Thursday, April 23, 2009

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:

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