BTW, speaking of when I was trying to get serious about SNGs, I’ve realized that my problem there was that I Peter Principled myself between the $10 and $20 level. The lesson to learn from your example wasn’t so much to concentrate on NL cash games, but to value coaching appropriately and turn to wiser people before giving up on my ability to beat the games. Ah well, I got out with most of my roll intact which is better than a lot of people.
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Interesting point about forums. I guess you get what you pay for. Which forums have you seen that have a tendency toward groupthink or toward privileging the opinions of the wrong people?
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And should I use the address you left here instead of the one I’ve been using for you? You seem to get both. I should be on Skype more these days since it’s def. the IM of choice for the poker crowd.
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[And I like this new template, except for the lack of paragraph breaks -- not sure what's going on with that.]

other than that, i think that omaha hi/lo cash is probably pretty profitable with relatively few “sharks” at the lower limits. it seems like its a game not many people play well and if youre patient with your starting hands can have a big edge. plus it seems like in the less popular games, good players are going to play higher faster, whereas in NL there are good players sometimes even at 25 or 50NL.

ive been having fun playing NL FR rush poker too. there seem to be a lot of aggro donkeys trying to bully everyone around and its easier to get paid off when they dont realize youre not monkeying around too (since they havent been at your table and dont have your stats).

just some thoughts. i obviously havent solved the online poker puzzle myself. i would also say to be extra careful of the stuff you read on forums. after spending way too much time on them last year, i realize more and more how many of the people (even the ones everyone respects and listens to) have no idea what theyre talking about.

I’m generally varying my bet sizing between 2/3 and full pot. On the turn I’m more likely to pot for value, but I also bet 2/3 enough that I don’t think it should appear out of line with anything else I’m doing.

Regarding the river — OK, just sanity-checking that my reasoning for bluffing wasn’t spewy. As you may have seen if you clicked through, I ended up bluffing $2.50 into $3.60. I don’t see any reason to bet bigger than that; I can’t imagine busted draws and a pair below tens wanting to call that bet. But I’m not good at bet sizing, so I’m open to reconsidering.

Anyway, he looked me up with AAQ3 with diamonds, which is fine — trips was certainly a small part of his range, especially given that it came in through the back door. Just unlucky that he was so high up in his range.