Re: Fitness

In October a friend and I made a prop bet about who could bench more by Dec. 31st, luckily I won and made some mobnies. I was in the gym 4-5 times a week and was about as strong as I had ever been. Fast-forward 3 weeks and I've only been 4 times. That needs to change. I hopefully flipped my sleep schedule as I woke up at 5:30 this morning which is cool. I was thinking about taking a 30 minute walk each morning when I wake up (hopefully the weather warms up) and another walk after my daily poker session. This will at the very least keep me active and should give me some time to get a lot of thoughts out of my head.

Playing 5+ hours yesterday of non-tourney poker definitely was not easy but I think I can do it daily if I were to break it up into 2-3 hour sessions. I was a bit disappointed in h/hr at 6max PLO which was about 1.2 hands/minute or like 70 hands an hour. I was hoping it would be around 85h/hr/table so I could 6-table and could play 2k hands in 4 hours.

I don't intend on putting too much strategy in this thread but here's a little tid-bit:

-3betting with AAxx

One of the biggest leaks I see people making is 3betting bad AAxx type hands in PLO, especially when OOP. PLO is a pot-control game and when you are 100bb deep and 3bet AAxx you lose all ability to control the pot. Because a hand like AA92 no suits plays so poorly post-flop it makes more sense to keep the pot small and be under-repped.

However, 3betting a hand like AAxx double-suited or AA89 with one suit or even AA55 one suit is much better. Our ability to play aggressively post-flop increases by 15-20% when we have 2 suits, an additional pair, or connected cards with a suit. This is quite a jump and thus I pretty much 3bet any AAxx hand with good post-flop playability from any spot. The only exception to this rule is when I'm more than 150bb's deep. Stacking off this deep in PLO is generally reserved for only strong hands thus I feel flatting PF and playing for top-set-value (not a joke) is a better line.

A final note, read your opponents bet-sizes and timing. Snap-potting a flop generally means a ton of strength while someone half-potting draw-heavy boards typically means a draw/air.