Saturday, 28 May 2011

Challenge donkey-PLO game

I just finished a half hour session of pot limit omaha at nano limit and I am bored out of my skull. The game followed the usual cash game pattern of absurd action followed by super tight nut-pedalling with a rotating cast of short stack donkeys coming and going. I discovered that 1. I have no concept of what a good hand is in PLO preflop and 2.My natural poker state is perma-fold when I am out of my depth, and that is no kind of money making scheme. Since the point of this weeked is to leave my comfort zone and try new poker experiences I have to ask the question "Did I learn anything that helps my game generally or is transferable to NLHE?' and the answer is probably no since it played very much like a cheap no limit cash game where the hand that gets the last raise in is the nuts even if the nuts is an inconceivable quads or daft KKK66 full house. The only positive benefit I can see to playing PLO is that it makes you think through the streets very carefully to see how the action fits the possible hand ranges, rather than jumping to a conclusion pre-flop such as 'he must have a big pair or AK' and then failing to admit to other possibilities when the turn and river cards alter the action.

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