Read your entire post last week. Amazing story!! Wish you the best

Why were you short?

Sickwinrate. Might have to learn PLO this fall

Was shortstacked last night just for the hell of it really, no great reason.

Stacked my friend Marvin again today... PFR leads on J65hhd for $200, I pot, Marvin re-pots, I know he can only have exactly 1 possible hand since I hold the Ah... I win with AQ74hhdd vs. JJxx.

Game was insanely good today, 3 huge degen gamblers who were taking turns straddling/re-straddling eachother to over $100 every hand while I paid $10 in blinds per orbit.

Up $5620 in 6 hours. Heatur.

LA total: $81391, 501 hours.

Most questionable hand I played...

I limp AK86, Marvin raises to $60, 4 callers.

Flop AK5, pot $320
I lead for $230, PFR flats, 2 others flat behind.

Turn 4, pot $1240
I lead for $1200 with ~$1500 behind, everyone folds.

I think this is pretty questionable anyway. Maybe it's standard, who the hell knows.

Made a nice hero call with 9975 (no clubs) on AA4Q, brick river checked through and I was good. Small pot but still fun to do.

What times do you play? Curious because if this is during the day, thats crazy

started the game at 1:00 PM, I left at 7:00 to get dinner with a friend but the game is probably still going.

Bike hosted a big private game on the plaza today... illegal, but whatever, if those guys don't want 5-5 NLHE regs to take a shot in their games, their loss really... I was ready to go for the flip bankroll part 2.

I was down $1155 today, played longer than I would have liked, 10 hours. Made a bad flop call with AJ45 on KQ2 vs. an obvious top set hand that cost me $800 (not nearly that much in EV, but yea...).

LA total: $80246, 511 hours.

How big was the game? Was it all non bike regs?

You couldn't get in the game Aesah?

Was that hand a 3bet/4bet pot? How was the 800?

Yeah you don't have the right combos or the right board texture to float that flop.

Say the flop was K Q 3

And you had AJ54

Actually I take it back, it was a good flop call because villain put in my last $1400 blind, so I had great implied odds if I hit.

Yea I talked to two different floorguys about it, they said they didn't understand exactly how the rules worked but basically no one could get in it, wasn't worth appealing obviously.

$50k min buyin NLHE (like I said, it would have been bankroll flip part2). No one I recognized at the game.

Apologies if this is a DLO question but - what makes the game illegal?

You can rent a private room and put a poker table in it, but you can't have a table in the middle of the floor at bicycle casino and not allow people to sit there.

I mean obviously you'd have to be a gigantic douche to sit at that table anyway, but yea... lol

That table would've made a pretty cool LATB...

Have to say, I'm glad you couldn't get in and bankroll flip - life nit here rooting for you to play your way past $100k and beyond

i'll make it eventually =P

are you playing like 80 percent omaha now?

Probably even more than 80% these days tbh, it's simply the most profitable game from a "where are the fish" standpoint. Like I posted about on PokerVIP awhile back, when I play 5/10 NLHE even the average recreational player is playing like 25/15 VPIP/PFR and fairly reasonable postflop. In 5/10 PLO, it's not even remotely uncommon for 4 different players at my table to be playing something like 98/4 and equally loose postflop. In fact, it's not even uncommon to see someone put in their entire stack blind, I see this on average probably about once a day for a 50-100bb stack. In NLHE I saw it like once every month and it'd usually only be for like 20bbs.

For example, yesterday (not most recent session but the day before), the average pot in my 5/10 game was probably around $2000 over a 50 hand sample at the peak of it's craziness. The chances of that happening at a 5/10 NLHE game is like, 0.00001%.

In NLHE it's pretty tough to consistently be a winner in the same 5/10 game for months with the same regs when you have zero bluffs in your game. In PLO, you can CRUSH the games with very close to zero bluffs in your range, simply because many of these guys playing 98/4 are simply incapable of folding a flopped flush or bottom set ever no matter how many bets you put in.

Keep in mind my hours are posted, so you guys know this is coming from a fairly green PLO player in the grand scheme of things. I'd say maybe ~350 of my hours have been PLO in LA? So yea, grain of salt etc.

Excellent input. So basically we have to start playing PLO cuz NL games are dead. I get ya lol. If only they could start that smaller PLO game at the bike, then my bankroll could handle the variance. Any news on that front?

Just rated thread 5* (PLO content makes me happy!)

that smaller PLO game is a no go. totally lame.

NL games aren't even remotely close to dead, but PLO is even less close to dead I guess.

Lost all my big flips today, down $3000 in 8 hours. Most questionable hand:

10/20 at Commerce. V1 is a ~45 year old guy with about $4k in front of him, that's all I know. V2 is a younger asian guy who's been opening/stabbing at a lot of pots.

V2 opens to $60 in MP, I make it $180 with AK from HJ, V1 flats in BB, V2 flats.

Flop A86, pot $550
Both check to me, I check back to try to get turn stabs from V2.

Turn 3, pot $550
V1 checks, V2 bets $370, I flat, V1 makes it $1500, V2 folds. Hero??

I'm under-repped, V1 is repping *only* sets, but are players ever bluffing enough here? I folded...

LA total: $77246, 519 hours.

tyty. Unfortunately now that I know for a fact that over half of the winning regs I play with read this thread, and there are others I *suspect* read it but I'm not sure, I'm hesitant to post my best content on PLO.

Honestly I've already posted a lot of pretty good content I think. But here's a pretty common PLO scenario:

6-way limped pot. I'm in the SB.

Flop 532
I lead full pot. Good reg flats behind, everyone else folds.

At this point, the reg knows my range is like 95% 64xx. No use pretending it's anything else. So I'm not giving much away here

Gotta give up EV (balance) vs. the regs to fry the fish.

1. Lmao, full ring plo sucks anyway.

2. Sets really, he has no sets in his range. You are very underrepped. He could easily have QQ/JJ maybe even AQ,AJ. When you check back to induce stick with the plan. Nobody has sets there in a 3bet pot. Pretty standard call.

How does a guy flatting from the big blind not have 33,66,88 in his range? It's a 40 year old probably fish...

Hi Don! I saw you at the bike but was too nervous to approach you. Hope you are crushing the games tonight!

LOL confections. I'm totally harmless. Sadly I got crushed today (flipaments), but oh well it happens.

That's basically what the decision came down to, if the guy was a fish it's a snapfold, if he was a thinking player he might figure that we both rep nothing and then I probably call all in. I just couldn't figure out which one. I guess I ended up assuming he was a fish since I folded, lol.

In general, the older players are the independently wealthy ones who are not as tough as younger guys who can only continue to play if they win. However sometimes the stereotype doesn't work...

Thanks for the comments!

Confirmed, Aesah is totally harmless.