UnknownName3's Blog: November 2012

Overall Cash Game Notes:
After waiting ~2 hours, I finally got onto 1-2 PLO. Many people at table asked, and the game was converted to 2-5 PLO ($200 min, $2k max).
1. Chopped pots (when not run twice) do not result in rake!
2. Rake is 5% up to $14 though.
3. Converting USD -> CAD is generally best at casinos/poker places.
Playground exchanged .961 USD -> 1 CAD (~3%)
Most other places allowed CAD -> USD exchange if they had supply at 1:1 rate.

A person checked behind with the nuts on the river IP. He was immediately called out by dealer that he could get kicked out for "checking the nuts on the river". It could have been soft playing, but didn't seem that way.

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Hand History:
Hero asked table if they were willing to change it to 2-5 PLO. When the answer was yes, hero came over and bought in for 200bb. Hero did a straddle when entering.

This is 2nd hand of session.

hero in sb - 200bb stack
bb - 40bb stack

hero dealt in SB: AT76 (AT)(76)
folds to hero in sb
hero: limps
BB: raises
hero: calls

(2 players - 6bb in pot)
flop: KQQ (hero had 7 high flush draw)
hero: checks
BB: bets 5bb
hero: folds

Analysis:
Preflop: An argument can be made for limp/call or raise/call. In hindsight, raise/call is probably better.
Flop: Hero should have check/raised flop as villain's range is wide here to cbet this flop and hero has some nuttish outs against trips.

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hero dealt in HJ: AT98 (AT, 98 double suited)

folds to MP:
MP (loose player): raises pot
1 fold
hero: reraises
button: flat calls
SB: folds
BB: 4 bets (all in for ~40bb)
MP: calls
Hero: calls
Button: calls

remaining stack sizes:
MP: 40bb
Hero: 90bb
Button: 80bb

(4 players, 1 all in - pot = 160bb)
Flop: J74 rainbow (hero has back door nut flush draw)

MP: bets all in
Hero: reraises all in
Button: tanks/folds

MP: Shows AJT6 (top pair)

(3 players all in)
Turn: J747 (2 tone)
River: J7477

Hero makes ~10bb with AQ high!
Button who folded was massively tilted and had to leave the table because he would have had quads.

Analysis:
Preflop: Hero 3b loose player in position seemed ok as other players seemed to be playing straight forward and decent chance hero can got it to HU pot.
Flop: With so much money in pot, folding with (likely) 9 nut outs & back door flush draw is bad with so much money in pot. Getting button to fold was great.

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No other really interesting hands in the session.
Overall, the table was half composed of PLO players (mainly from Toronto) who had busted from the MTT, while the other half were random NLHE converts that really did not know what they were doing.

550 PLO MTT at Playground Poker Club

Hero was at late registered table (table 63).
Tables are 8 handed!
3 lives: 10k bullets, blinds start at 50/100.

table 1 (table #63)
1 - TAG AFAIK and only saw one showdown
2 - no reads
3 - random woman; seemed to be a NLHE player
4 - unknown; eventually determined to be bad player who possibly played cash
5 - hero
6 - partypoker hat player; eventually determined to be amateur
7 - canadian poker/hockey player - phil kessel?; seemed to understand how PLO is played, but not sure of skill level
8 - seemed to be internet player; said eventually he played a lot of PLO mainly, but only played NLHE 1.1k + me

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Play started 5 handed (3, 4, 5, 6, 8)
Player 8 had made 2-3 aggressive plays early (pre flop raiser; bet on flop and/or turn) and had gained some chips.

6 - limped
8 - raised on the button
hero in sb called

Hero in BB: dealt AKT6 (AT K6 double suited)

(3 players - 950 in pot)
Flop: QT6 rainbow
Hero: checks
6: bets 600
8: raises to 2000
hero: tanks, reraises to 7200
6: folds
8: raises all in
hero: calls

V1: shows QQ95 (Q5 suited, no flush draw)

(2 players, 1 all in)
Turn: QT64 two tone (hero has backdoor K-high flush draw)
River: QT644 two tone (hero has backdoor K-high flush draw)

Analysis:
1. Villain (seat 8) who raised on flop seemed very active when we started 4-5 handed. He seemed to be aggressive.
2. Villain (seat 8) raised PFR on dry board.
3. Hero suspected there was some fold equity from villain (seat 8), but maybe this is inaccurate. None of the 3 players in the pot had gotten to showdown.
4. Hero had blockers to sets except top set...
5. Hero thought he was in best hand or best draw category. Hero crushes naked wraps and has some blockers to nut wraps.
6. It feels like a cooler, but hero thought villain may raise with wrap, wrap+pair here a ton against likely random player to get value...and villain had shown previous aggression.
7. Villain (seat 8) later told me "why did you jam to get the other player out of the pot"?

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Other notes/interesting situations:
Seat 8 seemed to be very active, but seemed to be competent when getting stacks in. My imperssion was that he was playing loose to take advantage of the weak table.
That villain was involved 2 times in freeroll situations with nut straight+.

