I know it’s been a while since my last post but things have taken a rather dramatic step since my last post and in fact over the summer in general. Firstly I stopped playing the challenge (just got bored with it) and stopped it at $50,000. I could basically make it up and say that me playing PLO now is part of it but that simply wouldn’t be true. I got fed up of playing NLHE full ring and felt that the level was getting too tough at NL100 to play 10-12 tables on automatic pilot and I have felt this all year.
The action at sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk makes up for everything but I have played more PLO this year although at my preferred full ring then you are always struggling to find the same level of action that you are at six max. I have also stopped writing for poker magazines as well. So no more articles in Poker Pro Europe, Online Poker Pro and Player Ireland!
Drastic changes but things were getting somewhat stale but last week saw my first week in nearly two years without playing NLHE ring whilst trying to make money within a gambling environment. I have had breaks away from poker games before but always to have a break permanently. But last week saw me play around 15 hours at PLO and I spent another 30 hours trading which is taking over my life more and more in the same way that online poker did in 2001-2002 and writing did in 2005-2006.
The act of trading and the theory behind it fascinates me every bit as much as poker and despite going back on The Hendon Mob forum recently and writing for them again……I feel once again that I need a fresh boost. I like full ring PLO as I think there is more value at the same levels than a comparable game at NLHE but that will probably change and is changing.
One key factor with PLO is that although the average starting hands are pretty close in value, the way that the equity disperses post flop means that many players end up getting into some pretty poor spots in a way that they wouldn’t do in NLHE and that has meant that I have been recording some excellent bb/100 this year but I am not even sure that I will be playing poker at all in 2012 but seeing as I am supposed to be a poker player then I better find time to do some of it.
So no more poker magazines, no more challenge and also no more Viper and Vulture…….I tried to get these down into print but time restrictions have just blown me out of the water now and so don’t bother contacting me asking about it because it isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
