I should post more

...and track my sessions better.

I'm hovering around $600 now, but the dork in me is sad that I haven't kept an accurate record of the rises and falls.

After this session, I'll start my accurate spreadsheet tracking again, if not full on session-by session blogging.

This game is easy. Wait until you have the nuts both ways on the turn and get three people all in. Then watch the board pair and shake your head. Oh, well, 65% equity against three all-in opponents is pretty nice.

I love the guy at our table whining and pleading with everyone to stop raising preflop.

zappa: y does everyone rise before the flpo stupit play cmon peolpe
TheHouse72: "why raise before the flop?"
TheHouse72: you know you are in the presence of poker genius when someone asks that

I get quartered then sixthed on back-to-back hands, decimating my stack. I again do not understand the Marsh/Jase attitude of quartering not being something to fear, or some kind of rare occurance. In my experience, it happens all the fucking time at both 6 and 10 max, and reminds me why I used to play more PLO than PLO8.

My rakeback this month should be an all-time high with all the O8 chops.

Then my aces full is not the best aces full and that kills a buyin at .10/.20, under where I have been playing these days, but it's what was available. Rebuy.

Plenty of donks around to make you forget those beats in a hurry, though. He was ahead on the turn, but I like my equity here.

Happy day! Another sixthing, with A4 no less. Had the sense to call it down this time instead of making it expensive.

Wow, I decide to start blogging a session again and it turns into the worst session I've had since I started playing O8 regularly.

First, of course he catches a low when I've turned quads. Never fails. Poker gods never seem interested in punishing someone for calling off their stack for a draw to half the pot against me. 76% equity my ass.

....and, finally, my flopped nut low in a three-way all in is counterfeited for the humiliating $30 scoop to cap my worst O8 session ever. I'm going to skip the blogging next time.

And seriously considering going back to PLO for a while. Endless quartering, multiple sixthings, counterfeiting lows, and donks drawing to half the pot and hitting every single time have made for one intensely frustrating session.

$548.28

*tap tap tap* Is this thing on?

Well, consider that previous post to be my resignation from the Cake challenge. Which is to say, I've learned what I set out to learn about bankroll management, it has changed my perspective, and it's time to apply it to my actual bankroll and not pretend that $250 on cake is my entire bankroll.

I also want to give O8 my full attention for a while, because as much as I am not a ROTy player hand to hand, Jason's results cannot be ignored.

So, I've been playing lightly for about a month, two or three evenings a week for an hour or so, single table PLO8, either .10/.20 or .25/.50, which is a percentage of my roll I feel is appropriate until I have a better handle on the game.

My results have been good, although I'm also not going to be as detailed with my session-to-session accounting. I estimated about 500 hands, up about $165 since I started playing again.

I've had a lot of interesting hands, of course, but I just didn't have it in me to blog about them. Here are a couple from my session just now.

In the first one, I have 5-3-2h-Qh, six-handed in MP. Family limped pot, the flop is AJ6r. The blinds check, UTG bets pot. What's the play with nut low draw and nothing going high but a backdoor heart draw? Here's what happened.

I should have folded PF or on the flop, I think, but I had the sense to fold the turn at least. Jason and Marsh have said "quartering doesn't happen all the much," and I certainly don't have Jason's hand count, but I don't get that claim. Quartering seems to be extremely common, even at six handed. That was part of the reason I folded...not only was I only chasing half the pot at best, if it went mult-way all in, I was probably chasing a quarter of it. And I was.

Really, when the guy leads out for a pot bet on the flop, I have to assume he's going to follow with a pot bet on the turn that I can't really call, so why call the flop. And if I can't continue on that flop with that hand, then I shouldn't be playing that hand in the first place. Still looking for my discipline in this game.

The second hand was just an annnoying runner-runner low suckout for half the pot. It was a four-handed blind battle which is why I called the reraise. I figured I had about 80% equity when the money got in, here, and that turns out to be about right.

I don't know how often I'll be posting or how carefully I'll be tracking my results in my spreadsheet, but thought I'd at least shout out that I'm playing online again...