Damn, I’ve really got to learn this game more (and finish translating those articles ^^). It’s sooo fishy
See for yourself:

100BB pots ftw!

And, hand of the day:

Party Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
9 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $29.47
Hero: $165.77
Button: $65.66

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is MP1 with 7♠ 8♠ T♦ 9♦
UTG calls, UTG+1 calls, Hero raises to $2.75, 2 folds, CO calls, Button calls, SB calls, BB folds, UTG calls, UTG+1 folds.

Flop: K♦ 5♥ 6♣ ($14.75, 5 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $10, CO folds, Button calls, SB calls, UTG raises all-in $26.72, Hero raises to $114.18, Button calls all-in $52.91, SB folds.
Uncalled bets: $51.27 returned to Hero.

Turn: 7♣ ($160.57, 1 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $104.91, Sidepot 1: $55.66)

River: Q♠ ($160.57, 1 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $104.91, Sidepot 1: $55.66)

Results:
Final pot: $160.57
Hero shows 7s 8s Td 9d
Button doesn’t show 5c 8h 3d 5d
UTG doesn’t show Jh 3h Ks Kc

which resulted in this, after a few dozen hands only:

OK, I got a little lucky there, but overall I didn’t play _too_ awfully. Coupled with my +150$ at NL100, I’m up almost 300$ today, for <2h of play. Not bad imo
BTW, Timor, if you come accross this, which limits do you play (PLO)?

I’m running so ridiculously hot at NL200 that, after 15k hands and a winrate of 9PTBB/100 (hourly winrate: 75$), I finally have the bankroll to move to NL400 again. Winning KK vs. AA, flushes over flushes, and from time to time not making the errors I used to make,  and then you get this. Hooray for me.

Hopefully I can stay there and not experience the downswing I had a couple of months ago when I just joined the NL400 tables. Only 1500$ and my bankroll is again at the level it was at it’s highest peak. Nice.

Or so it seems. I’m finally back at NL200, and it’s going pretty well, made about 5 stacks since last week which is pretty good I guess (3PTBB/100). I slightly adapted my FR game a bit. For instance, I’m almost never openlimping any pocketpair, am becoming pretty laggy in late position and am generally somewhat looser postflop than 4 months ago. This of course results in making some type of stupid move from time to time, but it really helps you to get paid off with your good hands too. After only a day or 10 most of the regulars already think I’m some crazy lucky bastard who habitually raises any suited connector or pocketpair from any position, where in truth I just try to pick my spots. I changed my PartyPoker nickname to a different one, so the guys I knew from before don’t know who I am now. I’m having fun again playing too, which is important. I must admit I had lost the fun sometimes in the past.

Back to diamond again too, which is about time. For the last 2 days, my status was apparantly set permanently to platinum in the user db (though I had “-350 points necessary for diamond” 2 days in a row), very strange. Cheating PS was holding me back all this time

Anyway, my bankroll is up to 6700$ again, and I’m hoping to achieve that 10000$ mark pretty soon, then I’ll finally be where I was at my highest peak 3 months ago.

Play well y’all, and until next time.

It was a Friday evening at the GMT+1 timezone. After the great battle for small stakes at a luck-based game called “horse” it was time for a real clash. A game of math, psychology, and balls, based on skill rather then luck; NLHE heads up.

A swiss NL100 player decided he was up for it. He would take on the s&g player helemaalnicks, who refers to himself as the “HU champion”, or “me”. Playing 500 HU games a month on avg., this should be a piece of cake for me. It all started with swissmoumout giving me free money from the sb. This nice gesture made me take the chiplead, until I tried a dumb riverbluff. I should’ve known not to bluff against this passive guy, but I still did. He even called with ace high oop at some point, so that was when I knew I needed to valuebet more, and play atc in position, because that is by far the easiest way to beat a passive player.

There weren’t that many hands worth mentioning, since most hands didn’t make it to showdown. I did get great value out of my 53s monster with which i turned a flush, and valuebetted the river. One of the last hands was AK vs KT, where swissmoumout raised with AK to 3bb, and I decided to call. The flop came Qrag rag with two hearts, and that was good enough to semibluff a c/r all in for me. The last hand was a coinflip, AQs vs. 55, if swissmoumout wouldve won, he would’ve got his starting stack back, but an ace and a queen on the flop made me a rich man, and won me this battle for many millions of (Zimbabwean) dollars.

Today, I tried my first real game of PLO. As a modest start, I played the lowest 25$ buy in. So I watched a video, read an internet article or 2, and then decided I was ready to go pound on some Partypoker 25$ “regulars”. I decided to be playing mostly on feel, because my Omaha game is pretty foundationless.

After 2 hours, I quitted with a nice 4 buyins profit. Granted, some luck now and then, but level of play of some people is just atrocious. Gotta love donkfests :D. Basically, just play tight and only go all the way with a hand that’s (close to) the nuts or has plenty of redraws, and little can go wrong except for variance.

So after I made a nice acquaintance, I decided I’m going play this lesser known variant of Holdem in the future a bit more. I ordered “Pot-Limit Omaha Poker” by Jeff Hwang yesterday, and I hope I can pick up some solid theoretical and practical foundation from it. I’m not going to neglect NL of course, but it’s about time that I get a hang of this Omaha thing too. I think there’s far more fish potential than NL.

Other books I ordered:

- “Read’em and Reap: A career FBI agent’s guide to decoding poker tells” by Joe Navarro. I bought this one because I’m probably going to play livegames in the Brussels casino shortly. They announced some low stakes (1/2) to be coming in the near future, and since I’m not very used to live play (except of course for the weekly NL10 game we have with friends here, but you can hardly call that “experience”), I think it can come in handy. The book received some good reviews, and some consider it even better than Caro’s book of poker tells.

- Harrington on Cashgames vol. 1 & 2. I’m not expecting it to open up a whole new world for me, but I guess there will still be plenty of useful stuff in it to repay itself over time. I don’t know whether Harrington is that good in cash games, but he’d better be

Play well at the tables, and feel free to join some PLO games on Partypoker. You won’t regret it, unless I’m at the table too, of course