Yorky Pud

Over the past couple of days I have been playing some Pot Limit Omaha cash games on Betfair Poker and I have really enjoyed myself, despite the fact my profits have been up and down like a bride's nightie.

My little grindfest started off on Saturday night when I was playing some $0.15/$0.30 No Limit Hold'em cash games and a mixture of running bad and making a few poor plays cost me nearly two stacks. I just wasn't feeling the love for NLHE so jumped into some PLO games to see how they went and I am glad I did as I have been bitten by the Omaha bug!

That first session I played 372 hands and won $6.75 (playing $0.10/$0.10 blinds) and there was nothing much to write home about, although one player called 777Sasha777 called me a “complete donk” after this hand, which I don't think I played too badly to be honest. In fact I think if anything he was the donk but what do I know? Ironically, I clashed with the bad tempered git yesterday where I played a hand really badly and he again referred to my donkey qualities.

Yesterday's session was the longest I have played in quite a while with me logging a total of 1,009 hands over a 280 minute spell and at one point it looked like a solid brag of winning six buy-ins was on the cards but I ultimately only one two-thirds of one by the time I had logged off for the day. There was a mixture of me getting tired, running into some quite unlikely hands and also being in some cooler situations that saw my profits plummet. Still, a win is a win and think of all that lovely “valueback” next week or whenever it gets paid out nowadays.

In total so far I have played 1,381 hands of PLO10 and won $11.58 or 8.39bb/100 for those who are that way inclined. Whilst I will hardly be retiring just yet it is good to get some profit on the board early on. My profits would also be higher if it were not for my curious nature and the fact I am trying to learn this game. I read somewhere about a cash game player, who I cannot remember for the life of me, who said that when he/she was learning as much about the game as they could they would always call instead of fold if a decision was close so I have been doing just that and it has been interesting to say the least. It has cost me money but I see it as paying for an education and I might as well do it at these stakes than when I am eventually playing higher up.

I think that's about it for now to be honest regarding online poker anyway. I'll try and log a few more hands in August and see what happens, so far it has been fun but you know me, I'll probably go on a downswing or get bored and you'll find me playing Five Card Draw or something! Live pokerwise I will be travelling to France on September 4 for the WPT Grand Prix de Paris as a live reporter for the World Poker Tour site. I'll be there until the 12th and this will be my humble abode whilst I am out there, I've certainly stayed in worse! Then I will be back home for 10-11 days before I jet off to Malta for WPT Malta which should be pretty cool. It looks like a steady stream of reporting work from the World Poker Tour so I am certainly not complaining about life at the moment!

Until next time, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!