Great blog, keep on going!

Thank you. I appreciate the comment. As mentioned, I have been studying for a few days. I may play in the evenings of the weekend.

Just ran 300 hands training in the PLO Trainer on SB response vs CO RFI.
Do you think I should redo it and aim for a higher score?

[QUOTE And finally, it is very important to check back with super premium hands when you have an overkill to the board. Otherwise, you will not be able to extract maximum value because the opponents won’t have anything to continue with. And then trap and stack them off on the river. See how much extra value I manage to extract.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AAyHuVS/[/QUOTE]

This is what we want to X/C ALL for ur money,

gg gl

Sub,

Continuing to work on my preflop game. I have been studying today the BTN defense vs BB 3-bet. As you can see from the training session I did with the PLO Trainer I lean more towards passive actions e.g. I am folding more than I should and I am CC and 3-betting less than I should.



I have definitely learnt a lot from this exercise. I saw some group of hands that I have been playing differently than GTO again more towards the passive side. Also, I think my view of the game is quite a bit different compared to when I did my preflop work initially back in Nov/Dec last year. Like, I was not able to spot some nuances and differences back then.

Also, having some experience with the PLO Trainer definitely helped me filter in some ways that I did not know they were possible before e.g. under the rundowns category I could filter for 2-gap rundown ($2g).

Overall, good progress on theory. However, on theory I should have a few more zeros in my bank account but on practice I do not. So now the question is how to converge theory with practice.

Anyway, I am excited to be testing my strategic adjustments in the upcoming weeks. I still have a lot of work to do on preflop so until then my volume of play will be low and instead I will prioritize my preflop studying.

I hope this will not disappoint the million of followers of mine. If you cannot cope with the low volume of play, you can always say hi on discord (000Puh4u#8876). This will cheer you up. Money back guarantee!

Take care!

First session for the week. Unfortunately down 4 BIs. The good thing is that it was on PLO10 only. I believe I play relatively well. I lost so many pots where I 4-bet AA and the flop comes monotone or something like that. Or villain cold called with something like QT75 with the bad suit and the flop is 55X on SPR of 1. It is what it is.

I will continue to be working on the preflop adjustments. I need a few more days and I believe that will be it for now until another month or so when I will have played enough hands and can see what is working and what is not.

Unfortunately another losing session with -1.5 BIs again at PLO10. Some of the preflop adjustments I made seems to be good. However, some big mistakes that I made were in 3-bet pots where I stacked off with naked aces heads up or multiway. I think if I had clicked the fold button more often today, I would have been better. off

February has been a very tough month. I had two unsuccessful attempts at PLO100. Lost confidence and drop all the way down to PLO5 because I just felt my game was not good to play PLO25 or PLO50. I am glad the month is over.

Finally, I have managed to get one small positive session. I mean just purely by chance I should have a winning session every once in a while. I have switched from Party FF tables to GG reg tables. I used to have relatively good results on GG reg tables before switching to Party. I believe I should be able to play better with the basic hud. I am not great at keeping track of the opponents tendencies so I hope the hud will help me a bit. Also, by not getting new opponents every hand, I hope I will be able to improve my reads.

What stats does the basic HUD on GG include?
And I am glad you are finally making some $$ again.

the VPIP for the last 30 hands I believe.

I need to make a lot more $$ to compensate for the losing month I had in February. Thanks anyway!

Another small winning sessions and now they become two in a row. This is at PLO10 on GG. I have won 3 BIs yesterday and today combined. I wanna win another 7 before moving up to PLO25. This will also give me time to get used to the reg tables. The game is quite a bit different compared to FF and wild too.

Regardless of the results, I should get a bit of credit for the work I have been doing off the tables. I continue to be making some preflop adjustments based on what I found out in my database. I compared my stats with the template provided in PLO Mastermind.
The screenshot is from the training I did today where I defended from the MP vs BB 3-bet. Overall, this studying has been quite good as I learnt more about the different categories of hands.


Btw I think I know why I am not able to win on the FF, or at least a major reason of it. My winrate is good from MP and EP, however on the FF we play much less from these positions compared to reg tables. Thus, I am not able to win from these positions and alternatively the opponents do not have the opportunity to lose their money from these positions. While at the same time, I do not utilize well when I play from the BTN and CO e.g. I am not CC and 3/4-betting enough, which is especially bad considering that I RFI less than GTO.

I have been working towards fixing these leaks and as well as moving to reg tables, which play usually 5+ players. I hope the tide will be turning soon or not. It is not set in stone that I should be winning on PLO, although I am up for the challenge.

And finally, some very weird dynamics on this table. Do not ask me why!
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/3tkHayK/

4 BIs down tonight. I did not manage to hit any boards. When I checked back, villains bombed the turn and I folded. When c-bet villains almost always continued and I had to give up on later streets. Not ideal.

What did you put in threshold on the right bottom? I usually get like ~80% right, but it includes hands that are like +0.08bb Call and +0.02bb Raise, and solver wants to raise even if Call is higher EV, maybe because of playability or what ever. and The Frequencie is not 100% and 0% always but also 30% Raise, 40% Call, Rest fold.. In your list I only see 100/0? Did you set this somehwere? I would much rather only have a Right or Wrong instead of mixed frequencies

The last two combos seem odd to me..

