Send It Back Baby!

I am thoroughly convinced that the best game to play (that is to say, the game that is the most +EV) is PL Omaha. I had moderate success on Pokerstars playing PLO, but I only saw maybe 400 hands and I played like a donk because my bankroll was getting so low. But now that I am playing on UltimateBet, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that the players on this site have no clue whatsoever as to how to play PLO correctly. I'm sure there are some real studs at the higher limits, but for the stakes I'm playing I am confident I can beat any 6-handed table on any given day.

There was an opponent I encountered today that checked 95% of the time when the action came to him. I saw him check down the nuts on every street multiple times, and he refused to bet with hands as strong as top set. It was unbelievable. Many other players, however, are trigger happy morons who can't wait to put their money in the pot with draws, whether they are dead or not. The majority, I've realized, are loose-passive, MAYBE LAG if they check-raise with the nuts. Overall, I think the people I'm playing against believe they are playing Hold'em, not Omaha. This works to my advantage in more ways than one- I can draw cheaply, and I get payed off when I make the nuts. It is such a simple game and I'm getting my money in good on a regular basis.

After the two horrendous beats earlier that cost me essentially 50 dollars, I got back on the horse later in the evening. In the first session I got up two buy-ins, then ran my second nut K-high flush into an opponent's A-high flush. It was tough to lay down simply because when I made my hand on the turn, I value bet and he just called. He potted the river and I should've known better, but its always tough to lay down the second nuts. They table broke soon after and I left up 7.00. I dropped a buy-in at my next table when my top-two and flush draw bricked out against top set, pretty standard PLO shit. But later on I went on a nice run and bullied the "Canada" and "Tokyo" tables and made three or four buy-ins. I am now up almost 30.00 on UB after a very short time. That is by no means a huge win, but I only played like 150 hands today and I got fucked with two horrible beats earlier, so my wins could've been so much more.

They key hand in my run was when I re-potted preflop in the SB with Ad-Ah-Jh-Td and got two callers. The flop came Qs-9c-Qd, and I moved in. The first guy took took forever and called, and so did the guy in LP, so I figured I was pretty much dead, after the overcall. But the turn came the dream card- the Kd, giving me broadway with the nut flush/royal flush draw. The river was some black brick like a 6, and when we showed it down, broadway was good. I'll take that 30.00+ pot any day.

Either way, I'm digging PLO on UltimateBet. You can expect me to play less and less Hold'em if my winning ways continue, but I still think NL Hold'em is my best game by far (I've been playing for upwards of 5 years now). Just for fun, I'll rank my top-five games in terms of what I think I'm best at (in my mind, anyway).

1. NL Hold'em
2. PL Omaha
3. 7-Card Stud
4. Razz
5. Limit Hold'em


P.S. Remember in my last post how I bitched about not having my hand history to format those beats into pokerhand.org? Well I found a program that saves my hand history to my hard drive, so hopefully that won't be an issue anymore.

-The Gerk-