today we're going to Bellagio to play the $1,090 pot limit Omaha tournament
part of the Five Diamond Classic I'm really looking forward to this event as
I feel I have a great edge in pot limit Omaha tournaments I've had a great track
record the World Series of Poker offered a $560 re-entry pot limit Omaha
tournament this year over 2,200 people entered I was the stone cold final table
bubble 10th place pretty disappointing but I've had other successes bubbling
the legends of Poker 500 rebuy pot limit Omaha tournament $6,000 min cash I got
zero dollars and I also bubbled the win poker classic pot limit Omaha tournament
for a small save that other people put up
pot limit Omaha tournaments are unique in which preflop sizing can vary greatly
depending on the situation and your holdings open limping men raising up to
potting pre 3.5 X the big blind are all acceptable in different spots I see em
pressure is relevant around the bubble but in the early stages you want to see
a lot of flops you want to play a lot of nut drawers avoid getting set over set
and don't over value bottom two pair this is pot limit Omaha you get four
cards a lot of things can happen Trader Joe's item of the day we are registering
on time note late reg for us we're hoping to get a great table draw full of
old white men from the seniors event and or old women from the seniors event to
really optimize our edge in general young white European males
are the best at pot limit Omaha so we're gonna do our best to avoid those and
table drawers and in pots we're looking to isolate the fish you don't have the
intricacies of pot limit Omaha worked out and take advantage of their
incompetence it is a predatory game but that's what poker is so we have to make
the best of every situation let's win this pot limit Omaha turn
you
I tweeted at them the day before I got no response
after much deliberation we start with 30,000 in tournament chips
at first break 65,000 ships got the Waco kid big risky for briefs to the a at the
table few notables
had Kings versus aces only lost 3500 had aces won the max playing great Ernie for
another two hours 30k to start let's do this
how's the show going today holding up
I'm gonna bust out this hand I'm gonna watch the fucking show 28 valid raised
there's no Allen button I can own the modem is so powerful all your chips are
on I play no limit I need to have the power that employee mid-range to 4600
I really I guess I guess I wanted with
my buddy what is it is a king hi guys
thirty-two six
all right on break blinds are bound to be 2000 I have about 240,000
run and well just busted Anthony Zeno along with a few other Munson's 12 pay
over a hundred entrance we're gonna win
you
card ed for the last three hours of the night bagged 126 thousand ten remain
it's 1:00 a.m. as we back here at 1:00 p.m. we are the short stack
very top-heavy payouts
chip update
the biggest hand of the tourney is about to go down let's take a closer look with
blinds 12 and 24,000 we are chip leader we hold the ace seven six three one suit
in the big blind the button limps small blind completes and we check our option
the flop is ace four three giving us top pair a straight flush draw and a ramp
small blind checks we decide to bet fifty five thousand the button calls and
the small blind calls the turn is the off suit King small blind checks we
decide to bet one hundred and twenty thousand with our huge equity hand at
this time the button pots it to just under six hundred thousand and the small
blind goes all-in
we're in a tough spot we have three options fold call or jam
each has pretty good merit we fold we still have 1.3 million chips and can
possibly see a knockout and be three handed if we call we get to see the
river where we're probably 50/50 against the Potters range of deuce 3 X X 4 4 X X
and 5 5 for lower sets I don't think we have fold equity if we shove but if we
do he calls and we get there with our straight flush or nut straight we'll
knock out two players and be heads up verse a 200k stack with a 15 to 1 chip
lead that's the best case nor we can just call see the river realize our
equity and shove if we hit our flush or straight because top pair will not be
good against the button Potter's range 99% of the time on that board texture
also the small blind calling the powders all in for 390 K has to concern us that
our flush draw may not be live except for the straight flush outs I'm not
exactly sure what range he has but he has to have a very strong hand and may
have some blockers to our Street and most likely flush outs there it is now a
side pot of 420 thousand if we do call which is this more money for us to win
if we hit we tank in tank and eventually decide to call the additional 480
thousand in hopes to shove the river on any Deuce three six seven eight or Club
the river worth approximately $15,000 in equity is the offsuit Queen of Hearts
it goes check check the button has the wheel the small blind has top 2 with the
flush draw
we lose the pot of 1.8 million chips and we're now three handed I have 800 K
versus 200 K and the new chip leader has 2.3 million this is what the stacks
would have looked like if I hit the river and he folded to my jam here are
the odds versus the button Potter's exact hand and here are the odds versus
both of the hands we lose a big all in preflop vs. shorty instead of getting
heads up then we lose a flip to the chip leader we got third place for thirteen
thousand seven hundred dollars