Hey Boosted - thanks for reading! Props to you for starting your own PGC. I'll check it out ASAP :-)

I stopped DFS. I think it's going to be more +EV for me in the future to spend time that I would have been studying DFS into PLO. Also, I'm not sure if I have the skillset necessary to beat DFS, therefore it seems like either a fun hobby (which wasn't ALL that fun) or stopping. I'm happy I gave it a go, but not for me.

Thanks for the kind words. gl on the tables

Wacky Sunday

Back at it and trying to claw out of the early Hole we’ve dug ourselves into this far in early 2018. Played some super interesting hands, including winning (twice) with K high call downs. I definitely do not recommend this at home.

In our first interesting hand there is a limp from a recreational maniac, and then it folds to us in the SB with KJ. We make it 30 to go and Only villain calls. We see a flop of AT5. And check it to him. He checks it back and we go to a turn, which is the 8. We check it to him, and this time we wagers 50. Given the fact that he checked back the flop he has air so much here, could be any two really. I find him having an 8 unlikely as well, but possible. We make the call and we go to a 7 on the river. We check, and this time he bets 100. It seems weird but I was so locked into the hand it was almost a snap call with K high. It seems so polarized, and he has no reason to be betting one pair here. Also, all draws on the flop missed so I made the call.

Good vs Q4o

In a strikingly opposite hand, we see two limps and overlimp LP with 77. We go to a flop 5 way of K73. A few checks to us and we make it 20. The BTN calls, and the SB comes along as well. The turn is the 6 I debated check/calling, but it seemed like we were missing out on too much value in case it checked through. So we make it 45 after the SB checked it to us. The BTN folds and the SB pops it to 140 with 200 behind. My read is that he just has a stone cold flush here, he’s on the nutty side and these plays are just never bluffs/ even sets and straights are just calling from this guy. Anyway, my mistake is not going through the math in real time. It was 95 for us to win 170. I made the quick fold and move on. Seems like against flushes we have almost 25% equity which is just not enough.

Next up. We pick up KT in the SB. There are two limps to us and we decide to complete. The BB checks and the flop comes QJ4. The flop checks through and we see a 6 on the turn. We wager 20, and see a call from a player playing way too loose. The river is a J and we decide to give up. He thinks for a long while and bets 60. Not sure what made him think so so long, but once again we have K high and we feel like we’re good. We make the call and he instamucks.

Next up, we somehow see it folded to us on the BTN and go for the steal. We make it 15 with 95 and only the SB calls, we is the same villain from last hand. We go to a flop of 987 and he checks it over to us. We wager 20 and he calls. The turn is the Q and he checks it to us again. This time we wager 40, and he tanks for about 45 seconds and calls again. The river is the Q and he tanks for 45 seconds again and leads for 75. His line has zero credibility and we snap it off, and are good when he shows the 8, and mucks the other card.

Last but not least, we see 3 limps and raise KT to 30 from the CO. 3 players call and we go to a flop of QT3. It checks through. The turn is the 8 and two players check to a whale on MP who bets 50. We call, and the other two call behind. The river is the Q and the two players check to the whale again, who bets 50. We make the call and the other two fold. We’re good against 99.

It was a pretty interesting day overall.

Some pretty interesting news, I’ll be launching my own personal blog website, with some big plans coming up. Obviously can’t post too much on here, but if you’re curious let me know. I’m finishing up the site tonight, and have a somewhat special announcement that should be cool for anyone who still reads this thread. Anyways, gl on the tables and catch you all soon :-)




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PRETTY sure you got him to muck a good chunk of ace highs in the second K-high call down. :') Sick hands mate. Also defo keen to get around the new blog, keep me posted!

Agreed. I think he did in fact. He was kind of outraged that I called with k high, and said he was good, but I guess we'll never know for sure

Also, check your PM

Borgata - The Vlog Begins (1/21)

On Friday night we took the 3 hour drive down to Borgata to play in some of the plentiful WPT cash games, with the tons of players that are in town for the tournament events.

I don’t want to go into too much detail on the hands, as I am excited to announce that the 5/T NLH and 2/5 PLO sessions that I played are going to be vlogged, as I’ll be starting a small part time vlog, just basically traveling to different destinations. I’m going to hit a new venue/City/destination for each vlog. Parx will be vlog 2, Mohegan Sun will be vlog 3, and so on. It should be a fun time.

I got into some crazy games, and it was all around a good time. When I arrived on Friday I thought the numbers were fake. There were 23 2/5 NL games, 5 5/T games, 5 2/5 PLO games, and even some 5/T and 25/50 PLO games. Needless to say the action was insane and was well worth the trip down.

I do want to go over two plo line checks, as I want to improve my PLO game the most now, and as quickly as possible. These hands will be in the vlog.

1)
Utg, MP limps to us OTB with QQT6. We make it 30 to go, and everyone calls.

4 way to flop (125) of J92. Three checks and we bet 80. SB (400) calls and MP (800) call. We cover.

Turn (365) 6. Two checks to us and we bet 155. SB folds and MP calls.

River (675) 3.
Check/check

2)
Folds to us in CO with KK86. We make it 20, only BB calls.

Flop (45) A87. He checks, we bet 45, he calls.

