First off, congratulations to Home Game newcomer Gellybooty, who bested a field of 26 to win the 8-Game Freeroll (in under 4 hours, I might add- structure was perfect IMO).
The runner-up, despite mis-reading his hand at least twice, was I. In triple draw, I drew four to an Ace, raised after the first draw with 652Ax, and realized that my Ace was high only after getting check-raised. I made up for this by trying to value bet T4 on a T4333 board in PLO and getting Villain to fold 55. Only after he commented that he could beat a rivered flush did I realize that I had two pair and had just bluffed him off of a full house. Ship it!
Annoyingly, the Home Game apparently keeps separate leader boards for real money vs. play money tournaments, so now I’m going to have to add everyone’s points together manually. After four tournaments, I’m a hare’s breath away from 1st. The Top 5 are
9.69 Bond2King
9.32 foucault82
8.45 Psx120
8.26 KeondaFreon
6.53 Birchum
Winning today’s tournament was worth 5.95 points, so although Gellybooty is a newcomer, he’s also a contender. And even if you haven’t played any events yet, you could be too!
Join us next week at 16:30 ET on Sunday, March 27th for the $5+.50 NLHE 6-Max Shootout. You can join by searching the PokerStars Home Game lobby for Club ID # 312467 and using Identification Code “foucault” when prompted. See you there!
I really wish I could play on Sundays. My time is so limited for poker. 🙁
Might want to work on that board-reading. 😉
If you don’t have a pocket pair, you have trip threes on a board of T4333, with your two highest cards playing as kickers.
Of course you knew that. The point is that even very smart and experienced players can have board-reading brain-farts in Omaha-family games.
If I were to post all the misreads I make in one month of PLO/PLO8, I’d crash your server. I recently managed to lose my whole stack calling with what turned out to be two pair when I thought I had the nut straight.
And, uh, Ted Lawson.
The very first hand of triple draw I called a raise thinking it was A-5 and Andrew immediately chimes in on the chat reminding everyone that it’s 2-7 and saving me from further losses. I’m sure there’s some irony in there somewhere.
There used to be a half A-5, half 2-7 10/20 fixed-limit 3DL game in Tunica, MS that I occasionally played in for game selection purposes, and not because I love 3DL, which I personally find about as interesting as the 14,772nd GSN repeat of HSP Season 1. There was a plaque kept on the table to tell you which game it was. Not a little plaque, but a big piece of wood with 2-7 in big black letters on one side and A-5 in big black letters on the other. All you had to do was glance at the plaque to remind yourself what you were playing, and people still screwed up.