Superbaldas is relatively new to the high stakes poker scene, but he’s already accumulated some nice results lately. So far this year he has won about $900K, and yesterday he had one of his best sessions when he won close to $190K from Ziigmund. With only 12 hands played though, it might be a bit of a stretch calling this a session, but I am sure superbaldas is happy with the money anyway. There is some questions about the identity of superbaldas, but most signs point in the direction of the Italian Fabrizio Baldassari.
Superbaldas’ aces hold up to win a $100K pot.
Ziigmund picked an unfortunate spot to 3-bet his marginal holding in this hand, so when the flop came down he was too involved to get away from it. When he hits a little piece of the flop he has enough to get his chips in provided that his opponent didn’t hit a set, which isn’t very likely considering this flop. The only question is whether he should bet out or wait for superbaldas to make a cbet. In most cases, it will not matter, but the way Ziigmund plays the hand now, he has a chance to get superbaldas fold his hand in case the 4-bet was made with something like AKQJ. This time, superbaldas had the suspected Aces, but he wasn’t more than a 3-2 favorite. But as you can see, those odds were more than sufficient this time.
Superbaldas flops top set and traps Ziigmund into bluffing away all his chips.
Sometimes slow playing pays off and sometimes it doesn’t , but this seems like a good time to choose the line that superbaldas did here. Most times when you play the hand fast you’re doing it to shut your opponent out of the hand, but PLO you will rarely get your opponent off a big draw, so what street you are getting your chips in is not really important. In these spots, the reason you are slow playing is to get paid off when your opponent is bluffing. It is quite likely that Ziigmund would have folded his hand if superbaldas had raised at any point here, so the slow play made him a bunch of money this time.