Thanks for commenting everyone, love waking up to several unread posts in this thread

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Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (CO): 150.59 BB
BTN: 196 BB
SB: 115.4 BB
BB: 113.7 BB
UTG: 51.65 BB
MP: 167.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J 6 7 A

fold, fold, Hero raises to 3.5 BB, BTN calls 3.5 BB, SB calls 3 BB, BB calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (14 BB, 4 players) 9 T 8
SB checks, BB bets 14 BB, Hero calls 14 BB, BTN raises to 70 BB, fold, BB raises to 110.2 BB and is all-in, Hero raises to 147.09 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 77.09 BB

Turn: (418.38 BB, 3 players) 5

River: (418.38 BB, 3 players) 2



reverse bink

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 271.33 BB
Hero (BB): 198.17 BB
UTG: 64.05 BB
MP: 273.46 BB
CO: 164.98 BB
BTN: 65.85 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8 3 A A

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB raises to 27 BB, Hero raises to 81 BB, SB calls 54 BB

Flop: (162 BB, 2 players) T K 3
SB checks, Hero bets 117.17 BB and is all-in, SB calls 117.17 BB

Turn: (396.34 BB, 2 players) T

River: (396.34 BB, 2 players) Q

he got me

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 249.37 BB
BB: 100.85 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 133.58 BB
CO: 431.45 BB
BTN: 81.55 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4 K A J

UTG raises to 2 BB, MP calls 2 BB, fold, BTN calls 2 BB, Hero calls 1.5 BB, BB calls 1 BB

Flop: (10 BB, 5 players) 6 Q T
Hero bets 10 BB, BB calls 10 BB, fold, fold, fold

Turn: (30 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 30 BB, BB calls 30 BB

River: (90 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 62.34 BB, BB calls 58.85 BB and is all-in



I got him

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 503.17 BB
Hero (BTN): 153.14 BB
SB: 71.24 BB
BB: 317.01 BB
UTG: 99 BB
MP: 80 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q 5 6

fold, fold, CO raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB, fold, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (9.5 BB, 3 players) 5 2 6
BB checks, CO bets 8 BB, Hero calls 8 BB, BB calls 8 BB

Turn: (33.5 BB, 3 players) 5
BB checks, CO checks, Hero checks

River: (33.5 BB, 3 players) 2
BB checks, CO bets 22 BB, Hero raises to 99.5 BB, fold, CO calls 77.5 BB

Also starting to implement grinding high, seems promising

wish I could flip a switch in PT4 to separate the stats without having to manually track sessions, would love to see how Hanshu's (my stoned persona) bb/100 stacks up vs. Aesah's

Wow that KQQ5 hand.

Where can I find that live plo guide you made?

here ya go

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...&postcount=856

After this hand I was like “damn, that was a brave bluff”

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 142.62 BB
BB: 164.97 BB
BTN: 144.91 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 8 8 A

BTN raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2.5 BB, fold

Flop: (7 BB, 2 players) 3 7 7
Hero checks, BTN bets 3 BB, Hero calls 3 BB

Turn: (13 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BTN bets 11 BB, Hero calls 11 BB

River: (35 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BTN bets 35 BB, Hero calls 35 BB




But then 10 minutes later I ran into THIS guy on a different table

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 98.5 BB
Hero (SB): 175.03 BB
BB: 43.25 BB
UTG: 182.13 BB
CO: 169.47 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J A 9 Q

fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.5 BB, Hero raises to 8.5 BB, fold, BTN calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) 9 T 2
Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 14.29 BB, BTN calls 14.29 BB

River: (46.58 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 46.58 BB, BTN raises to 75.71 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 29.13 BB



this lunatic was also out there

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 98.5 BB
Hero (SB): 200.36 BB
BB: 72 BB
CO: 30 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9 7 6 T

CO raises to 3.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 3 BB, fold

Flop: (8 BB, 2 players) 6 3 A
Hero checks, CO bets 4 BB, Hero raises to 10.55 BB, fold



this guy though

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 114.97 BB
SB: 240.29 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 2 K 8 K

SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) J Q 7
Hero bets 11.63 BB, SB calls 11.63 BB

Turn: (41.25 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, SB bets 21.63 BB, Hero calls 21.63 BB

River: (84.5 BB, 2 players) T
Hero checks, SB bets 84.5 BB, Hero calls 72.72 BB and is all-in



was NOT bluffing

need more work on playing tighter while tilting, and just tilt management in general, and just being better at poker in general

Bravery is one way to put it.

lol at lunacy. not even a heart!

Wait, what???

