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Summon your witnesses.
Best get up to date on the proper numbers for the last 2 nights.......
13th October.
Played 27
£3 P15, W10 L5
£5.50 P11 W2, L9
£11 P1 W1 L0
Won/Lost £21.00
PROFIT/LOSS per game = £0.77
October, % of Games Won
£3.30, 80 from 128 = 63%
£5.50, 37 from 66 = 53%
£11, 13 from 17 - 76%
Played 211, W130 L81 (62%)
October Overall PROFIT/LOSS £148.30
PROFIT/LOSS per game = £0.70
Account Balance £1,399.00
Hard to explain that!
Won nicely @ £3.30 & £11, but got absolutely battered @ £5.50. Don't think I did too much wrong, just kept getting coolered or outdrawn - much as I kept coolering or outdrawing others when I was running super hot.
Amazing thing, this variance malarky.
A few nights before, when I won 14 or 15, I was not involved, or even saw, the "final hand". I'd be montoring my other tables, playing hands or whatever, & suddenly that lovely white box would pop up - "YOU HAVE WON £xx". On one occasion, whilst 6 tabling, THREE of them popped up within seconds of each other, so I'd won 3 in a row & not even been involved in the bustout hand, lovely. Last night, by contrast, I seemed to be involved in EVERY bustout hand, one side or the other.
I had to turn the chat off on one table, due to some inappropriate comments, first time I've ever done that. Generally, the Ploppers are a great bunch & the banter is fantastic.
Anyway, slipped back below £1,400, but only by a quid.
14th October.
Played 28
£3 P13, W7 L6
£5.50 P9 W5, L4
£11 P6 W3 L3
Won/Lost £6.40
PROFIT/LOSS per game = £0.23
October, % of Games Won
£3.30, 87 from 141 = 62%
£5.50, 42 from 75 = 56%
£11, 16 from 23 - 70%
Played 239, W145 L94 (61%)
October Overall PROFIT/LOSS £141.90
PROFIT/LOSS per game = £0.59
Account Balance £1,392.60
Strange night, quite pleased to nearly get out of it in the end, as I managed to lose 6 of the first 7 games. If you can get out of a hole like that, it's always a great result.
I'm around tonight, then that's me done until Monday, as I have the Show tomorrow, & will have company all weekend.
There were some cracking hands last night, both ways, & so I'm going to list a few. A mixture of outdraws & bad beats, for & against, just to give NLH players of how much action, & fun, PLO & PLO8 give us. We get more crackerjack hands in a night than NLH players get in a month!
More follows......
These are a mixture, both ways, but are a typical example of what we see in PLO & PLO8.
Very first game last night, it came J-5-5, 2 hearts, & I had A-J-x-x. "Retropete" flatted me, & I thought "he's flushing, pair the board".
BOOM, turn was another heart & I hit my full house, & I bet again. I'm gonna have ALL his chips. I am.
He flatted again.
River was another heart, I bet again, he moved in, lovely, I insta-called, & expected the chips to slide across to me.
His Royal Flush was good. (Well done Pete!).
My next two exits were near identical - I flopped a set of kings in both, & in both cases they runner-runnered straights.
I then flopped quad two's, boom. (Against Macac, all the sweeter).
Next hand on adjacent table, I flopped quad jacks & got the lot.
Then I bet with A-K-6-2, missed everything on a flop of J-J-5. I felt my man was on the Low - he always calls for any low - so I C-Bet all-in & he snap-called. Was a bit suprised when he called me with A-2-7-8, with only backdoor draws. Turn was a blank, river was the 7 to give him the lot!
Thgis is all pretty standard stuff in PLO & PLO8.
Come on peoples, come join the fun!
You, Mr Jackson (NTPP), are always welcome. Was a fun game, that, you, BBMike, DutyFree, etc.
I only ever heard one man use it regularly, & he is, imo, England's greatest living businessman, Mr John Kirkland OBE, who I worked with for 22 years until I retired. He runs, & his family trust owns, The Bowmer & Kirkland Group (B & K), the UK's largest privately owned & far & away most profitable Construction group.
