think I'll be playing in the $3000 PLO8 event. been wanting to hit up vegas since grad yea I get the feeling. I'll let you know how much I lose in Vegas

Haha best of luck, hoping you'll soon be sporting a nice bracelet then

The 1500 plo8 is obv much softer than the 3k plo8. Tho last year I won a 80k pot at like 400/800 with aaq7 against like qqt4 in a three bet pot. Hazy now

Qqt4..damn. It did look a bit soft I read some old play by play and people were sticking it all in with 9875ds etc. Unfortunately scheduling doesn't allow me to play the 1500 and I dont mind being 300bb to start, even tho 4pm start means we play until like 3am..?! How stupid.

Are you playingthis year, owns?

Its a must read

I might have to finally cave and buy the Fast and Slow book. I really hate the Gladwell & most of the pop psychology science whatever genre, but it seems like enough people agree it's a cut above the rest.

Thinking, Fast and Slow is great. The author is an actual researcher in the field, so it's more informed than Gladwell type stuff. The only caveat I'd give is that poker players will be familiar with some of the subject matter already (loss aversion etc) but I still learnt a lot.

Other recommended popsci books:

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Oliver Sacks - well anything really but especially The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
Paul Broks - Into the Silent Land - this one's a bit more obscure but is one of my favourite books. I'm not sure it's popsci exactly. It's an interesting style of book, blending personal anecdotes, professional experience as a neuroscientist, philosophical digressions and surreal fiction. Each chapter varies in content but the central theme is what we mean when we say we have a self, the nature of that and the ways in which it can be altered or destroyed.

Oh ****, Thinking Fast and Slow is by Khaneman? Guess it is a must read.

Why are none of the books I want to read in the Kindle lending library?

Gonna get that book but are there any other good books for someone like me (live low stakes not beginner not good yet)?

I've been tracking wins/losses with an app called Poker Manager. It sucks. I can't see any history past the last 2 games. And it is just wrong.

I got it on kindle for like 3 bucks

Applications of no limit Holdem by Janda is a good book to teach you how to think about poker. Might not make you the most money at 1/2 but will make sure you learn to think properly about poker so when you move up you don't lose your edge

+1

I'll play both like 90%. Think the 1500 plo8 tourney is the best value tourney possibly of the entire year.

i played 3/5 for about 2 hours and made about 2500. ldo then i played 5/10/20 BUT i swear on my life it was an amazingly good game. 4 handed with 2 of the biggest whales you ever saw in your life. ldo i lost about 2000 in 8 hours. jfc fml i run so ****ing bad it's just ****ing sick. god.

lending?

sweet. holler at me when you know for sure and I'll come say hi during the event

I think i'm losing money by raising a lot of times. Ex.

V is a typical semi tight reg. Only raised pre with good hands. Folds to raises unless he's way ahead.

V raises to 8 in mid position. I call with 45h. I'd rather not get in a preflop decision discussion here. I'm experimenting with range.

Anyway, flop is 679hh. V opens 10, i call. Turn is 3d (bink!). V bets 25. I raise to 75. V folds.

I feel like i should have flatted here. I'm thinking nothing on the river could improve him and i get some value on river.

Thoughts?

Oh yeah, i forgot this. One of the guys at the table that had been there all night had been a dealer instructor in the past. He was messing with the dealers all night. He got one to give him change for a nickel after he somehow switched chips without the dealer seeing it. He was sitting next to me and i didn't see it either. He told the dealer what he did.

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I obliterated a hand yesterday that made me wanna cry and I snap quit after playing it cause I realized that if I can play that hand so poorly, then I shouldn't be playing.

not saying you should or shouldn't raise, but how can you say there are no bad river cards? there are tons of rivers that will scare him

Yeah, for some reason i was not thinking of this hand like those others.





I didn't mean that. I meant there aren't any cards that would improve him over what im holding.

Regardless, i think at minimum i could have gotten him to call some value bet on river.

Two PLO hands from last week at Aria in the 1 -3 game. Both hands are around $460 effective.

First hand I flop bottom 2, with low flush draw and a nut gutshot on a board with a possible straight, I think it was 654ss and I had 9854ss. Flop action was bet of around 1/2 the pot $35 or so, one fold, I raise about pot $170 (I viewed the 1/2 pot bet as weak) and villain 3 bets putting me all in, it's around $265 to call.

Second hand I flop bottom two with a nut OESD on a T65 rainbow board, I had 8765ds raised pot UTG + 1 pre, SB 3 bet to $35, BB called and I called. Flop checks to me and I bet pot, SB folds and BB raises all-in for just about pot.

The hands occurred on two different days, both villains seemed like regs in the game e.g. knew other people and some of the dealers, neither seemed great but weren't fish.

Did I play both these hands too aggressively on the flop? Flat call in the first hand and take the free card in the second? Calling the shove seems like a no brainer in both hands though in the first hand, I could be drawing slim if I'm up against top set with a better FD.

2nd hand seems standard

hard to tell with the first hand. should exclude the nut straight from the 1st hand per the half pot bet but you guys seem short so maybe he's just betting 1/2 pot to set up a shove on the turn. You're barely ahead vs naked 78 and nut flush draw ish but 2:1 behind vs a set. I might just flat the flop if the PSB is that low, but would like to hear what others say