Moan moan moan moan moan
I feel like a stuck record. Or, to be more contemporary, a stuck CD.
I'm just having an horrendous run of beats in Omaha. I'm playing well, being bold when the situation demands it, taking down a fair few pots with bluffs and semi-bluffs; but when the money goes in for a big confrontation I simply can't have a hand hold up, nor hit a strong draw.
Last night I played for about two hours and finished down $24, after a series of hands where my flopped set (usually top set) got run down by straights or flushes. The one time the board paired, it gave a dude with higher two pair the full house - but I have to hold my hands up and say I should not have gone past the flop with that hand. Having the shrewdness and ability to fold a flopped bottom set is one thing that can separate good and bad PLO players, and I couldn't bring myself to do it, so I am not putting that one down to bad luck.
This morning's hour and a quarter (so far) has been galling. Basically, if I have the set then the board fails to pair and the other guy hits his draw, and if the other guy has the set then my monster draw misses. I'm down when I could easily be sitting at the table with over $250.
PLO can be a madening game. I am in that 'theoretical dollar' hell I used to drone on about; where my money is going into pots with an enormous positive EV; where mathematically I 'own' a huge proportion of the pot on the flop and/or turn; only to own none of the pot at all on the river.
I am just about managing to keep my head, while the hyper-aggressive player accross from me is having the amazing good fortune to have his sets hold up time and time again.
Enough of this. Time to get my hair cut...
2 Comments:
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