general status update

Some good news this morning; my roll from b is now available. Im going to stick it on bodog tonight. The low limit plo is (imo) fairly choice. Good table selection is absolutely vital however. I checked out Absolute and will check it out tonight but it seems the stud/omaha/omaha8 low limit games are just dead, and Im not rolled by a longshot for the 5/10 and 10/20 LHE games, which btw are no ones idea of soft, and would require a great deal of serious study to gain an edge at. So Absolute is on permahold, although if I can grow my bodog roll, I might splice off some of it to AP in the future.

Joined a 33$ HORSE tourn on Stars and was in the top 5 of 85 players for nearly the entire first half, however as soon as the blinds hit substantial limits, I went utterly dead, plus I got halved on river in like 4 straight o8 pots that were massive, where I would turn the nut high, like broadway straight with no flush on a KT3A board, then an 8 on the riv would give some total fish half a pot the size of my whole stack. Every single time I turned the nut high, I either got rivered out of half or the whole pot. The thing about those tourns are, when the limits go up, its very hard to walk away from a 20+BB pot even tho youre getting sandwiched between reraisers with neither a nut high or nut low; often you have two nut lows going to war over quarters. So its difficult to fold when you have so much invested in the pot. Perhaps thats a hole in my game? Unsure...

Anyway yeah, that sucked.

The 500bb pot on Prima however did *not* suck. If I can get up to 1k, I might move up to .50/1. Thats 10 buyins, which clearly isnt optimal, plus the .50/1 games are really much tougher than .25/.50, but I can always drop back down if I hit end up down a few buyins and try to rebuild, and doubling up a buyin at .50/1 is such a substantial amount of money that the risk is outweighed by the rewards as I see it, pending brutal downswings etc. Again I think the key here is being flexible enough to drop down if I feel my edge is neglibable or illusory.

I keeping thinking of the good old days, where I would deposit 400$ and run it up to 1600-2000$ in 3 or 4 hands at 10/20 plo, or go bust and try again the next week. I made a lot of coin doing that, but I just dont have the skrill to support that business model anymore...

Anyway. Im going to cash out 50$ from my prima roll so the 200 + 50 will allow me to consider the bodog roll even(covering the original 250$ loss on b) just for aesthetics and to make the math a bit easier on my head.

bodog: 300 (even)
stars: 200 (even)
prima: +700 (Im not going to include sportsbets in this talley until they win or lose, so it will be another 3 weeks about before the Karo bet comes into play).