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000Puh4u – PLO Personal Blog
Hi all,
This is 000Puh4u (aka Georgi). I have decided to start a blog, not because I am expecting many people to read it but, because I believe it will hold me more accountable for my actions.
Some background info, I have started playing poker maybe 15 years ago during the Full Tilt years. I have ventured into MTTs, NLHE and PLO Cash games. At one point, I was primarily playing PLO Cash on Cake Poker, which gave me 50% cashback. I believe I was a massive whale. I have never studied the game and I had no clue what I was doing really. Funnily, I made a little bit of money while playing there. I was definitely not profitable pre-rakeback.
I stopped playing poker for many years due to work and study commitments up until the Covid time (2020). I have started working from home and had more time to pursue other hobbies and interests and decided to start playing some poker again. I mean no commute to the office, no girlfriend, no gyms, no personal life so what else to do than playing some cards?
I played some small stakes MTTs in a cocktail of sites from March until about Sept 2020. Then, I did some grinding on Party Poker on Double or Nothing Hyper SNGs (nudged by a friend). I have managed to climb from $5 stakes up to $100, where I played against Slayerv, which was a lot of fun.
In Nov 2020, I decided to go back to PLO (nudged by the same friend) and give it another shot. I played PLO10 and PLO25 on Party but got beaten up and quickly realized that I have got some studying to do if I wanna perform better.
I bought the annual subscription for the PLO Mastermind when they had their Black Friday deal. I thought that was a no brainer decision. Two months later, I still think in the same way. A very high quality content there and highly recommended (Disclosure: I am not getting paid to say that but I will accept any money anyway
).I have spent more than one and half months on my preflop game, which I thought would be the best use of my time initially. This proved to be correct. Now, I have moved to some c-bet studying in SRP. I will be making my way through all parts of the decision tree slowly and methodically.
I have been playing on GG because they have a better traffic than Party on the regular tables. So far it is going well. I only look at the winrate All in Adj, however subjective it may be as a metric.
I have won 10 buy ins on PLO10 and took a 10 buy ins shot at PLO25, which did not go that well. I got beaten up quickly, mainly due to my mistakes of course, and moved back down to PLO10 where I won another 10 buy ins. Now I am taking my second 10 buy ins shot at PLO25, which is going well so far.
One of my biggest leaks that I have been trying to fix is to stop hero calling too much, especially on the river and vs a check/raise. I think the population is not bluffing enough, thus I should be exploitatively overfolding, which I have hard time doing. I believe that if I manage to fix this leak, I will beat PLO25. Only time will tell I guess.
My aspirations are to be playing PLO100 profitably by the end of 2021.
Well, this is it for the intro post. Please stick around if you find it interesting.
Good luck at the tables!
Regards,
000Puh4u
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A pretty wild session today. It was basically in two parts.
Part 1 – I got a ton of very difficult decisions for stacks withing the first 10-15 mins of the session. Obv, that was not ideal because it is hard to make the best decisions when you are just warming up. I did my best however.
Part 2 – Played my A game. A really good and solid tight aggressive play. Firstly, I made no bad big or even small hero calls, which is a big leak of mine as mentioned above. And secondly, I just bet and bet and bet for value, thinner then ever.
Overall, I am very pleased with how the things went today and the way I manage to overcome the difficult beginning. Sometimes, when the thing do not go well in the beginning, I get tilted and start playing terribly, which of course leads to more losses and then more tilt and so on and so forth. Nothing like that happened today. Just good solid game.
I made almost 6 buy ins today.
And from today, I am officially profitable at PLO25 with the massive 0.01bb/100 All-in Adj.
This means two things:
1. This blog is probably the only reason for my solid performance today.
and
2. I am 10 buy ins away from taking a shot at PLO50.Very exciting!
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Two raining days. 🙁
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After being beaten like a dog for three days, I have finally managed to hold my ground.
Three tough days in a row where I actually thought I played very strongly most of time and well the rest of the time. Overall, I am pleased.I have switched to Party FF tables and I had managed to win 10.5 BIs today so we are back to being profitable on PLO25. Now going for another 10 BIs win and we will take a shot at PLO50. That is the plan.
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Hey!
I was just browsing through some people who are in similar places like myself and came across your post. Gl on your journey! -
Thank you Sekki24.
Also, the screenshot did not upload on my last post.
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Another day, another insane session where I thought I played very very solid.
Left the tables well…
+8.5 buy ins and only 1 until taking a shot at PLO50.
A few interesting hands from today’s session:
1. I have no idea what to do as the preflop caller on such super dry board so I thought to experiment and see what will happen. No idea what the GTO solution on these type of boards is.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39Ayzf635/
2. Finding a bluff in a 3-bet pot when the opponents show a lot of weakness. I will underbluff overall regardless so I guess it can never be too bad.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/49Ayzaqeu/
3. A call down vs a very loose and aggro opponent. He tried to bluff me a ton of times so I knew he had many bluffs and his range was so wide pre. Also, how many more blockers and unblockers (if there is such a word) do we need to hero call? I think my hand is absolutely one of the best one for hero calling and a no-brainer vs this opponent.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39AyxQwry/
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Hm, there is some issue with uploading the screenshots. Only one of the two uploaded. Maybe I did not wait long enough for the process to finish.
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A very good playlist for PLO grinding. It has made my game much more enjoyable. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36YnV9STBqc-
like the playlist. thanks for posting it!
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Alright, made the 1 buy in in the beginning of the session today on FF25 and then I started with my shot at FF50, which went relatively alright I think. I thought I had performed much better than the results which are down 1 buy in. Not a big deal. I have 9 more buy ins to go before moving down to FF25.
