This was a $200 PLO8 tournament, and needless to say there was some extraordinarily bad play to be seen. I ended up bubbling it, but you don’t care about that. Let’s look at some hands.
Coming Through the Back Door
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $25/$50
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is UTG+1 with 
UTG calls, Hero calls, 5 folds, SB calls, BB checks.
Flop: 
($200, 4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $200, SB calls, 2 folds.
Turn: 
($600, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $600, SB calls.
River: 
($1800, 2 players)
SB bets $1800, Hero raises all-in $2065, SB calls.
Results:
Final pot: $5930
Hero showed Ac 9c 2s 7d
SB showed As Tc 4d 9s
Flop is just a pure bluff, and probably not a good one. The thing is that this is a very tough board to hit hard, since sets are the only truly strong high hands, and the low combos that people play most often (A2 and A3) both missed. Turns out SB did have the nut low draw and a gutshot and just didn’t know enough to fast play it. Works for me.
A Little More Follow-Through
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $40/$80
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is UTG+1 with 
UTG folds, Hero calls, 6 folds, 6 folds, BB checks.
Flop: 
($200, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $142, BB calls.
Turn: 
($484, 2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $484, BB folds.
Uncalled bets: $484 returned to Hero.
Results:
Final pot: $484
Same bluff as before, but this time I fire again because this board is pretty scary for a guy playing a hand out of the blinds. I could easily have a scooping hand like A5, and with so much money behind, it’s tough for him to continue against a pot-sized bet here.
Double Barrel Vs. Gobboboy
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $80/$160
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is MP3 with 
4 folds, Hero raises to $448, CO folds, Button calls, 2 folds.
Flop: 
($1136, 2 players)
Hero bets $750, Button calls.
Turn: 
($2636, 2 players)
Hero bets $2636, Button folds.
Uncalled bets: $2636 returned to Hero.
Results:
Final pot: $2636
This was against 2+2’s Gobboboy. I just had a feeling he was going to float the flop kind of light against me, even though he should probably have a 2 to call here, so when I picked up the nut low draw on the turn, I figured it was a good spot to semi-bluff.
Go Ahead
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $100/$200
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is BB with 
2 folds, MP1 calls, MP2 folds, MP3 calls, CO calls, 2 folds, 2 folds, Hero checks.
Flop: 
($900, 4 players)
Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP3 checks, CO checks.
Turn: 
($900, 4 players)
Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP3 checks, CO bets $900, Hero calls, 2 folds.
River: ($2700, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $2700, Hero calls.
Results:
Final pot: $8100
Hero showed 4s 5c 2s 8c
CO showed 7h 4d 6s 5s
This pot was against a guy named The Omaholic. I believe he was ranked on Pocket 5’s, and you’d think a guy with a name like that would be good at Omaha, but he was actually an overly loose and aggressive maniac. Hence my check and call line.
Another Nice One Vs. The Omaholic
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $120/$240
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is SB with 
4 folds, MP3 raises to $480, 2 folds, Hero calls, BB calls.
Flop: 
($1440, 3 players)
Hero bets $1261, BB folds, MP3 raises to $5223, Hero raises all-in $6261, MP3 calls.
Turn: 
($13962, 1 player + 1 all-in – Main pot: $13962)
River: 
($13962, 1 player + 1 all-in – Main pot: $13962)
Results:
Final pot: $13962
Hero showed Kh 2d Th Ah
MP3 showed Ac 9h 7c 4s
Classic Omaha Bluff
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $250/$500
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is BB with 
5 folds, CO raises to $1500, 2 folds, Hero calls.
Flop: 
($3250, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks.
Turn: ($3250, 2 players)
Hero bets $3250, CO calls.
River: 
($9750, 2 players)
Hero is all-in $9375, CO folds.
Uncalled bets: $9375 returned to Hero.
Results:
Final pot: $9750
Since I hold the As, I know my opponent can’t have the nuts. So it’s a clear semi-bluff spot on the turn, and with no showdown value, there’s only one thing to do on the river….
This Was Painful
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $300/$600
9 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $15469
UTG+1: $28344
MP1: $12940
MP2: $14371
MP3: $35081
CO: $5436
Button: $17019
Hero: $11303
BB: $15488
Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is SB with
2 folds, MP1 raises to $1501, 4 folds, Hero calls, BB calls.
Flop: 
($4503, 3 players)
Hero bets $2802, BB folds, MP1 raises all-in $11439, Hero calls all-in $7000.
Uncalled bets: $1637 returned to MP1.
Turn: ($24107, 0 player + 2 all-in – Main pot: $24107)
River: ($24107, 0 player + 2 all-in – Main pot: $24107)
Results:
Final pot: $24107
Hero showed 2s 2h Ah 3c
MP1 showed 8d 2c 4d Ac
It was tempting to check-raise here, but I didn’t want to see the flop check through, and a lot of the hands that will get it in against me on the flop are going to be in pretty bad shape since I have so many nut draws and redraws. I was actually really surprised to run this on Two Dimes and learn that I was only about a 57% favorite. Goes to show you how much even a weak pair can improve your equity when getting it in with a draw.
Oooof
Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $300/$600
7 players
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Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is BB with 
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, 3 folds, SB calls, Hero checks.
Flop: 
($1800, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks.
Turn: 
($1800, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1275, UTG+1 calls, SB raises to $3000, Hero calls, UTG+1 folds.
River: ($9075, 2 players)
SB is all-in $3972, Hero calls.
Results:
Final pot: $17019
SB showed 3c 2h Th 6c
Hero mucks 3h 4h 8h 8c
This was against Assani Fisher, also from 2+2. I was thinking his tiny turn check-raise meant that he had the nuts for half the pot but no shot at the other half and wanted to keep both of us in the pot so that we’d get quartered. I still don’t know whether I should have folded turn, but I never really recovered from this. I short stacked it a while but eventually lost some uninteresting showdowns and that was that.
Thankfully, I made more than enough playing PLO8 cash games at the same time to pay for the tournament!