so ive been grinding nl10 on and off, i never play sessions longer than 1.5k hands simply because i get bored. the beginning of the summer was going well, i never had losing sessions and i spent a lot of time reading and developing my thought processes for higher stakes so i'll be prepared when i get there. basically microstakes has been a joke. however this week i ran into a 4 buyin downswing. the ole KK v AA, set over set and just some 55 v 45 losses. nothing too big but i dont like losing. ever.
even though i rarely get it in behind it snap tilts me because getting it in ahead and losing is part of poker, but getting it in behind means you are playing bad and that is unacceptable. so when this happened more than once i decided to take a break and play a couple cheap tourneys to get my mind off of it.
i played a 2.20 quintuple shootout and got knocked out in like the 3rd hand by some KK vs AK 4 handed bullshit. However, it was my first shootout and i liked the shorthanded format because i play much better shorthanded. so i decided to play another today and shipped it for ~330 or so. first tourney win and felt pretty good. rolls me solidly for nl25 but i might play a couple more of these first to continue a little break from grinding 6max micro.
ideally i want to get rolled for nl50 heads up by the end of the summer. i tend to be pretty aggro postflop and i like the idea of playing your opponent rather than always nut peddling the cards in your hands. ill continue to slowly work on omaha over the course of the summer because i feel like the future is in omaha for a while as the high stakes games dry up. microstakes grinder talking about high stakes? yea, well, hopefully sooner rather than later if i start to grind more.
if you are rather new to omaha also but fairly smart id be more than willing to discuss hands and help each other out in the process over msn or aim. shoot me a pm if ud like. poker theory interests me tremendously.
heres a song for reading through that painful garbage
Didn't think this was worthy of a topic in low stakes by itself. heres a hand deepstacked that just happened nl5 on stars. Do you stack off here to this insta raise shove by villain?
Submitted by : LostDevil
PokerStars Game #17595504828: Hold'em No Limit ($0.02/$0.05) - 2008/05/21 - 18:22:57 (ET)
Table 'Griseldis V' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: esuark2007 ($9.96 in chips)
Seat 2: mbryce85 ($12.12 in chips)
Seat 3: TroutBumnz ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: 7letters ($11.33 in chips)
Seat 5: Jistbug ($13.25 in chips)
Seat 6: Hero ($18.60 in chips)
mbryce85: posts small blind $0.02
TroutBumnz: posts big blind $0.05
I decided to switch it up and play low stakes omaha. The games are really soft but thats really not why I switched. Holdem is just way too boring at low stakes and I can't put in the necessary amount of hands needed day after day to grind my way up when its just not fun. I also don't really have the time tbh and I don't want to play out of my roll.
The reason I don't find it fun is that the thought process is just so limited at lowstakes and at times I find myself overthinking way to many hands and assuming my opponents even have the slightest clue as to how to play poker.
The problem lies in the fact that I like to think about hands and not just play like a robot constantly, thats just no fun. So since im completely new to Omaha I get to spend more time thinking since I have 4 cards in my hand instead of two and really think out how the hand will develop etc....
I was reading around 2p2 one day and I saw a quote that I found helpful. It basically said that you should spend over twice the time studying the game than you spend playing it when you are new. I found this to be helpful and my knowledge of poker has grown tremendously over the past month but i guess I'm too lazy to mechanically nutpeddle microstakes vs holdumz donks.
Oh well, any good Omaha players on here? I might start posting some hands. I hear 40buyins is the standard rule since variance is crazy. However its just so soft at the microstakes i might move up a little quicker. Any good tips to keep in mind to help progress as an Omaha player over time?
Oh I just flopped a straight flush while typing this. Good sign?
