iggymcfly

Nice you're having a good month bdc. I think the more impressive feat is being able to 1 and 2-table that much without slashing your wrists though. :)Nah, remembering back I know I did it for a year or so myself, but I seriously can't imagine it now. When the games are bad and I can only get 3 tables for a little bit, I inevitably fire up forums and I still get deathly bored.

Pssh. That's not even a swingy PLO graph. 2,600 hands and the biggest swing up or down is <11 BI? That's what I call variance-free poker. I had a 23 BI upswing in the middle of my session tonight and I didn't even end up winning much.

Equity adjusted winrate is what your winrate would be if your all-ins ran exactly even. Say if every time you got it in 80/20, you got 80% of the pot, every time you got it in 40/60 you got 40% of the pot, etc., etc.

Meh, back to down for the month. Since the last graph I posted, I put in 3 sessions, which were: +$13K, -$16K, -$24K in order.Overall, I'm down 8K for the month, but my equity-adjusted winrate is still 4.9 PTBB/100 which is about the only thing I can control.

Agreed. The postflop stuff's all reasonable, but limping preflop there is terri-bad. It's easy to focus on the big pots where you get sucked out on, but you're probably throwing away a ton of small pots playing stupid/passive like that.

OK, usually I'm a fan of playing AAxx as aggressively as possible, but I think this might have been a little bit of an overplay by my opponent here. Agreed?FullTiltPoker Game #7675575152: Table Milo (deep hu) - $5/$10 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 18:40:50 ET - 2008/08/16Seat 1: carter8080 ($4,570)Seat 2: iggymcfly ($8,823)iggymcfly posts the small blind of $5carter8080 posts the big blind of $10The button is in seat #2*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to iggymcfly [8s 5s Kc Ks]iggymcfly raises to $30carter8080 raises to $90iggymcfly calls $60*** FLOP *** [7h Kd 5h]carter8080 bets $180iggymcfly raises to $720c

I was thinking I'd put maybe $2K or so into satellites for the Full Tilt tourney, but I'm not buying into the 2+2 one, no. If I was looking to take shots, there are a lot of soft 25/50 games that would be way better spots than that HU tourney that already has a bunch of 200/400 winners committed to play. And as for running good in terms of bets, it's basically because I ran ~15K above expectation at 5/10 whereas I'm still ~30K below expectation on 10/20 for the month.

Put in a huge winning session today at 5/10 HU:So, at 36 BI, that's my biggest winning session ever both in terms of BI and in terms of overall money won. Also, that finally puts me on track for a solid winning month as shown in my total August EV graph below.

Oh ok. I just saw red, blue, and green, and I assumed.

Would be curious to see what your all-in luck graph says. I never quite trust the Sklansky bucks graph to determine how you're running, but if that graph's an accurate representation, you should actually be down $160 if you're luck was running even.

I just googled "iggymcfly" because I was bored, and I found this gem. It was from March 2005 which means it's from a few months after I made my first deposit on PartyPoker. Just thought it was kind of amusing.***** Hand History for Game 1804329271 *****$50 NL Hold'em - Sunday, March 27, 21:30:13 EDT 2005Table Table 37412 (Real Money)Seat 1 is the buttonTotal number of players : 10Seat 1: iggymcfly ( $61.55 )Seat 2: jude8 ( $15.7 )Seat 4: mad_man_mike ( $68.35 )Seat 5: PeateyK ( $46.75 )Seat 6: Geddy211 ( $16.5 )Seat 9: D_Jernigan ( $55.9 )Seat 10: spino1i ( $42 )Seat 8: zencor_la ( $50 )Seat 7

Please tell me OP's not playing hold'em.Although, I will say that I've played so much PLO that if I have say A8 on a 654 board, I really have to think to remember that I have a gutshot since I don't have to play 2 cards from my hand.

I like the flop and river, but I'd definitely fire the turn there. You can rep aces up pretty easily, so you're not likely to get called by a better ten or by JJ-KK and by betting you protect your hand against flush and straight draws coming in.

OK, feeling much better after my nighttime session. Got back half of my August losses with almost no help from all-in luck.

