I hate to say it....

...but I told ya so. In my last blog I had this to say about the PLO game at my hometown Casino Aztar.

"People just don't fold down there! The crazy thing is, I think I will still get action when I do play and happen to make something. It didn't happen today, but thats just the way it goes sometimes."

Well, today I made a few hands and got action just like I thought I would. I played for about 5 hours or so and won $2,794 playing nothing but the nuts. The game is so loose with so much action it calls for some adjustments in my game for sure. What I mean by adjustments is that I never raised preflop even ONE time the whole day and I was hardly ever the aggressor throughout the hand. I was the only guy in the game that didn't straddle, and surprisingly no one gives me any grief about it. Yet somehow I still got a decent amount of action on my made hands. Raising preflop in that game doesn't serve any purpose for me. I am not going to ever gain position by getting players behind me to fold and I don't feel like I need to make the pot any bigger when 8-10 people are seeing the flop. Someone is usually going to make the nuts (or something very close to it) so I feel like it is silly to build a pot without the nuts in the first place.

I know that if I am really going to beat the game for HUGE numbers in the future I will have to adopt a more loose aggressive style, but honestly I am not really comfortable enough with PLO to play that way just yet. For now, the $1-3K possible profit in the game is suitable for me, because I can accomplish those kinds of wins with minimal risk. I think if I played a little more Loose/Aggressive I could win $2-7K per session, but I would be gambling a lot more and risking much more money in doing it.

It is kind of amazing how good that game is. It doesn't go quite as strongly as it used to, but it is still a pretty salty game overall. They used to always have a must move game and it would go until very late at night and on into the next morning. Now, the game has been breaking up around 6-7pm which kind of sucks, but the lineup that they have for that period of time is about as juicy as it gets.

Here is a quick run down of the players that played for most of the time today:

Seat 1: Mikey - An Asian guy that will play a 9 high back door flush draw for all of his chips if he hits it. He seems VERY loose, but he certainly knows whats going on. You can tell this, because everytime a dispute comes up about how much is in the pot he knows to the exact dollar amount. In fact, he won a $300 bet today with Roger (seat 2) about how much someone could raise.

Seat 2: Roger Kamuf - A farmer from Owensboro, KY. He is a very experienced PLO player and is pretty dangerous. He is willing to gamble a lot and will definitely bluff when given the chance. He will go off for big numbers for sure and the more he is loser the more he starts gambling and raising. Seems to have endless money.

Seat 3: Charlie - A black guy that used to play basketball for Kentucky Wesleyan a long time ago (in fact i think he was their first black player). He is tight compared to the rest of the game, but will still gamble it up at the drop of a hat. Loves to play the dice, but it still good to put $2-3K in play throughout the day.

Seat 4: Gary Brackett - A local bookie and is probably one of the biggest losers in the game. He is really dangerous when he runs hot, because....well....he doesn't fold anything and he will certainly bluff if he misses a draw.

Seat 5: Fred Kent - His family owned Kenny Kent car dealerships, but I think he got bought out long ago. He has tons of money and is one of the worst players in the game. He will often try to make hero calls and can't be bluffed, but he will leave the game if he gets big winner. It is definitely good if he gets stuck early.

Seat 6: Dave Mounts - An older guy that owns a heating and electric company. Definitely the worst player in the game and has ENDLESS money. I mean his plays are just unexplainably bad. I am not even sure he can always read the board correctly and he accidentally showed me his hand almost every hand. Honestly, I tried not to look when I was in a hand with him, but sometimes it was just too blatant. The game is somewhat built around him, because he plays almost every day that the game runs and always has plenty of money to lose.

Seat 7: Me- Obviously the best player in the game (not really). Tightest guy in the game by leaps and bounds and everyone knows it, but what can they do about it? Nothing, because they are all degenerate gamblers, haha.

Seat 8: Dan Young - Has gotten considerably better in the last few years. He plays decently post flop, but he VERY rarely misses seeing a flop. He is one of the funnier guys I have ever met and I love playing with him. I usually try to sit near him so I don't miss out on any of his shenanigans.

Seat 9: Some super rich guy named Jerry - I heard today that he is worth $40-60 million from some old oil wells that he used to own. He buys in pretty deep and will keep reloading. He plays pretty straight forward.

Seat 10: Charlie Terry- Probably the biggest winner in the Aztar PLO game. He is the staple of the game as he is always there to start the game around 9am even though it doesn't start until around 1 pm. In my opinion he is the most dangerous player in the game as he is very hard to put on a hand. He was referred to as the "Captain of the game" tonight, because he single handedly decided that the game wouldn't run on Monday (Christmas Eve). He does a really good job of making the horrible regular players have a good time and enjoy losing their money which I am very thankful for. The rumor is that he has never had two losing days in a row in the Aztar PLO game even though I am not sure I believe it.

Sheesh, this was a long blog and I am done for the night!