I have some little recommendation on the side for you: Switch off your cards dealt animation - waiting this long to see 4 cards costs you a lot of hands per hour.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I'm glad you liked the video!

I dont want to defend my play at all but if the inintial rasier or the button had been in the hand instead of the bb, i would have probably gone for value on the river.

I know I already harped on this during the video, but I want to do so again. "Probably" betting river against the button or the initial raiser is not good enough :). You should definitely bet river here vs. all positions. You need to get a lot more comfortable going thinner for value on the river. My advice to you is this: Next session you play, just try to force yourself to be more optimistic with your hand reading and see how it goes. Basically, we need to recalibrate your instincts here - and I'm sure this is true for many others reading. They should try the same!

I already made a part 2 with the same video. No promises, but if I end up making a part 3, I'll use the last video.

Yes it's a raise unless your completely unsuited in Vision. Any suitedness is a pure open here

Spielgscheit You're welcome! Something else to consider is PokerStars zoom has a steep rake, so loosening up a bit might not necessarily be a good idea. I used to play PLO25z and PLO50z and was breaking even over a decent sample. When analyzing my play & stats one thing that was always bugging me was the amount of rake I paid, I was paying over 20bb/100 for rake, and winning only about 0.3bb/100 for myself after rakeback. Some time this spring I switched to RIO poker and now I'm winning 15bb/100 in PLO50 due to much more generous rake structure.

So glad to hear that switching to runitonce.eu made the difference for you, Ernestas Romeika ! Keep it up :)

Hey Spielgscheit, yes, i think your vivid imagination of RIO is wrong ;) I play PLO25 on stars and PLO20 on RIO and that are my experiences so far:
- Rakeback at RIO is a lot more (like Ernestas said)
- It's more fun to play with the RIO software
- On average the RIO players are slightly better opponents (reason: on stars are more huge whales than on RIO)
- On stars i focus a lot on beating the huge whales (HUD is very important for ZOOM imo), on RIO i can focus more on learning the game and implement the strategies that we learn here on RIO.
- Overall i'm winning a bit more on stars (up to now, i hope that will change if i get used to the pool), but i learn a lot more playing on RIO and it makes way more fun.

I think you should try RIO and make your own experiences. If you don't use a HUD on stars, RIO might be a lot better for you since HUDs are not allowed. And even if you then still think the games are a lot tougher (which i don't think; they are a little bit tougher but rakeback is better) there might be something positive: You can learn to play against better opponents on average for a cheap price and use that experience on other sites on higher stakes. And isn't it a better feeling to pay the rake to RIO with owner Phil Galfond than to greedy Poker stars? ;)

Greetings,
Julian

Hey guys, thank you Phil Galfond; excellent video. I have been watching these Glalfond omaha videos since spring. They have improved my game considerably. I went from small winner/break even player to winning nicely. I had the same preconceived notion about RIO poker than Spielgscheit. Too many sharks - not worth playing. I made a small deposit just to take advantage of good campaings. To my surprise, the players are not much better than at stars. With my small depo playing 0.10/0.25 blinds I went on sick heater, also getting lucky, and I am up over 20 buy ins. I moved level up, and the players are only slighty better.
Here are observations about small stakes players at RIO and compared to stars.

• The players are sizing tell boxes. Big bet is pretty much always nuts. You can do nicely basically never bluff catching vs. big bets.
• The players play very straightforward. Not much slowplaying and 3 barrel bluffing.
• Players have wider 3 betting ranges than stars(not just kk,aa). But their hand selections for 3betting are not necessarily good, and they dont play exceptionally well post flop.
• The pots dont go 4 way to 5 ways. This is common at stars. I think it is more fun to play at RIO when you get play HU and 3 way pots, plus the software is good, which make playing more enjoyful. I also I hate playing 5 way pots because it feels like playing bingo, you pretty much just need to make the nuts or close to win pots. Or does anyone have good adjustments for 5 way pots, other than playing hands that do well multiway??
  Regarding Galfond analysis; on the A438Q rb board I hate potting with AA. You are going to get a fold 90+% of the time at these stakes. If you bet 0.5 pot you are going to get called so much more often that IMO this will make you more money. SInce people are uncomfortable calling big bets with marginal hands this would be good pot bet bluffing spot for instance with A567 type hand.

P.s. I thought this corona spring was the worst ever. I had to stay in, but I decided to spend it studying Galfond and other videos. After 10+ years of grinding small/mid stakes tournaments(profitable every year though), I managed to bink my first 6figure score from a WSOP event :)). Thank you Phil Galfond, I´m sure watching omaha videos might have also improved my decision making process in NL Texas. I guess I can try to play bigger than 25cent games at Rio now :).