Glad you like my posts Syous.Anyway, as great as July was, August has pretty much been the opposite. I was making a good comeback a few days ago, but I've had a couple absoutely crushing sessions since then where I should have made money if the all-ins ran even but ended up down at least 10K each time. I've definitely been running below expectation in non-showdown pots and in showdown pots before the chips get all-in too, so it's actually worse than this graph says.

Thread's wrong here (or at least the ones posting since the converter was fixed). A river min-raise from this type of player is going to be the straight ~98% of the time. You should definitely fold here. Just to show that I'm not all talk, and I'm capable of making this play in game, here's me bet-folding to a min-raise against a similar loose-passive donkey.POKERSTARS GAME #19316968128: OMAHA POT LIMIT ($5/$10) - 2008/08/03 - 02:26:28 (ET)Table 'Desdemona IV' 6-max Seat #1 is the buttonSeat 1: badr ($970 in chips) Seat 2: iggymcfly ($3955.25 in chips) Seat 3: muddy1969 ($1667.50 in chips) Se

LOL, would hate to leave you guys disappointed. Anyway, I'm grinding my way back pretty well from the monster losing session the other night. I've got my equity adjusted numbers positive again, even if I'm still in the red overall. Also, I'm really kicking ass on volume thus far. Already played 6,600 hands in only 5 days.

Against unknowns, definitely get it in. Even assuming UTG never folds, you only need 22% equity to be breakeven in the main pot. SB's going to have a set a decent amount, but it's only a 4-way pot so A7 and A6 are strong possibilities too with a wrap being far from out of the question. Likewise, UTG will show up with a wrap or OESD+non-nut FD fairly often as well. I'd say that roughly, it breaks down something like this:Axxx is good, flush draw is live: 2%Axxx is good, flush draw dead: 10%Two pair outs live, flush draw live: 13%Two pair outs live, flush draw not dead: 7%Two pair outs dead, flu

Was nipe1955 there? If so, you probably should have sat down anyway. He's the worst mid-to-high stakes player I've ever played with. 87/31/1.4 with a WTSD over 40, yet somehow he's still up in my database over 1400 hands.

Just wanted to let you guys know that mid-to-high stakes PLO isn't all sugar plums and fairy dust. Or peaches and cream. Or whatever the hell the saying is. Here's my session tonight:

I'm guessing this is a level, but it sounds like OP is too new to the game to catch the "woe-is-me, I hate getting all-in because I always get sucked out on" meme that certain PLO players seem to follow. More serious advice is probably warranted here.Anyway, for a new player, I'd say that stacking off with middle set every time is just fine. As you become more experienced with hand-values and hand-reading in PLO, you'll occasionally find spots to dump middle set, but it's much more rare than say finding spots to get all-in with top pair and no draws (other than 2-pair draws). In raised pots wi

The main adjustment for cap is raising smaller/limping more preflop with hands that won't like a 3-bet, as if a big pair does get a 3-bet in, they'll usually be able to stick it on the flop unexploitably due to the smaller effective stack sizes. Also, if you're up against light raisers, your 3-betting range is going to be different, as the KKxx, AQQx type of hands become much better candidates for a reraise than the middle rundowns.

First off, I'd raise preflop. You've got a really solid hand to the point that you don't mind getting 3-bet at all. On the flop though, you definitely have to get it in against an unknown. Bottom set is a strong possibilty, and I see a lot of people push wraps when they have no FE too. HU in a raised pot, there's no way you should be dumping middle set readless.I do have a tendency to get in a little too light on dry boards though. In spots where I do have reads to know that I'm up against a reasonably passive opponent, I still have a hard time giving them credit for a set when the money's rel

Merby, what I'd do if I were you is go ahead and play some 1/2 now, but just game select really strictly when you do and leave 0.5/1 as your main game. Only play HU at 1/2 against players you recognize and know are fishy and if say you look for 50% to the flop as your minimum requirement to play a 6-max PLO game, then play 1/2 if there are 60% to the flop. Then in a couple weeks, you'll have maybe 10K hands at 0.5/1 and 2K hands at 1/2 and can make a more smooth transition if you decide you want to play an even split between the limits, leading to eventually maybe a 75/25 split the other way b

I don't get this. If you think that people are going to be spewing/overvaluing their hands and you're planning on countering them by playing nitty, why would you want to short-stack? It seems like you'd want to get paid off as much as possible when you hit. The only thing I can think of is that you're planning on pushing all your playable hands pre-draw.