Well, if you are reading this you might either be a friend of mine who is following me up on my PLO challenge to support me, since friends do stuff like these, or you are just interested to see how a completely PLO-newbie takes it serious to learn a new game and grind it up the stakes.

For those who doesn't know me, im a 25 year old swiss poker player who is used to hang around at big field MTT's and small to mid-stakes zoom cash games on a regularly base. Over the years i have also played several thousands HU SnG's from micro to mid stakes, a **load of Hands at hyper SnG's, short-handed and full-ring as well. I played Spin and Go's from the lowest to the highest available buy-ins and yes, like everyone did back in the days, i mass-tabled the DON's up to 24 Tables at a time.

All in all, over the years i gained a lot of experience at the table's wich helped me to improve my game in the different forms of poker from day to day. Everytime i try a new game, i try to get better at it ASAP. This means putting in tons of hours to learn the theoretical stuff behind each gametype with help from books, videos, blogs, articles, coaching and especially a lot, and i mean a LOT, of mistakes made at the tables itself. The only way to improve your game and get a winning player is to put in the hours and effort to do so. The average player isn't sleeping, and it's not 2009 anymore where you could just play a solid TAG-style and print some money. This brings us to one of the most important aspects in poker, wich is discipline and self-control.

Now you get a feeling of what it takes to approach to learn a new game. Of course there is way way more to do to become a winning player, but you have to start somewhere right?
Over the duration of this Blog i will follow up with many more aspects to improve at the tables and we see if it works out for me as well.^^

The following article is copy paste by the series PLO from scratch wich i use for my own:

The Bankroll-Management im using for the PLO-Challenge is 50+10.
This means having 50 Bi for the stakes i play at, starting with a 250.- BR and playing PLO5. I will keep this tread up to date and graphs and stuff will follow as well.

So where to begin the grind? I decided to start with an article series bankroll of $250, since my impression is that most micro limit players start with similar bankrolls. The next step is to pick a bankroll management scheme, and I have chosen a scheme I call "50+10". This means playing with a 50 BI minimum bankroll (so we start out at $5PLO), and we can start taking shots at the next limit whenever we have 50 BI for the current limit plus 10 BI for the next limit.

If we lose the shotting capital, we move back down to rebuild and try again (grind in 10 new BI for the next limit and take another shot). So we take shots with 10 BI at a time, and we always move down when the bankroll drops to 50 BI for the previous limit.

The next question is where to end the project. I like a challenge, so I plan to make this article bankroll ready for taking a shot at $200PLO. This means we end the project when we have 50 BI ($5000) for $100PLO plus 10 BI ($2000) for $200PLO. In other words, we will turn our $250 into $7000.

How much time (e.g. how many hands) will we realistically have to use for this project? First we find out how many buy-ins we have to win (minimum) for the different limits:

•$5PLO to $10PLO:Grind in 20 BI ($100) at $5PLO and build the roll to 50+10 BI ($350) for a shot at $10PLO.

•$10PLO to $25PLO:Grind in 40 BI ($400) at $10PLO and build the roll to 50+10 BI ($750) for a shot at $25PLO.

•$25PLO to $50PLO:Grind in 40 BI ($1000) at $25PLO and build the roll to 50+10 BI ($1750) for a shot at $50PLO.

•$50PLO to $100PLO:Grind in 35 BI ($1750) at $50PLO and build the roll to 50+10 BI ($3500) for a shot at $100PLO.

•$100PLO to $200PLO:Grind in 35 BI ($3500) at $100PLO and build the roll to 50+10 BI ($7000) for a shot at $200PLO.

If all shots succeed at the first try, we have to grind in 20 + 40 + 40 + 35 + 35 =170 BI. If we (somewhat arbitrarily) assume an average win rate of 7.5 ptBB/100 (ptBB =2 x big blind), we will make 1.5 BI per 1000 hands on average. So we have to play a minimum of 170/(1.5 per 1000 hands) =113,000 hands.

Actually im already 17k hands in the challenge.
Since i started my blog on facebook i will continue there. If your looking for graph's and stuff feel free to check it out.

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