Another session of .5/1 and 1/2 2-7 TD. Overall +25ish over 2ish hours. Not a great winrate and less then I would make playing PLO8 but I am having more fun so I am going to keep playing.

I haven't gotten as many hours play 2-7 as I would have liked because I have spent some time writing software that does some probability calculations. I guess I don't feel like I have a solid enough grasp of the number behind the game to really play it well. Even without that I think I can beat .5/1 but I am having fun both writing the software and learning the new game.

I am going to talk to Rhound a little about what other numbers he thinks it would be worthwile to generate then I am going to post my results.

Finished up the analysis, posted here: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~sjaspan/pok ... ility.html

I am at a friend in Orange County. He is working "normal" hours so most likely I will get some poker in while he is gone.

I played a 6.5 hr 2/5 NLHE session at Commerce, and damn I didn't know poker could be played this badly.

For example:
CS from EP limps and calls a PRF. Flop is J82, EP leads into the PF raiser, PF raiser pushes all in, EP calls. EP shows 92, and PRF shows TT. River is a 2. Ewwwww.

I am OTB with on a board. Checks to me I BTP, EP calls. Turn is a blank, he checks, I check. River a . He checks I check, and he shows .

However some of the major donkness payed off in my favor. I ended up playing two 1K+ hands pots, I chopped one and won the other.

The first was the hand that I posted here: forum/viewtopic.php?t=21526. Bad Russian hand AK and EP had J2 giving me roughly 70% of the PE. The river was a T and we chopped, but I still doubled up.

The second hand was a little after the first. I sit with $450 and get QQ in the BB. LP raises to $20. I have seen him do this will all kinds of hand including JTo so I re-raise to $60, he flat calls. The flop is yatzee for me AQ9 rainbow. I lead $80, he calls. Then turn is a blank, I lead $150 and he calls. River is also a blank I push in for $150 more and he calls with AK. We played together for almost 5 hours and this was the first hand I raised pre-flop and it was a re-raise OOP. What the hell could he have put me on that he beats? Maybe I have improved a ton as a NLHE player because I think that hand should be really easy to get away from.

Overall it was quite interesting. With how bad these players were, and how easy they were to read I can understand how people can easily post 1K win sessions. Another interesting things is that I haven't played any real level of NLHE in almost a year yet I was with out a doubt the second best player at the table. Two years ago when I went to LV and played NLHE there I wasn't anywhere near the second best player and those players were somehow worse then these. It is interesting how much PLO8 experience has transfered over to NLHE.

Overall +525 over 6.5 hours. It could have been +1200 if my trip J's held up but at least I didn't get sucked our for the entire pot.

nice take down -- i look forward to the CA nlhe games.

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