A nice cashout and an important new book

Well following on from my recent blog on PLO, I had a great day on that 2nd deposit I made and resulted in cashing out $180 from my $50 deposit. As I'm not going to be able to play for a few days due to working night shifts at work I'm cashing that out but will be back for more in the next week or so.

Today I had the pleasant surprise of receiving a new book in the post "Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand At A Time". I picked up on this mentioned on a few forums and it's got rave reviews, mostly from the internet poker community as per it's author's roots.

Written by Eric 'Rizen' Lynch, Joe 'Apestyles' Van Fleet and Jon 'Pearljammer' Turner all 3 of which have made $millions from smashing online tournaments I think this could be the next "Harrington on Hold'em" but for the Internet player. I'll be sure to write a review as soon I've finished it and let you know just how good it is.


Matt

Adventures in PLO

Well after depositing $50 into Stars yesterday, I've been 2 tabling some $0.05/$0.10 PLO on 6-max and running nicely.

At the time of writing i am up to $110 and have a $32 bonus about to unlock also. I'm playing alot tigher and less agressive pre-flop but pushing my draws hard, check calling rivers with some marginal stuff that is getting through so i'm quite pleased with not only how i'm playing but also how i'm running.

I'm starting to appreciate more and more the importance of position in PLO and not just necesarily having it, but knowing how to abuse someone who has a predictable range when they are in position.

Hopefully this can continue and see how we can build on this good start!

Matt

Getting back into Online Mode...

Hi folks,

Been a while since I blogged, mainly as I hadn't the time to play of late. I changed job in August and since then things have been hectic and i've been somewhat short of change for poker. So I had my first dabble on PokerStars for a while, I had a few days off work so put in $60 to have a crack on some small stakes PLO which has usually been kind to me in the past, sadly not the case this time.

At first things went well, I grinded it up to $100+ without winning any big pots of note but then proceeded to grind down and down. I was basically losing every all-in scenario I was coming across, every time I had a monster draw I missed, everytime I had a made hand and got the money I lost so after spending a day or so sitting on a profit and then 2-3 days breaking even by the 4th-5th day I was busto. Hardly upset as it's small change and it kept me busy but was disappointing when you play reasonably well and nothing goes your way.

One thing it did teach me about my PLO style (which I often thought was solid) was that I have a tendency to bet weak hands for value far too much. Now this is a generally the hallmark of a great cash-game player in Hold'em, when you bet your waffer thin holdings for value against extremely marginal holdings, however this bites you often in PLO, betting your weak flushes/non-straights or low 2 pair combo's when people are checking down weak seems to have cost me alot during that spell, I think now is best to more often allow it to check down and if I think I'm ahead perhaps be prepared to check/call the river if someone decides top throw out a small bet.

I'm redepositing today in hope the weekend will offer some weaker opponents and perhaps earn enough money to play a Sunday Million Satellite, however if won I'll just cash that token for some much needed $'s.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekends wherever you are playing and I hope everyone will join me in wishing Bernie "The Bulldog" Smith a speedy recovery after he suffered a heart attack during the weekend, you couldn't hope to meet a nicer guy at the tables and I hope he comes through OK.

Matt