Starting stack: 20000
an interesting "all in hand" in the first 3 levels
Effective Stack Sizes: approx. 100bb
9c As Tc Ax Jd
hand 1: KKTT DS
flop: middle set + backdoor nut flush draw
turn: Ts full of As
river: Ts full of As
hand 2: Ac Qc Tx 9y
flop: nut flush draw + top 2
turn: aces full of tens
river: aces full of tens
hand 3: A J 8 w
flop: top pair + oesd + no suit
turn: trip aces with J kicker
river: aces full of Js
Analysis/Comments:
Unfortunately, I don't remember all the post-flop action, but it definitely got all in on the flop.
It's always amusing to see the 3 outer suckout, then 1 outer re-suckout in PLO! [Note, I did not say NLHE]!
I'm not sure why player 3 got it in on the flop, to be honest, but seems to be psychic, IMO :P
One person was crippled (down to like 2-3k), 1 person re-entered, and the other person had ~60k.
Sadly, my listing out of preflop/flop action was horrible. Additionally, I forgot to list out
To give a sampling of "all in action"
Board: Th Ah 4c
1: ATT6 (no suit) [middle set]
2: Ac 9c Kh 8h [tptk + nfd]
7A85T (rainbow)
1: AAJ2 (1 suit) [top set]
2: AQT9 (tp + oesd)
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hero dealt AAK5 no suit in HJ
2 folds
2 limps
HJ (hero): limps
CO: folds
button raises
bb: repots
HJ (hero): repots
button: calls
bb: call
a5j rainbow
[hero's hand held up, but unfortunately forgot the board and villain's hand(s).
Hero triples up to ~60k about 10 min. before the break.
Analysis:
I'm not a huge fan of always PFRing aaxx, especially with horrible side cards and no suits.
Once people have so much money in the pot, I can effectively get my stack in preflop or on the flop. In this case, I am fortunate to get it all in preflop.
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Additionally, I was PFR versus 1 limper and had slowplayed AAXX DS when I flopped an NFD and a BDNFD (back door nut flush draw) on a very non-straight board. (ex) 7T3 two tone). On the 5 off suit turn, I was fortunate that my slowplay worked as I picked up an extra bet when villain fired, hero raised, and villain folded.
It's an OK play to sometimes do for a couple reasons:
1. The stack sizes were such that I could still get villain all in with 2 near PSB (pot sized) bets.
2. There are very few straight combos that exist.
3. IMO, for balance purposes, you can sometimes slow play here, but it should be RARE, not often. Was this a good time to balance? ...it's debatable.
Overall, between me (2x) and 1 other player (dealer playing in MTT but dealing WSOP), we were dealt AAxx 5x. Each time, AAxx flopped top set and held!
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level 5:
hero's stack: 57.2k
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flip situation with "wsop dealer" chad
aaxx double suited
hero 3 betted OOP
villain called (villain has < 1 psb left)
J62 monotone
flop comes monotone (hero's not sure if he even had nut flush).
Hero insta-pots (putting villain all in).
Villain tanks for a while, then called with j*** with overs to the 6.
J6229
unfortunately, turn is a 2 ruining villain’s 2 pair outs and villain bricks end to lose.
hero's stack: about 80k
Other "all-in hands" which I forgot to write a full transcript:
a. hero lost a small flip with a short stack when hero held AQJJ with [AJ] suited.
b. Hero isolated a competent PLO player (who had 20k total) with AAT2.
Villain tanked/folded. He said that his equity was not good enough to get it in against naked AA**
TBH, it is an accurate assessment to put me at for 3-betting as I had only shown down AA** over a couple hours of play...not by choice...
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I was moved to new table with 36 remaining.
One reg mentioned a story where he was playing MTTs and cash.
In a NLHE cash game, he opened shoved 800 at 3/6 thinking it was an MTT.
He didn't realize until reviewing his session that he was snap called by KK and it wasn't an MTT.
Sadly, there were not really any interesting situations/hands that I noted or recalled.
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level 9
chip count: 102.5k (blinds 1000/2000)
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Hero could not get into any real profitable situations to either 3-bet jam, limp, or iso-raise.
Redraw for seats when we got down to 27 (18 paid).
Hero's stack had shrunk to 75k. This was 2-3 rotations after the redraw (around level 11 - blinds were 2k/4k)
limped UTG Ad Qd Jx 8x
button calls
sb folds
bb: checks
(4 players, about 18k in the pot)
Flop: Qd Jd 4x
bb: checks
hero: leads for 3/4 pot
button: raises ~2/3 pot
bb: folds
hero: raises all in
button: calls
villain shows: 44KT no suit.
Analysis:
The weird part about the situation is that most of the people had played a previous PLO MTT at Caesar's a week earlier.
Many complained about the very long bubble (> 2 hours) and didn't want to do it again.
Additionally, after the redraw to 27 players (3 tables), there were 4 eliminations in ~15-20 min.
Hero could have probably just folded preflop and just try to cruise into ITM, tbh.
Once hero sees flop, it's pretty standard to get it in.
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After hero busted, another 2 busted within another 5 min.
22nd
181 entries, 18 places cash.
A weird thing was that there were a lot of Europeans in the field. It's not completely surprising seeing PLO is much more popular in Europe, but I was still surprised at the large number that I met.
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