Hello everybody,

my name is Marcel and i am a student from Berlin, Germany.

After checking by this site almost daily now, i finally decided to register. From what i have seen so far, i have to say that RIO is by far the most friendly and useful coaching site out there!

I recently finished my BA, so i will have around 6 month of free time now until my master program starts. I was playing poker in the last 4 years, but more likely as a hobby, with small winnings live and online.

So because of my spare time and my strong interest in the game, i really want to put some concentrated effort into it in the next month. The game i want to pick is PLO, i played everything from SNGs, MTT NLHE cash but i have the most fun playing PLO.

My goal is to become a winning player at PLO100 or above. I know this will be hard work, but im a dedicated and disciplined person.

I also have some questions and concernes that some of you might know better than me.

Is it still worth putting effort in PLO nowadays or will PLO become something similar like NLHE CG with dry action and few fish? Of course noone can see into the future. :)

Also i know that its possible to beat PLO 5 and 10 after rake, i read jonnas thread about the 100$ challenge which really inspired me, but would it be better to grind my roll with SNGs until i am rolled for PLO25 or 50? I really hate SNGs as i find them boring, but grinding a roll from it would be def. doable for me.

Or should i straight start with PLO? I have a BR of 200$ to use at this point.

My PLO background so far: i played around 10K hands, watched solid state PLO, 2x6, PLO(galfond whitelime) and read PLO fromscratch. So im not a complete fish.

Thank you,

Best regards!

K.S.