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Well, in April I have 37,000 VPP for 98 hrs (~24 hrs. a week) with a 4.37 MT ratio averaging 312 hands/hr.BTW, very nice graph Jordan. 30K profit with only one 5K+ downswing is awesome.

Just secured Supernova through February of 2009 today. Pretty easy to earn FPPs playing mid-stakes PLO.

I'm actually getting staked ATM to play higher games so I don't have to worry about it. I'm playing the different limits mainly for game selection, but it does get a little distracting at times trying keep track of whether I'm playing a 100 BB pot or a 250 BB pot.

I'm playing 2/4 through 5/10 PLO right now. Was playing just 6-max for a while and then just a couple days ago, I decided to switch back to playing mostly HU.What stakes are you playing mikey? That graph looks delicious.

I suppose theoretically, there would be a chip stack where you shouldn't take the add-on, but the practical answer is in an online tournament where you're getting 1.3x the chips for the same amount as the initial buy-in, you should always always take it. Don't think about what your initial investment was, think about how much equity those chips will gain you. In a $20 BI tourney, if you've gone from 1500 chips to 24000 chips, you probably have about $300 in equity. For another $20, you can get another 2000 chips which will give you ~$25 more in equity.In order for your tournament equity to sta

Yes, much better; LOL. I like that you left a couple remnants of the original graph to contrast with the average winrate. It's not normal in the sense that this is a much swingier month than average for me, but it's normal in the sense that you're going to run into something like this every now and then and it's not a huge anamoly. Also, at lower stakes, the games are so soft that you can average a big enough winrate that the variance won't bother you too much. The 10.7 PTBB/100 I averaged at 0.5/1 and below led to a lot smaller downswings than the 2.2 PTBB/100 winrate I've been averaging at

PLO is a good low-variance way to make money IMO. Look at my smooth upward line this month:

If you mean passing up a 52/48 flop shove against a maniac, because you think you can make more on that hand by flat-calling, then fine, but if you're saying that taking 52/48 flips a BI at a time is something negative rather than something positive, I vehemently disagree. I make a lot of shoves/calls with about a 1% edge and I really can't imagine that thinking consciously about reducing variance while playing PLO is a good idea.As far as HU PLO goes, I'm probably not the best mentor right now. I've been playing 6-max and FR exclusively for the last month so my HU game's probably pretty rusty

Wow, that's a donk-tardedly bad line. When I see people take a line like this, I usually assume that they must have just not thought it out at all and just came up with it on the fly, but you really think this might be OK, even after having time to think about it?The fact is that you have a huge hand on the flop. This is the time when you need to either lead or check/raise while you still have fold equity and where a made hand won't be able to get away if you hit your draw. By the time you get to the turn, you've lost all your fold equity and you're just allowing villain to get all his money i

Oh BTW, you definitely don't want to fold preflop here OTB against two uber-donks.

Calling with the intention of folding a blank turn is really bad as you only have 7 outs on the flop and are getting much worse odds there than you will be on the turn push.You need to decide just how donkish these players are. If you think they're stupid and splashy and could have something like two pair from one guy and a wrap from the other, then you can call down to try to keep both of them in. If you're really convinced that MP has the straight though, you should just fold the flop.

FWIW, I've played over 200K hands on Stars in the last year, and I'm not sure if I can remember ever folding the nut straight. I folded quads once when I was against a straight flush but I still haven't found a spot where the nut straight wasn't worth at least a call.Oh, and to OP, this site might be for you:http://www.imawhinylittlebitchwhocanthandlevariance.com

You definitely don't want to get in the habit of only betting or only check/raising with certain hands. If you do, it's very exploitable.In general, you want to check/raise in a position where you think someone's going to bet regardless of whether they hit a decent hand or not (i.e. heads-up pot against reasonably aggressive player, dry board in a three way-pot against a very aggressive player) and lead the rest of the time.

ZOMG, you guys are worse than 2+2. NIT CITY! Seriously, this forum's dying without me and Simo around.First off, you check behind the flop on drawy boards when you flop bottom set? I can't even describe how bad that is. This is a situation where you absolutely have to bet. When you do get called, you're usually about a 60/40 favorite, but if you leave it multiway, people will hit on you a lot. Even hands that would insta-fold to a bet usually have outs. Also, you want to get money in against draws before the board pairs because if it does, it will kill your action.Then, the turn is a shove AIN

I had a 48 BI downswing at PLO cash in January. I maybe wasn't on my absolute 'A' game but I was definitely playing winning poker. I think downswings that large are a lot rarer in hold'em, but I really doubt it's impossible for a winning player to have one, especially with a high-variance style.

