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AAroddersAA:
Good post as usual Paulie :-)
Flat calling with this hand on the button is perfectly OK but a 3-bet is better in my opinion. We can take the initiative in the pot and when he four bets we can near 100% define his hand and we can indeed be very sure he has aces. 4-bets are almost always AAxx especially when they are pot sized. We are still going to flop enough equity often enough to call. Having the betting lead and position in PLO is massive, much much more important than in unlimited holdem. So I can flop good and my hand is pretty disguised, again something that is much more common in this game. Also because I have position I can often represent something and take down a bigger pot than I would have if I had flat called. I actually think that preflop is fine. However I maybe should fold on the flop? But the pot odds are good, meh I got lucky. The flop is probably a fold but I was just thinking I have 13 outs which is incorrect. What do you think? Make sense? Load of nonsense :-)
I managed to lose $90 playing HU last night anyway, I was getting it in good but losing. Thats PLO for you though and I have run good recently so can"t complain. I am going to make a few posts in the Strategy section today. I keep saying I should contribute to that section but I never do. It"s a very under used part of the board imo. I am busy for the next two days so probably won"t play much poker. Will try and fit in a couple of the little 180 manners I like.
I have a few hands I do want to post but will stick them on the Strategy board to see how they go down over there.
Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on April 19, 2012, 07:34:17 AM ---
However I maybe should fold on the flop? But the pot odds are good, meh I got lucky. The flop is probably a fold but I was just thinking I have 13 outs which is incorrect. What do you think? Make sense? Load of nonsense :-)
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Even though you"re probably not favourite on the flop, I"d still play it much like you did.
The $5 lead into a $20 pot screams (to me) some weakness. Even though the non-AA player he had decent overs he clearly didn"t like the flop THAT much. Playing it cool with those odds and just flatting the flop bet is fine.
After that it plays itself and, as it happens, it worked out for you.
My "issue", if you will, was with the description of your hand as "super strong" or similar. It"s pretty but very vulnerable and incredibly flop dependent. Not that I wouldn"t play it (I"m looser than a whore"s drawers at PLO) but absent flopping the stone cold nuts, I play it somewhat slower than you did.
Different styles obviously.
I"m keen to see more of your posts in the Strategy section...it"s been lacking a bit recently.
AAroddersAA:
I just had the worst 24 hours of poker I think I have ever had. At the beginning of yesterday I had $600~ sat in my Pokerstar"s account. That is not down to $0 *lol*. I normally don"t even leave that much money on there and cash it into my poker account. That will be this month well and truly in negative figures then.
The thing is I am looking through the hands and I just can"t see I did much wrong. I was playing PLO HU which can be swingy at the best of times but 80% of the hands where I get the money in I am ahead, I just lose almost all of them. It started last night when I was playing a HU games again in which I dropped about $250. Two of those buyins were my fault but I am pretty confident I was not -EV in the game. After that I jumped into another game where I lost another $75. One of those was my own fault. So I was down $325 and probably should have called it a night but went on and played some more (I honestly thought I was playing pretty well). Then then managed to lose another $100 again mainly down to spots I could do nothing about I don"t think.
Decided to come back to it this morning and played a game against a player I know I have an edge on but every time I got it in with the best of it I was losing again. Strange game but never mind :-)
The thing I am slightly unhappy with is that normally I would have cashed the account down to $300 that way if anything happens to the account or I have a really bad day my liability is limited but I did not bother thinking I would do it at the end of the week.
I reloaded the account but probably best to give it a rest for today as I will end up tilted (although I don"t think that"s why I did badly). Just Skyped somebody about it and have been told it is fairly standard in those games and huge swings happen all the time anyway. A 24 Buy-in downswing is not fun though.
AAroddersAA:
Was bored last week and noticed that the SPT was coming to Cardiff. I tossed around the idea of playing it but just did not like the structure. If I am playing a £110 tournament I at least want to be able to have some room to play, that tournament does not give it to you.
After work on Friday I popped off to Les Croupiers anyway to see how the cash tables were playing. I thought that with the SPT there would be Sky Poker players and that should be +EV. I didn"t play that well, my seat was awful, and I should have got up a lot sooner than I did, I had a good local LAG to my Left and Darren Shallis to his left this is not a good spot and I was down to them both and probably should have been more so. The table was not as soft as I expected but still worth playing overall and I won £50, if I had been playing well it would have been more like £200 but I kept trying to invent spots that were not there. Live poker is simple, find a good hand and then keep betting until somebody raises. I was trying to make it as complex as possible when it is very easy.
Anyway after playing live for the first time since returning from Las Vegas last November and not being bored to death I am now probably ready to play a live tournament again, that SPT was such a poor structure though. I want to play a good structure, maybe I will find one in Swansea or Cardiff soon they don"t seem that common. Any suggestions?
MintTrav:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on May 01, 2012, 21:43:13 PM ---
I want to play a good structure, maybe I will find one in Swansea or Cardiff soon they don"t seem that common. Any suggestions?
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Here"s one I came across that you could try: http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11025.0
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