OP: Make Penneywize Not Suck At Omaha

So about 2.5k hands into 10 PLO I'm down a BI but I find, despite what my all-in EV curve would indicate, that I've been running pretty bad. I could easily be up about 3-4 BIs by the point, and by all rights and respects I feel I should probably be up there, but this is PLO and that's just how shit goes in this game I guess.

Despite "feeling I deserve better" (a completely fucking useless thought process in terms of my development) I have realized that I have fallen into some old habits I had thought I had shaken back at 5 PLO. I'm going to list here some facets of my game that need improvement and other things I feel I need to get to in the near future.

- analyze my c-betting - I am in all likelihood not doing this often enough, and probably even choosing poor situations when I actually do it.
- continue to work on my isoing and 3-betting, especially when light
- need to take advantage of position postflop in small pots - looking over previous sessions I find situations where I check behind weakish boards when turns have little likelihood of helping my hand. this obviously goes hand-in-hand with my c-betting habits
- work on noting villain river betting habits if I spot anything out of line. even passives bet large on rivers without the nuts sometimes, though rarely
- conversely, need to respect river bets, particularly in larger pots, both as a default v. unknowns and v. those who have demonstrated unbalanced betting ranges in these spots
- analyze my bluffing habits

In terms of study, I plan to:

- read articles 6 and 7 of PLO from scratch
- start watching / noting my way through the 'PLO' video series from DC

Originally Posted by Penneywize

So about 2.5k hands into 10 PLO I'm down a BI but I find, despite what my all-in EV curve would indicate, that I've been running pretty bad. I could easily be up about 3-4 BIs by the point, and by all rights and respects I feel I should probably be up there, but this is PLO and that's just how shit goes in this game I guess.

Welcome to PLO.

Have you read Hwang's book(s)?

Glad you're enjoying the blog rpm, I try to play around euro peak hours on stars at the 10 PLO tables as it seems the games get shitty any time after 10 PM my time (EST). If you're ever on around then, well, I'd say to look me up but I'm pretty sure I have searches hidden on stars. SN is Penneywize09 though.

baudib, it's definitely on my to-do list but probably not any time before I beat 25s or 50s. I still have to finish the PLO from scratch article series, which is 11 segments of about 10k+ words each... pretty in-depth and complete imo.

Take a look:
PLO From Scratch - Part 5 | Discussions | Donkr

If ever you get a chance, look it over and let me know what you think, I'd be very interested to hear a more experienced PLO player's impression on it.