Running bad in PLO, so going back to NLHE

I have been running awful in PLO. Losing a few buy-ins is expected and is not a big deal, but the stakes I play at make a dent in my bankroll. So I'm going to step away from this swingy game for a while, play Hold'em as much as I can and rebuild.

Running bad @#$^@$%&. Hopefully I was able to come back strong afterwards.

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Running good!!!

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Put him on the Ace and got paid off as much as I could obviously. He said that was a very very nice call afterwards, thought I am not sure he really meant it.

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This hand happened not long after to seal up my NLHE cash session.
I went from $25 to maybe $15 at my lowest and back up to $34 with the hand above.
I was actually thinking of sitting out but got rewarded handsomely with this hand against the same opponent (poor guy). Anyways, a very good +$45 to offset my huge PLO losses.

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ronee

A few hands of SNGs, NLHE and PLO cash.

The good read, wrong result.
I had to go with it because the blinds just went up to 150/300 and had I folded I would have had only 4 BBs left so, here's to Chris Ferguson. Too bad he caught me on the river.

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Loosening up early.
I swear, honest, before the flop I told myself that it's been a long time since I flopped a monster and how cool it would be to have a AQJ flop.

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Sick, sick hand I tell ya.

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Not what I was hoping for but it works. I kind of knew I was beat and somewhat expected him to show AK but I had a bunch of outs to save my ass.

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OH MY F***ING GOD. And I highly doubt that shoving the flop/turn would have made any difference.

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Instant off-tilt from this hand. I jumped into this game just to recoup my losses from a previous NLHE cash game session where I had AK and called every bet on a TTT88 board and he showed 99. I think I played this PLO hand perfect, but don't pay attention to the stupid river bet, I misclicked lol. What's funnier it's that, that was the first hand I was dealt!

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ronee

NLHE cash tryout and back to SNGs (FTW)

Won a buy-in with this hand right there.
I went from the worst feeling in the world to being on top of it. I was putting him on TT+ or AK that completely missed, but he had the guts I guess.

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I also went back to SNGs with a lot of success so far. I played 5 18-mans and had finishes of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 11th and 18th (ok, ok, we both flopped sets on the first hand...)

This hand closed an amazing run. I went from 250 left four-handed to maybe 7k three-handed, incredible. This included pocket fives holding up against two other players.

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Guess what??? I then WON that SNG outright! I still can't believe I came back with less than a big blind in four-handed play. This was the second hand in the heads-up match, weird call on his part. But considering I raised half my stack on the button on the first hand, he probably thought I was bullying.

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ronee

PS: bankroll going in the right direction since I started playing SNGs again....coincidence? I think nooootttt!

I suck at cash games and should go back to tourneys methinks XD

That hand could have been disaster for me, thank god he raised the flop.

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Bad turn card and I got pwned pretty bad.

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Now to some SNG hands. I got BINK there. I stole/shoved him from my SB a few times and he obviously called light and I found gold.

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The hand of the tournament....but what a call from the chip leader, such an easy laydown for him imo.

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sigh, as standard a bustout as it gets heads-up, what can I say?
Heads-up went back and forth and unfortunately I could not secure my first SNG win in a loooong time.

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On a side note I finally won my first 70 FPP SNG qualifier for the Sunday Hundred Grand (played maybe 8-10 of these in the past) which I am obviously not gonna play because I don't have time. So I unregistered and got the T$11 woot. I am now debating if I should just put them all in a single SNG to try and cash :D

ronee

Escaped PLO session up a little

I entered a $0.25/$0.50 table on Stars and quickly lost most of my buy-in with this hand.
To be fair I completely misplayed my hand and i realize that now.
I don't know what I was afraid of but I didn't bet or didn't bet aggressive enough to get him off his draw.

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I reloaded not long after and was able to double my stack against this donk.

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I escaped not so long after with a slight profit which suits me perfectly fine.