1. 1st time with overwrap on rainbow board. Villain c/r PFR to get stacks in on 875 rainbow board and both players had 96. Villain didn't win any freeroll money with overwrap (T96x.
2. 2nd time with bdfd + overwrap on 985 two tone. (JT76)
3. Got it in kind of bad with naked wrap (AJTx) on KQx board against villain with AKJT (top pair + wrap).
4. Sucked out in huge 4 way pot with short stacks(not much behind when money got in) when villain got in with 9422 in sb (92 suited), turned flush draw, and rivered flush. Villain was up to ~50k with 2 rebuy chips.

Another LOL situation:
4 way limped pot
board: JK662
checked around completely on flop and turn
seat 7 (bb) on river bets 2500 into ~3000 pot
2 players fold
button calls

seat 7 shows 6622!
villain mucks and doesn't even sound like villain had jjxx or kkxx....

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hero's stack at first break:
5300 + 1 "life" = 15300
blinds: 300/600

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2nd table (was at table for ~45 min.)

1 - empty
2 - Foreign player
3 - Netaw? seemed like competent PLO player
4 - hero
5 - unknown
6 - unknown
7 - female player
8 - no reads

Interesting MTT situation (AKA ask SavagePoker on twitter (Matt Savage)):
When hero was just moved to this table, the floor was trying to figure out what to do in this situation:
A bullet from player 1 was not "redeemed" up during the break. Eventually, villain gets all in and busted.
It was only discovered when counting chips that the rebuy bullet was found.
Based on players at table, floor takes 5 minutes to decide, then finally decides to award busted player their additional life (10k and MTT life).
Floor eventually apologizes.

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These hands occurred within ~3 hands of sitting down and occurred within span of 5 or so hands.
seat 1 - hj (villain): 15k - player who just sat down at table a couple hands
seat 4 - co (hero): ~13k
seat 5 - button: 50k

blinds: 400/800

hero in CO: dealt AKJ7 (AJ)(K7)
HJ (PFR) - raises to 2100
CO (hero) - calls
button - calls

(7500 in pot - 3 players)
flop: 732 (two tone, hero had backdoor nut flush)
hj: checks
hero: thinks, checks
button: bets 5k
hj: check/raises all in
hero tanks/folds
button: tanks, talks for a little bit, then folds

Analysis:
Hero was thinking about c/r all in, except HJ beat hero to punch.
HJ eventually said they had 7+ other things (maybe gut shot/oesd).

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hero dealt UTG: QT98 (q9 suited)
hero: limps
HJ (seat 6): raises to 2000
2 other players call
hero calls

(4 players in pot = 8000 in pot)
flop: 747 rainbow
hero eventually check folds 747 flop

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villain was likely MTT pro who raised preflop.
PFR was 4th to act of 5 players
4 callers (including hero)
weird 1500 bet into 6500 on a65 two tone...

Hero dealt in MP+1: 9764 rainbow

1 limp
hero: calls
5: raises
6: calls
1 player calls
hero: call

(4 players - 6500 in pot)
flop: A65 two tone (hero has no flush draw)
3 checks
random young Asian player (who seemed like NLHE MTT pro): bets 1500
all players fold
hero: thinks for a bit, then folds.

hero had gutter + pair....jam all in
Analysis: These really small villain bets by "MTT pros" always seem to be really weird. I suspect it's a bet/fold a ton, and perhaps I should have done that as he probably

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Another interesting situation:
blinds: 400/800
both villains had ~45k starting
lady limped UTG
seat 4 (who was PFR in 1 hand to my right): raised about pot (3000)
folds to UTG
UTG reraises (to about 14000)
PFR: calls

(30k pot - 2 players)
board: K6T64 (flush draw on flop never completes)
both villains check flop/turn/river.

Lady had aaxx
Villain: mucks
Villain (the initial PFR) was thinking about betting turn, but decided not to bet. Stack sizes were also awkward according to villain with regards to jamming flop.

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3rd table (table 53).
Hero sat down as BB and watched blinds go pass.
Level went up to 500/1000
Hero's stack: 3500 (3.5 bb)

Hero in HJ: dealt A954 (A5 suited)

Folds to hero in HJ
Hero: raises all in
Button (who hadn't played too many hands) - called
BB - thought about it and called.

Q684T (two tone on flop, but never completes on river)
BB hits gutter on river (kj95?) and knocks 2 people out (including other villain with akj3 with flush draw).

Analysis:
Really bad mental mistake!
Once down to ~5-10BB, hero was mentally reviewing open-jam range(AK**, JJ**+) and noted it 2x. So, when it finally folded to hero in CO, Hero made stupid mistake.
It was kind of funny that hero actually had best hand on the turn with a pair of 4s.

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Busted around 80th of ~120 runners.

My overall impression (which included consulting some other people): there were a lot of people that did not know what they were doing, whether they were (NLHE) MTT pros, NLHE players who never played PLO, kind of bad live PLO cash game players, etc...
An example: one live player couldn't resist calling on paired board with bad (non-top) trips.

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