Operation resurrected!

Cliffs for the last year: I've completed my Master's degree and have taken a position as an Econ researcher for a Defence Economics consultancy here in Kingston. For the time being however I have a great deal of free time, until I have my office and am expected to show up every day (should be a few weeks) I can pretty much make my own hours, which is pretty sweet in terms of flexibility obv.

All this is to say that I've got time to play poker again a few hours a day at least. And, of course, being away for over a year has made me miss it somewhat. I figure I'll continue treading down the path of pot limit omaha, since I am still fascinated with the game -- if not sometimes infuriated with the large amount of variance -- and still have the motivation to keep going.

Being excited as I was to resume my PLO journey, I studied for a few hours - mainly went over my old notes and analyzed hands from last year's sessions - and hopped right back on the saddle.

The results were nothing short of disastrous.



So I essentially burned through my ~10 BI shot at 10 PLO and now feel that moving back down to 5s is the best plan to iron out the kinks in my game.

Yes, I ran rather badly over that stretch; 6 or 7 BIs under AIEV in 3k hands is pretty horrendous even by PLO standards. But I still feel that there was a general downward trend in my winnings, and I'd have needed to run above AIEV to break even.

Also, it bears mentioning that RAKE has been a significant factor at 10 PLO: over those 3kish hands, PT3 shows roughly 30$ paid in rake. Not sure how this is calculated, but it seems that I'll not only need to beat the variance but beat the 5ptbb drain on my BR to successfully get past 10 PLO. Once I get back there, that is.

At any rate, I'm heading back down to 5 PLO and will play a session later tonight after I spend more time studying. Will be playing deep as much as possible, 4 tabling, putting in ~2 hrs if all goes well.

I'll be posting up hands I have difficulty with in this space, so if you're a PLO aficionado I'd appreciate your input.