Running bad at Full Tilt Omaha 8

It's been a while since I last posted, I'm really busy doing...not much really.

Anyway, so far I'm losing at PL and NLO8. Played about 1500 hands so far and I'm down like 4 buyins. I'm by no means an expert yet, but I think it's safe to say that I've been running terribly so far. Bottom of y-axis is -$100 sigh




Here's the biggest hands in my stretch so far.

http://handposter.com/hand/6359 This one I wasnt sure about until I put it in a calculator. I have 60% equity vs the villian, and theres a bunch of dead money in the pot from the short stack. Easy push, bad luck.

http://handposter.com/hand/6360 Not gonna make an excuse about this one, 100% bad play. I should have correctly check/folded the turn. Playing perfectly I should have raised preflop but I'm out of position and in this instance I'm playing for set/straight value, not pocket aces value. Pretty surprising how weak the villains' holdings were though right? Lost to bottom straight and a gutshot/flush draw. Similar to one of the other hands posted here somewhere.


http://handposter.com/hand/6358 Here I was pretty confident about my hand. I figured I was most likely up against aces, maybe Q2 or a set. He had a broadway wrap which I had 55% equity. Not a huge edge by any meansl, but annoying nonetheless.

http://handposter.com/hand/6357 Biggest loser. I guess I could have checked the turn, but after seeing the villian's hole cards I think I made the perfect or near perfect play by betting. I was expecting to be way behind here, AT LEAST aces up. Turns out I was up against a worse 2 pair and a gutshot/flush draw. On the turn I have 40% equity in a 3 way pot. Couldnt I have atleast split the pot?

http://handposter.com/hand/6361 Don't believe I'm running bad yet? Here you go.


I did win a few hands, but not worth mentioning as this is a running bad post.

Let's see.... in other news, I'm playing lots of brawl. I play league matches at wifiwars and I'm rank 16 on the ladder. It changes all the time, but I think in time I'll be in the top 5. Went to 2 tournaments so far, one was on Long Island I got 2nd place, but the structure was retarded and only first got paid so I bubbled : \

Other one a web2zone weekly, which was pretty cool. There were a bunch of big names there and we got there late so we didn't bother registering. Just hung out with great players and played friendlies. New picture of me on the left is at web2zone.

I'm still planning on getting my table selector to work for omaha, don't worry. It'll be up eventually (atleast for me : ( you'd be surprised at how much more work it takes to get it to work outside of my machine as a standalone program). Maybe in a month or 2?

Done with Carbon Poker...good riddance

Basically, Carbon Poker sucks. Nobody plays, cant make good reads, cant analyze play (no pokertracker). There is just no money going around on that site. Ridiculous rake, 10% ON HEADS UP TABLES WTF? After a few weeks I wind up +$15.9. I decided I'm finished with this stupid site so I go to cash out. I don't have any e-wallets so I go for check or wire transfer. Guess what? They don't do wire transfers, AND THEY CHARGE $15 FOR CHECKS AND THEY DONT CASH OUT CENTS. So I'm breakeven.

So yeah. Hopefully my money comes soon but it's not important, I'm still well rolled for the games I'm going to play. I will be going back to Full Tilt Poker, mostly playing omaha8 SNG's, mixing in some cash games and some large low stakes hold'em MTT's (early double mainly).

Got a message telling me about this omaha book by Moshman, so I will someday (hopefully soon), get it and write a review.

Things are going pretty slow otherwise. Lazy as hell for school, going to fail english if I don't hand in a 5 page paper within the next few days. And sadly, I've been slacking in the data structures class I'm taking at Stony Brook University. Missed 1 homework for 5% of my grade, and I got an 82 on the first midterm. I feel pretty bad about myself for that, especially since the professor is really cool and would probably help me with some projects that I'm working on and maybe write me a letter of recommendation. Also the class is filled with fucking stupid kids...I don't think the honors program people take this class, so I should be dominating.

1 other thing I want to do is finish my table selection program. Don't know if I mentioned it here but it speaks for itself doesn't it? I have a working piece of software that I've been using for hold'em games, and it's pretty good. When I was focusing on hold'em, I had a separate machine that solely datamined 16 tables of games played during the hours I play. I want to do more tables but the problem is 16 is the max for Full Tilt so you have to do it on a new user account, and I haven't found a way to make sure the 2 accounts arent observing the same tables.

My next step will be changing the program so it works with omaha, and if I ever make it nice enough to run outside of my machine, I will certainly post it and it will be free, open source, etc. None of that selling out bullshit *cough* Full Tilt Table Opener *cough* will happen to me.

Oh yeah, brawl. Trying to play as much as possible. There's some tournaments coming up which I want to play in. No recognized names live on Long Island, especially out east like I do so it should be easy. Don't want to get too cocky though, I'll just have to wait and see.

Despite my love for brawl though, I'm going to start playing more poker again, so you'll see more frequent posting here. I've got a computer next to my T.V. which I need for finding online matches, so I might as well have a couple tables open at the same time, right?

Keep checking mooplet.com if you like brawl. We are slowly amassing an article and video collection which should be pretty respected as time goes on and we get a regular viewer base.

Thanks for reading.