It refers, of course, literally, to leaving a bit of wool on the sheep when you shear it, in case of sudden bad weather.
In business, he did not like surprises, especially bad surprises.
So, when we did our month end & year end Accounts, we had to "take a view" on many matters, nothing (in construction finance) is ever black & white.
So we'd try & leave a bit of money behind (NOT take it to profit) for as long as possible, within Accounting & Tax regulations would allow.
In simple terms, if we made, say, £100,000 in a year, he'd rather we declared, say, £75,000, & leave ourselves with £25,000 of "rainy day money" in case things went wrong down the line.
Leaving aside tax & accounting rules, in a privately owned company, it DOES NOT MATTER when you declare the profit, it does not make a penny of difference, the money does not change, it just sits in a different column on the Balance Sheet.
He loved to see plenty of reserve, & cash at bank, rather than profit for profit's sake.
Another of his faves was....
"...turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is king...."
When he looked at the Balance Sheet of any of his companies, the first line he looked at was "Cash at Bank".
Next was the Debtors. It was not his money until they paid the bill, so that line got a lot of attention.
Yes, typical of the Ploppers that everyone tried to help him when he announced at the start "oops, I registered for this by mistake, never played Omaha before"......
Typically, he went on to win it! His name was "Stewie7" as I recall.
The PLO8 Crew are ALWAYS helpful to everyone, & it's a privilege to play with such decent people.
Pleased to hear you had some good news yesterday (duvet matters excepted), & I hope today goes well, it must be a HUGE day for you today.
The (Race To) 100 Game (Wins) PLO8 Challenge.
TK (Mr A444) 70
Mac 82
I should be in the office late afternoon, & will try & do it then, failing that, it'll be my first job tomorrow.
I did promise to do it yesterday, my apologies.
Ooh, just seen this, on GaryQQQ's Results thread, last night's "Rebuy Open" Main Event.....
BOOMIO!
Well done Gelders.
I'm learning Badugi elsewhere at the moment and loving it, yet losing patience (and BR!) here simultaneously, so I'll give the PLO8 a bit of respect and leave it alone for a wee bit whilst I continue to learn elsewhere.
Have fun.
PS. Badugi recommended to the PLO8 gang, I think a lot (sort of) play it already without realising!
Half a dozen games in and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,BOOM
Still can't get me head around plo8
Regards Alan
I seem to do quite well in the Omaha mtt;'s when I played them but struggled with pol8, tikay will help u as much as u need as he did with me, its good too watch the regs without playing, on the 5.50 games, and see the hands that there playing with, I learned a bit from that, although haven't played it in a while was a refreshing change and something new.
Well done, grerat stuff.
You still playing PLO?
I'm no great expert, but I have a good grasp of the basics, so if you have any A=B-C- level questions, fire away.
By the bye, PLO8 is VERY different to PLO in many ways. It requires a very odd mindset for a poker player. When, for example, we have a good pre-flop Low, (including, obviously, an Ace) the LAST card we want to see on the flop is an Ace! In "normal" poker we LOVE to hit that Ace. In PLO8, not always. If we are on the Low only, & we river our ace, it is usually a BAD card.
All the regular PLO8 & PLO players seem to go out of their way to be very helpful to newcomers.
If anyone has any questions, fire away, & I'm sure plenty of experienced ploppers will reply.
PS - Have replied to your PM this morning. Apols for the delay, have been mostly AWOL since last Wednesday.
But you know Des, if he invests money, he expects a return.
Fair to say, I shuffle cards the same way as Orford plays poker - awfully.
But even if we don't shuffle the cards AT ALL, each player still gets different hands. I often see ("Live") Dealers accused of not shuffling properly, "I got the same hand twice running". Which, in fact, PROVES the cards WERE shuffled, as they could not possibly come out the same way if they were not shuffled.
Dealing the cards "mischieviously" is a bit like Les Dawson playing the piano badly - it takes a bit of skill.
The infamous "Tighty SNG's" are ALWAYS rigged, the pretty girl ALWAYS wins them. And that's a fact, too.....