Raking it on iPoker

Recent adventures in PLO have been swongy to say the least. Dispite my relatively poor on Full Tilt I worked my balance back to break even, got my $100 bouns for testing the new client and decided to cash out. Now this wasn't a full retreat, but more of a tactical one. The reason being I'd received an email a few days ago from a website I'd signed up with many agos called 'Rakeback Check'.

They kindly informed me that as CelebPoker was moving to the iPoker network (story as featured at UKpokerinfo.co.uk) they would honour any new account sign ups that registered with them on the boss network which allows 30% rakeback and the new account would inherit your rakeback status upon migration. So this was too an opportunity to miss, iPoker doesn't normally allow rakeback and the PLO game is considerably softer on iPoker, so it seemed like a great deal.

So I played a couple of sessions so far on iPoker with CelebPoker and it hasn't really gone to plan, the first night I played I think I churned out about 500 hands just to reaccquaint myself with the software and finished up a couple of buy-ins, but then the following night I played and really didn't do myself any favours. To be honest a couple of times I got the money in very far ahead and got rattled on the river, shit happens. But I think turned me in ultra aggressive mode, something I blame on the new book I'm reading, Jeff Hwang's Advanced Pot Limit Omaha which unlike the Slotboom book focusses more on short handed games but encourages a very aggressive game.

To be fair in the large part his tactics worked, anytime someone doesn't bet pot, call and then pot bet the next street and it's impressive how often they fold. Sadly that I took this a little bit too much to heart and on more than one occassion I bluffed a stuck into the nuts LOL. Oh well, we live and learn and I've got to make further adjustments in my game in order to successfully going from a tighter full ring game style to a loose-aggressive short handed one. But I'm hoping with rakeback as a fall-back if I can survive the short term swongs than the long term looks quite rosey.

Ciao for now.