Just a quick update in case anyone is still vaguely interested in this Omaha lark. I've pretty much decided to bypass the 2c/5c level. As I have already said it's exactly the same as the 1c/2c level and so would certainly bring in a steady profit but I really want to get better at this game so I have jumped into NL and PL $25 permanently.
I worked Friday night and was too tired to play when I got back so I slept until Saturday night, watched a bit of telly, and then cracked open as many $25 tables as I could afford. I'm still playing full ring (9 handed) and both NL and PL until I can work out which one I prefer.
I got lucky in the 500 hands or so of 10c/25c I played on Thursday night and the only thing I learned really was that my 1c/2c game didn't fit into the game at all. So I knew starting again today I had to work out how I needed to improve pretty quickly (preferably before going broke).
The first 650 hands were very tough. I didn't feel good at the tables and was lucky only to be $10 in the black. I took a break to eat and think about the difference between the 1c/2c level and the 10c/25c.
The decisions are consistently just that little bit harder. For example, it's easy to check fold aces on a K45 flop at 1c/2c because with 60/70% of players seeing a flop aces are just no good. But when you see a flop two or three handed at 10c/25c there's a fine line between checking then giving the benefit of the doubt to a bettor or banging in some money blind hoping a low draw may pay. Basically the betting at 1c/2c was easy, it was almost always betting the fuck out of the best hands and making draws pay but at these slightly higher stakes a lot of dangerous information bets have to be made. For this reason I think the winrate at this level is going to be much more erratic than it was at the micro. We'll see.
Position became an important factor as well at this level I found. At the micro level position was completely irrelevant as you either had a hand you wanted to bet or you didn't. But the tough post-flop decisions that must now be made at 10c/25c are obviously a lot easier to make when you have seen what your opponents think of the flop first. Bluffing is even possible - brilliant!
So, after the cretinous first few hundred hands of the day I started booking my ideas up and I finally got a good feel for the tables. I ran well in places but missed a few very important freerolls so I think I ran about average overall which is nothing to complain about I guess.
Including the shit session earlier, I got through 2469 hands of both NL and PLO8 $25 for a total profit of just under $145 for the day. Overall, I have now played 2969 hands at the $25 level for a total profit of $204 @ 14ptBB (pokertracker big bets - two big blinds)/100 hands.
3k hands is a very small sample given how wrong this game can go at times but I would certainly settle for 14ptBBs/100 in the long run so hopefully the next 3k hands will show a similar profit. Fingers crossed.
As I have said, I don't have Pokertracker or the like so I have to try to keep records of hands I like manually (which is hard when you're seven tabling Omaha) and unfortunately I don't have records of most of the interesting hands but I'll put up the few I have here to show you. I would love anyone to point out any obvious mistakes as I'm keen to learn.
Massive call on the turn, didn't like the river when I saw it as I put him on A3xhh although A345 was in my mind too. Bad call looking back as the nuts may have been sitting behind me but still, very nice three quarter:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2726017
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One of my favourite semi-bluffs of sorts:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2725925
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Not thought much about this one but I don't think I like it (not the result anyway - a two would have slipped on the river!!!). Heads up I'm happy going with this as there's a good chance my low is live as well as my high but three handed my low is dead to a two, the best I can realistically hope for is the high and probably for only half the pot, I'll Cardplayer it actually because it must be close:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2725873
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Very dangerous spots these for a bare top set, if there's an A2xxcc knocking about I'm in bad shape but I didn't get away and got lucky:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2725772
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Another example of a dangerous top set call - if the push was for $30 I seriously have to consider folding but not for $10 into $2:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2725760
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One of the worst calls I have ever seen! About 16% expectation I reckon:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2725636
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Get away pre?:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2723615
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Terrible call from me in one of the early sessions. I knew he was lowwing on the flop and so it should have been obvious that my high was no good on the turn when he shoved, pretty embarrassing call:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2723304
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Sick missed flush:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2723219
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Cooler... except probably for bare kings:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2718427
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What goes around comes around:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2709336
Guess you'd have to be really bored to wade through all of that lot but any hand analysis appreciated as always... GL folks.
3 years ago
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