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June 20 2008

too bad i'm stubborn

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I love omaha way too much, and after playing that, find the grind of holdem pretty boring. not to say omaha isn't a grind, but it is also much more profitable (tho my results say otherwise =P).

I know I can play this game. My main problem is tilt control, discipline, and work ethic. When I lose big pots sometimes, I go on major tilt and lose 10 buyins. This happened just 2 days ago. Sucks. Doesn't help that I ran shitty either lol. Seems liek whenever I go on tilt, I lose every 60/40 i put myself in haha.

Work ethic wise, I'm terrible. I should be watching videos more regularly, etc. Discipline wise, I need to stop doing dumb shit. Like say I 3bet preflop with KKJT ds and get 4bet.... well this is an easy fold against anyone playing PLO25. This is always AAxx, and I'm a dog, esp. if he has some of my suits. Yet I will call anyways and try to spike a K or flush draw, and even if I have a flush draw, I'm still only 40/60 when the money goes in. It's just dumb, yet I still do it.

Or I will 3bet with A976 ds, and get 4bet, and should obv to fold to AAxx because him having 2 of my outs puts me in horrible shape. I'm better off calling here with K976 ds, but I call anyways to try and spike a straight. Just dumb stuff lik ethat becuase I get bored easily.

I've looked at the biggest winners in my database, and over 1500-3k hands, the biggest winners are easily winning like 15+ bb/100 hands, some even up to 30 (yah sample size, bla bla). Most of these players are playing a simple 20/10 TAG game, and looking throuhg one of these winner's showdown hands today, I realized how simple the game he's playing is, and I started doing this tonight (after playing dumb), and I think this is a smart idea. I mean I've been trying this for a while, but my tilt causes me to leave doing 20/10. I need to stick to this no matter what. Also I realized I was betting the turn way too much as bluffs, and getting called light, or getting check raised whens ome draw hit. I def. need to check the turn more, I mean they are going to catch up 20% of the time if they'r enot ahead already, but I feel long term it is +ev to check more turns when some obvious draw hit. It's tough in PLO, because if a flush AND straight card hits the turn and riv and villain bets, you basically gotta trust your read.

I've also seen a player, who destroys PLO25 while playing like 55/35 or something. He's a 2+2er, and actually complimeneted my via PM saying that he thinks my posts are good, and that he thinks I'm a solid player. The fact that he crushes 55/35 amazes me, as he focuses on 1-3 tables at a time and I think hand reads extremely well. That being said, I don't think you can do that while 6-10-tabling obviously, but I think a 20/10 style will be good for 6-10 tabling.

I do realize though that I will eventually need to learn to play like a 40/20 game if I ever want to move up to the higher aggressive games, but I feel like grinding 20/10 at PLO25 and PLO50 will be very important for me to improve my fundamentals and basic understanding of the game, while building my roll.

I just need to learn to find the fold button more! Gotta stop calling 3bets with 3576 ss hoping to flop a straight, it's just dumb. Their 3bet ranges aren't nearly wide enough for me to bluff shove safe looking flops against their AA, etc. etc.

Anyways, hopefully I stay disciplined. Prob. going to focus on 6-tables max, as I feel most comfortable there now I think.

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