Thursday
May 20, 2010
It was a good day for Cole South and Brian Townsend with both ending up in the top 3 of the leaderboard. For Cole South the bulk of his winnings came from the $500/$1000 Cap PLO game while Townsend was a bit more versatile playing all but 35 of his hands in the seven game.
Oppenheim is drawing to the wrong end of the straight, but turning trips wins him a $120K pot.
Even though Cole South was the winningest player he found himself on the losing side of the largest pot of the day. And even though Oppenheim was a significant underdog (about 3-1), he could hardly be criticized for getting his money in on this flop. The problem for Oppenheim’s hand is of course that his draw is so thoroughly dominated by South’s draw, but then again, South’s hand was not the likeliest one in the expected range. This time Oppenheim was obviously bailed out by the turn, something that contributed greatly to his winning result for the day.
Bottom two pairs are enough for Antonius to win a $101K pot.
Patrik Antonius hovered around even for most of the day, but at least he was the proud winner of the only other six figure pot of the day. The pot also exemplifies the difficulties of playing high pairs in heads-up PLO. Even against Antonius’ lowly two pairs, Oppenheim’s kings are almost a 2-1, so you would think he would be inclined to fold when he is raised on the flop. The problem is that a dry flop like this is very inviting for players to bluff at, so the kings might be good. Therefore, unless you are playing against a very predictable opponent, you will just have to close your eyes and go with your kings in this spot.
As mentioned above, there were some $500/$1000 PLO Cap games going, and here are the highlights from those sessions:
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