Sunday
August 22, 2010
Well, I am sure it is not his favorite kind of poker, but if there are no other games even Ziigmund has to submit to the torture that is the PLO cap games. Obviously, beating them for close to $600K helps to temper the aversion some, but I am sure he will prefer to get some real PLO games going. Durrrr also had a very nice start to the weekend, and despite dropping $163K in the $200/$400 PLO cap gamehe ended up winning over $350K. What might be most impressive about this is that he played literally every game possible from NLHE through all the seven games at different limits. It seems that he is making an effort to hone his skill in all the games now, and that could be bad news for the rest of the players.
Durrrr flops the nut straight and fades a lot of draws to win a $172K pot
We are all told that we should play our big hands fast when the board looks scary and there are multiple opponents, but as you’d expect, you will not get to be a top pro if you don’t know when to break these rules of thumb from time to time. Most players would automatically raise the flop with durrrr’s hand here, but he knows that he is very unlikely to make anyone fold any kind of draw, so he might as well wait and hope for a blank on the turn before making a big move. But when Jedlicka raised behind him and Antonius moved in, durrrr was probably just as happy with that turn of events. It was one of those hands where you want to put just a little money into the pot or as much as you possibly can. And since no one flopped a set, and many of the heart draws were dead, durrrr had as much as 55% equity in a 3-way pot. Those are odds you would take any day, obviously.
Antonius comes from way behind to win a $159K pot against sbrugby.
If durrrr’s slowplay on the previous hand worked out for him, Brian ‘sbrugby’ Townsend was left regretting his slowplay on this hand. Not that it was a bad time to employ this strategy, but he was unlucky to see it backfire on him. Townsend was a 9-1 favorite after the flop, so if you are ever going to trap your opponent while playing PLO this was surely one of those times. If I am going to be a little critical it would be that I would prefer to see him bet out on the turn when the second heart fell. If Antonius checks behind with a flush draw, it will be a lot of equity out of the window for Townsend. Of course, there could be history involved here that made Townsend think that a bet from Antonius was forthcoming, and if so you can see that he was right in his evaluation of the situation. Being better than a 3-1 favorite on the turn he must have to be elated to get Antonius chips into the pot. But when the heart came on the river to complete the backdoor flush, Townsend was probably asking himself why he didn’t shut the door on this pot a lot earlier.