[adam74]

Thanks, Nicky. Yes, I've read Ciaffone's Omaha book, but it is primarily HE that I'm playing and that's likely to remain the case.

It's Poker Stars that I play at mainly, and there I'm beating the 0.10/0.25 and 0.25/0.50 games pretty comfortably, although for the latter that isn't over a huge number of hours. Recently I've been playing a lot at Victor Chandler as well, and the similarly-sized games there have been good for me as well. However, the PLHE games at VC seem to have died a death recently, which is a shame. [That's with the exception of the 0.05/0.10-blind tables.]

When I've tried 0.50/1.00, it's pretty much only been at Ladbrokes, with just a couple of hours at Stars and VC. I've heard many people say that the games at Ladbrokes are soft, and a lot of the play I've seen there would tend to support that - but I've really struggled there, and have lost fairly heavily. There's possibly an element of 'bad luck' to it, but I feel certain that there's more to it than that, and I've got a few ideas about what the problems might be.

I think for the moment I need to continue racking up the hours at 0.25/0.50 as much as possible, and then give the 0.50/1.00 games at Ladbrokes another go in perhaps a couple of months.