Introduction:

Hi guys and gals. Thanks for stopping by and welcome to my first PGC thread. My name is Michael, and in this thread I will be documenting my progress to my goal of $100K profit in the great game of live Pot-Limit Omaha. My circumstances and reasons for doing so might be a bit different than the average poker player, and I hope it will be an enjoyable read and journey for those who choose to partake in this adventure with me.

Background:

I am a 23 year old university student who is currently studying music. I began playing poker in high school, and have since grinded live 1/2 and 1/3 NLHE at my casino on and off for a modest hourly to supplement my income during my university years. I also play online at various different sites and stakes, the most recent being lesser-known platforms like PokerFishs and CoinPoker.

Goals and Aspirations:

I am dedicating this thread and challenge to my mom, who has been in a battle with breast cancer for over 8 years now. I recently found out there is an effective but costly medicine called Ibrance that may extend and provide a better quality of life for her. The catch is it costs over $12000 CAD a month. As part of a lower-income family and as an only child who is in the middle of doing school, I simply do not have the power to supply such a large sum of money to help my parents with their medical bills in a conventional manner via a normal job or career. Thus I am going to take a shot at live PLO, which I've found to be much softer than NLHE in hopes of a higher hourly.

Numbers:

As variance is insane in live poker, and PLO more so, I will begin this challenge short-buying $200 at my local 1/2 5 bring-in game. As I grow my roll, I will begin buying in deeper as I see appropriate. I will post updates for every session I grind, and also make note for interesting or big hands.

Thanks for reading if you’ve made it this far, let’s pray for some run-good!

Current:

Hours: 0
Dollars: $0/$100000
Hourly: $0/hour

Session 1:

7:40PM
Just arrived and sat down. Table looks good with lots of deep stacks.

8:00PM
Got stacked for my first buy-in. 3bet AAJ2dd versus an older gentleman and picked up 3 callers including the original raiser. I flop KT3r gutshot with a bdfd and overpair. With about 0.75 SPR I get it in and lose vs flopped top 2 and flopped top set. Chips!

8:37PM
Added on $100. Not running great. Missing all flops so far.

GL man. Best to your mom.

Me too. Good luck.

Hope you run good.

Very much admire your attitude towards life. Seriously.

Best of luck and wishing you the very best in your endeavors and all the best health and a fast recovery for your mother.

Session 1 Contd.

11:09PM
Going to call it a day. Ran it up a bit after the latest rebuy but ultimately lost a big pot to end the session. I opened AJJTds in MP with $400 effective got 3-bet by a loose gambly Asian guy who picked up 3 cold callers for $50 each. I completed the action with a call and checked a A79r flop with 2 bdfds. Action checked through and I hit the gin 8 turn giving me the nut straight with a J-hi flush redraw. Checked to me and I bet seven green chips $175 into $250. Initial 3-bettor jams, another player calls and I stick the rest in. River is an Ace and we lose to QT88.

Current:

Hours: 3.5
Dollars: -$500/$100000
Hourly: -$142.86/hour

Thanks for the support guys! I really appreciate it.

Everything looks standard so far. If you understand preflop hand selection (seems you do), I'm sure you'll do fine @ this game.

What books have you read? It's a bit old, but Rolf Slotblooms book on short stacking PLO is full of interesting tactics (plus a good amount of BS - fair warning). Hwang's second book also has a good section on shorter stack pump-pre/pile-in-post framework.

Also, how many hours do you have @ PLO vs NLH?

Thanks for stopping by! And yea I think I should do alright at this game especially with some more studying. I haven't read Slotbloom's book but I have read Hwang's. I'll definitely check that out so thanks for the recommendation.

As for my hours at PLO, I have very little hours at live PLO but over 1000 at live NLHE. Online I've played both to a reasonable extent, though I picked up Omaha more recently. Historically I've done pretty well online on the softer platforms, so I hope that'll translate here even though live PLO is a new format for me (it plays 9 or even 10max here at my casino).

Best luck bro!!

Much move!
never give up!!
just fight and fight again..

we are all!!



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