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Ha, interesting question, I'll reply tomorrow if I may.
For now, here's the poser for you.....
What is the skill balance required between knowledge of the format (NLH, PLO, Turbo or whatever) & a good understanding of DYM/SNG dynamics?
In PLO8, people do THE most odd things, limping multi way with blinds at 150-300 (Hello SQUEEZE), limp/folding from a 3BB stack, limp calling with a marginal with the blinds big, & this is where much of our (perceived edge) arises.
It happens in PLO8, does it happen in DYM's at the £3/£5/£10 levels?
Of late, some of the PLO8 tables are vey good quality, & take a lot of beating, but there are still plenty of odd plays.
Played one last night, 3 of us are locked, & I attacked the shortie with a Premium, but the Chippie was sat between us & re-raised, lol, so the Shortie promptly folded. And so did I. Obviously. It worked out OK in the end, but it just made no sense.
Everyone has a plan, until they get a punch in the mouth (Mike Tyson).
Decided to play my session early yesterday, as I'd only played one day this week, & wanted to get to 500 points.
Lost 9 of the first 15, & 8 of the next 15, to leave me 17-13 behind & in a big hole, accentuated by losing 3 from 3 @ £11, & being a whopping £58 behind.
The £11 losses were fine, walking into eccentric hands which hit, which I don't mind, as long as the guys keep playing, I lost to 10-10-5-5, Q-Q-7-7, & K-10-7-6, all three being all-in pre-flop in Level One. oioi.
Persevered, I felt I was playing OK, & eventually played 60 games, just edging the game count 31-29, but losing £29, negating the £30 profit from Friday.
Still, I'm well on the way to 500 points, & £5 Rewards Money, so that's ok then.....
Back for more punishment this afternoon, after a brief power nap.
Don't you just love poker, the way it messes with us?
And yeah, monster chippie, adrenelin racing, wants to call the Shortie with any 4, & keeps doubling him up.
It's fine really, we want these guys in the game, but it does cause some furrowed brows.
2 of us had less than 1,000 chips at 150-300 at the time.
^^^^
Agree with that, Craig. It's a most peculiar game, & that's who so many struggle to make the transition. Which, so far in 2016, includes me.......
I don't update on here daily now even though I'm a stat-nerd, & keep detailed records of every game, start time, result, daily highs & lows etc, game % at each buy-in level, but it's too boring to read, & anyway, it's too short term to form any opinion. Must say, RLTR16 does a very succinct daily Update.
With one week of 2016 gone, time for a quick update though.
For context, I ended 2015 on a proper heater, I could do no wrong, made more money in the last 3 months than any 3 month period (around £400), & on 27th December, the bankroll (account balance) reached an all time high of £2,753.65.
Onto 2016, then. How can I lose?
1st Jan, P40, W25, = 60% (+£30.22)
2nd Jan, P60, W31, = 52% (-£29.80)
3rd Jan, P30, W13, = 43% (-£28.50)
4th Jan, P41, W23, = 56% (-£2.90)
5th Jan, P31, W18, = 58% (-£15.65)
6th Jan, P34, W18, = 53% (+£2.47)
7th Jan, P35, W16, = 46% (-£42.20)
In summary, failed to beat 55% 4 times from 7, & made a loss 5 of 7 nights.
That shaves some £80 of the all time high.
Harumph.
This week alone, in 4 sessions, have played a massive 40 games @ £11, & won exactly half of them. There's £40 down the swaneee right there.
On a brighter note, the Double Points thing has really boosted traffic, & with 3 nights left this week, I'm already on 1,646 (£24.60), & am aiming for £50. (The rate per point increases to 2p when I reach 2,000 points).
Funny thing is, despite a horrific 7 nights, I'm still enjoying it immensely, the tables have been great fun, & most players are in good heart.
Last night, things changed for the better - or so I thought.
I mean, after 12 games, I had won 10, & was already £35 up.
How could I lose?
Game 15 was the turning point, & it was like turning a light switch off, just like that I could not do a thing right. I lost 14 of the last 17, including the last 8 on the bounce. Ugh.
Run bad, play bad, right decisions at the wrong time, & wrong decisions at the wrong time.
It was carnage, carnage I tell you.
Game 15, a £10er, the one when the tide turned, was almost surreal.
