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Nothing you can do about that Paul, & Villain will rarely fold top set there either.
Typical PLO (or PLO8 high) hand, & it's what makes the game so wonderfully exciting.
I guess I learned a whole bunch in 3 years, but the problem is as fast as I learn something new, I promptly forget it.
Certainly I've learned that I can make money playing these, but only at a very pedestrian rate. Think I worked out a while back that I make, on average, £3.50 per session. Which is pretty poor by any standards. But multiply it by 1,095 (the amount of days in 3 years) & it adds up to a tidy sum.
Think one of the most fascinating things is to try & get inside other peoples heads, to try & see what they are thinking. I could write for hours about this, but here's 3 examples from this week alone.
1) A chap was roffling about last night, pot pot pot with any 4, & had himself 7,000 chips within the first level. And he lost the game. What WAS he thinking, why did he continue to roffle about, instead of just sitting out & collecting double his money? Ego, adrenalin rush, stupidity? I've no idea.
2) We were 4 handed in a game on Wednesday, & all 4 were playing sensibly, & had level stacks. I potted it with excellent aces from the SB, & the BB, who had not once got out of line, 3 bet me. I dusted off, as I do once a year, my 4 bet, & he had plenty of fold equity, but 5 bet, & we got it all in. He had J-9-3-3. Go figure what that was about. (He lost, in case you think it's a disguised bad beat story).
3) Again 4 handed with level stacks, & no pressure from the Blinds.
Ger pots it, & I repot it. Anyone like to try & guess our respective ranges here? Then a very weird thing happens - a regular in the game reports it, obv he is now all-in. His hand was A-9-8-4.
Now we all know that ranges run very close in PL08, but why would anyone, ever, get it in that bad against Ger & I? He did the lot, as you'd expect.
A million mysteries is what I've learned, I'd say. But not the answers.
Have been running absolutely golden for most of September & October, & the Challenge total is now at an all time high. I'm at that point where I know I've got the game beat, which generally coincides with Miss Variance turning up, smoking a pipe, reminding me that I only ran good thanks to her, & then dishing out run-bad like confetti.
What a great challenge this game is.
Just had a short session tonight, and won't be back at the tables until Sunday evening now.
Take care all, & run good.
Mind you, the quad 5s that busted you looked like small beer midway through when jimjan had a royal flush and then quad queens in the space of a couple of hands.
Nice to see you are running golden in September/October and hopefully Miss Variance doesn't show up with the run bad confetti.
Wanna guess them?
I was playing 6 games at the time, & I prioritise the games in order of blind sizes. So a new table is bottom right, the priority moves clockwise, & I focus most on top right. Those early stages are less crucial, as we can recover from little losses & mistakes, whereas once we get to, say, 150-300, 1 mistake is GG.
I seem to recall flopping or turning the boat, & I knew my man must have a 5, & was not the sort to ever fold, so I was merrily bashing away at the pot button.
I have to say, when the third 5 fell on the river a little cloud of doubt spring into my mind, that was NOT a card I wanted to see, but by then it was a bit late. And, to be fair, we can't generally be folding every time three of a kind hits the board, can we? So I was pretty cool with it, but yeah, it was an unusual one.
10 minutes later, I flopped the steel wheel & got the lot 3 way.
Funny old game.
Has two great nights in a row (Weds & Thursday), so am expecting a bit of a slap in the chops tonight. You know how it is with poker, just when you think you've got it cracked....
Have a great weekend, Barny.
Meanwhile, its 2X Points on SNG's all weekend.
I have 609 & am aiming rather ambitiously for 1,500.
Call it another 900, or 300 per session today, Saturday & Sunday. That's 150 "real" points doubled.
Who is on the unders, & who is on the overs?
"Tikay1 folds."
Where do I claim my prize?
FFS.
You don't realise how hard I have been working lately, Sky Poker have been working me non-stop, even made me go to a Caribbean Island for a week.
Will try & do a little Update shortly, just gotta do my jobs first. Oh, & Gill is coming down tonight for the weekend, so I've got to clear the house up, unpack my Punta Cana suitcases, do the washing, have a shave, & stuff like that.