Moving up criteria will be either winning 10 BIs All in adj or 20 BIs actual. I used to only look at the All in Adj but FF games are tougher than regular tables and if you are breakeven, I think you had performed rather well. So moving down if I lose 10 BIs All in adj and moving up if win as many or 20 BIs actual.
Quite a few interesting hands today:
1. I did not know what to do on the turn and river in this hand. It seems like potting the flop is fine and then potting the turn as well 100bb deep however. Don’t know. Tough.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/29AyFwKKF/2. Ran some big bluffs
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/395LsCbLEn/
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AyFyanv/3. And got trapped here like a rat… could have I escaped the trap? Many times, I give a lot of credit when two villains jam the flop and they often had some junk. This time however, I got creamed.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AyF0Zov/Overall, B++ session. I missed some thin value bets but managed to escape some big traps where I could have lost a lot. There was some pressure when playing a higher stake as usual.
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A decent and weird session at the same time. 2.5 BIs+, which is nice. I believe I played something like A- game. Generally, alright but was tired and not sharply focused.
However, what I am particularly pleased with was that I had managed to play a very solid session considering the crazy beginning. I had to make many decisions for stacks so early in the session. Not warmed up properly.
I even got it in with 0% equity, which could be demoralizing. I was with a nut flush vs straight flush. I do not know if my play was a mistake. I have not studied such a spot. Obviously, villain’s min x/r OTT looked super strong but there is always a chance that they are clicking buttons and are with a random hand I think. Don’t know.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AyL7E03/
Won a $400 pot and I was with ~50% equity three way, which was nice.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/495LtKFehy/
And finally, I got creamed again. I got the money in pretty badly. The stack sizes were a bit deeper and I was in a very awkward SPR on the flop and did not know what to do when I did not flop anything and at the same time the board was relatively dry, low cards one.
I was afraid not to make a mistake by bet/folding the best hand so I decided to go with my hand. Again, I do not know if my decision was correct. I will ask around the house.https://plomastermind.com/replayer/59AyMB4eI/
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A very solid session. +3 BIs and 5 until the shot at FF100.
1. This is what happens when your line does not make sense. What is villain repping? He is saying that he has a flush OTT and then a boat OTR? Really? It just does not tie up. I had to look him up.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39AyRZDqJ/
2. I wonder if villain has Aces pre? Well, almost but he has another super premium hand.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AyS2m1l/
3. And here, I was not sure what villain was doing. He absolutely unnecessarily put his entire stack on the flop with 1.22% equity. Maybe he was on tilt or something. Don’t know but I don’t complain.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/49AySt3yS/
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There will be bad days. Today is one of them. -7.5 BIs.
I will go to sleep early and see what the weekend will bring.
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Hands from yesterday’s carnage:
1. Bluff that did not work out – https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AyYoFra/
2. C-betting/call turn? Probably wrong – https://www.plomastermind.com/replayer/59AyYpdCd
3. Betting for value with the worst hand – https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39AyYqkfw/
4. Probably should have x/c turn only – https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39XAYEFGKq/
5. Don’t like this either. Probably ch back the flop and take it from there – https://www.plomastermind.com/replayer/39AyZHVbB
Apart from these hands, I think the battle was lost in many many small pots where I could not really flop anything decent and villains never folded vs my c-bets. That is how accumulated to -7.5 BIs. There are no other big pots.
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Hands from yesterday’s carnage:
1. Bluff that did not work out – https://plomastermind.com/replayer/19AyYoFra/
2. C-betting/call turn? Probably wrong – https://www.plomastermind.com/replayer/59AyYpdCd
3. Betting for value with the worst hand – https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39AyYqkfw/
4. Probably should have x/c turn only – https://plomastermind.com/replayer/39XAYEFGKq/
5. Don’t like this either. Probably ch back the flop and take it from there – https://www.plomastermind.com/replayer/39AyZHVbB
Apart from these hands, I think the battle was lost in many many small pots where I could really flop anything decent and villains never folded vs my c-bets. That is how accumulated to -7.5 BIs. There are no other big pots.
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Lost another 4 BIs yesterday and about 6 at FF50 without counting leaderboard and rakeback. I made some mistakes. Hero calling too much and some tilt play. Not ideal.
1. Villain was trying to bluff a person who has issues with hero calling too much. Not a great idea. But seriously, I need to work on this leak. Maybe not in this hand specifically but in general. I lost so many big blinds yesterday by hero calling too much.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/49XB9RFIhy/
2. More hero calling. Are we ever good OTR?
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/395LwUON1y/
3. A funny hand where I got donked twice and I bluffed twice
https://www.plomastermind.com/replayer/591BYz8DoWyQ
4. I don’t know if this is a cooler or I should have done anything differently
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/595LwOxdzt/
5. Tilt helps with increasing your bluff frequency
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/595LwYbgq6/
6. And one of the biggest pots I lost yesterday. I think my line is good though.
https://www.plomastermind.com/replayer/19Az68RnU
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Hey Puh4u,
Really enjoying your blog – very honest look at what it is like to be in the washing machine that is low stakes PLO!
Think we are playing the same games atm – and from what I can tell you are someone I will be avoiding clashing with in the pool, fingers crossed the session you are playing right now is going as well as it seems to be!
Lichu
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Hey Lichu,
Thanks for the kind words. I am glad to hear that are enjoying the blog.
Are we playing FF on Party? Who are you? What nickname? I do not remember Lichu but I am like a horse with blinds so I may have not paid attention.
You should try to play as many pots as possible vs me. I am soft like a cat. 🙂
000Puh4u
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