hey who's the hi limit PLO8 and OHL player that posts here and has a blog thats funny as hell???

ka or some ****?

After reading that i became lost and confused...but i did hear King Arthur (KA) from the olden times played alot of Hi/lo in his day

ask and ye shall receive:

http://wintermute-ca.livejournal.com/

i know i've been all over his nuts lately, but he really is entertaining, and also successful. i've spotted him a few times in the 100/200 LO8 games on Full Tilt.

That wintermute ****ing RULES.

wintermute, you playing LO8 now??
What happened to PLO8?

I'm still playing it. THe only reason I'm posting so much about LO8 is because the stakes are so much higher and I'm playing against TV pros.

mute teach me how to play lol

playing agsinst....


or hit and running against....

Accumulating enough hnr's is equivalent to playing. I'm getting close to that point

Hey WM, how's going between you and MM? Update your blogs please, I heard MM is a pretty good SH LO8 player, so may be you would share some hands?

What are the biggest adjustments going from SH/HU plo8 to SH/HU lo8?

The first thing for me to realize was to get rid of some plo8 mentalities when transferring from plo8 to lo8.

I saw some of the fine plo8 players tried hard to pick up lo8 but apparently they didn't do too well.

sick avatar dude

Wintermute is a donk. I recommend playing him heads up if you see him alone! He's just been running lucky for 20 months straight.

wow. you got guts kid. i'll give you that.

as for brains...

As you could see from the last update, Mike ended up owning me pretty hard. He took 15k off me in a session of 500/1k during which I dropped just under 30k, and that knocked my FullTilt BR down to zero, meaning that I will have to spend quite a while rebuilding so that I can even buy into the higher limit games (FT support only raised my deposit limits to 15k per month, ridiculous). Overall, I think Mike has won about 20k off me; however, in those high limit FT games I'm up around 70k total so good decision by me to take the shot.

Adjustments to SHLO8--it is a completely different game, there are fewer bluffing opportunities that are obvious (some are there that aren't in PLO8 though), and the results don't depend on a few home runs but instead hitting a lot of singles, to use the baseball analogy. The best situation you can hope for is to get hit by the deck, cause your opponent to go on tilt, and then just abuse him over a mediocre run of cards by punishing him for never folding when you catch a big hand. The biggest difference IMO is that in LO8, it feels like you can almost never fold, in fact against some opponents I virtually never fold turn/riv, only raise, so the preflop/flop decisions are where the $ is made/lost. I'm probably not the person to talk to about this though, I'm relying completely on my own intuition to pick the game up rather than any literature or mathematical basis.

he's a fcp noob, he doesn't know about (sw)

now i feel like an idiot. how was i supposed to know?

there are a lot of people that hate mute, i just figured he was another.

either way, nh.

Uhhhhh...I don't get it?

SW means sarcasim warning. i assumed you really thought wintermute was a donk.

then hatchet pointed out that you were probably being sarcastic.

if this post was sarcastic i'm moving to a cave in the adorondaks.

I haven't been able to make a successful switch to limit vs. PLO8

Its more difficult then people let on.

have you been strict with your preflop play?

I've loosened my purse strings and hand selection, but I can't get the right mix of when to call down and when to fold.

PL makes those decisions much easier when you're faced with a bet for half your stack vs. 1 BB.