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verneer's Blog

February 21 2012

Playing $25 PLO on Merge and the trend is pretty clear right now:

I know that 5K hands isn't a lot, but I just find myself in a lot of situations where I have no idea what to do (and often pay off better hands or get it in badly). This doesn't happen often in NLHE and just highlights my massive gaps in this game. I'm very motivated to learn it though, especially after reading Botafogo's "Top 10 Reasons to Switch to PLO from NLHE" on Nutblocker. Basically:

* Omaha is more complicated so players with better understanding will have a bigger edge.
* Lots of gamble, which is exciting for recreational players.
* More variance = bigger delusion of skill.
* Any many more.

I watched DJRoss's "Exploitable Professional" #1 today. Will probably watch part 2 tomorrow. I also started reading Bugs's "PLO from Scratch" booklet. It's pretty good, but seems like there is a lot to digest. I'll also re-watch some of Gakn29's videos. I can already see that learning Omaha is going to be very different from learning NLHE.

The biggest thing I'm struggling with right now is how to not be a station and what type of hands to three-bet and call three-bets with. At least I know what a few things that I'm doing wrong :)

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February 20,2012

I mean you sucked at NLHE what did you expect

MDoranD

February 21,2012

For realz. Work on sucking out.

Przytula

February 21,2012

Lee - as my graph shows, I'm already an expert at sucking out.

verneer

February 21,2012

Another leakfinder video series would be cool. Transitioning to PLO Revisited.

jakeby

February 21,2012

Real poker players don't read graphs.

Przytula

February 21,2012

We should do a prop at small stakes PLO :P

nomo4life

February 21,2012

The sharks come out cause they smell a prop fish.

verneer

February 21,2012

In one of your micro NLHE videos you said "default is not pot control, default is value vs opponent's range" or words to that effect. I think this is probably the main concept for a NLHE beginner to grasp. For an experienced NLHE player trying to play PLO then, we want to get value vs opponent's range but the first hurdle is "WTF is opponent's range??!?!!1111". It's such a hard first hurdle because with 4 cards there are so many more hand possibilities than in NLHE. This has been my experience anyway.

Njordh

February 23,2012

@Njordh - this is definitely something I'm struggling with.

verneer

February 24,2012

Sounds like you could use some help with hand reading, I do agree that some opponents' ranges are all over the place and you can only do so much just like in NL.

A good exercise is to filter your hand where you go to showdown, cover up the opponents hand and then work through the entire hand to see if you thought his hand was in your range that you gave him. If you work on that, hand reading will become much easier.

Djross13

March 26,2012

what do you think of tri nyguyen's book 'Transitioning from NLHE to PLO'? Do you know it and would you recommend it as a good resource?

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