Haven't been posting much here lately, so I thought I'd check in quick. Anyway, things are going well/according to plan. I started adding in some 5/10 tables about a week ago and I've found the 5/10 games to be just as soft as the smaller ones although my concentration's been suffering a little bit lately at 2/4 as it feels really small all of a sudden.Anyway, for the month thus far, I've put in 12,700 hands and I'm up $14,900 gross before splitting it with my staker so I'm doing as well as can be expected. The breakdown is as follows:5/10: +12 BI (2200 hands)3/6: +10 BI (3100 hands)2/4: -7 BI

March goals: Hit the high-end goal here, just barely. Was up a lot more for a while as shown in this graph, but I still have to be very happy with how the month went, especially since it was a short month as we didn't get started until the 12th. Didn't make this one. Even with the hands I played on my own prior to the stake, I only got 25K hands. Still, I can't be too upset though. I missed a few days trying to get everything coordinated and really, I've never had much of a problem getting hands in anyway. My real problem has been getting sloppy and playing bad when I can't get away from the

Haven't checked this thread in a few days. Wasn't expecting a dramabomb. Adam, I certainly wasn't trying to say the whole interview was bad. For a secondary segment, I thought that you had quite a bit prepared and asked a lot of open-ended questions that basically just gave me a chance to talk. I think that you do a very good job with the Pokercast all things considered. If you reread my comment a few pages back, what I said was: Those two sentences are the sum total of everything negative I had to say about the interview and they were all about that one question. And really it was my handl

Unless there's a super-short stack like say 10 BB; I'll almost always raise KQJx on the button.

Actually, I really wasn't committed to a fold yet. If he bets 1/2 pot on the turn, I probably call down thinking A4 is still a decent possibility and just content myself with saving a few bucks. It was the PSB that put me over the top as he's basically bluffing or has an overboat, and there's no hand he calls the flop with that can be bluffing now.The 3-way thing's not automatic though as this hand from tonight illustrates:PokerStars Pot-Limit Omaha High, $4 BB (6 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver Cards)SB ($128.65)BB ($1265.40)UTG ($104.15)MP ($9

Don't worry, if you're beating the game solidly, you usually won't have worse than 50K or 60K hands breakeven stretches. :)Oh, BTW, cha cha cha. Even getting halfsies, this is a pretty nice graph:

I'd make it $20 on the river. I think this is a flush that missed a C/R on the turn a lot (maybe even the nut flush) and I don't think he gets away from a flush for anything but a PSB. If you go with the weak lead, you're going to get raised by air very infrequently as you actually look reasonably strong when you give up the free showdown.

Yeah, I think it's the right play. Just saying that it's not easy to make the check/fold in the heat of the moment without getting some more money in somewhere, and it's kind of a contrast to all the super-light calls I was making the rest of the night.

I'm such a nit on paired boards. It's funny because I can't lay down top pair with a BDFD on a regular drawy board, but then I do this when the board is paired:POKERSTARS GAME #16159120983: OMAHA POT LIMIT ($2/$4) - 2008/03/22 - 05:29:55 (ET)Table 'Devosa V' 6-max Seat #2 is the buttonSeat 1: TheMailbox ($300 in chips) Seat 2: mjohnson40 ($414.60 in chips) Seat 3: packincash ($102.65 in chips) Seat 4: iggymcfly ($761.10 in chips) Seat 5: TheWombat ($768.35 in chips) Seat 6: Lovejoy ($717.45 in chips) packincash: posts small blind $2iggymcfly: posts big blind $4TheMailbox: posts big blind $4**

It is a weird question and it caught me off guard somewhat, but I think what I said in the interview is basically true. For beginning players, the flop's the most important as it sets up the whole hand and if you regularly play it badly, you're going to be in a lot of hopeless spots where you can't make money. But as the players get better and more experienced, they start to get the PF, flop, and turn play all down fairly well, and it's the river where you can make thin calls based on your reads, adjust your bluff frequencies to your opponents on different boards, and occasionally make a big b