omaha Manager, there are tons of comparisons already like this, just a matter of taste; oh, and OP is using PT4 himself).

Also, don't read the BBV forum (neither the BBV threads of the PLO forums , I respond there only to appear more social, tbh). Instead, read Tommy Angelo's 'Elements of Poker' and Jared Tendler's and Barry Carter's 'The Mental Game of Poker'

^ Good book recommendations. I'm reading mental game of poker 2.. Can get on kindle for $10.

As a general rule if you can get 30%+ of your stack in preflop with AA, do it. Always 3b strong aces (AAds, AAT9ss) even if you the SPR is large postflop..

I'm suppose to play $1100 5cd PLO8 today. I'm not going to play. A couple reasons:
It's been a couple days since I've played poker
EDC hangover
PLO8 game is average
fields haven't been as soft as expected.

I think its +EV for everyone.

Going to grind $1/2/5 PLO to re-adjust today. $5/5 shot soon.

I get to Vegas tomorrow morning. Come play some PLO on the strip and ill meet up with you. Also are you still down for L.A Wed and Thurs?

Sounds good!

LA is a bit challenging. I have car pooling responsibilities here-- I'm going to stay.



Played a 6hour session yesterday and got in a few tough spots. Also ran really bad and got a bit tilted for the first time in awhile.

I over-setted someone for the first time this trip.. and he hit quads on the river. He c/r'ed the river and I tank called getting 4:1. I think getting 2:1 I can easily fold and getting 3:1 its still a fold.

Another hand: Hero ($550) has AdAsKd4c, limp, hero raises to $20, aggro decent kid raises to $50 in sb, fold, hero calls

Villain had 3b/folded 1/1 in an hour when he chose this sizing. Pretty sure I have his hand super crushed and he planned on folding to a 4b. I think playing IP with SPR ~4.5 is slightly better than winning $75 pre/getting him to play correctly.. It's close though.

Flop ($110)

Jh9h4d

sb donks $70, hero calls

Turn ($250)

3h

sb checks, hero bets $130, sb folds and claims to have AQT


Another close spot:

limp (has limp/folded in the past), limp, limp, hero raises to $35 with QT98sscc, sb calls, bb calls, 3 limpers call.

Flop ($210)

QdQs7d

SB(new player, second hand, $365) says pot, folds to hero...

This is pretty close. I expect he has lots of AQK/AQJ/QKK/Qjj/77RR. We need ~37-38% here.. PPT:


board: QdQs7d
Hand Equity Wins Ties
QT98 36.60% 214,287 10,573
AQK, AQJ, QKK, QAA, QJJ, 77RR 63.40% 375,140 10,573


So yeah, I think maybe its a fold in game. Depends on how loose I think his range is pre-flop. If there is a 1% chance he misread his hand or has AdKdK/AAdd sometimes its a call. If he somehow has a worse queen 10% of the time, its a call. I ended up calling. He ended up having QKK4 and holding on two runouts.

Just wish he had $400 so I can make an awesome fold most players are not capable of..

-$944 over 6 hours

Played a 6 hour session last night and played 3 interesting hands.

Hand 1:

iPad grinder looking type who has been playing nitty (maybe nlh mtt pro?) straddles the button, folds to me in HJ with KJ98ss I make it $35, grinder calls

Flop ($70)

Ad Js 5c

I bet $50, grinder tank calls

Turn ($170)

5s

I check, grinder checks,

River ($170)

5d

I tank check, grinder bets $70, hero raises to $200, grinder raises to $440, hero folds grinder shows QT97

Anywho, my read on grinder was not strong. He was very quiet/inactive and I hadn't gathered his skill or thinking level and just assumed he sucked. Had I known he was thinking/good enough to NOT bluff with A-hi here so I would have called his original bet-- not bluff raised..

It sucks that minutes after this hand he starts talking with another guy about his life and how he is a online grinder in costa rica etc.. ahh timing :\


Hand 2:

I made a pretty ambitious triple barrel with 77 on 569dd 3s 2c runout vs 2 fish. Guy folded river getting 3:1 and I picked up large pot..

