*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...