Transition to PLO

Hey all,

as you know i am planning to switch to PLO this year. Initial plan was to switch anytime until September 1st, however, recently figured out that i better do it sooner, to be more exact, until the end of March :)

Quite fast, huh? Doable imo, i have some savings which will be enough for at least few months, so i don't need to be a winning player by that time, all i want is to have pretty solid understanding of basics(which actually should be enough to at least b/e @ PLO50).

So, as i have 2,5 months remaining until i switch, i will have to play some 180mans in that time to make some more money. Currently aiming at 3,000 games during Jan-Mar (played 200 so far :D ). Ofc, i have no idea what variance will decide, if i'll run hot, most likely i'll play less games, otherwise might need to play more than planned. Basically, 3,000 is almost $5,500 at my current $1.81/game winrate. I'm aiming at ~$5,000, that's where i got the number from and variance will decide whether it's gonna be more or less games :) (If someone doesn't want to see me at 180mans, you can pay me $5,000 and we have a deal :DDD )

During TCOOP, i'm planning to play only $15 180mans, it's gonna be quite small volume, but i don't want to mass-table, especially during higher stakes events and obv i'm expecting to have best $/game at 15s :) If i manage to get a significant cash in TCOOP i will just switch to PLO after it ends (again, i could switch now, but i just want to make sure that i have more money aside and definitely don't want to wait until i run out of money!).

As for PLO, i'm playing quite a lot. Learning quite slowly, think i should spend more time watching vids as the studying : learning ratio is ~ 30:70 or smtg like that. On the other hand, i find it pretty hard to learn from the videos if i haven't found myself in similar spots that i see in the videos, so getting some more experience at the tables should be helpful imo. Also, will take some coachings really soon. I think everyone will agree that it's the best and fastest way to learn and even tho it's most expensive one, but it will pay off really fast :)

That's about it for today, let's have a great 2012 everyone!

Bigniux