Hi all,

I have written, edited, and revised a detailed guide on crushing five-card PLO. It is in its third edition. It runs at 21 single-spaced pages right now. I sell it through my coaching thread on this site and am keeping it exclusive to 2+2 members for now, but may be going with mass publishing at some point (I have gotten several requests to do so).

It costs $50. This price is frankly a steal given the lack of fundamentally sound written PLO5 content available. The guide integrates GTO, exploits, and a ton of equity sims all in one.

To send payment, Paypal $50 to ichispiro@gmail.com and please provide me with your email address to send copy of the book to.

Here is the table of contents:

Introduction

Preflop Principles

A Postflop System of Playing PLO5

Other Postflop Principles

Bluffs

Other Practice Pointers

(conclusion)

Thanks,
DT

Anything similar for 4 card?

No, just five card. I’m sure there’s plenty of good PLO4 written content out there already! That game has been around much longer.

PS: Please send any Paypal payments for the guide as a “friend” to avoid the .75 PayPal fee for business transactions. Thank you!

Edit: the guide now costs $50 due to increased demand and the additional time I have spent editing and revising it. Thank you.

I read the guidebook. It is well worth the price for anyone from a losing to slightly winning player. If you are already a crusher, the benefits are marginal. For most of the field, however, there is a lot of bang for the buck in the 21 pages.

Dumbo’s strategy guide is a good resource for those playing PLO5.

And his enthusiasm for creating community on 2+2 is welcomed.

This is certainly a very good read and time very well spent.
Anyone here would have certainly won and lost big pots. So investing a lil on this guide is peanuts and would take your game a long way.
Ofcourse I like to play lot more hands, so it’s kinda hard for me to follow the advice
But it does make so much sense

This guide was well written and has a solid coherent structure where it will account for most of the spots that you will run into at small/mid stakes. This is a solid guide that can be a bedrock of foundation for new/intermediate players.

Dumbo also adds to this guide occasionally so it’s well worth the money.

@DumbosTrunk Do people who buy the guide get access to future add-ons?

My current paying students get the updates as part of their coaching at no extra cost. People who already bought a previous edition of the guidebook who are not current students of mine just pay the difference in price from the earlier and latest edition (between $20-$25). I've nearly doubled the length of the guide from the original so there is a lot more content, equities, practice tips, and examples.

I don't plan on additional major changes anytime soon - the last update took a lot of time and energy - but down the line if I do embark on another major update I will consider distributing the new version to buyers of this latest edition at no extra cost, since you mention it.

Is this book for live full ring? Obv very different than online six max!

A lot of the advice applies to multi-way pots (which you see a lot more in live games), but there’s a lot in there that would apply to online games too like equities, bluffing spots, preflop advice, etc. It would still be useful to an online player.

Sounds like you play quite a bit at national harbor, is the book written from that perspective?

The games at MGMNH certainly inform my approach to the game, but I wouldn’t say the book’s advice would only apply to a specific location. You’ll see the same player types and preflop and postflop scenarios anywhere you play. There’s a lot of GTO and exploitative strategy in there that would help in any game.

Book is concise and well written by someone who has clearly spent a lot of time thinking about and playing PLO5, well worth $50.

lol nearly all the “reviews” above are from accounts created in the past 30 days. Jus a little suss

There is another positive review from a more seasoned poster (BobbyPeru) in my coaching thread if you have doubts about the authenticity of the above posters. Here is the link to that thread:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...48/index4.html

I also received a discord message from a buyer who said he’s been winning ever since he bought the guide. I won’t copy and paste it here for privacy reasons but it’s nice to know the book is helping people make money playing this game.

Having one authentic review doesn’t mean there weren’t several potentially fake ones from accounts created last week. That’s why I said “nearly”. Your a lawyer you should know that

Very well thought out book written by Dumbo. Would love to go to MGMNH to maybe catch him one day and pick his mind. Check his other threads out.. I regularly follow his journey thread.