PLO, however, was much less tasty.
I forgot that the reason I didn’t make it over to Aria last year is because I have PTSD from how bad I’ve run here. Buy in for 500 to play 1/2/5 PLO, and the first hand of consequence I play is, naturally, the double board bomb pot the table plays on every dealer change.
I forget the exact boards, but I made top set of tens on the bottom board, with nothing much going on the top board, which was fairly dry. I was early to act, with a pot of $140, so I checked to see what the field would do. The flop checked around.
The turn was an overcard to my tens, but I remember no straights or flushes were possible, so I bet $60. Now a shortstack raises a committing amount. Honestly I don’t remember what the other board looked like, I’m just annoyed that I’m in a spot where I have a strong hand, but with no chance to scoop.
Anyway, I call, and call the rest of it. He had a wrap on the bottom, which got there on the river, and his two pair stood up on the top, so I got scooped. Annoying. I wonder if I should just be YOLO-potting top set and ready to stack it down, but it seemed rash since I didn’t have anything going on the other board.
The next interesting hand I played was ALSO a double board bomb pot, and I remember the action better. This time I have the button, and wake up to AT65. The top flop was A-T-7 rainbow, and the bottom was 8-4d-2d. So I have top two up top, and a double gutter to the nuts both ways on the bottom.
It checks to me on the button, so I bet to thin the field and see where I’m at. I find out quickly, as first to act check/pots it to like $340, with only another 50 or so behind it.
Well dammit. This is why double board bomb pots can be such a trap. If you have one board locked up, it’s in your interest to play it as fast as possible, to drive out other players and potentially scoop. When 2 or 3 or 4 players feel that way, hilarity ensues. And some people play soooo bad, and make such huge mistakes. …Those fish. Not me, though, obviously. I’m the hero in my own story.
Anyway, since I have both boards working, I say **** it and get it in there. The top board runs out X, T to give me tens full, and I miss on the bottom. He had a set of 8’s on the bottom, and nothing else up top, so we chop.
Couple hours later, we get ANOTHER interesting spot in a double board bomb pot. The top flop is 8-4-4, the bottom is J-8-7 rainbow, and oh hey look at that, I have KQ88! So top full, PLUS a set of 8’s.
Obviously all the money is eventually going in, it’s just a question of when and how. First to act bets $50, and I’m next. With 5 people behind me, I decide to just flat here. Cutoff pots it to 300something with another 500ish behind it, then a shortstack calls off his 300. I backraise shove, which cutoff reluctantly calls. Initial bettor folded.
It was music to my ears that they both had a 4, so neither of them could make quads to crack my top full. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a board pair on the bottom, so cutoff’s T94x chopped the shorty’s money with me. Scooping would have been really cool… after all, I made TWO sets! Ah well.
Sadly, it all ended in tears, when I got oversetted by the one guy at the table who had me covered. I’m annoyed, because I’ve always said small pocket pairs in PLO are a trap, for precisely that reason. T866 double suited looked so pretty, though. There was no straight possible on the turn, only two broadway cards, and two diamonds, so the runout made me feel like my set of 6’s were pretty strong. The river paired the king, and I paid it off. Quads are good, sir, nh.
I picked up my last $46, and finished -1154.