That puts me pretty much even for the day since I played a bunch of SNGs and well and didn't cash, especially the 180s where I ran atrociously. In short NLHE has been completely card dead for me and PLO a little better.

ronee

Building my online roll again

If you read forums on the internet a lot of micro stakes players ask what tourneys they should play to build their rolls, most of them oscillate between $50 and $300 to start with. The most common answer I found is that the $2 Turbo 180 and $4 180 on Stars are very soft and very donkish, thus the best place to start.

So I gave the $2 Turbo 180 a shot this morning even though I hate Turbos because of the shovefest nature of it all. But hopefully you can get lucky, catch some cards and survive long enough to cash, because the final table is where poker is actually played.

To the hands:

You can't teach that! QUACK QUACK!

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I am a huge luckbox on the bubble...But to be fair it was maybe a little worse than a coin flip preflop so, standard.

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There was one instance where i had 77 on the BB with a MP raiser who raised 3xBB to 3k. Too bad I only had like 8k at that time, i would have loved to call, or even push but felt like I could wait some more since we were very very close to the bubble. Unfortunately I didn't get any more hands after that and exited in 13th for a minimal cash....grrrr final table is where the cash starts to go up.

Anyways, it was fun and I will most likely play those again, if I can get lucky maybe I can make a little who knows?

ronee

An offer I could not refuse

I could not quite keep my promise of not playing for the rest of the week.
A friend messaged me and told me about a game at his friend's house for a $5 BI so I immediately said yes! I am so freaking weak.

Anyways it was only the 6 of us and I have never met any of the other guys, so no knowledge of their play whatsoever.
I was happy to learn that all of them (save for my friend) were all pretty new to the game so that gave us an edge from the get go.
The flow of the game was pretty much the same as all the other live games I've played so far. A lot of light limping, calling and pretty much no raising at all, to the point where it felt I was just playing Limit Hold'em. I probably only saw less than 10 raises preflop (except from preflop shoves).

The buy-in was $5 and the prizes were $15, $10, and $5 for the first 3.
We had the not-so-clever idea of doubling the blinds for each 15mins levels, and I knew from the start it would not be a good idea.
Basically we started at 1k/2k with about 400k stacks each (yes the chip numering ranged from 500 to 25k).
We went at it for more than an hour and ended with 128k/256k blinds LOL.
And I am telling you this because I went heads-up with one guy and won. To the hands:

- We have a paired board of A8xxx and the two players in the hand show AA and 88 on the river for two full houses and AA doubles up, sick.

- SS shoves me T4 blind and I wake up with KK to bust him.

- I have T4 in the SB and BB only has 2.5BB left so I push and he calls with Kx and flops a King. He would up doubling up a few times again to challenge me heads-up.

- I have 85 and flop is 448 and I shove, he folds.

- He doesn't have much left and I shove A7 and he calls with 66. Flop comes an amazing 6x7.
I am ready to give him my chips (would have made us even stacks) but the cards come running clubs to put four clubs on board and I show Ac obviously LOL. Victory!

We then played another game and nothing came up really. I won a few big pots to grab the chip lead early and blinded out the rest of the way to go out in 5th.
I shoved Kc5c and got called by AhKh and bricked. Well it was already 6pm by that time and I was UTG at 30k/60k with just 270k left. I swear if it was not that late (had to pick up my girlfriend for dinner) I would have waited for a better spot to push. But I did it anyway and got punished, but good thing AK was my friend and he grabbed the lead with my chips so hopefully he won. ;)

I was also pretty happy with the read I put on my friend in this one play. He raised preflop and got heads-up with some other guy on a J-high board. They both pushed and his opponent showed a weak Jack for top pair. I told my friend "show me your pocket Queens"....and he did lol. Too bad reads aren't worth chips :D.

I am up $5 for the night and I am happy with my play.
Overall I nice group of guys and a very relaxed atmosphere, I am very happy I made the trip there.

ronee

EDIT: Got an update from my friend and it turns out he won the last game pretty handily, congrats to him!