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 403.54 BB
SB: 210.93 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K A Q 9

SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) K 3 6
Hero checks, SB bets 6 BB, Hero calls 6 BB

Turn: (30 BB, 2 players) J
Hero checks, SB bets 10 BB, Hero calls 10 BB

River: (50 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, SB checks

I had been feeling pretty good about 4 tabling for 6 hours a day (especially in comparison to my work ethic last year, lol), but then I met BERRI SOUR (who has an interesting PG&C) today who informed me that 1500 hands/day is trashcan. OK OK OK I'm still gonna 4 table for a bit longer while I work on my game but want to be breaking that limit within a couple weeks

BTN had 8743

Playing more than 6 hours a day on ignition is really hard. It's still far more hands than you'd play live in a week and mentally taxing...plus there are more big pots than harder sites like stars so you're in more stressful situations.

I play on another site a lot (often with or on same day as ign) that I can't track my volume on but my highest volume days on Ignition in the last 31 days are around 1.5k hands. If I could only play on ignition I would shoot for 40-50k hands a month.

Ya, adding more sites is preferable to adding more hours for sure. I wish Ignition Zoom PLO ran, although I didn't play zoom back when I was playing NLHE

AGHHH had a social anxiety episode today where I was inspecting some blueberries at the store. I perceived someone judging me for nitpicking which ones I wanted (because that means someone else is gonna end up with the ****tier blueberries). I got nervous and just put the blueberries into my cart (they were fine but normally I would look for better). By the time I realized she didn't care, she had already started meticulously inspecting a box of blueberries and I had already started walking and then started thinking it would have been weird to stop and be like "ah OK I didn't wanna be the first person to do that", LOL /sigh

So yeah, I would say this episode highlighted 3 manifestations of anxiety that I'm trying to improve upon:

1) panicking that you are doing something wrong when you are not
2) imagining others are thinking about you when they aren't
3) caring at all what a complete stranger you will never see again is thinking

