Kippers and PLOM/8 STTs

I've never really played plom8 stts much before the transition from tribeca to playtech. No one wanted to play them see...

I've played plenty of mtts and cash though and have a good understnading (in my humble opinion of course!) of how they work.

STTS though were a new beast to me though so when i got stuck into them I knew I had some learning to do.

I started off well, primarily playing 6 handed 20$ stts, and soon realised there's plenty of dead money in these games. However I went through a little downswing and was beginning to doubt my ability but then started crushing them recently so my former assurance was recovered. HAHAHAA does that sound like the most results-orientated kippery bollocks you ever did hear!

Anyhoo, having played in excess of 100 of these now, I feel like several things have become apparent.

1) I needed to loosen up my starting hand requirements. Having played a lot of cash where I tend to have very strict hand requirements, 6 handed stts are a different animal and hands like 34KQ which are pretty fishy in cash games can be played profitably in stts given the right situations (often on the button)

2) There's a nucleus of decent players on playtech. I won't boost their already swollen egos by mentioning them but there is a clear number of players who are head and shoulders above the average kipper. Game selection considerations suggest i should avoid these players but the shortage of the player base playing these stts means i can't really. Importantly though I do feel i have an edge on these players (No problem boosting my own swollen ego clearly!)

3) There are some players ranging from bad to absolutely horrendous. These are the absolute dead money. They occasionally fluke a result but basically they are there to sit there lining the pockets of the other players. Generally they are very scared around the bubble as they dont get many results so you can limp their blind and min bet and usually pick it up.

Just for fun, I'd like to run through the thought processes of different types of PL omaha players.

Here are our heroes and villains.

Weak tight kipper

Good player.

Aggressive Kipper

OOoops registered by mistake kipper.



Weak tight kipper.
Thoughts on strategy: Ok, I'm here to come second. I know A2 is a good hand so ill play this most of the time unless someone raises a lot of chips. Then I'd better fold because you know it's better safe than sorry. If someone raises my blind, I wee a little bit in my trousers. Then I fold. I wish they'd stop raising. I heard you're not sposed to raise in omaha hi lo. They're breaking the rules arent they? Please let me come 2nd. Oh no it's the bubble :( ok Im gonna just fold till theres 2 left then i can quit. Why has junglecat raised again? :( he's ruining my trousers. He sure gets a lot of good hands. I wish I was as lucky as him :(


Good Player.
Thoughts on strategy. Ok I'm here to win you mofos. Looking round all i see is fodder for me to fire bets at. All these kippers are privileged to be on my table. I'm going to try and build a stack up by seeing some flops and using my naturally superior post-flop skill to shake and break the kippers. Aggro bad players I'll see lots of flops with as their stack is constantly up for grabs. Weak tight players are gonna give me their blinds. Come bubble time Ill be stealing a lot, playing lots of pots in position so I can pick up valuable chips. Let's get it on morons. You're here to pay homage to your lord and master! On your knees kippers, I SAID ON YOUR KNEES!

Aggressive Kipper
Thoughts on strategy. Raise every pot. Pot every flop. Then check cards. Might fold on turn if I still don't have a pair otherwise i'm going all the way baby. I love action and i bring action. Do I win? Well probably. I don't keep track of the money like you nerds. It's hard to fill in a spreadsheet when you're pressing raise BITCH! It's all luck anyway. Fuck you. No seriously you pussy. You want to play you gotta pay. What, I'm out? Oh well probably a bad beat. I'll fire up another and get raisin'. And you can kiss my hairy butt!

Ooops registered by mistake kipper
Thoughts on strategy: Er, I dunno, seems like there's more cards. Bit like that game, what's it called ....homo-hah? Except this is homo-hah hello. Sounds a bit gay but I'll give it a go. Ok so what do I do? Dunno ill just wait till i get a good hand. Hey cool! Monster!!! Someone's raised. IM ALLLLIN. Yeh baby! This pot is mine. All the chips in the middle and they're all mine. Tooo GOOD TOO GOOD. SHIP THAT POT TO DA KIPPER SHIP THAT PO......what? I lost??
But I had quads and it's saying he won with a straight. What is this bullshit :( Stupid rules. I dont get them. Ah well fire up another Ill get the hang of this soon. I hope........

