PLO Style

So last night I was on a bit of down swing. Not playing my A game and catching the dirty end of variance. I found a good spot in a deep game with a 95/55/1 fish who would bet small or call down to just about every river, would fold a lot rivers, bluff really small, or would jam with a hand. He ran good. Peeling AcTs3c4h on Kh9d5c flop, As turn and donk-jamming 2h river with a made backdoor wheel. (I had 899T and, like a dummy, paid him off.)

I knew if I played long enough in this spot I would get this guy’s money, or at least I would have a good chance to. To make things even better, sitting between me and him another, spewier, 83/8/2 fish who would put 200BBs in like it was 50 or 100.

I’m down 4 BI’s so far on the night and considering quitting since things just don’t seem to be working out for me and I don’t want to spew or completely undo my last week’s worth of BR building. Then, I’m 200bbs deep with these two super loose mostly passive fish on my immediate right, nobody giving me trouble on my left. This is when I say to myself, “You are in the sickest seat, deep, with the solid reads on the fish with the biggest stacks…Stop looking at your acct. balance and wait for these guys to shovel you money.”

I end up single-tabling this game for a couple hours. Using a little patience and rungood as well as my position and reads on the fish, especially the more aggro/tilted spewtard, I get my 4 BI’s back and then some. Only thing really pissing me off is I could have value bet bigger in a few hands.

Now, I’ve been playing them for a couple hours and it’s paid off. It’s about 1am, I’m getting tired, I have to get up in the morning, I’m now up about a BI for the session, (~5 in the last 100 hands). These guys aren’t showing any signs of slowing down. I am nodding off a little, but game is SO good, I do have to take care of my 3y/o daughter in the morning which requires rest imo.

At the same time I feel like I owe it to myself to play these guys as long as possible, preferably until they are broke or quit. I actually was sitting there hoping they would quit so I could go to bed. I eventually quit before they did. (fwiw I lasted longer than this other tag reg on my left who got tilted by one of the fish luck-boxing him on the river and left with a flurry of chatbox justice.)

I felt like even though I was in a super profitable spot that I had accomplished some of what I wanted in that game and I required some much needed sleep. Now, it seems like this is one of those “pro vs. joe” decisions where a serious player will play in this spot until it ceases to be profitable instead of calling it quits because he got even and was getting sleepy.

What does it take, what should it take, to leave a good spot?