WCOOP 16

I played the $320 PLO8 today and finished like 180 out of about 1200, good enough for a shallow cash, less than double my money. I was pretty happy with how i played, towards the end it was maybe a little questionable, but with just 10 BB I think you are more likely to made bad folds than bad calls/shoves in PLO8, especially pre-flop, where it’s hard to be a big dog.

I ended up busting in a kind of bad spot, I completed AKJJ in the SB against a limper sitting on a 9K stack at 500/1000. The flop was KK4 with two spades I bet a little over half pot, the BB called, and the limper folded. The turn was another 4, and I decided to check (remember, in PLO8, I must use two cards from my hand so I don’t have the nuts here- I’m behind 44 and K4). I was going to call a shove and just hope my opponent was dumb enough to show up with a flush draw or a worse K. He checked also, and the river was another 4.

At this point, I had one pot-sized bet left in my stack. I’m far from sure about this, but it seems to me that shoving here is best without a specific read (I was new to the table), since I’m not sure I can check-fold, I may get called by worse (if the guy is bad) or I may fold out a chop (if the guy is good but maybe a little weak). So I shoved, and he beat me into the pot with his quad 4’s. He did have K4 on the flop, so he had the nuts the entire time.

I don’t have Poker Tracker Omaha right now, but I may purchase it. If I do, then I’ll probably do a longer review of this tournament, since there were a few more interesting spots. However, it’s tedious to review a raw hand history, so this won’t happen unless I do buy PTO.

Tomorrow’s Stud/8 is a $500, but I’m going to play it anyway. I think I’m pretty strong at Stud/8, and I expect that there will be both a lot of downright bad poker players and a lot of good NLHE players who don’t really know Stud/8. But we’ll see.