So this year I've been playing 2/4 PLO almost exclusively (some 3/6 to fill tables). I've played about 60k hands or so and it's been going surprisingly well. I was kind of a fish when I first jumped right into 2/4 but I've sort of impressed myself at how fast I've adjusted to the game, and would say that as of right now I'm either one of the best running (more likely) regulars in the game, or that I have a fairly significant edge over the field.
I feel my "edge" more in PLO than I ever did in hold 'em interestingly enough, and it only took about 4 or 5 ~30 bi swinging days for me to get used to the swings. I've always been overrolled so maybe PLO was made for me.
I'm really nervous/excited about how well I've been doing and how comfortable I feel. I plan to aggressively move up and cycle in 5/10 and 10/20 tables as necessary. I talked to another PLO reg who got SNE last year solely from PLO and think that this is a reasonable goal for me as well. I'd only need to put in 80k hands a month which is certainly doable, although it's worth noting that PLO hands go MUCH slower than NLHE, so it takes about twice as much time hour wise for me to get that many hands in.
Here's a graph from my desktop that is unfortunately missing about 60% of my volume from the laptop at PCA/Foxwoods.
As you can see there are a lot of swongs, but I'm pulling 5.8ptbb this month so undoubtedly running good. I've only been one outted once and have one-outted others twice.
My heads up game is pretty weak, but I've been trying to work on it more. It's tough though as I'm always 16 tabling. This graph is almost 100% 16 tabling 2/4 and a little 3/6.
In other news, I got some sick jams for all of you.
A 2000's classic:
A sick new Jay-Z song that should have got radio play but didn't:
A sick freestyle over an old sick biggie beat:
I originally made this blog post to point out I'm giving serious consideration to "quitting" NLHE in liue of pursuing SNE and my feeling that my edge is actually greater at PLO despite me picking up the game only in the last six months.
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On September 08 2008 10:07 Baal wrote: my head is a gyroscope, your argument is invalid
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terrybunny19240 United States. Jan 25 2009 15:52. Posts 13829
wow sick performance this month O_O
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frenchylucky Finland. Jan 25 2009 15:57. Posts 1788
defiinitly yes man..
gl for the next level..great job in plo
I was playing poker with tarot cards the other night. I got a full house and four people died. WTF...welcome to finland...
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deahttubb United States. Jan 25 2009 16:10. Posts 111
nice work man, why do you only have to play 80k hands a month for sne?
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veryGUd United States. Jan 25 2009 16:38. Posts 625
correct me if i'm wrong but in PLO you go post flop so so so much more than in holdem that coupled with the fact that the stakes hes playing he is reaching the 3 dollar rake often so he gets double VPP for that
curious as to what amount of VPPs you get per hand
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MezmerizePLZ United States. Jan 25 2009 16:49. Posts 2598
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