I’ve decided to take a break from hold em for awhile and play strictly PLO. My goal is to start at 200PLO and move up when I’ve made 30 buyins cts style.
Lately I just kinda feel that NLH 6max is pretty much a solved game and the edge at 5/10+ is not that big. Odds are at your average table there are 4+ other regulars who pretty much know what they’re doing and while they do make some exploitable mistakes they’re not that big of ones and I just feel like I sit around all day waiting to get that AA vs AK all in preflop vs the regs and not get sucked out on. I’ve also been running/playing pretty poorly vs the really loose passive fish who never fold. I seem to get frustrated with not having hands when they open or limp and I’m just isolating them too weak and hopelessly trying to bluff them off bottom pair. It’s really damn frustrating to get called down with 44 on a K67 flop when I have some Q9 garbage or whatev I’m bluffing with. Lots of hands like these too where they call my 3 bets oop with such garbage I can’t hit my draw(or pair) to save my life. The obv adjustment is to just not cbet without hands but when you can’t hit any flops it becomes extremely frustrating/tilting.
Here’s a 2+2 which pretty much sums up my thoughts on holdem atm thread
I dunno, I just kinda feel like my NLH 6max game has kinda peaked and while I there’s still room for improvement in tilt control and playing better vs the fish, I just never seem to get in any kind of interesting pots anymore and I just kinda grind away waiting for run good to happen so I can make $$.
In PLO I think there is a lot more room for improvement and the winrates can be much higher. I think a good 2/4 PLO player could probably be able to make almost as much as a 5/10 NLH player. There also seems to be a lot of big PLO games running, more than hold em even, so it’s not like there’s not action at the higher games. So anyways that is the gameplan for now, I’ll try to update in the coming days with my progress.
make sure you click on the thumbnails, all of them are pretty good
http://tastybooze.com/2008/04/why-you-dont-take-your-kids-to-the-zoo/