Road back to HS PLO
Road back to HS PLO
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Road back to HS PLO

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My screenname is portemilio. I've been playing Poker since I was 16. I started off playing poker on Runescape g

01 May 2024 at 10:21 PM
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by portemilio m

1/2 flop, 1/2 turn, pot riv. not sure ab this 200bb deep, i think the sizings are pretty bad too. i think i shud bet bigger on flop and turn to set up for a river jam. the hand choice seems p good to me

oh its a 3b pot and i lead flop forgot to mention that


That makes a lot more sense. I dunno, I think there are a lot of runouts where you are out oop against an opponent who can very likely have a straight and you don't have great blockers to continue aggresssion.


by dtemp m

That makes a lot more sense. I dunno, I think there are a lot of runouts where you are out oop against an opponent who can very likely have a straight and you don't have great blockers to continue aggresssion.

I’d give up on str8 runouts and be agressive on paired board runouts and maybe if I turn equity. I have fold equity on flop just playing my range. I think Kx with pair hands tend to lead, hands that can’t check call but can benefit from fold equity, definetly unsure ab this combo though this could be too loose. If he has rag aces I put his hand in a rlly rough spot




laying this one down hurt my soul ( vs fish)
3b pot he b 1/2 on flop i call. turn xx, river i 1/2 he jams. ill check what he had tmr


this month is going sick online ngl. really wish i didnt play live and just stuck online :-( ill post a graph at the end of the month




owwowow. lost a 10k pot today too. rlly sick hand had top set hu on t62 rb in a 3b pot he cb i raise small ip he pots we get it in. he had 6789 for wrap + pair and bdfd :-(


by portemilio m

laying this one down hurt my soul ( vs fish) 3b pot he b 1/2 on flop i call. turn xx, river i 1/2 he jams. ill check what he had tmr

I don't post strategy much anymore, but I enjoy reading anything Omaha related.

This river had me screaming to myself and I had to post. In my opinion, the river bet by you should have been 1/3 pot. And the 1/3 pot size makes sense for several reasons. For example, it can be hard in game to figure out that exact... xbet ...that gets re-raised pot all-in, but if you bet 1/3 pot on the river then your opponent's pot raise is almost exactly all in. Plus even beyond that a lot of players now are using a two bet sizing on the river of 1/3 pot or pot.

I might see you at the tables so I don't want to say much more. But thanks for the thread. I enjoy it and appreciate you for making 2+2 fun to read.


by ladybruin m

I don't post strategy much anymore, but I enjoy reading anything Omaha related.This river had me screaming to myself and I had to post. In my opinion, the river bet by you should have been 1/3 pot. And the 1/3 pot size makes sense for several reasons. For example, it can be hard in game to figure out that exact... xbet ...that gets re-raised pot all-in, but if you bet 1/3 po

I was playing one size on the river. Why do you split your range here ? I don’t mind 1/3 though at all opponents range is very weak, but I can’t think of an argument for a pot sized bet tbh and what range I’d be doing it with. Curious to hear your take. I’m playing bovada so unlikely I see you at the tables there or that you’d know it was me :P
And you’re welcome glad you’re liking the thread


I played all day today, way too tired to keep going through the night even though games are best at night. maybe ill start my days later but rlly dont have it in me to continue and dont wanna burn out been enjoying playing a lot recently. but my body physically wont let me open tables right now so i think thats a good time to call it quits for the night. another crazy day, but i alrdy know the variance is going to end up going the other way so hopefully the rungood lasts a bit longer!
Also decided to only 4-table instead of 6-8, so hands for this month will be significantly lower than last month. I just think im sharper at 4


by portemilio m

I was playing one size on the river. Why do you split your range here ? I don’t mind 1/3 though at all opponents range is very weak, but I can’t think of an argument for a pot sized bet tbh and what range I’d be doing it with. Curious to hear your take. I’m playing bovada so unlikely I see you at the tables there or that you’d know it was me :PAnd

Using a one bet sizing on the river is perfectly fine. I simply pointed out that some players are now doing a two bet sizing approach on the river. And it is usually ⅓ pot as the small size and the pot as the big size. But of course this is more difficult to implement and people are not necessarily using both sizes equally.

I have a “set up the shove” mentality. So when I saw your post, no matter if I normally use one river bet size or two river bet sizes, I noticed that you arrived on the river heads up in a pot of $462 and your opponent had $790 left. My “set up the shove” mentality would have had me bet about $165 so that if my opponent were to shove then that shove is a full pot sized shove and they got no discount on the shove. I got a discount of being able to bet only $165 (⅓ pot) to have a legitimate chance of winning the hand uncontested and additionally if my opponent wants to shove there was no discount on their shove as it was a fully pot sized raise by them. You betting $231 means his shove was for less than pot. You made it easier for him to fold by you betting more. And you made it easier for him to shove because it is less than a pot sized shove. So in your situation here even I am mostly only using a one bet size, but it is a “set up the shove” bet size of about $165 (or using preset buttons ⅓ pot button here).

