in the hole

so i've been getting beat up pretty good in the omaha 8 games on ftp. mostly 3/6 has annihilated me and i've been breaking even at 2/4. to be honest though, i've been playing horribly and probably deserve the result. while my pre-flop hand selection is coming along my post flop play has been abysmal and i have been spewing hard. last night was the first session where i actually buckled down and started folding some hands post flop and i think i plugged one very large leak in which i was overplaying mediocre high hands multi-way when the flop has brought a low or a low draw.

anyways, i have a new kind of outlook on my poker game and that is "while i have more knowledge and skill than your average poker joe, i by no means have god given talent for cards and have to work relentlessly at improving my game in order to be a winner. And after all that, i'll never be as good as i can be and will never reach a point where i can rest on my laurels."

pretty deep.

so in my omaha 8 learning curve i've set a few rules:

1. only play 2/4
2. no more playing short handed, once a game breaks below 4 players i'll probably sit out.
3. no more playing while i'm multi-tabling mtt's.

this and i also started keeping my holdem manager open while playing and reviewing key pots on the side as soon as i played them. this helps me get a better grasp on equities and what edges i should be pushing and where i might be spewing. ideally i would like to take time away from the tables to do post game analysis but my poker time is pretty limited so i'm going to go ahead with analyzing on the fly.

i'll also look to focus on my mtt tables and will only mix in omaha tables when im down to 2 or 3 tabling mtt's. playing 6 tables with a mixture just seems to disorientate me and i end up ignoring the mtt tables and am trying to follow action on the omaha tables.

played a few mtt's last night and went deep in an $11 20k guarantee on stars but busted 41st/2700ish when i re-stole a button open w/ KJs in the sb and villain made a good call w/ A9o about 20bb deep.

im pretty hungry for some mtt success, even a final table but haven't been able to do much. it's partly due to the lack of tourny's i can play though as i usually register for everything up to $35 buy-ins and under between 7pm and 8pm. this usually gives me 3 or 4 tourny's on stars and 1 on ftp although my pleas to ftp have seemed to work and they added a $11 15k guarantee at 7pm. this is great except for 1 thing, it's a superstack tourny which gives slower structure and more chips which im all in favor for but the tourny gets like 2700 runners and from what i can tell, runs 10 hours. this means that if i were to final table, i'd be up till 5am on a day that i have leave for work a mere 2 hours later. now the top prize last night was like 4.7k which is very good for a $11 mtt but you could essentially play for 9 hours and final table only to make like $300. kinda not worth it to me.

so thats about it, i've been splitting my away from the table time to watching mtt vids and reading a bunch of o8 material along with re-reading the Ray Zee hi lo split for advanced players book.

let's hope something good materializes.

tg