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And here's a hand that tells you absolutely nothing new, but at least it makes me feel better to get it off the chest. This hand came at the end of four hours when I had suffered 160 hands of Hold 'em to lose $125, where I got one pair (eights, raises, reraised by button, I folded flop of AKQ). Two hours of relatively quiet Omaha followed as I worked my way up to a few dollars profit. Then this beauty arrived, my second-last planned hand of the night.

Palm Desert (Pot Limit Omaha)
Started at 25/Apr/05 22:06:16

sammythe3rd is at seat 0 with $52.45.
BIG_JERRR is at seat 1 with $44.35.
worf21 is at seat 2 with $39.20 (sitting out).
Frost Gamble is at seat 3 with $47.10.
Harlan is at seat 4 with $23.40.
sportney is at seat 5 with $35.95.
Peter824 is at seat 6 with $34.25.
Birks is at seat 7 with $78.30.
superle1 is at seat 8 with $49.50.
acdc_ate is at seat 9 with $49.45.
The button is at seat 1.

Frost Gamble posts the big blind of $.50.

Birks: 8s 9d 7c 8d

Pre-flop:

Harlan folds. sportney calls. Peter824 folds. Birks calls. superle1 folds. acdc_ate folds. sammythe3rd calls. BIG_JERRR calls. Frost Gamble checks.

This hand is almost worth a raise, but with only one caller before me, I decide against it.

Flop 5h 8h 2c

So, there's a set, currently the nuts. In line with the BDD thinking (and my experience at this table has shown that you might as well bet, because check-raise opportunities have been few and far between). I decide that I am going to push this hand.

Frost Gamble checks. sportney bets $2.50. Birks raises to $5. sammythe3rd folds. BIG_JERRR folds. Frost Gamble folds. sportney re-raises to $17.50. Birks re-raises to $55. sportney goes all-in for $35.45. Birks is returned $19.55 (uncalled).

I thought hard about whether to raise the pot or whether to tempt the man. I decide to tempt him. This seems to work well. I manage to get all of his money in when I know that I am in front. Can he have anything where he is more than 50%? Well, 6H 7H is the obvious guess. Running that hypothesis through Pokercalc (let's give him an overpair like TT as well) I am still 55/45 favourite. He would need something like S5 C5 H6 H7 to be favourite.

Turn 5h 8h 2c Ad
River 5h 8h 2c Ad 5d

Showdown:
Birks shows 8s 9d 7c 8d.
Birks has 8s 8d 5h 8h 5d: full house, eights full of fives.
sportney shows 5s 5c Ah Qc.
sportney has 5s 5c 5h Ad 5d: four fives.

$3 is raked from a pot of $73.40.
sportney wins $70.40 with four fives.


Oh well, another 93% shot bites the dust. :-) Now, this is one good reason for me not to not play PLO for higher stakes. I can cope with a $75 kind of swing with some kind of equanimity. But even if it were just twice as much (i.e., the $100 max sit-down), my mental strength would be seriously sapped. One thing that no winning poker player can afford is to let the red mist descend. As it was, I just quit the table (as I had planned to do) and wrote this as catharsis. Tomorrow is another day.

Isn't that why we love PLO

Date: 2005-04-26 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miserable-git.livejournal.com
Pete,
that's the reason we all love the game isn't it? I like your get out now attitude, I dropped $400 on $25/$50 Party tables as I chased a loss like that one. I then lost 3 more all-ins from 72%+ chances and threw away another $40 or so with loose play in between.
I always find that a few days later my optimism & usually luck returns, so after almost busting out on Party, I get a run of $500 profit in about 14 hours of play :-)
Is Party still supposed to be the softest game? PokerRoom was fairly weak on its lowest PLO tables too. I keep meaning to try Ultimate, but can't get round to it - I just can't afford to keep swapping around.
Anyway, I will soon have a wardrobe full of Party clothing!





Enjoyment

Date: 2005-04-26 12:10 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Pete, just a note to say how much I have enjoyed reading your blog. Good poker writing and enjoyable non-poker writing. It is also nice to read something, anything, about PLO, my own game of choice. I forgive you for knocking me out of the first ever Gutshot charity tourney on the penultimate table...

89TJ

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