In part one, we saw how a £1,000 pot can appear from nowhere in PLO. It is a truism in "big bet poker" (a term used to describe No Limit and Pot Limit games) that as soon as you put a single chip in a pot, your whole stack is potentially in jeopardy.
Another monster pot came along shortly after I pulled up a second £300. I'd seen a free flop with J875. The flop comes 874rainbow. Not too bad, although someone may have flopped a straight.
Lee bets out £12 from the BB. Lee is an excellent NLH player, but new to PLO. So I don't think he has to have the straight, even leading into 4 players. Jude calls, which might mean many things.
I have top 2 pair, which may be good. I bet "to find out". In this case, I bump it to £45. Betting "to find out where you are" is over-rated, I think, as a poker concept. It is particularly flawed in NLH tournaments I feel. However, in a multi-way cash PLO pot I believe it can work.
Bekkar called £45 so he definitely has something. Mike Khan now check-raises to £200 and after Lee passes in disgust, Jude moves in for £510.
OK. I found out, and then some.
6 months ago I would have put in my whole stack now (I would reason: I have top two, I have outs even if by some miracle one has a straight, they're probably at it anyway ...).
Now, I see that at least one of them has the straight, probably more than one of them, plus redraws, and another one has a set at least. I am probably drawing dead !
So, I let my hand go instantly. Probably I should fold for £12, but I do play quite aggressively and I think it doesn't do to play totally out of character with one's normal style.
Bekkar now also calls all-in for £400 or so, and Mike makes up the £510.
Mike has 88J6 for top set. Jude has 56A3 for the nuts on the flop. Bekkar has TT93 for an open-ended draw to the higher straight. I passed top 2, and Lee passed 74xx.
I don't like Mike's check-raise tbh, and I think he probably could pass the re-raise as he is obviously facing a made straight and it seems likely quite a few of his outs are gone.
Bekkar's call, meanwhile, is "bold". He is drawing to the nuts, though, which is important. Of course, 2 of the fives and 2 of the Jacks are gone. Still, that didn't stop a Jack falling on the turn, making Bekkar the new nuts which holds to the river for another massive pot.
I'm happy because I take some pleasure in knowing I would have lost £400 in that pot last year. It almost felt like making money !
Fast forward via my KKds hitting everything but getting no action, to all-action with every draw and hitting nothing, till we arrive at another pre-flop monster:
AA76 double-suited on the straddle. I make it £30 more to go and get 4 callers.
I only have £130 left, so it's likely to go in on most flops. It's a 988flop so I'm losing to any eight. However, I have an oesd and a backdoor flush draw as well as the overpair, so I can hardly fail to jam it. Jude check-calls all-in. He shows an 8. I need to hit something.
I hit the 5 on the turn giving me the straight and the nut flush draw. Unfortunately, that card gives Jude a full house. I still have some outs to Aces full, but that doesn't come and we're looking for "third time lucky".
3rd bullet: I hold QJ88 on a JJ5 flop (in a re-raised pot). I like it, and check-raise all-in only to be facing AAJx. That was possibly a very bad play. In any case, it was a bad result !
OK. Pull up or push off ? The good news was that the table was pretty deep, and the money was definitely there to be won back. I could give you 10 more valid reasons for staying, not the least of which was the fact that the last train had gone!
Big holes call for big shovels, so I put £500 to work and advanced that to £700 before unwisely 3-barrelling £300+ into Jude on an A99XX board. If I review my mental notes, I think I'm going to find that Jude never folds and especially so when he's holding A9 in this coup .... it is a potentially interesting comment on my image that he didn't raise any street when he is only losing to specifically the case Aces.
So, I started with £300. I still have £300. £1,200 down doesn't sound so bad put like that ....
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