Morning all, & sincere apologies for the slowroll & apparent disappearance.
I ran out of I-pad battery at the exact moment I ran out of chips. I actually typed the hand into my I-Pad, but the battery gave up the ghost, sorry.
Full details will follow in the Tourney Report, but the exit was, I think, standard stuff. Note it was PLO, not PLO8.
It was almost the very last hand in Level 6. I had something in the order of 25,000, @ 250-500, about to go 300-600 next level.
Aggro # 1 & Aggro # 2, between whom I was sandwiched, were giving me a really hard time, & I was pretty sure one of them would double me or bust me when the right moment arose. The pair of them were playing it like a Turbo - in Level 4, they had managed to get 60,000 chips in the middle PRE FLOP with.....
A-J-10-10
....and
K-10-6-2ccdd
By now, Aggro # 2 (to my left) had 200,000, & was just abusing the entire table. So I just needed a decent hand to take him on with, & a 2xUp (or bust....) would surely follow.
I'm dealt this beauty.....
Aggro # 1 (to my immediate right) opens, as per, I pot it, Aggro # 2 (to my immediate left) flats, Aggro # 1 calls.
Once we saw this flop, there was no backing down, imo....
Aggro #1 checks, I pot, Aggro # 2 repots, Aggro # 1 folds, I get it in.
My man tables....
Hard for him to have flopped much better with that. It reminded me of the 5-7-8-9 coup @ Binions.
The spade turned (BOOM) but another 4 rivered (UNBOOM) & that was that.
It's precisely the sort of hand I want looking up with, and exactly the sort of hand I expected him to have, so I've got no complaints, I'd take that pre-flop match up all day every day.
Bit of a shame really, & no denying I felt a bit deflated afterwards. I'm a bit bewildered, to be honest, at the ranges these guys go to war with. Not dissing it, not at all, but to a traditionalist, it's all a bit confusing, & I need to take a long hard look at my ranges. I know I'm way too tight, no argument there, but sheesh, these guys have really eclectic ranges.
Welcome to Omaha, folks.
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