Oh look Cat won a comp therefore.....

........like a fucking predictable kipper, I make a blog entry.

I guess it's entirely natural that poker players' blogs consist almost entirely of shameless, self-proclaiming chirps when they've won something, or a series of whining, bleating moans when they're on a bad run.

I cannot deny that this is the case here, but at least you don't have to listen to me whinging on about getting ironed out again.

Yes, I won a comp. It shows what a shit year I'm having that winning a 10$ rebuy is cause to gloat but fuck it, it's my blog and chirp away I shall. 124 runners, i came to the final table after hitting some nice cards with 4 x the average, uber chippie and never threw it away, taking home 900$ exactly.

There's no point going through the comp, i had some nice cards after a wretched rebuy period but I will post one hand as it was one of the strangest I've ever played.

I have J9s with 295k in the sb, my opponent 135k in the bb. (4k 8k)

I make it 18k to go, he calls.

Flop comes Qs 9d 4c.

I like the flop so when he checks i bet 15k. He check min raises me. Hmmm, i'm not ready to let go yet so i call him.

Turn is the 2d. He bets 8k, I'm having none of that so i make it 22k, he again minimum raises me 14k to 36k!

I can't work out what the fuck he has. He's obviously telling me a story of great strength, but I'm having trouble buying his tale. I can't see QQ or 99. The only set he might have is 44 but based on a play he made earlier, I can't see it.

The river is a 4. He pushes for 51k.

I feel like I'm kind of committed with my 2nd pair here given the size of the pot. I just couldn't work out if i was good or not.

I call. He has K2 for bottom pair which he hit on the turn and I win, taking the comp down in the process. Flushy mocked me for calling this bloke down, but to be honest it was based on how he had played throughout the final. His style of play was, like flushy, FAG or Fish AGgressive.

Anyway the win rounded off a good week with five final tables, including a live result (5th in a 10 quid rebuy for 300£) which I should have won but couldnt get KK to hold. I've been playing a lot more MTTs recently and feel my form is returning back to the old days where I used to win one a week.

Just a quick mention of my moron flatmate Flushy who has been getting some great results in the sussex masters festival in brighton. The guy's a fish but you can't knock 1st in a 100 rebuy for 5.5k and getting a 2.7k deal result in the £300 fo too.

The 2nd one's a bit odd. Flushy hates making deals as he knows he has a good edge on people on final tables who are afraid to go broke whilst he can just play without worrying about the money so much.

The £300 comp was scheduled to be a 2 day event but they reached the last 10 players, flushy on 110k and a decent chip lead. A laughable 10 way chop was suggested which flushy rightly scoffed at. It meant it looked likely they would have to come back tomorrow. At this point the other players on flushy's table all started abusing him calling him "cunt" "wanker" and other such names almost every hand. Now Flushy, being the person that he is, is used to regular abuse, but I could tell when he related the story to me later that this bad tempered needling upset him, especially as part of it was from a guy he previously considered a friend. Eventually, fed-up with constant abuse, Flushy gave in and dealt (admittedly after losing his chip lead!)

Rare that I feel like I should stand up for Flushy but this kind of childish behaviour is pretty pathetic and had he called me up, I'd have got over to the casino and given him some support. What kind of ball-less morons want to chop the money before the final table's even started?

Fuck me, I don't know why after the first 20 people were eliminated they didn't suggest a 60 way chop so they can all bank their small profit, go home to a cup of bovril and jack off over knitting patterns.

Absolutely pathetic.

They are lucky it wasn't me in flushy's position, because there would have been no dealing once they tried the strong arm bullshit. Well I might have offered them 1st place money to the cat, the rest of you chop the remainder. Deal or no deal bitches?

Anyway well done to flushy who won 2 events at the last festival, has won the 100 rebuy this time and basically "chopped" the 300, although the farcical deal meant the competition basically ended with 10 left.

Whatta fukkin liberty! Laterz kippers.