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7hr shift player poker in ldn again, booked a nice win. I love fridays in the build up to xmas.

Just realised theres no traffic on stars so can't be arsed, looks like i have to play on gg even though i hate the software, gonna play 10-50k at 2plo to get used to the used to the software.

Played some live today in LDN, started with £1050 - left with £1680. 1/2 with a straddles often. Networked with some ok ppl, didnt meet anyone worth starting a business with. Tipped the dealer every hand i won for lols all night long as just started playing

Gamblers gonna gamble.

Going to be shortstacking 0.50 on stars 4card in December and playing Sky Poker uk. Fridays 1/2 London live cash. for the rest of the year.

I'm not on discord, But i'll sign up and add you.

confirmed, poker is dead, poker needs a hero. Where can we find one?

is group still going?

The online poker landscape is warm, ripe, wet and dripping right now for a project like this. And has been now for something like 2-3 years. Well done for putting this out there, I hope you succeed.

I'll be in the NVG thread if you need me.

A couple of suggestions if i may..... in order of importance.
0) Avoid the affiliate model at all costs
1) Hire a retired Anti-Money Laundering expert with 20+ years experience from the banking sector.
2) You need to delivery the best Customer Service in the Gambling industry 24/7/365.
3) ONE free withdraw per month, any more and you pass on the business banking fee to the player
4) The UK is your primary beta testing market because of its friendly gambling laws. Beta test via a ring fenced invitational only player pool. And expand the pool slowly.
5) Rake the shit out of High Stakes Poker from Day 1

Gl fella, just shout if you ever need any help with anything.  

Interesting post Unbuwoha, I am behind where your at in terms of building PPT macros for my hand forms, I kinda did something similar to you but i took those hand rankings and built a data table in Excel which auto calcs the hands and groups/sorts them by my categories with a true/false return.  And then used that info to build a chart based on my bones/skin approach. it can be seen on 2+2 if anyone is interested... at one point i wanted to automate it to give me dynamic PPT ranges but i cant see the value in that now. Maybe if i ever go full time i will do it. 

+1 to the PPT range explorer. its an amazing tool for breaking down ranges. 

A lot of people will say starting hands in PLO are not THAT important and this is probably because no one actually knows the correct order of hand rankings in PLO. A player might think they are playing the top 14% of hands but they could in fact be playing a range of 14% distributed over a real ranking range of 0-42%, depending on their method of hand selection. This is a topic that i utterly love and hope to carry forward into 5 & 6 card PLO one day when i have the free time.  I can sit away for days tinkering with "starting" baseline boundary ranges.

I  like to think of these PLO Ranges (or PLORANGES as I like to refer to them) as the Bones and Skin of your hole cards. Bones = Hand form, Skin = Suited texture. The Bones of your hand are the core value of your hole cards, whereas the skin (or suitedness) is the protection that can be offered to the hand form, for instance, the worse the hand form the more Skin it needs!! 

When I think of PLO ranges; I like to think of Tetris and the way everything should slot together like a Rubiks Cube but it never quite does!!! But then those four little blocks do move around like PLO holecards quite well if you think about it hard enough!!  Which is exactly what imo makes this such a great topic!!!! 

You could for instance break the bones of a PLO range down like this:- 

Parallels or Verticles = Double Pairs, Singe Pairs, Trips, Quads

Runs or Horizontals = 4Rundown, 3Rundown, Connectors

Runs(Gappers) = TopGapper, 2TopGapper, MidGapper, 2MidGapper, 3MidGapper, BotGapper, 2BotGapper, 3BotGapper

Runs(ComboGappers) = DualTopGapper, DualBotGapper, TriGapper

Broadways+Above

Broadways+(!Above)

I'll stop there with that, but a good start for you would be to work out which hand subsections form part of the top X% ranked by PPT.  

So say if you wanted to know how many suited Ace runs from "T98 and down" were within the top 10% you would go something like 10%:(Ax*x*y*:[T98-]). Then you could break the original range down further with other hand forms until you can build 100% with your subsections of the original range. This will give you a good understanding of the composition of the original range as well as easily being able to grasp what % pairs or Axx or Runs are within the original range.  

But beware there will be alot of overlap with your subsections so doing somthing like this makes you think hard about everything and is very time consuming unless you program for fun.  

Just completed my first video series on RIO, been watching on laptop on train in the morning = ballin. +free advertisement for RIO.  Anyway just wanted say, seriously enjoyable video series!! As always Mr Phil, you explain shit very intricately and with a good level of detail that causes me immense stimulation and thought provocation. Plus when you distract yourself it is quite interesting to hear your thought process regarding said distractions, lol

Erm the purpose of my post is in respect of the last hand, with A7; On the river, villain transitions a tonne of hands into bluffs, plus an air range when we bet 33 on river, and if we are begrudgingly making a crying calling, doesn’t a b/f instantly become a b/ship instead of b/call given the remaining stack ($57)????