Thursday
March 04, 2010
As I was writing my previous report, durrrr and Cole South tangled in a short (435 hands) but intense match of $200/$400 PLO. The title of this report tells the result, but let’s look at a few hands to see how that result came about.
Durrrr rivers a straight to crack Cole South’s kings in a $131K pot.
durrrr flops a 12 wrap straight draw, a hand that normally plays well against more or less any hands that your opponent might have. Playing the draw for his whole stack was probably not something that durrrr had to think about for a very long time. The difficult decision in the hand came when Cole South decided whether or not to commit his stack after durrrr’s re-raise on the flop. He needs 37% equity against durrrr’s range for the play to be correct, and if he only held the kings, I am not sure he would have stayed in the hand. Now, however, he has the open ended straight draw to fall back on and that is the deciding factor that makes moving in correct.
South’s straight draw is important here, but not because he needs to improve to a straight to win the hand. The blockers that take away two of durrrr’s winners, and that makes South a 3-2 favorite when the money goes in. Not that any of this helped helped him much in the end, unless he got some satisfaction from having made the correct play.
Durrrr flops a full house and traps Cole South into paying him off. $126K pot.
Getting paid off with your good hands is often just a matter of looking at the stack sizes and figuring out what it would take to get your opponent pot committed. If the stacks are really deep, you might have to slowplay, or possibly bet out on the flop to make your opponent put in a bunch of chips before you have showed too much strength. In this example, the pot was big enough before the flop for a simple check raise to do the trick. Cole South made his continuation bet as expected, and when durrrr shoved, he could not resist putting his faith in his flush draw, but he was drawing completely dead.
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