So yesterday I had my best poker day ever. I played 1776 hands, and won $153.70, running at 17.3 ptbb/100 hands. Feels good to be on the other side of variance this time!!!

Here are some big hands I played:

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I really butchered this hand. I had no info on this guy, except that he was like 76/43 and super aggressive, and a marginal losing player. I called the flop to see a safer turn, but also as a trap, because he was aggro, he would not believe I flat called the flop with the nuts. Turn is ugh, but when he checks I have to bet my 2nd nuts cuz of all the draws, and he SNAP shoves. Normally against a tighter player, this is an easy fold, but he was super aggro, and spewy, that I wasn't really sure what to do here. I mean, against a double flush draw I'm only like 55-60% to win, and he has me crushed with the nut straight... I'm getting about 2:1 on my money though...... so I don't think it's a terrible call with the read I had, but it's pretty marginal.

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I mean most of hte time villain has the other AAxx, but the few times he doesn't and is spazzing out like this guy, is why you should always get it all in with decent AAxx preflop for 100bb. Unfortunatlely he sucks out.

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This guy was an absolutely dokey fish, and I put him on this EXACT type of hand. I mean this isusually a fold from me, but I put him on a QJxx type of hand, which is why I raise/called for 80bb. He sucks out too =/

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The more I think about it, the more I think this is super standard. His weak flop bet, combined with his strong turn bet indicated to me that he had a set a lot of the time. That being said, I think if I raise here, he folds his set a lot of the time, or I get shoved over by the nuts. Also if the board pairs, and my read is correct, he ships me the money a lot of the time. When he instapots the river, I felt it was like either missed spades, or a set trying to go for way too much value because my line screams non-nuts (before the river), or he is outright bluffing because my line screams non-nuts. So on the river, I really felt that hte only hand that beats me is the back door nut straight, because I also think with marginal hands like sets and the low straight, he would have at least thought about it before potting the river. So I only need to be 33% right here, getting 2:1, so I called. Unfortunately he rivered the straight =/

And now onto some hands I won..

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I think flop is pretty standard after the shorty shoves, but def. rang good in this one as the flop better had a monster vs my hand.

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One of the reasons I like not 3betting AAxx preflop.... people do stupid things because they don't believe you can have it. Oh and I guess this guy was a fish too.

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Against the QJxx fish..... lol at him thnking double suited KKxx is that good vs AAxx. It's not awful, but why would you want to get your money in behind

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Man this guy's play is god awful. When I raise the flop, I either have a set, or big straight draw and/or flush draw. So when the turn pairs, and I bet/call his raise, I have a full house here like 95% of the time, and maybe I don't 5% of hte time hwen I am playing dumb. So his river shove is pretty awful. So is his turn check/raise.

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Got supperrr lucky in this one. I'm still not sure how to play in 3bet pots, because as you can imagine, you miss the flop a LOT of the time. I think this is def. a flop check, as he prob check/raises all his hands that have any type of draw or made hand, because he'll think I have AAxx a lot. I think 3betting preflop at this level (PLO25) is good against TAG regulars who raise too many hands, and of course 3betting AAxx ds from any position is good.

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I loveeeeeeeed the way I played thi shand. My 1/2 pot on the flop was to look like a weak steal from AAxx rags, and when he calls, I'm hoping he has a small flush "trying to trap" or play for pot control. On the turn, I INSTA-checked again, because he would never expect me to ck behind hte turn with a flush. Then when he checked the river, I potted it - either he has a hand he can call with, or he can't, so I might as well bet the maximum. My hand looks so weak, and what coudl I possibly be insta-cehcking the turn with and then hammering hte river with, but a bluff or monster? This was against the same guy who stacked me with the turned gut shot to the nuts, so it was nice to get some revenge.

I am really happy with my play over the last 8-10k hands, and am just dominating. Still a few leaks I need to fix, but I'm super happy with my recent progress. I feel like sticking to PLO is super +ev for the long term (or at least next 2 years). A lot of holdem players are switching to omaha without any decent fundamentals, so even they are sort of fish, which is good. Also, there are so few omaha resources, so the games are not tough, unlike holdem, which so many people know about, and can get decent at.

This is sort of like 2 years ago, when everyone sucked at holdem, but there were a few who were way above the rest because they really thoguht about the game. I think that's where omaha is now, and so I'm hoping to be one of those guys who takes advantage of getting into the game early.