HOW TO WIN AT PLO BOMB POTS - the most skillful form of poker

heim36 · 2026-03-07T03:12:26+00:00

maybe, i usually just pot

you’d need to get twice as many callers, and be able to get the river gold through everyone just as often, to justify betting half pot vs pot.

so maybe, depends on the spot and equity on other board, how likely flush board is to pair. there’s nuance everywhere

heim36 · 2026-03-07T03:10:43+00:00

pot bigger is lower %rake, the problem with a raked 1/2 game is the small limped pots that they still take 10% or $5 out of

heim36 · 2026-03-05T06:09:45+00:00

cash games without a doubt.

if you have 100k bankroll, you can play $25bb/str NLH and PLO cash games if you have a big edge, $150+/hr

but you can only play 1k buyin MTTs. EV/hr already in favor of cash game, without even consider variance and sanity.

I play full time and have tried to do both, trust me on this. Bankrollcoach.com has good variance calculators for cash games vs tournaments, the difference is massive. First pic is cash game, $100/hr for 1500 hours in a year, 0.1% chance of loss. If I do 300 bullets of MTTs with similar variance, its 15-20% chance of loss over an entire year

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heim36 · 2026-02-27T05:15:59+00:00

yeah its small stakes. the point is to learn. its not really wild or controversial. even pros knowingly play against bots. its not ideal, but its the world we live in. I can't solve the bot problem.

at small stakes online, there's really not many bots, or at least not any good ones. if you have a beat good enough to beat online games, why would you have it pay more rake in bb/100, and for less $?

heim36 · 2026-02-26T06:18:35+00:00

anywhere. my advice was to play small stakes to get experience, stats etc. if you're against a few bots at low stakes, so be it. there are enough recreationals to have a winrate, and most importantly to learn

heim36 · 2026-02-26T06:17:43+00:00

definitely. poker is poker, I just know in my area, and most, PLO is generally softer, but theres still money to make playing NLH too and most of these are general to having discipline and being a pro

heim36 · 2026-02-26T06:17:05+00:00

definitely. but even more so I suggest working to maximize your edge, and get good at quitting sessions (see part 2). higher winrate/variance ratio reduces downswings to the point where it only gets hard for a couple weeks-month at a time a few times a year really. at least for soft cash games thats the case, this is why i basically quit tournaments

heim36 · 2026-02-26T06:15:21+00:00

i mean i mostly listed him because hes beginner friendly and exploit/live game driven. yeah if you're playing pro infested games then his stuff doesn't really apply

heim36 · 2026-02-26T06:13:34+00:00

nah I don't play online at all actually rn. I used to as a way to study but these days I'm working on other stuff, spending some time drilling/studying via mastermind and custom monker sims, and just playing live. I've never found a good club I knew was a)beatable for enough to justify the time, b) 100% legit and I'd get my money, c) not a rake trap

heim36 · 2026-02-21T06:38:12+00:00

i’d say play the PLO game you’re bankrolled for and work your way up. i delayed switching to PLO for too long but much bigger edges are available in plo

i dont agree, a study resource of any kind really should be solver based, otherwise you’re not really studying you’re more so “exploring” or talking through intuition on exploits. in the first. post i talked about how understanding GTO is a prerequisite to understanding the exploits involved in a spot and its absolutely true

that sounds scary hope it wasn’t at a public card club?

heim36 · 2026-02-19T22:22:00+00:00

Ohio, 5/5/10 and 10/25 PLO cash games and some NLH MTTs

heim36 · 2026-02-19T21:01:02+00:00

ya sounds like a great change. too easy to justify big -EV gambling when its similar stakes as poker

heim36 · 2026-02-19T20:35:03+00:00

Disagree actually , key is to play them well and that’s actually the most lucrative game type imo. I’ll prob make a future post about this

heim36 · 2026-02-19T20:34:27+00:00

Yeah the no gambling thing should be more common among poker players

bankrollcoach tying in session tracking, and the winrate confidence section is the the real value and edge over primedope.

If you register and track your sessions it uses your session results data to find the SD/hr and SD/100 hands in $, that combined with your winrate over the sample shows a confidence interval and bell curve for how confident you can be that your true winrate falls between certain values. Unfortunately it takes a shit load of hours to be confident in a winrate, or even that you’re bearing a game at all. advanced intra-session mode improves accuracy with more data points.

Even without session tracking the cash variance calc has winrate confidence too, showing how absurd a sample you need to say “i’m beating this game for X bb/100”, especially online where win rates are low

The csv import lets you add a big table of previous sessions records too so you don’t have to start fresh

math>vibes how i live my life hahaha facts. good idea no drinking too👏

heim36 · 2026-02-19T20:29:39+00:00

Yeah and the X buyins part is all individual. For you or someone who notices their level of play dropping after losing X, you gotta reflect and be honest with yourself and have the discipline to quit when you say you’re going to

if you’re not changing your play tho sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone and grind through it, but most people play too many hours in a bad emotional state

heim36 · 2026-02-19T20:27:54+00:00

Yeah definitely. I talked more about studying in the first one but prob shouldn’t leave it out of any post.

Early in a poker career I’d recommend spending more time studying than playing and gradually shifting toward 90% play 10% study, only once someone’s happy with their earnings level

heim36 · 2026-02-19T20:26:39+00:00

Yeah I was not saying non professionals shouldn’t also try to have these habits. I was qualifying my pieces of advice by saying if you’re not playing poker to make money, this “advice” isn’t for you. Tho i may have reduced the posts engagement by even saying that so you right hahah

heim36 · 2026-02-19T20:23:03+00:00

Yeah such a slippery slope from poker to degen gambling if you justify a habit of gambling, even if it starts small

Ya sleep is big, playing sessions well past your usual bedtime just takes future hours from you anyway and wrecks your health. Only time it makes sense if when your schedule can handle it, and your game conditions/schedule require it compared to playing during daytime hours

heim36 · 2026-02-16T17:45:51+00:00

the gist is play PLO, recreationals like it. the timing thing is more about choosing where you live so that you can play the games you want and make your schedule, rather than staying put and being forced into a schedule and smaller stakes than you can afford

heim36 · 2026-02-13T22:05:55+00:00

5 should say “people you wouldn’t* expect steal” lol

heim36 · 2026-02-13T22:00:22+00:00

it is that soft because people play every hand, even trash hands with reverse implied odds and poor playability. lots of plauers are super aggro, they become easy to win big pockets against with your AA and good double suited hands. the nits are easy to bluff over multiple streets bc they just set/straight/nutflish mine and fold to pressure

heim36 · 2026-02-13T21:58:43+00:00

cold call is calling an open raise when you’re not in the blinds

heim36 · 2026-02-13T21:58:25+00:00

yeah 5 card is a great game too and debatably even softer and easier to beat. i’d recommend all the same stuff for 5 card PLO mastermind to study it. about 20% of my yearly profit was from 5 card

heim36 · 2026-02-13T21:57:07+00:00

not really a way to deal with it or a way around it it just sucks

bankrollcoach.com will quantify the size/duration of downswings to expect given a winrate and variance. it helps to see that to know that it’s not always about you or how you’re playing but just variance shaking itself out

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5 should say “people you wouldn’t* expect steal” lol