Story of a $12k pot

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4230649

Unfortunately it didn’t go my way, but such is poker. It didn’t even really tilt me that bad I just kinda said, well biggest pot of my life, that was fun, reloaded and kept playing. I’ve been doing decently in the 5/10 plo games this month but they have been very, very swingy. I’ve had multiple plus or minus $7k days. The past two days I don’t think I’ve been playing that great and I may play some 2/4 tomorrow to get some confidence back.

The fact that Pokertracker Omaha won’t import ante games tilts me more than anything though. It’s really frustrating to not have any idea how much I’m up/down and only a rough guesstimate. It may be good for me in the long run I suppose as it may force me to go get HEM finally and stop holding out like a dinosaur but whatever I’m really not looking forward to setting that up how I want. I remember setting up PT3 over the course of like 2 days and I only used it for a couple sessions before deciding I hated it.

If you haven’t heard about PokerCurious.com yet you should check it out. It compiles all sorts of poker related data together and puts it all in one place for you. I talk with Zimba (the creator of the site) from time to time and he’s a really great guy who’s been working hard on the site for months so I’m trying to show my support!

I listened to the recent DeucePlays podcast with Andrew Robl and thought it was pretty good but Bart Hansen was pretty out of line for the first 10 minutes or so of the interview imo. It’s pretty damn impolite to ask your interviewee why he got it in bad for a $200k pot and basically berate him for it for a good 10 mins about it. Other than that it’s pretty interesting.

Towards the end of it Bart asks Andrew if he’s interested in learning other games like 8-game mix on stars. It kinda got me thinking about whether I want to too. I feel like I’m becoming a pretty decent plo player and consider myself pretty decent at NLH, but learning six new games just seems like such a momentous task that it seems almost unattainable. Also, I’m not sure if it’s even worth it. I really wonder what a guy like Boosted J’s hourly one tabling the $400/$800 8 game is. I don’t really know. I’m also not really sure if there’s ever going to be any huge HORSE boom with people flocking to play limit/stud games. It is interesting to think about though and maybe I’ll start playing a few k hands a month of low limit stud/o8/2-7 whatever just to see how I like it. I know stinger made a mil playing plo way before it was the cool thing to and dabbling in the other games now before lots of people start learning them may be the time to do it. At least something to consider I think.