Hand 3:

1 limper, I make it 20 in HJ with AJ82sscc, lappy fish calls btn, tightish rec calls sb, laggy reg calls bb

flop ($60)

8d 6c 4s

check, check, hero checks, checks

turn ($60)

Ks

tightish grinder bets $35, laggy grinder calls, hero raises to $150, tightish grinder folds, laggy grinder calls

River ($385)

5s

grinder jams for $200ish, hero cawls, grinder shows 9TJ.


My standard is to flat the turn here.. but I had bet sizing tell on tightish grinder and laggy grinder floats super light in these spots so I figured I sometimes have the best hand and def have tons of FE. Turns out laggy grinder suspected I was on a move and planned to float a gutter and rep the flush OOP which is pretty bad.. but ended up working out pretty well for me.

+$944 over 6 hours

Vegas profit: $3362
Hours: 107.5

$1100 PLO8 mtt was toughest mtt field I've ever played in. I think I got the worst possible table draw. My theory: All the grinders/pros are attracted to Venetian because of the favorable structure.. 2 pros to my left, 1 to my right. Had 1 donk table change about 4 hours in, and another table change about 5 hours once that donk busted.. Rest were decent serious rec grinders and good pro grinders. I was probably break-even at the table. I was the 4th best player at the poker table. I think that yesterday was the first time in my career I have thought I was the 4th best player at any poker table I've played. Sigh, what a **** table draw.

I played okay and ran poorly, busted in the 6th level. Chatted it up with the pros on my left and right for the entire event.

I may or may not play the $1.1k PLO-hi event next week. I'm going to look at the field and late reg if it looks good, not reg if it looks bad. If my ROI is ~<30% its not worth my time and hardly worth my backers time.

Played the best PLO cash table of my trip last night. Naturally was super card dead watching the table get it in pre for 50-100bb with hands like QTT9ss, AKJ4ss, AJT7ss. I finally got it in with KK34 for 50bb and chopped vs JJ75r.. One guy sitting next to me was exposing his hand and playing so bad that I could not leave the table. Ended up playing until ~4am. Made a bluff catch against super exposing whale. Made thinnish value bet vs euro-whale. Made marginally bad double-barrel bluff vs semi-fish on Ah7h4hA7 run-out. Figured he'd call the turn with any flush any ace and fold most rivers..

As astute readers of this thread know.. I get pretty frustrated when I lose playing at an awesome table. I ended up heading home around 4am feeling like ****.

Stacked a whale, doubled in standard spot, stacked a fish.. second big session of the trip.. +$1915 3.5 hours

Short-ish $2/5 session today @ Venetian. Was a bit tired/hungover from last night. Overall played B+-- above expectation considering my state of mind. Game was pretty bad for 2 hours until 3 decent/good regs left the table due to lack of action. Seats were filled up by sub-par rec players. I lost about $150 on prop bets (red/black etc.)

Had one hand where I 3b pre oop with KKT9ss flopped K22 cbet 1/3 pot and induced a air float and double barrel from an aggro spewy german.

Got pretty ambitious calling a c/r on 588r with 467 vs aggro fish. I like small 3betting over flatting in position.

Made a really strong c/r with KQJT on J 2 4r in a 5way SRP and got a tank fold from what I assume was AA or KK.

+980 over 6 hours. Monthly re-cap tmrw

edit: just booked vegas to LA for $25 on bus with free wifi. Sick deal.

Alright, since I'm not tired yet.. 'tis monthly re-cap time. First off... Goals:

June Goals:

[x] 100 hours live cash

138 total, ~118 live cash. Owned.

[] 10k hands

not even close

[] 10 MTTs, 50% ROI +

Utter fail. 0/5

[/] 10 phone #s

Huge fail. One #. Got laid though-- rather that over 10 #s.

Won $6520.00 over 138 hours on the month in live pokers. $202 pre-rb and ~$180 RB on stars.

The house I'm in is pretty sweet and I've met tons of great people this month. EDC was awesome. Had a great month.

Next month:

Next month I spend 15 days in USA and 15 days in Colombia. I'm gonna play live PLO in Vegas/LA and online HU in colombia. Also want to buy/sell some electronics. Going to try to surf in Colombia, may learn to scuba as well..

[] 75 hours live cash
[] 7k PLO HU hands
[] $1,500 profit buying/selling electronics
[] Ride a wave