7727 hands, -5.9 usd net won, -1.5 bb/100, -5.7 EV bb/100
I lost nine buy-ins in just two hours. I don't know whether my bad play or bad luck was the main reason. The positive side is I didn't tilt. Back in the day in my great anger I used to just go all-in preflop with any two cards. Clearly I am not ready for pro grinding yet. I have to take breaks after losses even if I don't feel any tilt. So now the rule is I will sit out if I lose 80 bb in one hand and review that. In my great optimism I hope I can still make 1 dollar an hour. The goal to tickle NL 10 has jumped to one month.
I watched some high stakes omaha play on twitch and that made me try it myself.
https://www.twitch.tv/suhepx
115 hands, 6.54 usd net won, 113.7 bb/100, 113.7 EV bb/100
I am guessing players open 3.5 bb because in omaha the hand strengths are very close to each other, so you have to use some force to kick people out. I have noticed in texas if you bet small on the flop with a good hand, then solvers like to bet bigger on the turn or river, sometimes with an overbet. This isn't possible in omaha, so I am assuming you have to bet more balanced on every street. I still did see suhepx often betting half pot and 1/3 pot on the flop, probably for the same reasons as in Texas. He who has the range advantage can do whatever he wants. And again I am assuming if you open from utg and BB calls, flop comes AKx, utg will have a lot more AA and KK than BB.
Half pot on the flop is more common than my 20%. More nuts, more power. On the turn with the blocker to a flush draw, betting big becomes more likely. With this exact KQ combo overbetting 111% is slightly more likely than my choice of half pot. I don't understand why. Wizard never bets the river with KQ. KJ is betting around half the time and QJ more than that. Having a spade in most cases decreases the chance of bluffing. I guess we just don't have any value hands to bluff KQ too.
The flop looked so connected that I checked. It's all an illusion. There's no straight. Half potting is the favorite choice. If KK doesn't have a club, then you can even overbet.
I am sometimes confused as to when with a range advantage I should bet small and when bigger on the flop. I think it depends a lot what your hand is. The stronger it is the more you can bet. If it's the absolute nuts, then you can slowplay and bet small to defend your weaker range. AA mostly goes with half potting. It's checking 19% of the time. TT-KK are checking less, around 10% of the time. It makes sense as they are scared of overcards. On the turn I should overbet 111%. Clearly the solver wants to correct the mistake I made on the flop. Something really strange happens with flush draw blockers. AA is checking less with a heart. KK is checking more with a heart. QQ isn't checking at all with a heart. JJ is checking more with a heart. Clearly 300 iq stuff. River can't be avoided.
On the flop my hand should be betting 1/4 pot twice as likely than 73% pot. I wonder if in position we are more likely to bet small. Reraising AK is pretty terrible even though solver does it 6.5% of the time. One shouldn't look at rare frequency plays to justify mistakes. If I had used an rng tool and based on that reraised, my move would be ok. I have a very vague recollection of doing lots of reraising on the flop in my nl 200 days. Maybe I actually I still have some bugs in my brain that have been just laying dormant waiting for the right time to strike. When the villain raises my bet, the equity completely flips. AK is nothing special anymore. Also all my weaker kickers in my range need protection. What's interesting is that no pair is folding to his raise. My play on the turn is again horrible. 1/3 pot is much better to see what's up. If he then went all-in, AKdd would be calling most of the time.
Gtowizard doesn't have gto for omaha, so I'm on my own here. Probably preflop is too loose. It's too disconnected and 33 set might just lead me to losing money. I am okay with my turn and river play. I am blocking a straight, even though it's probably quite rare for co to have 34.