4 of us left, newbie takes a beat & is left with 65 chiops @ 150-300, facing the BB next hand.
How can I lose?
I've no idea, but I did.
I did nothing wrong, & the other 2 big stacks were not messing about, or forcing anyone out of the hand, everyone did everything correctly.
And Mr 65 chips, all-in every hand, doubled, & doubled, & doubled......
He ran his stack up to 2,000 with blinds now a whopping 1,000-2,000, & I was obliged to take him on in the Blinds, luckily I had a nice hand, A-J-4-3, & he had, I think, 7-7-8-8.
The rest of the session was just bleurgh, finding every conceivable way to lose games, including some dodgy decisions on my part, & some gasp-worthy calls.
How DO these things happen?
Epic scenes, as the kids say.
Back for more punishment tonight. Hope springs eternal, & all that.
The only unpleasant side to this is one chap, who I think may be a Priority guy, masking repeated remarks about the play of others.
"WTF?"
"Really?"
"How bad are you?"
"You are SO bad"
To top it all, he got it all-in with another very good player, & the latter was in an awkward spot on the river, eventually calling with 2nd/2nd & losing the lot. So the chap must have been feeling pretty bad at that moment. He would have been feeling worse after this rub from Mr Prio.
"Why call?"
Don't you just love these mean spirited sorts?
It was crash bang wallop night last night, with chips flying in all directions.
Traffic was very very good, & no loess than 17 games ran at £11. Not long ago, we'd be lucky to get that many in a week.
Another eye-popper is that I register for all £11, £5 & £3 games, & if I reach my max (6 tables) I drop the £3 games. Last night was the first session in which the £11 games outnumbered the £5 & £3 games.
Here was the split, & the results.
£3.30, P10, W6 = 60%
£5.50, P9, W5 = 55%
£11 P17, W9 = 53%
Stats don't tell half the story though. I mentioned yesterday I'm struggling this week, best part of £80 down, & in the £11 games, I was 50% on 40 x £11 games, which is bad, as the Reg Fees alone come to £40.
It got worse last night, I lost the first FIVE games at £11. Don't think I did too much wrong, perhaps a bit gun shy & tentative, but & got jodded 3 times (he had 8-8-3-3, Q-Q-4-4, & 7-7-8-8, & bust me each time), then I banged heads, perhaps unwisely, with Karen, she had balanced Aces (high & low) & I had high only Aces, & I got deservedly quartered.
So my head was getting in a bit of a mess, but I hung in, & a remarkable change happened - I played 12 more @ £11 & won 9 of them, including the last 5 on the bounce.
I checked my account balance after play, fearing the worst, & when I saw I had turned a profit of £3 - THREE QUID - it felt like a great escape.
After being £49 down after 20 games, that's a right result.
Reward Points earned last night was a whopping 530, bringing the total this week to 2,186 so far, which is about £43, with 2 sessions remaining. It's not good when Rewards money is needed to reduce the game losses though.
2 sessions left, & I'm hoping I can pull a bit more back.
Tremendous fun last night, there were 2 aggro players who were like the poker version of duelling banjos, they were at it hammer & tong, whilst us nits just watched & gasped.
See you later.
I cracked it last night, & got back on the winning trail.
After 20 games, I had won 13 (65%), including all 3 @ £11, & I was £39 ahead.
Shame I then played another 8, including 2 @ £11, & lost every single one of the 8.
Ended up P28, W13 (46%, yuk) & a loss of £9.80.
I'm the greatest.
Onwards & upwards (?) today.
2,446 Reward Points in the bag so far this week, that's just shy of £50, & a few hundred more today. At least that'll defray some of this week's losses.
In better news, Lady Twaddle had some sort of technical issue last night, & could not use the chatbox, except to type full stops.
So some of the less scrupulous players just abused her all evening. Disgraceful, really.
All she could say by way of reply was...
"... ... ... .... ..... ..."
Wowzer, that's just splendid, well done old fella, & at last, we'll get a chance to meet. Lord knows what our friend ("you live in the same area so you must be colluding") will say when he knows we have actually met.
Honestly, I'm chuffed to bits for you, can't wait for the big day.
See you there. We might even find ourselves a table & get a little PLO8 SNG going.