Apart from all the nonsense food chat, I'm quite looking forward to Karen's return. We have a chap in the player pool now who just moans & groans about anything & anyone, never once said anything nice to or about anyone, except himself. I'm very confident that Karen will handle that with great aplomb. Oh yes.
I sort of wonder sometimes what it must be like to be married to a serial moaner, or one who sees only bad in others, & good in themselves. Or imagine being sat next to them on a long airline flight. Think I'd have to eat my head or shoot myself. I feel quite sorry for him in some ways, life must be horrible if you only see bad all around you.
Talking of which, on the way back from Punta Cana, I flew via New York, where I changed flights. The first leg - Punta Cana to New York, was 4 hours, & the couple next to me had a young (18 months old or so) kid, who was dreadfully spoilt. And it screamed non-stop, for 4 hours.
I then changed flights for the 7 hour leg to London. Just as I settled in my seat for the all night flight, the same couple sat down next to me. And the kid was still screaming. For 7 hours. Yikes, that was a long 7 hours.
It was not ill or anything, it was just spoilt, & wanted to be able to crawl around, or suck a lollipop or whatever. It would insta stop crying when it got it's way.
I don't blame the kid of course, not his fault he has bad parents. I could cheerfully have given the parents a slap though.
Ha, welcome back Lady Twaddle, we've missed you. (A bit).
Been a bit too busy to do Diary Updates, Punta Cana & then UKOPs, (22 blogs in 19 days) followed by a bit of unwellness.
Downswing? No chance, on the biggest upswing ever ever ever. It's so good it's bound to be followed by a vicious downswing.
Brian (Churchy) sent me a PM a day or 2 ago about another matter & asked me to get the Diary rick rolling again, but I've just been all over the shop with stuff & that.
Will Update soonest, but Gill is down this weekend for Thanksgiving, & I'm taking her out for the day tomorrow to somewhere special.
I'll resume playing on Sunday.
Monday is likely to be a badddddd day, but I'll try & do an Update soonest.
Seriously, great to have you back. Well, great-ish.
Ok, a few updates & bits & pieces, as Brian, Lady Twaddle & SWMBO asked.
Remember 67Bhoys (Craig), who used to do very well with his plopping?
Well as you probably know, he never really liked the reg fee on smaller buy-in stuff, & it finally became too much, & he has, reluctantly, moved on.
Here's the thing though - he took the trouble to write to me to tell me the score, & wish me & all the other members of Team Plop the best.
I think that says a great deal about the Esprit de corps & Community here - this site really does have a nice vibe to it.
Also MIA of late is Markycash.
I keep in touch with him by e-mail, & he has some real life priorities to sort right now.
In a way, I don't miss him, as he was maybe THE toughest opponent amongst the regulars, & I used to dread his oft-repeated "Odds, I have to call" when I jammed a touch light. I always felt like typing "no you don't HAVE to call", but he's like a woman, the more you tell him not to do something, the more he does it.
In short, GO AWAY Mark.
Question for you.
Blinds are 300-600, & you have 35 (thirty five) chips, which is about one twentieth of a BB, & you are 4 handed.
Can you EVER fold here?
The answer is "yes", & we saw exactly that last night.
4 of us left in a DYM, I have 4,500, BB has 7,400, & the 2 shorties have 35 & 65 chips.
It's been a tactically fascinating waiting game for the 2 shorties for several orbits, both were trying to outlast the other. (The 2 shorties were Eon & Enut).
To complicate things the Chippie did not really "get" DYM strategy, & was walking the shorties (& so allowing them to survive) & attacking me consistently. If he thought I was ever gonna get involved in those circumstances, he must have thought I was a bit wet behind the ears, only a complete oaf would play back in my spot. My win is locked, & I won't be risking a solitary chip here, ever.
And so eventually, Eon was forced all-in, & Enut found the fold with.....35 chips.
Eon lost the hand, & Enut secured a quite remarkable "win".