I’m slowly getting better at PLO. When I first started playing, it was hard enough to know what hands I had, never mind try to figure out the ranges of my opponents! I feel like I can finally start thinking about ranges when I am in the middle of post flop hands. Obviously many of my ranges will be really inaccurate at this point, but at least I am considering them now. Finally I can move out of 1st level poker 😛
It occurred to me that not being able to achieve 2nd level thinking doesn’t mean that I can’t achieve 3rd level. Does that even make sense? I felt like even though I had no clue what my opponents had half the time, I was still able to guess what my opponents thought I had. Enough that I could at least pull off some decent bluffs and value bets where appropriate.
I played around 2k hands since I last wrote and broke even. The encouraging news is that I ran 4 buy-ins below EV in all-in pots. Never have I been so happy to run badly! Hopefully this small sample is the start of significant improvement and better results.
I’m going to play a short session right now and try working on some of that elusive level 2 thinking. Good luck me!
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