
Finally I got a small rungood and got over $500 mark. Bankroll is standing at $506.96. Didn't mark any hands today, so I post my final hand for pure entertainment. Let's meet Mr.Calling Station.
$0.10/$0.25 Pot Limit Omaha Cash, 3 Players
Hero (SB): $35.87 (143.5 bb)
BB: $25 (100 bb)
BTN: $15.89 (63.6 bb)
Preflop: Hero is SB with 6
A
K
T
BTN folds, Hero raises to $0.75, BB calls $0.50
Flop: ($1.50) J
5
A
(2 players)
Hero bets $1, BB calls $1
Turn: ($3.50) 3
(2 players)
Hero bets $2, BB calls $2
River: ($7.50) 9
(2 players)
Hero bets $5.25, BB raises to $10.50, Hero raises to $32.12, BB calls $10.75 and is all-in
Results:
Spoiler
$50 pot ($1.00 rake)
Final Board: J
5
A
3
9
Hero showed 6
A
K
T
and won $49.00 ($24.00 net)
BB showed T
J
9
7
and lost (-$25 net)
I just love his miniraise on river. Bluff? Value? Does he know it even himself? Maybe he tried to induce me to bluff? After all, he snapcalled my shove... He CAN beat AK with a nut blocker, right? Oh, against AKxx with just K:h and no other hearts he is still 36% underdog at the river. Damn! I think it's an old truth in his country: one pair is good, two pairs is teh best!
It took 22 251 hands. I run a lot over EV, but my 6K hands of PLO25 contains a lot of setups and situations where I get almos my whole stack in with the nuts and then have to pay the 1/10 of pot at the river. I am not trying to make excuses, just giving my honest opinion why I am "just breakeven" in PLO25. Sample size is very small.
Average EV winrate in all stakes is 4,29bb/100. IF we take out all Zoom hands, it goes up to 13,12bb/100. But I have just 18K non-Zoom hands, so once again the sample size is pretty small.
As I look it back, I had a godrun at PLO5 which allowed me to get shots to PLO10 way earlier than I expected. PLO25 was the biggest obstacle, I just couldn't beat it. Every time I won at PLO10, I lost it at PLO25. It was up and down, up and down for several thousand hands.
The whole project took about 40 hours. After going through all the stakes from PLO2 to PLO25, I am 100% confident that there is still a lot of value. Even at PLO25 there are players who are making HUGE mistakes all the time. To make profit, just sit in there and wait for those mistakes.
Lot of people have asked me what am I going to do after this. Answer is simple, play poker. The only adjustment is to have more conservative BRM. $200 is the line where I drop to PLO10, but I will grind through PLO25 until I have $1K. Aggressive 20bin BRM changes to 40bin BRM.
It has been fun, I hope that this blog has motivated other micro players, and maybe give some new thoughts about PLO. If this has happened to you, or you have enjoyed this ride other way, I would be more than happy to hear about it.