I have been playing PLO 100 and 200 for about two years now, with the odd bit of 400. I guess you could say I stick in my comfort zone, and i'm relatively happy with it. I know i could make more if I played higher and I've had the BR to play more or less any game for some time, but I'm fairly happy ploughing along as I am now, although I have had some thoughts to try to get beyond the 200 PLO8 games at some stage, who knows whether I'll get a "second wind" in 2006 and maybe go for it then. I don't think there's any shame in finding a "ceiling", I'm comfortable in the games I play, and I make more per hour than I am conceivably ever likely to in the career path of my current job, so that suits me for the moment. Lack of ambition perhaps but I'm not losing any sleep over it.
You should note that with PLO8, the tables at UB and Stars seem to be abnormally rocky above the $50 buyin level, so you're probably not in the best games. At UB especially I've almost never seen a good $100 or $200 hi/lo game. The Party games are decent though. Don't bother playing if the average pot is much below $30 for a 100PLO8 table, and/or the average number of players in a hand is very low, or there doesn't seem to be at least one or two poor players.
Another alternative is to increase your winrate by increasing the number of tables you play. This is what I've done at 100 and 200, until I now regularly play 7 or 8 at once. I guess, therefore, my winrate is somewhere around what could be expected from one table of PLO 1000, for a very good player, although I rarely have much more than $1k in play at any one time and (because it's in increments) my variance is much lower than it would be playing a PLO 1000 game.
Hope this is some food for thought anyhow.
Monk
xxxxxStatistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:37 pm
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