The turn (125) is the J and he leads 105. (260 behind)

River 5 (335) v leads 200, we jam 260 total

Now I’ll leave you all with some pictures

Booking a small win at 5/T NLH


Booking a big win in 2/5 PLO


Poolside recreating in AC






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Hype. Keen for Parx vlog! Also think the PLO hands you should be more passive in general with draws and try realise equity cheaply. No one fkn folds in that gaim

Generally agree here. Actually played a few hands (that I'll mention there) where I just called multiple streets in a multi-way pot with strongish combo draws (rather than raising). Feels just bad to go crazy with these strong draws in live PLO when you can just hit and get paid, rather than spazz and have no FE.

@tutejszy maybe you have some thoughts on this

What dates will you be @ parx?

Yo Dizzy,

I was there Sat & yesterday. Did you happen to be in the T/T on Sat night? The game looked above average.

I'm usually at Parx roughly once per month, I'll let you know when I'm back :-)

Nah I wasn't playing this weekend. Definitely hit me up when you go in the future though

Shooting you a PM next time I go. I assume you've played since the new room opened yeah?

What are your thoughts? I feel like it's a bit more cramped than the last room, but atleast newer/fresher. Also, the tip boxes being on seat 1 is hilarious. Seat 1 is literally unsittable.

Also, are you strictly Parx, or are you ever at Sands/Sugarhouse?

hey, nice to see you doing well

as for hands:

h1: I think I prefer a limp behind here, vs one limper Im always raising, but vs 2 we will likely see the flop at least 3 ways and our hand doesnt play all that great. In general, I like limping with weaker JJ-KK in live plo a lot, simply for set vs set value, most people are cautious with 2 pairs, but dont mind going broke with bot/mid set even with huge spr. Flop is easy bet, turn is very close, my first instinct was to check, on the other hand if we manage to deny equity to hands like pair + small fd thats a huge win for us, so maybe betting is optimal. River obv a check.

h2: without very specific reads, this is unfortunately fold on the turn, pretty sure that we are vs naked T9 almost always here and we simply dont have enough equity to call a huge bet

Hand 1 is overlimp pre, as played check flop, as played check turn, as played stuff river if sb was deeper.

Realizing why you check flop is prolly most important.

Hand 2 is fold turn

awesome - i will say most of my hours come during the week but hopefully one of the days you go lines up with when i have a free weekend.

i play like 95% at parx, occasionally sugar. never been to sands.

i like the new room overall - definitely some things that aren't great about it though and could be fixed with the tip box situation being very close to the top lol.

Appreciate this. I think your analysis on H1 as well as the weak KK-JJ makes a lot of sense. If that’s the case though (seems like those are pretty strong hands) what kind of non paired hands are you playing for raises?

-any 4 perfectly connected middle/high cards (JT98?)
-good double suited hands?
-what about a hand like A589
-something like ATK6? Same hand but not double suited?

Appreciate this. Same question for you - If hands like this are overlimps OTB, what kind of hands are we looking to raise?

-any 4 perfectly connected middle/high cards (JT98?)
-good double suited hands?
-what about a hand like A589
-something like ATK6? Same hand but not double suited?

In terms of the checking flop - are you an advocating this because the pot is already somewhat bloated and we can easily be c/r off our equity?

you want high cards, as a rule of thumb you want 4 cards that are 9 or higher, with lower ones (like T9KQ) you also want at least one suit. 3 broadway cards suited to the ace are also very strong.

And of course decent rundowns (like from 7 up), just dont go crazy even with perfect tiny rundowns, like 3456ds, those will be dominated a lot in ineviteble multiway pots.

Yes, you also need to understand draws and equity. Basically when a flop is two tone and you dont have the suit or even a blocker, you need to play very cautiously. You have a 6 out draw in hand 1, and it can very well be dominated. An oesd in plo is like a gutshot in NL. An osed on a two tone board in plo is like, crap. Lol

appreciate this!

More PLO hands to come soon for sure

Excellent advice. Much appreciated.

Just for ****s, the results of the hand were as follows:

QQT6 - we're good after checking back and scoop
KK86 - we jam for $60 more, and he folds for his last pocket change to get dinner (lol live PLO)

After Borgata, was able to make it down to Parx for the first time since their new room opened. Loved the atmosphere, lighting, and action. Everyone seemed pretty excited about it and it really showed. Got into an amazing 2/5 NL game, and 5/5 PLO game.

As is usually the story when the games seem amazing, we lost some $. About 100BB over 10 hours of play, so nothing pretty crazy.

Played one interesting PLO hand. I feel like this is the correct way to pay big draws in games with no FE? Could be completely wrong.

2 limps, we limp A5J7 in MP, 6 way to flop of:
Flop: (30)K46

checks to BTN who wagers 30

2 calls, then we call
Turn: (150) A

checks to BTN we bets 150
All call

River: (750) 5
lead for 500
we fold

standard? Probably a fold pre?

Us trying to runitup in PLO!






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I’d also be curious to know if that ever plays well as a flop raise or if seeing turn for less is better in case board pairs or something.

Agreed. We can also run into the problem of a backraise with decent frequency with that many people in the hand, forcing us to fold? Pretty interesting to me.

That hand is different. That hand you can def push your equity, esp when btn is the one who bets and no one x/r.

You wouldnt fold to a backraise, you are flipping with KKxx

Limp pre is fine.

What do you mean fold pre? Limp is good imo. Flop you could just call or start ramming money in, prob depends on effective stack a bit but I think we can raise this one after two callers. Probably reduced KK combos in V's range since it was limped pre but ye I'd be happy to go with this one.

pretty eye opening IMO, ran some equity sims after you mentioned bold. Kinda nutz.