I got a pm from a LPer a while ago who was asking about switching from msnl to plo. I thought I'd share the Q&A
Hey Ket,
Just had a few random PLO questions, hope you don't mind, tell me to bugger off if you like
I'm a 2/4+ NL reg atm, and have forever been considering a switch to PLO. How are today's games compared to NL? How do you think the future games will be?
I'm still looking to be playing poker at least 3+ more years, do you think learning PLO would be worth it?
Any general advice on switching is much appreciated, it sure as hell is alot more fun!
Cheers,
Really quick cliff notes:
- people play plo much worse than people play nlhe today
- the above is not necessarily good news, because actually plo is much harder to get good at and quite a bit more complicated than nlhe
- imo there's more potential for money to be made at plo than nlhe and this will most likely remain the case for the foreseeable future (tho really cant speculate on future too well, lots of unforeseen stuff can happen).. but on the flipside it's ofcourse also harder
- nlhe skills dont translate well into plo skills. i personally found plo really frustrating to learn for a long time while i was still playing nlhe on the side, and only really started making progress after i decided to quit nlhe completely and focus 100% on learning plo. it was a risky step to abandon a game i can already make a living at for a game i'm bad at, and probably shouldn't be considered unless you've accumulated enough and are overrolled enough that you can afford to have a fruitless few months at least, and have the strength to keep trying
- i dont need to tell you this as you should already know from having gotten to 2/4nl, but learning a new game to a level where you can make good money won't be easy. not everyone can do it.
- if you invest time learning, playing more than 4 tables is probably the stupidest thing to do. one might even argue 4 is too many when learning. you need to question and think about literally every decision
- you've probably heard things about the variance already. be prepared for long periods of pain and dont fall into the trap of blaming variance and aiev on why you're doing poorly. you could always do work to improve your edge, and a player with a big edge will have 50bi downswings way way way less often than a player with a small edge (i.e. most midstakes regs that play a shitload of tables, go for sne and cry about big variance)
anyway im back from phils to australia. its freezing here, winter started few days ago. im having all sorts of allergic reactions to this place. I need to look for a job but im not in a hurry cos im lazy and i actually got some money left over to survive on for now. I want a job somewhere up north wehre its warm, like cairns or mackay or darwin or something like that. Will see how we go. Optimal would be to get a job overseas in asia, thailand or phils or somewhere like that but dunno if thats going to work out.
btw jsut cheked the blogs ranking and im ranked first here lolz, awesome.
gimme more five stars
I've just graduated and i'm looking to make a website for a business i have in mind, tho i graduated in economics.
So basically i know nothing about programming php or html.
What i want is a site where people can login with their account, post content and that other people can see that content.
I'm willing to pay for the hosting etc etc but preferably not for a programmer i'd prefer to make it myself.
There are some sites like Wix but they dont allow you to upload content and create profiles
Poker is like life. Someone has to be the worst at it, for someone else to be the best.
Normal people are somewhere in between, and most of us are convinced to be on the + side of
the average.
I read a blog once, written by Jungleman. Couldn't find it, but I'm pretty sure it said:
“When you're running bad, just try to win two buy-ins each session. Your luck will turn around”
Or something to that effect.
Winning is just something that comes THAT naturally to him when playing poker?
I don't get it. When I run bad I'll lose, at least, two buy-ins each session. When I run normal,
I'm happy to win two buy-ins. My guess: a player like Jungleman doesn't even acknowledge the
spots normal players see as to be “difficult”. They are just “logic” to him. Nature.
Like when a mature, non-disabled person asking me to explain the concepts of “walking” or “writing” to him.
That's how Jungleman must feel when I show him my Hand History and ask for advice.
Maybe I write this to soon after the premiere, but im thinking if you are somewhat of an Alien fan you will have watched this movie by now. I watched it yesterday and after coming home I have spended perhaps 4-5 hours googling and reading about other peoples thoughts about all the questions this movie does not right out answer. I will right away say that the movie itself is not great, its not bad at all, but not great. But the theme behind it is wonderfully mysterious, filled with thrilling questions if you are an Alien fan like me. If someone else here is as hooked as me maybe you could direct me to stuff i havent already read? Or share your thoughts here with me!
So Prometheus is about creation. Why did they create us, what part did they have in us making our society and how big part does religion have in the movie, why did they direct us to their solar system, and finally why do they want to destroy us?
What part did David have? What did he tell the engineer in the end before he went havoc? Does he despise humans and hoping for our extermination?
What will a follow up be about?
Many questions and more! Some links i found worthy so far is:
Guess I will make a short sum-up what i thought about the movie itself. I guess my main problem was hoping it would be as much alike as Alien possible, rather than a pure action movie. Its not. Theres no tention at all like in Alien and the dialogue is, as in so so so many other big budget films these days, so cheesy. Ridley Scott is supposed to be a huge Stanley Kubrick fan? When have you ever watched a Stanley Kubrick movie and hating on the dialogue? Never i hope. Why the need for small jokes everywhere, for sarcastic witty comments all the time? Its fine for a popcorn action movie but its NOT fine if you want to create a masterpiece (like Ridley Scott has proven that hes capable of; Alien & Blade Runner).
Why the need for extra action scenes like the storm in the beginning? Or the ship crashing right over their heads so they have to run for their lives in the end. Isnt the GREAT material of the threat from engineers and xenos and whatnot other creatures enough to create great horror in itself? More is not always (if ever) better, when will they learn?
I liked most scenes from inside the engineers ship, it felt authentic and a bit of the good old Alien vibe got to me. It has a great background story, and mostly decent actors. I give it a solid 7/10 but i would have liked to be able to give it more
Only in Montreal can you go to one park and witness a bunch of people tightrope walking between trees, LARPing, and a drum circle. What a strange and awesome city.
temporary gf?
So I met this chick the other day. She is leaving for a month in a couple weeks and then goes to New Zealand to work on a dairy farm in October.
She is super independent, always wants to pay doesn't like door holding and this kind of stuff, and we rarely text or phone :O
We agreed we will only have fun, and click together very well, always end up having deep drunk convos for some reason. We went for a hike, barbecue, a Scottish film and a walk around the city, she even came over a couple nights but it was that time of the month which is pretty frustrating (for her too, she told me herself :D)
I still want to see how this turns out, with me being busy and she working in a care home we can basically do just booty calls after 9pm - a refreshing change after a 3.5y of serious relationship. Still it's a new situation for me knowing the relationship has no future - can you see any drawbacks/have any experience with this kind of stuff?
new job
Well that didn't take long.
Chose to sell insulation door to door with a marketing company that does outsourcing for big companies. Basically going door to door, measuring lofts, and signing people up for a mostly free loft and wall insulation paid by government grants. There is training for 2 hours every day, I want to learn and not take it just as a job, but will have to spend there 11hr/day.
Still more likely to take on poker on the weekends this time, my last job was never over and I had to prospect new companies almost always. I'm waiting for my salary from my last job and will start at NL10 a few hours per week - watch out for new hands and overanalysis of micros
P.S. This no fap thing is ridiculous, I can't last a day how the fuck do you guys do it?
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