played live PLO

I played live Omaha for the first time this weekend. I arrived at the casino and the $1/$2 NL tables had a waiting list while the $1/$1 mixed game had just 4 people. So I took a seat at $1/$1.

The $1/$1 game is mixed alternating between PLO and hold'em. It was a good game live PLO. It was fun and Omaha seemed to play friendlier than NL hold'em. There are some things to get used to. Everyone, including regulars, was constantly rechecking their cards during the hand. I often had trouble even picking up the cards to look at them, it's a lot harder with 4 cards. I'll work on that at home a bit.

Being new I just bought in for the minimum, $40. Not much interesting happened. Lots of folding, a few playable hands. I made quads one hand, didn't end up showing. I ended up winning a modest amount over 2 hours without getting stacked, though I was all in on a couple of occasions.

It was a lot of fun I had wanted to get in some $1/$1 sessions to get in some live PLO play on the road to my horizon.

moving up PLO

I completed the $0.02/$0.05 stage of PLO. I ran very well over the small sample of 500 hands finishing up several buyins.

 $0.02/$0.05 PLO on Stars was a bit different. There's hardly any FR scene to speak of. Also Zoom isn't available. So that leaves 6 max. I came to like 6 max there's lots of action without being too shorthanded. Of course it helps to be running so well.

So according to plan the next stop is $0.05/$0.10 PLO. At that level there's the enjoyable Zoom available. I should try to balance that with some full ring play as well. I'll see what's on Stars but I'm not opposed to making a small deposit and opening up a second site as well. Again the plan is 500 hands with some profit.