We should fold JT67ds yet call JT54 one suit?

I admire your work ethic. You are a huge inspiration to me.

Because I know, that I leak a ton of money preflop, but I still play too much and study too little. Time to change that.

glgl and keep it up!

No, you 3-bet JT76ds.

Thank you for the kind comment. I appreciate it.

Yeah, I like putting in the hard work but for some reason I do not see the results I want. The last 5 weeks have been very tough for me. I just keep losing most of my sessions. What I have found out is that people are call down happy and not bluff heavy. Meaning that I am trying to adjust where I bluff less and overfold vs aggression. Easier said than done.

I will be going through my database today and try to capture some basic stats on what people are betting with. I did 45 mins yesterday and I saw that people are super loose pre and then they did not bluff much postflop but called down with all kind of junk.

JLittle said that if you are not crushing the game, you should be studying a ton. That is me and you I guess you now.

Digging in my database to see what people are doing. Some actions, which I will try to implement.

The results since switching to reg tables. It is somewhere around breakeven. I think I will need to keep working on less hero calling as per the population tendencies analysis I had done today. People are just not pulling enough bluffs on many spots. I have made 4-5 hero calls today and had 0% success rate and I actually thought that I have been wayyyyy too tight. Obviously not. I wonder if today's positive result was influenced by the overfolding. I definitely did my best to not pay them off as well as I tighten up a bit preflop and I tried to calibrate my range for multiway because this is what usually happens.

I wanna move up to PLO25 but I was hoping to get at least a couple of more positive sessions at PLO10 before doing it. But PLO10 is tough. I can see that players are terrible and yet I cannot capitalize on their mistakes. I do not know why I am unable to do that.

Seems like you're in the "i hate folding" camp like i am.
Do you think its a mental game leak? Not wanting to be runover if they are bluffing a little too much so you click the call button as a "**** you" type of call.

I like to keep in mind that likely good folds are also crushing my opponents and improving my winrate too. Even if that specific hand is a net loss

Yeah, I know what you mean. It is hard mentally when you bet/bet with your monster and then the river changes the nuts and you face a donk bet for the full pot. You are likely to fold it if this is in the beginning of the session and you are not tilted but if you get this situation a few times in a session then towards the end you say damn it, they cannot always have it and then you press call and of course you are wrong and they have it.

And of course this leads to tilt coz you kind of knew you should have folded but you did not. This means that you did not stick to your strategy and made a mistake and we do not like making mistakes so you get angry and tilted, which you know where these lead... to making more mistakes.

Like I mentioned yesterday, I did my best to not pay them off and yet I did 5-6 hero calls, which I thought were reasonable but I was wrong every time. I think for hero calling, it is to have a default strategy of overfolding and then only if you have strong notes then you can hero call a bit more. I might be wrong on this.

It is kind of an exploitation of you not paying them off when they have it. And I have just been looking in my database and I just see all kind of ridiculous slam dunk value bets that when into the check back line. This this means that the population in general will have a much strong value betting range and your "good" bluff catchers are not good enough coz they do not value thinly enough for this to be the case.

All of this get mudded by a few aggro monkeys that make a lot of moves and bluffs and then when you see a showdown you start thinking that you should be hero calling more coz people are bluffing a lot. They are not. Only a few players are bluffing a lot and the others are underbluffing. And if they are underbluffing, you and I should be overfolding. Easier said than done though.

I am a newbie so I cannot really advice. Just giving my opinion.

Best of luck!

Some more analysis today

There some very good things that I did today, some very bad and then there are the ugly stuff. A bit like the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

THE GOOD

After watching four Duel Review episodes where Shuller was reviewing Luuk's game, I just saw how much Shuller was aware of the different opponent types, which is exactly the opposite of me. I will be thinking what the GTO response would be in a certain situation and Shuller will be how I could maximally exploit the opponents I am up against.

As a result of this, I decided to experiment and see what will happen. I decided to 3-bet and flat call wayyy more from LP vs very loose aggro opponent ahead of me. I think so far, it has worked beautifully. Their range is so wide so that they cannot retaliate vs my higher 3-bet %. I mean if they have 60%+ of the hands, what exactly will they 4-bet me with apart from AA, which is only 2.5%? Not much.

You can compare my 3-bet % from the previous sessions with this one. Quite a bit of difference I think. I will continue to be adjusting going forward. I still do not know what exactly I am doing.



THE BAD

The bad is the usual suspect...too much and bad hero calling. And I make the things worse for myself because I play many hands and especially draws too passively such as check/calling my NFD instead betting. In this way, I put myself in the situation where I have to make decision of whether to call and not. And as you know already, my hero calling part of the decision tree is not up to scratch.

A goal for tomorrow's session will be to play my draws more aggressively, which will decrease the difficult hero calling decisions. As one Ancient Chinese proverb says "the less hero calling decisions, the better".

THE UGLY



P.S. Obviously, this is a joke coz all cats are absolutely phenomenal and cute.

A shot at PLO25 and destroyed by the aggro clowns. Obviously, I am pretty pissed off right now. However, I thought I was down many BIs all in adj but I am down only about 1 BI. Not too bad then for such a terrible session. Ran terribly at -6 BIs actuals but I do not care about these. I have no control on how I am going to run in the flips.