Tourney PLO: Ace-High Flush (1 Viewer)

[Jimulacrum]

Game is three-handed PLO in a PLHE/PLO rotation tournament. Blinds are 15/30.

Hero (14,040) is the SB.
@Chippy McChiperson (16,030) is the BB.
@bentax1978 (9,930) is the button.

Hero is dealt .

Bentax raises to 90, Hero calls, Chippy calls. Pot is 270.

Flop: .

Hero … ?

(Yes, I know the thread title tells you what happens. Play along anyway.)

 

[bergs]

Check-call, turn-pot any 2, 3, T, or heart.

 

[DrStrange]

Why is a turned two or three a card worthy of a pot bet?

 

[bentax1978]

Why is a turned two or three a card worthy of a pot bet?

I can only assume because he thought we were playing PLO8.

 

[stocky]

Check/Call.

 

[mipevi]

Check/call.

 

[bergs]

Why is a turned two or three a card worthy of a pot bet?

I thought this was PLO8. FWIW, all PLO should be PLO8.

 

[bergs]

Why is a turned two or three a card worthy of a pot bet?

I should've just wrote "I, too, like to live dangerously"

 

[courage]

Just pot it. Those 2 nits will fold.

 

[kirchhausen]

Pot, and keep potting.

 

[Jimulacrum]

Just realized I messed up the original description. Chippy is the BB, and Bentax is the button. Fixed now, anyway. Moving along:

Hero checks, Chippy checks, Bentax bets 150, Hero calls, Chippy folds. Heads-up to the turn. Pot is 570.

The turn is the very definition of a brick: .

Hero … ?

 

[mipevi]

Check/call.

 

[Jimulacrum]

Boring turn, eh?

Hero checks. Bentax checks. Pot is still 570.

The river: , giving Hero the flush with

Hero … ?

 

[kirchhausen]

Pot

 

[BGinGA]

That's why you should be betting on the flop and turn, because bentax-nit won't call a river bet unless he's plagued with trust issues in the moment.

 

[bentax1978]

That's why you should be betting on the flop and turn, because bentax-nit won't call a river bet unless he's plagued with trust issues in the moment.

FWIW, my level of my trust issues vary widely by opponent.

 

[Jimulacrum]

FWIW, my level of my trust issues vary widely by opponent.

Yeah, like against basically any bet by me in a short-handed game.

 

[bentax1978]

Yeah, like against basically any bet by me in a short-handed game.

Well, I was starting to get the feeling I was folding too often against you guys short handed. But for what it's worth, I have less trust issues when facing a bet from you than from some of the other guys playing in these tournaments (you all know who you are). Of course you probably know this and have already adjusted accordingly

 

[Jimulacrum]

Well, I was starting to get the feeling I was folding too often against you guys short handed. But for what it's worth, I have less trust issues when facing a bet from you than from some of the other guys playing in these tournaments (you all know who you are). Of course you probably know this and have already adjusted accordingly

Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[onerand]

Check raise flop. You can also lead turn. Bet river. You have both top flush cards, which is not great for a big pot.

 

[Chicken Rob]

I thought this was PLO8. FWIW, all PLO should be PLO8.

And all PLO8 should be Big O

 

[Jimulacrum]

Okay, not a lot of feedback on the opening river bet, and I think the decision to open with a pot is pretty trivial, so let's get to the more interesting decision.

Hero bets the pot, 570. Bentax re-pots to 2,280. Hero … ? Remaning stacks are 7,410 effective. (Winner-takes-all tourney, if that factors in to your decision.)

 

[Payback]

It's a puke call. Your holding both the A and K of hearts which makes a big difference here. Smells like a straight flush. Keep yourself alive in the tournament and you still have 200bb left so no worries.

 

[Chicken Rob]

It's possibly a straight flush. But how do you find a fold here? I need a lot more history with bentax to fold a hand this strong here. Probably a leak in my game. But I hate tourneys. This fold gets much easier 2000bb deep in a cash game.

 

[bergs]

This fold gets much easier 2000bb deep in a cash game.

No, it doesn't.

 

[Chicken Rob]

No, it doesn't.

well, maybe you're right.

 

[courage]

Hero's image is solid. Villain is aggro but doesn't spazz here. With what hands do we think villain repots? Fold.

 

[Jimulacrum]

In a 2,000 BB deep cash game with $0.25/$0.50 blinds, this hand is the equivalent of starting the hand with $1,000 effective, and then betting a $9.50 pot on the river and getting raised to $38. Just to put that in perspective.

 

[bentax1978]

In a 2,000 BB deep cash game with $0.25/$0.50 blinds, this hand is the equivalent of starting the hand with $1,000 effective, and then betting a $9.50 pot on the river and getting raised to $38. Just to put that in perspective.

Except effective stacks to start this hand were T9930 and the blinds were T15/30. So it's more like effective stacks of a bit over $150 in a $0.25/0.50 game.

 

[bergs]

The more I think about it, this is gross. When villain bets that flop, he has to have JT or a set. Weird that he checks the turn unless he's afraid that you're on a flush draw and wants a safe river. When he pots the river, he has at worst a K-high flush which he can't have because you hold both the AhKh. He has to have a flush with the repot but it can't be JhTh because the Th is on the river so it has to be QhJhTxXx.

All that said, I probably have 5 beers in me at this point in the tourney, so I crying call.