It has been a few days since the last summary, but now it is time to look at what went on over the Easter weekend. There was a lot of action in a lot of different games, but as has been the trend of late, the seven game were the place where the most money changed hands. Patrik Antonius was the top winner of the period and has gotten off to a very fast start in April and has won almost a million dollars over the last seven days. Durrrr was also running well, and even though he dropped $316K in a $500/$1000 PLO match against Ivey, he managed to come out a $457K winner.
Phil Ivey’s aces holds up against durrrr’s top pair. $196K pot
This was the largest pot of the Ivey-durrrr match, something that is somewhat surprising since the total pot was not even two full buy ins. On the other hand, they didn’t play more than 354 hands, so there wasn’t so much time to build the really big stacks.
The hand is a typical example of what happens in PLO when you play only 100 big blinds deep. When the hand is 4-bet before the flop, about a quarter of the players stack’s are in the middle. This means that both players are getting better than 3-2 odds on getting the rest of their money in on the flop, and in PLO you don’t need much of a hit to get that kind of equity.
On this hand, durrrr hits top pair and against Ivey’s 4-bet range he will definitely have the correct odds to go with his hand. Interestingly enough, that is almost exactly the odds durrrr had against Ivey’s aces and he tried to improve upon this equity by betting out in front thus giving Ivey an opportunity to fold. Obviously, in this instance Ivey was not going anywhere, but if he held AKJT, KQJT or something similar, durrrr would probably win a sizeable pot there and then. As it was, he was left hoping to suck out, but even though the turn improved things a little, it wasn’t to be this time.
Durrrr turns a straight to win a $179K pot.
durrrr flops a full house but needs to dodge some of theASHMAN103 winners to win a $172K pot.
theASHMAN103 and Antonius both flop the nut straight, but Antonius’ flush draw gets there. $160K pot.
Antonius fades a bunch of winners to take off with a $129K pot.
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