These blueberries are seriously underwhelming though. Thank god for all the suckers out there who let me swipe the S tier ones, and everything has a happy ending because I'll appreciate them even more after this incident

~~~~~~~~

So I briefly addressed this 4 days ago, but wanted to talk about it more- didn't have the right words to say at the time. So, was this episode kind of a superficial way to make myself happy from a "bad" thing, for getting inferior blueberries (and also for letting myself freak out about what a stranger was thinking about me) by saying the result was good? What is "superficial happiness"? I mean, like I genuinely feel happy. Is this costing me something? maybe it's like hiding smaller issues and letting them fester within a house of cards, I don't know

Another thing that I've been wondering: is it possible to feel happy when you win in poker, yet at the same time, not feel unhappy when you lose? Or is it more zero sum in that specific scenario? I'm not really sure what the answer is. But either way, something I realized was noticing a lot of the streamers who are actually gods at fighting variance seem visibly wounded when they lose a flip, something that live players always played down because IDK, a bunch of reasons: 1) it can be bad etiquette to celebrate someone else's pain, 2) live is often a masculine environment and no one wants to seem weak by revealing that they, in fact, have feelings, or 3) they don't want to reveal that they are tilting until they showdown J7s after 3betting from UTG+1 next hand because it's more fun that way

So perhaps I should try to channel more of my emotional energy into short term excitement/pain, which is not something I've consciously attempted before. Of course I don't know if this is zero sum either (I'm hoping more energy in short term = less energy in long term?), but MAYBE IT MIGHT WORK IDK.

Anyway, I ran good in poker today (won before groceries and lost after, so notably I was still anxious despite being happy) and I also feel like I'm making good progress fixing my life up this month... so I'm happy.

I'm curious if how many other pros have curiosity leaks. I try my best to make the most +EV decision without letting it influence me of course, but hmm, I honestly might have have called this river if I were playing on Global. I'm also not super thrilled about this line in retrospect given stack depth, facing a turn jam is disastrous. Think it's fine at 100bb

Ignition - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 52 BB
CO: 96.71 BB
BTN: 326.44 BB
SB: 156.48 BB
Hero (BB): 186.03 BB
UTG: 252.19 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 8 K Q

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 3.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 7 5 T
Hero checks, BTN bets 6 BB, Hero calls 6 BB

Turn: (19.5 BB, 2 players) 2
Hero checks, BTN bets 19.5 BB, Hero raises to 78 BB, BTN calls 58.5 BB

River: (175.5 BB, 2 players) K
Hero checks, BTN bets 175.5 BB, fold



I thought I lost this hand on the turn, and celebrated when I made a higher full house on the river. Anyway I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever been dealt a Royal Flush, which is mildly exciting

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 115.13 BB
SB: 209.8 BB
BB: 101.98 BB
UTG: 103.65 BB
CO: 167.35 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A T 4

UTG raises to 3.5 BB, fold, Hero raises to 12 BB, fold, fold, UTG calls 8.5 BB

Flop: (25.5 BB, 2 players) J K T
UTG checks, Hero bets 12.75 BB, UTG raises to 63.75 BB, Hero raises to 103.13 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 27.9 BB and is all-in

Turn: (208.8 BB, 2 players) T

River: (208.8 BB, 2 players) Q



(Making a Royal is probably more common than betting river and getting called by worse with 9 high though tbh)

Ambitious raise

Ignition - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 89.25 BB
BB: 28.5 BB
UTG: 15.5 BB
CO: 169.21 BB
Hero (BTN): 143.76 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has J K T 9

fold, fold, Hero raises to 3.5 BB, SB raises to 11.5 BB, fold, Hero calls 8 BB

Flop: (24 BB, 2 players) J J 3
SB bets 7 BB, Hero raises to 24.5 BB, SB raises to 77.75 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 53.25 BB

Turn: (179.5 BB, 2 players) 7

River: (179.5 BB, 2 players) 3



We have ambitious raises too

Ignition - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 379.4 BB
BB: 99.5 BB
Hero (BTN): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 7 3 4 6

Hero raises to 3.5 BB, SB calls 3 BB, fold

Flop: (8 BB, 2 players) 6 2 7
SB checks, Hero bets 6 BB, SB raises to 17 BB, Hero calls 11 BB

Turn: (42 BB, 2 players) 2
SB bets 32 BB, Hero raises to 79.5 BB and is all-in, fold



Andddddddddd yeah. Well-deserved karma IMO. Thought river was a 6

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 132.33 BB
UTG: 104.8 BB
MP: 65.38 BB
CO: 50.3 BB
Hero (BTN): 160.04 BB
SB: 168.43 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T 9 7 Q

fold, MP calls 1 BB, fold, Hero raises to 4.5 BB, fold, BB calls 3.5 BB, fold

Flop: (10.5 BB, 2 players) 3 5 8
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (10.5 BB, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (10.5 BB, 2 players) 8
BB bets 7 BB, Hero calls 7 BB

It's kind of a massive embarrassment how much I was struggling with mental despite running really good last year. Given my propensity to let haters on the internet affect me negatively, my Ignition PLO graph is something I have been pretty fearful of sharing (the volume is also lol) but oh well fk it you know?

Yeah 9.5bb/100 is a ****ing embarrassment bud lmao

Embarrassing that I literally quit poker for months because I couldn't handle losing very small losses over very small sizes

especially after being a pro for so long, AND starting off with a pretty crazy heater (and tbh, still on a heater). AHHH okok gotta be tougher in the future

A few years ago I was shooting 50/100 PLO at Aria and the guy next to me whispered "you're only playing because of the fish in the game right" and I panicked remembering the famous Rounders quote "If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table...", thinking wait am I out of my league?

I didn't realize until it randomly occurred to me years later that the reason I couldn't spot the sucker was because they were ALL suckers

So good.

wait, why didn't i fold this turn

Ignition - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 100 BB
SB: 67 BB
Hero (BB): 156.2 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K J 4 T

fold, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero raises to 3 BB, SB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) Q 6 7
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (6 BB, 2 players) A
SB checks, Hero bets 4.97 BB, SB raises to 20.9 BB, Hero calls 15.93 BB

River: (47.8 BB, 2 players) 8
SB checks, Hero bets 47.8 BB, SB calls 43.1 BB and is all-in



and wait, why didn't I jam this turn (saved money obv)

Ignition - $2 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 54.25 BB
UTG: 100.94 BB
MP: 100.85 BB
CO: 165.64 BB
Hero (BTN): 71.69 BB
SB: 106.9 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T K 9 T

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3.5 BB, fold, BB calls 2.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 9 Q J
BB checks, Hero bets 5.75 BB, BB calls 5.75 BB

Turn: (19 BB, 2 players) T
BB bets 19 BB, Hero calls 19 BB

River: (57 BB, 2 players) 6
BB bets 26 BB and is all-in, fold



didn't like my sizings here

Ignition - $5 PL Hi (2 max) - Omaha Hi - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 204.05 BB
SB: 120.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K K 9 2

SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) 5 A J
Hero bets 9 BB, SB calls 9 BB

Turn: (36 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 18 BB, SB calls 18 BB

River: (72 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 36 BB, SB calls 36 BB



having heart > having hearts

Ignition - $5 PL Hi (6 max) - Omaha Hi - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 94.98 BB
BB: 30 BB
BTN: 159.22 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A 9 7 7

BTN raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, BTN calls 7 BB

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) 2 K 7
Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn: (21 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BTN bets 12 BB, Hero calls 12 BB

River: (45 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BTN bets 45 BB, Hero calls 45 BB

Pop quiz time again!

A few weeks ago we discussed how to adjust to looser/tighter players. Let's talk about another poker fundamental that I believe is extremely misunderstood in 2019.

1) How many times more often does half pot need to work compared to full pot for it to be a better value bet sizing?
2) How many times more often does full pot need to work compared to half pot for it to be a better bluff bet sizing?

For simplicity let's asssume a river jam scenario where we are holding the nut low and defining the bluff as "working" if villain folds, and vice versa for value. Answers tomorrow

Answers to above post in spoiler