March 29, 2010
Laziest Pro Poker Player in the World
Okay, this month just proves how lazy I am as a poker player. I began this month with the hope of breaking last month’s low volume of 50 hours, and somehow I haven’t even managed that. I’ve been distracted, ok? I’d like to say it’s by something important, but I’ve become somewhat addicted to League of Legends, a free DOTA clone.
I have, however, signed up for this Mount Robusto think which has placed me with a group of like-minded players looking to improve at PLO, so at least I’ve got plenty of new people to talk to about poker, so I’ve fulfilled the goals set out in the previous post.
In fact, I actually appear in one of the new DC videos, Basecamp Episode 1, with DJ Sensei. It was a bit of an odd experience, knowing that everything you say would be immortalised in time. Anyway, I’m the one taking up all the air time blabbering about HU PLO.
I think this whole thing has motivated me a little to up my volume. I’ve resubscribed to DC and I’m going to check out some videos I missed out in my downtime. I’m going to try my best to play more often, interact with people more often, and not spend 8 hours every day playing LoL (game needs a better acronym), of which I’ve somehow played more than poker this month.
Anyway, here was a fun hand from today. 5-bet pots 500deep are fun when you’re the one who doesn’t have AA.
4 Comments:
delcrossb posted on March 29, 2010 at 06:12 AM
I sort of wish that 8 was a J or Q to be 4 betting, but this is a pretty good hand and spot to be 4 betting in with a wider range--I really respect the play. 500BB deep when you know he is only 5 betting AAxx and you have waaaay the implied odds you need to call and see a flop and can clearly outplay him post flop.
Also if you are thinking about re-subscribing to DC, there has never been a better time for PLO content. Whitelime's vid is possibly one of the best I've ever seen on PLO ever.
Schweig posted on March 29, 2010 at 13:22 PM
Yeah certainly not an "always 4-bet" hand, but against wide 3-bettors certainly one viable to do it with. He was 3-betting in the high 30s so I don't think you can ever be making a mistake so deep 4-betting something that's double suited and vaguely connected. FWIW I think his 5-bet is really bad so deep, especially if he's planning to just stack off on most flops with 2.5x pot left.
Yeah I did check out LIME AID PLO last night, very good PLO content and I'd probably agree with you that it's one of the best.
delcrossb posted on March 30, 2010 at 00:23 AM
If he were double suited I think he could consider a 5 bet but as he hits that crazy danger zone where he has too much to want to bet/get it in on flops you want to go with when you clearly know what hand he has. Even then I'd probably look for better side cards like 89, 9T, TJ+ before I wanted to 5bet preflop.
Schweig posted on March 30, 2010 at 07:22 AM
Indeed, double suited is definitely hugely different to single suited in that you can flop a NFD so much more often, which are the flops that your opponents are going to make the biggest mistakes on in a pot that size. With the hand he has, it's going to be way harder to flop a piece he'll be comfortable getting the rest in with.
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