I can’t talk too much (or don’t want to LOL) about how other people are constructing their two bet river sizings but for fun let’s say it might be something like this in general terms…

bet a big part of his range for 33% with weak 2 pairs, some straights blocking twopairs, etc and ofc some bluffs with no SD value. And the stronger hands that don’t block bluff catchers for full pot (my guess is like 15-20% of range bets full pot here). But I personally also have the "set up the shove" mentality morphing my decisions.


by ladybruin m

Using a one bet sizing on the river is perfectly fine. I simply pointed out that some players are now doing a two bet sizing approach on the river. And it is usually ⅓ pot as the small size and the pot as the big size. But of course this is more difficult to implement and people are not necessarily using both sizes equally.I have a “set up the shove” mental

besides the sizing what do u think ab the fold that was the point of the hand!


by portemilio m

besides the sizing what do u think ab the fold that was the point of the hand!

The fold is fine, but all the more reason to bet-fold for a 1/3 bet size than a 1/2 bet size. It was 3bet preflop so AAxx is easily in his holdings. But over the course of a session you might want to look people up and call. Also you called the player a fish, if you you feel he isn't going anywhere if you lose, then that is another reason to call off your stack. And it is 3 handed so you only have one other person battling you against the fish which again might be a reason to call because you are fine with losing and battling on short handed. At a full 6 handed table where 5 of us are trying to get the fish's money I fold.

A lot of opponents think that J on the river is a safe card for them as no flush or additional straight came in and they therefore go ape **** crazy with their two pair that contains an Ace.


by ladybruin m

The fold is fine, but all the more reason to bet-fold for a 1/3 bet size than a 1/2 bet size. It was 3bet preflop so AAxx is easily in his holdings. But over the course of a session you might want to look people up and call. Also you called the player a fish, if you you feel he isn't going anywhere if you lose, then that is another reason to call off your stack. And it is 3

imo the way this played out its aces and aces only never 2p. and by fish i meant loose and passive player. so when the passive player check jams river ur probably not good. anyways yeah theres not much analyis on it ive played these pools long enough its a good fold regardles of outcome ive called in these spots plenty of times and have rarely been good but we will see when i get the hh!




was stuck like 10k on bovada today thank god for the late night shenanigans. i need to stop trying to play gto vs these whales and give up in some spots thats what i did wrong today cuz card distrubution i was just dealt really marginal hands today and bluff combos but villains on bovada dont like folding so its not rlly worth




the upward trend continues!!!!




definetly am loving the 500 pools on bovada. by far the best games out there ngl. also this rake is disgusting 38k wtf.


by portemilio m

laying this one down hurt my soul ( vs fish) 3b pot he b 1/2 on flop i call. turn xx, river i 1/2 he jams. ill check what he had tmr


aces... as expected. lol


Being able to check hands the day after would be great for the station inside me. 🤣 Nice fold


lost like 10k ev in since my last check in. somehow still up even since then or up a little. having a really brutal run at 5/10 but the results will eventually pick up. the games are actually just insanely good, its genuinely hard to lose in them


i basically won every all in today. very good feeling! still really happy with my play, definetly some punts i can avoid here and there that would boost my winrate so always things to improve on but overall i feel like im playing super optimally in these games. i have dinner tonight with my girlfriend and my siblings so ill be on the grind again tmr.




this hand really haunts me. i put him on a lot of rundown hands so really not a lot of sets and i made the correct read in the sense that he didnt have a set on the flop but he unfortunately backdoored the boat. such a sad hand i think i played it really well and kept him in there with a really marginal hand


i think anon poker is more friendly to recs because they dont get humiliated when they punt noone is there to judge them. i like it way more than name-sites






Your results are terrific. Awesome work! As a crappy 50NL player you are genuinely very inspiring.

Do you worry about the state of Ignition? I know a lot of high stakes cash players have left the site due to suspected collusion and bots. Have you noticed anything suspicious?

PLO is especially susceptible to collusion due to the larger number of hole cards that act as removal. Obviously there's still some whales in the waters and you are making it work but the whole running below EV thing is maybe a clue that there is something iffy going on. Of course luck swings in both ways but keep an eye out if sessions are consistently running below it. AIEV is affected by hole card sharing because it is reflective of the chances without factoring in the card removal that the bots are using to decide whether to call or jam.




70bb eff to start hand, i x/c 3/4 x/c 3/4 and i lead for pot on riv. not sure ab this one i think folding him off chops is worth?

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