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All Ginger cats are toms !
However we start off with an apology I need to make. Here's the hand I'm about to talk about, taken from the main event last night at the bubble+1:
Slowrolling is one of the worst things in poker IMO and no one should mistakenly accuse someone of doing so, I was completely out of order.
From an apology to a non apology. That main event was a fun one for me. Very early on I managed to offend someone by shoving on the turn, getting called when I was behind (shock), hitting a 14 outer and, here's the sin, not saying 'ul.' Appartently it's disrespectful.
Seriously? I mean, seriously? To be honest I don't get the whole 'ul' stuff. No one means it when you hit a card and a winner turns into a loser while at the same time making you richer. And it was the rebuy period. Shock horror, I may be shoving a little wider with equity during the rebuy period.
It's not as bad as the whole 'sorry' comment. Sorry? No one is sorry. You want to win. It's part of the game, I get binked, that's the game, I bink someone, that's the game. I heard of a game someone tried out once in a home game where they stopped the hand when there was a called all in before the river and instead of dealing the rest of the board, they just chopped the pot according to equity. I also heard the game never ended. Doesn't sound like fun to me.
A last point, I did say vul to this fellow after another hand 30 minutes later, but then I again I did spike a genuine one outer. That only seemed to make matters worse. Can't do right for doing wrong....
Since you posted this you took down a main event IIRC? Very nicely done Sir.
Haven't broken a mouse or indeed anything while playing. Yet. Luckily when I play on the laptop I'm never near an open window.
Thanks for your offer but I have someone I already use for that. The GF. It's very simple, I engineer it so she ends up watching me for five minutes and one of two things happen every single hand:
1) She screams 'What are you doing going all in with that?' (this isn't some thinly veiled 'I'm a loose balla' brag, she says this when I shove with Aces).
2) She says 'Why did you do that?' This is a question which makes up at least 50% of her conversation with me on all matters, not just poker. It helps though, I use her as a sounding board and I work through my own thinking and iron out the kinks while she stares at me and then just repeats the initial question. As per usual. Seems to work.
When I play live I try to find a PLO table with some good chatters about. Why do I look for good company? Because live full ring PLO is so much about solid starting hands, high equity flops to attack and basic nut peddling. The vast majority of live PLO games you want to be at (like any live game, full with people who like a drink and are quite relaxed) have a skill gap, therefore moves and high level representing just won't work.
Online it's not quite like that but it's not a million miles away. You'll find people chasing pot bets with bare 8 high flush draws all the way to the river. Starting hands and discipline (something I have been admittedly up and down on) is vital. Also when the moment is right, don't be afraid to get your stack in, there will be swings.
I play a lot of 6 max PLO on another site directly connected to my sports book. I'm a self admitted mug punter so it normally goes win on the PLO tables, place bad football bets, top up at the PLO tables etc. It is nice to have a 'fun roll' though, for my other main sites I have made sure there is no access for poker money to sports betting/casino games etc.
I digressing a lot here Pat, anyway, I think PLO will take to Six Max a lot quicker than Hold Em has or will. It's very important to work out as soon as you can what sort of player you're up against just because there is so much more you can represent, that you can run in to and what you can attack. In short, solid starting hands, cheap pre, high equity flops with aggression and know your enemy. Also position is, as always, a massive advantage.
I think it's important for a poker player to have as wider knowledge of as many games as possible, it gives you so much more of a chance of surviving and thriving in the game long term. Players need to work at both cash and tournaments. Players need to work at learning Hold em strat and PLO strat IMO as well as other games. That's why for a year I was like one of a dozen Badugi regs on Stars (that game is so good), that's why I suffer Razz for long grinds. You never know where the value is going to be in the future. Stud used to be the game, there is no guarantee that Hold Em won't go the same way. Anyway, there's more value in the fringes than in the centre.
As for table numbers, I 6 table 6-max or 5-Max PLO (there used to be 5-max on one network, that was a lot of fun) and 8 table FR PLO. I used to try to mix PLO and Hold em, don't try that much any more. I once mixed NLHE, PLO and Badugi. That did not end well. My advice would be one form of the game at a time, they are all completely different games (this includes PLO and PLO8 being totally different games).
All that and no rake race update. Whoopsie.
When I play bad there is not a worse player on the site. Luckily only had one such session in the last week (the last one sadly). I decided to take on the late Saturday night drinkers and party animals by doing an impression of a man on his fifth bottle of whiskey. And not the small airplane ones. It was not good. So the last session dropped 4 BIs at nl100 but this just keeps up the form of the last week. I've just been bouncing back and forth between -3k and -2k. Got it to -1.7k earlier and thought I was through the threshold. Nope.
However points going well and I am predicting completing the 50k at some point on Tuesday. At that moment I am snap logging out for the rest of the month. Still think there's a chance of breaking even in pure poker terms by them but I obviously need a few good sessions. It's doable.
P/L: -£2,283.89
C4P: 42,711
The horror.
In the words of an incredibly camp friend of mine, I'm so over this challenge.
On the other hand, it's really annoying.
Great start to this session, dropped the best part of a grand on the nl200 tables. Played garbage, couldn't fade a draw, couldn't hold, couldn't hit, couldn't take it anymore, going back later. Concentrating on the MTTs for a bit.
We're coming up to the last thousand of the rake race It's been an interesting long session, I'm at the limit of my comfort zone, I'm pushing myself as far as I can to get this done this session (and despite the fatigue playing some of my best stuff of the month, strange really). In the last 30 hours or so we've had 4 figure swings both ways. Current situation I think is good but all subject to change.
Will reply to all above after 50k and a long sleep, thanks for the thread rail guys. Nearly there now.
February? Only if you feel good about your game come Friday.
It's tough to work on your game doing that kind of volume, and you're basically just trying to hold the pieces together, under the pressure of playing too many tables.
If it's not in any kind of shape to start with, it isn't going to get there just by playing lots.
Good luck whatever you decide.
So yeah, by the looks of it I play my best poker when I go 30+ hours without any sleep. Who knew? Well that's not strictly true, I did fall asleep during a DYM hand earlier, but it being a DYM there's always a risk of a shooshie nine nine sleepy sleep.