20BI PLO Swing n 11k Hand, SNE Pace, learning PLO

New to LiquidPoker? Register here for free!

Forum Index > Poker Blogs

Joeingram1 United States. Jan 12 2010 09:44. Posts 943

Whew, finally finished up a fun exciting 11k Hand PLO50 session. I have been trying to learn the game of PLO lately and finally feel like I am seeing some improvement in my game. The whole PLO process has not been good to me so far but I feel like in the long run I will have learned alot and will pay off. I have played some in the past, a few tables only and had good results so naturally last month when I started playing I jumped into 5/10 6m PLO on Stars and ran well and was up +15k. Then came the running bad aspect of the game where I dumped it all back and was convinced I was good at the game but just running bad. Finally after losing about 40k playing 1/2-5/10 PLO I decided that a self-ban of limits for Omaha was in order and I setup a freeroll thru 2p2 that if I play higher then .50/1 PLO I would owe a bunch of people money. For some reason I cannot allow myself to play less then 24 tables when I do play (the whole vpp obsession thing I and many have). At first, not knowing really anything about the game, I was losing at a ridiculous rate but was also running pretty fucking terrible. I feel I am gradually progressing at the game though and am learning quite well. I really want to get SNE by July so I feel like learning to 24 table PLO profitably will be a huge, huge help to that overall goal and the money I may lose will be made up in the end. So I will be grinding the 25-50PLO games on Stars for January-February and working on improving my game. My self ban for 100-200PLO ends in March so then I should be able to take a shot at those games.

Here is my 11k hand PLO session I played this morning at 50PLO, I took a break down about 21BI and refocused, turned off my HUD and proceeded to crush. Actually ran at EV for one session finally, which has been rare in my experiences at the game so far.

As far as NL has been going this month, I have been doing fairly well. I am only allowed to play up to NL200 for awhile since I am not really rolled to play higher and am trying to focus on only playing 6max games, rather then mixing in full ring as well. Here is my graph so far for the month, missing about 10k hands, +1k profit from my other computer.

This is a mix of PLO and NL, all the money I am down is from PLO lol

Current Hands for January

5k
Current VPP: 35,144

I am in 4 Hand pools this month so I basically need to play 200k hands or I lose a few thousand so I will be getting it done no matter what

Thanks for reading the blog!!

Joe

0 votes

Last edit: 12/01/2010 09:46

whamm! Albania. Jan 12 2010 09:59. Posts 11625

i can imagine how hard it would be to play with you if you get to learn to play good omaha, your laggro style will definitely tilt people to no end, which in PLO means really big bucks.

and yeah, i feel this game is best learnt now than later in the year, since a TON of fpp grinders will eventually shift to this game not knowing how to play it properly, having a NL mindset, even if you crush NL, is really suicide if you play PLO unprepared.

Last edit: 12/01/2010 10:01

SpasticInk Sweden. Jan 12 2010 10:21. Posts 6298

cool... gl at omaha, probably taking up the game as well

deahttubb United States. Jan 12 2010 11:01. Posts 111

What tracking software do you use? HEM with the Omaha add on?

Joeingram1 United States. Jan 12 2010 19:41. Posts 943

I agree whamm, i already tilt some of the regs I have seen so far Im sure. Hopefully I can just run well when they get it in horrible though lol

And yes Using HEM with omaha add on

whamm! Albania. Jan 13 2010 17:16. Posts 11625

fucking beat i paid for my hem omaha addon, when my pt3 just gave it for free after 3 weeks lol

Uptown . Jan 20 2010 11:46. Posts 3557

goodluck!! looking forward to the updates~

and lol you must play on every single plo stars table! <3

Half Pot!