This guy is sick

Been primarily playing PLO over the past several weeks and had been running alright until Tuesday where I had a -10bi day, which really sucked. I ran like absolute crap, but also compounded it by not making adjusting to the table dynamics. There were several 80/10's and 90/20's at every table and I approached them completely wrong. I've noticed that during the day, the tables are heavily populated with this type of player, consisting of mostly Scandanavians and other Euro's. While at night, the player pool is a bit tighter, mostly US players. Because of this, the optimal style of play changes. Unfortunately, I didn't make these adjustemtns quick enough. I think if I had, my downswing would have been nearly cut in half.

At night, pots are often HU or 3 handed which allows for a higher PFR, higher c-bet %, semibluffing and increased fold equity. A little more balance is necessary, like checking back made hands, FD's etc. and post flop aggression will generally be successful.
Where during the day, very few hands are HU and 4 handed+ is very common. Because of this, hands that typically have a lot of equity PF like AAXX, KKXX, QQBX, don't play nearly as well, so should not be played as fast. Of course there will be some exceptions, like the premiums(AAJTds, KKQTds, etc). Most of the general AA/KKXX hands have just a little lower equity multiway, but are often much harder to play. Unless I can get a large % of my stack in PF, I'm limping the majority. Most of the hands that make up my PFR% in this setting are mid to premium rundowns, hands like 6789ss/ds-TJQKss/ds, etc., because they are much easier to play and have great equity multiway, while often having redraws so you can play for stacks more comfortably. If I limp KKXX and flop a set, I'm going to get action, so balance isn't as critical. Granted some post-flop adjustments have to be made, because of position and board texture(like playing bare KKxx on a K56 twotone flop maybe a little slower), but generally it's a fit or fold situation so it's easy to play. There's little PF raising, so limping is pretty reasonable.

Kept getting interrupeted while typing that last part, so it may be a little less coherent than planned. Sorry. Saw a pretty good movie last night called Talk To Me, about D.C. radio DJ Petey Greene who was influential during the 60's and 70's, starring Don Cheadle. I don't think Don Cheadle has ever done a bad job in any movie, the guy is so underrated. It had a really great soundtrack as well. Had a few songs I hadn't heard in years. Here's one to enjoy:

Made a Vid

So I was messing around with CamStudio last week and spur of the moment decided to make a $50PLO8 6 max video. I had no real plan going in, as it was more of a test run, so it ended up being an off the cuff "ghost" video. It about 45 minutes long or so and I think it came out alright for my first attempt. It's basically me describing how I play, a bit about my thoughts on PLO8 at $50 and in general. There certainly may be things others disagree with, correctly or not, but I'm always interested in feedback, which I may agree with or may not.

*To clarify, this is not a Deucescracked video, just a video I made that is hosted by DC's servers
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The link is uploaded through the Deucescracked forums and is free to download. The link is here: MY 1st PLO8 video Once you open the link, just right click and save the file. I had trouble watching it with Windows Media Player, but it worked basically fine for me(1 sec delay) using the VLC Media player which can be downloaded for free here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ It's an AVI file, so whatever you have that reads those files should be fine. Again, any feedback is welcome, either on the DC or here.

I've been playing mostly PLO over the past week and I think I've started to actually grasp some important concepts and even more importantly been able to utilize them consistently. I hope to post some hands soon. Cya.

More sights and sounds

Haven't been playing much the past week as I'm just frustrated with poker. At least on Full Tilt where I've been running incredibly bad. All the 55/45's+ that are big allins, I've been losing. All the 55/45's+ that I've won have been of no consequence, like 3-5 blinds or some crap like that. Sigh. It's very demoralizing. So I've been focusing on other stuff like finding great beats on youtube, reading a bit, etc.



I may be a nerd, but I am so looking forward to this. I rarely go to the movies as there's little that I really look forward to, but I think this is going to be so awesome.