This event was short and sweet even though I won 2 races to double in one hour. I flopped trips with 29o when it was called and I checked in the big blind and won a small pot there. I lost a pot when I had 97s in a 5 way limped pot and a guy stacked off 85 big blinds with K9 on a 973 board and rivered a king. I won a race with queens before that hand and won a race with jacks after this hand. I later busted in an interesting hand that I may have misplayed but I'm not really sure right now. I finished like 300ish out of 550(or around there) runners.
The play in the omaha tournament was lightyears ahead of the play in this event. It may be that this is hold'em and almost everyone is either extremely good or extremely bad. Hold'em is such an interesting game. It's had to be as bad as some people, but they really are that bad! I mean the play in this event wasn't terrible, but it was pretty bad. Too bad I can't dodge people bluffing with air. On to the hand:
Blinds: 40/80 Stacks: Me-4210 Villain-4595 Button-3k
Villain limps utg and I raise to 290 from utg+2, button calls, blinds fold, and villain calls. The villain in this hand is kind of spewy. A few hands earlier, they bluffed 3 streets with ten high no draw.
Flop: T52 raibow (990 pot)
Villain checks, I bet 420, button folds and villain checks raises to 960. The thing here is I'm almost always being called by a hand that beats me in this spot except a Tx hand. I'm almost sure he raises AT pre, maybe even KT, so i basically put him on air and called to let him bluff the turn.
Turn: Q Board: T52Q
Villain bets 1720. It's such a sick spot cuse I basically put him on QT or air on the flop which air includes Qx hands. I went with my intial read and ship the rest and he snapped with KQo. I brick river and I'm out.
I'm not really sure if I play this right. I think I might be able to fold the turn with 28 big blinds left (last hand of this level), but air is a big part of this range. It's really interesting and I was right he had air. His flop line screams air and he got lucky and I'm starting to think I played the flop fine. It may have been a mistake to try and get him to fire another barrel on the turn, but I think I could have gotten good value if he doesn't hit. Although, I could have just won the hand on the flop. Maybe I should have tried to get extra value. Not really sure!
Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better is tomorrow and I'm excited for this one. In the little bit of PLO8 I have played, I have done really well. I'm assuming most people are terrible at PLO8 and the field with be smaller and really soft. It's a late night event so check Thursday morning for the next update. Peace!
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