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As some of you know, I've been working for the past few months on a PLO theory book and accompanying coaching packages. The book should be done in a month or two, and I recently set up a website with all of the info and several samples. The book and coaching is expensive - book costs $2500, hourly rate is $250-$300, and the main combo package costs $5k, but regardless of whether you can spend that much I recommend checking it out if you're interested in PLO. I've posted 15-20 pages of sample material from a few different chapters so there's plenty of free stuff to look at.

In other news, WSOP events went badly, though I have managed to win a bunch online and in live cash games while here. But despite good starts in all, I whiffed 4 10ks (8 game, plo, stud 8, and o8) and overall have 1 mincash in 12 events.

A few hands worth recounting from the 10ks:

In the 8-game I had 40k (30k starting stack) after grinding the limit games for a while and then all hell broke loose in (of course) a PLO pot where 4 people got in 3k each pre at 100/200 and I ended up losing with 8765 on 964r to 6543 for ~90k. As we rolled the hands over one kind sir told me he folded 887x preflop, but it turns out I'm still a solid favorite even with the cards dead (straight up it's 63/37, if 887 is really dead it's still upper-50s, but turn and river were different broadway cards and I was done)

In the PLO I was down to 15k in level 6 or so and called a raise w Jh9c8h7c, 4 way pot, I flop the world Tc8c5x, get it in versus JT97 no clubs, turn T which is the worst card in the deck, river Jc for the straight flush > boat. But later I get it in in an 8-way limped pot with T986 v Sammy Farha's JJ77hh on T76 - the two pair blockers/redraws makes me a very slight favorite but he made both a flush and a better boat than me on a heart turn and 6 river.

In the Stud 8 I started Day 2 with 40k and was up to 80 pretty quick but then went card dead and anted down before getting scooped by Doyle in a huge pot at 3k/6k.. I had (AhQh)8h and opened in the effective CO, he flatted behind me with a 7 and the bringin called with 2h, which was the only dead heart. Doyle caught A, 2h caught 9h and I caught 3h, Doyle bet, 2h9h called (which sucks because he really should have hearts to peel here) and I call. Fifth street Doyle cataches a 4 and I catch a 7, he bets, other guy folds which makes me feel better a little about my flush draw, and I call again.

Even though his board is bad as big as the pot is getting and with the fact that on top of the flush draw either my low draw is live or my AQ-high is good I just have too much equity to fold. 6th street he catches a 2 and I catch a 9 which is really ugly. I might be able to fold here but the pot is huge and it's still pretty likely I have tons of outs for high even if my low is as dead as it looks (his board is now 7A42 and I'm drawing to an 87). I catch a black 4 to make an 87, call again and get scooped by a 7 and a rivered pair of 2s. A few hands later Doyle finished me off, so I guess that's a good enough story to tell the kids one day. Not worth 10k though.

I play the main event on Monday (day 1d), gonna play a couple of the megas the next few days and work some on the book. I just recorded a 2 hour 2/4 PLO session which we'll make into two videos, and plan to get back to the theory series when I get home.