Anthony Martino
Royal Flush
Oy vey, some days you're the fist, and some days you're the face (WARNING: Bad Beats and Grumbling Ahead!)
Playing in the 1/2 PLO with a mandatory $5 button straddle and unlimited restraddles. Generally I dominate this game with a really great track record, but today was going to be the exception.
Buyins are $200-$1,000 and I buyin for the max. There's a few gamblers that buyin 200-400 and try to just play bingo preflop and spin it up with a variety of weak holdings (generally stuff like three card rundowns with a dangler and one suit). And then a few deeper-stacked fish as well.
Early on I was actually doing pretty well, having chipped up to $1,450. But it was all going to go sideways. Got involved in a few hands where I'd have some strong wraps that whiffed and before you knew it I was back down to $850. Then this hand happened:
Hero: $850
SB: $150
Villain: $900
Button: $1,300
SB (bad gambler who likes to play Bingo preflop sitting on $150) limps for $5
Hero UTG with limps $5
Villain (bad reg who won high five figures in a tournament within the past year) in MP raises to $30
Button who had straddled (crazy gambler that plays garbage constantly) calls $30
SB rips it in for $150
Hero repots to $450 (other numbers may be off, been a rough day but I remember this was the pot size raise)
Villain cold-calls $450
Flop:
Hero first to act puts his last $400 in
Villain snap calls and turns over one card the
Hero is wondering how the fuck Villain has a 6 in his hand and at showdown reveals:
Hero knew Villain was bad, but didn't realize he was THIS bad. He called off half his chips with 3456 lol what the actual fuck? And with a 667 board that looks pretty good for Aces, especially given Villains range should be strong broadway holdings, good Kings or the other Aces in this spot, possibly a double suited rundown like QJT9
REBUY!
Shortly after this hand takes place:
SB: $1,300
BB: $200
Hero: $850
BB (bingo player sitting on $200) straddles to $20
Hero is UTG+1 with calls $20
Two callers of $20
SB (crazy gambler) calls $20
BB straddler shoves $200
Hero repots to $500 (again, previous numbers may be slightly off but I recall my pot size bet was $500)
In these spots Hero shows up with AAxx approximately 80% or more of the time, as otherwise he's trying to keep pots small and see flops, as this cast of characters will call off with very bad holdings and we can be in good spots equity-wise against them. But if Hero can get stacks in pre with good Aces or create an SPR low enough that a flop shove is automatic he does so. In this particular spot Hero felt that he held the best hand against these opponents and could isolate the Button.
SB starts saying "Aces?" and winds up cold-calling
Flop:
SB says POT and Hero has to fold, SB turns over: (so he's worried I have Aces but he still called me with this)
My last hand another crazy gambler had straddled pre to $10, bunch of callers, he pops it to $50 when it gets around to him, think we're four-handed to the flop:
I have and wind up getting it in three ways with the nut flush draw and two gutshot draws to the nuts
all-in cold caller has
raising straddle has (I have no idea what he was doing raising preflop either lol)
so equity wise I was actually in decent shape with 42% equity, same as the guy with top set, while the other player was under 15% equity. Unfortunately turn was a King, and river paired the 3 and that was it for me, I reached my threshold of pain for the day.
Well, hopefully I've gotten all the missed draws out of my system and will dominate at SQM this week. Bring your bankrolls fellas, I'm in a mood to gamble!
Playing in the 1/2 PLO with a mandatory $5 button straddle and unlimited restraddles. Generally I dominate this game with a really great track record, but today was going to be the exception.
Buyins are $200-$1,000 and I buyin for the max. There's a few gamblers that buyin 200-400 and try to just play bingo preflop and spin it up with a variety of weak holdings (generally stuff like three card rundowns with a dangler and one suit). And then a few deeper-stacked fish as well.
Early on I was actually doing pretty well, having chipped up to $1,450. But it was all going to go sideways. Got involved in a few hands where I'd have some strong wraps that whiffed and before you knew it I was back down to $850. Then this hand happened:
Hero: $850
SB: $150
Villain: $900
Button: $1,300
SB (bad gambler who likes to play Bingo preflop sitting on $150) limps for $5
Hero UTG with limps $5
Villain (bad reg who won high five figures in a tournament within the past year) in MP raises to $30
Button who had straddled (crazy gambler that plays garbage constantly) calls $30
SB rips it in for $150
Hero repots to $450 (other numbers may be off, been a rough day but I remember this was the pot size raise)
Villain cold-calls $450
Flop:
Hero first to act puts his last $400 in
Villain snap calls and turns over one card the
Hero is wondering how the fuck Villain has a 6 in his hand and at showdown reveals:
Hero knew Villain was bad, but didn't realize he was THIS bad. He called off half his chips with 3456 lol what the actual fuck? And with a 667 board that looks pretty good for Aces, especially given Villains range should be strong broadway holdings, good Kings or the other Aces in this spot, possibly a double suited rundown like QJT9
REBUY!
Shortly after this hand takes place:
SB: $1,300
BB: $200
Hero: $850
BB (bingo player sitting on $200) straddles to $20
Hero is UTG+1 with calls $20
Two callers of $20
SB (crazy gambler) calls $20
BB straddler shoves $200
Hero repots to $500 (again, previous numbers may be slightly off but I recall my pot size bet was $500)
In these spots Hero shows up with AAxx approximately 80% or more of the time, as otherwise he's trying to keep pots small and see flops, as this cast of characters will call off with very bad holdings and we can be in good spots equity-wise against them. But if Hero can get stacks in pre with good Aces or create an SPR low enough that a flop shove is automatic he does so. In this particular spot Hero felt that he held the best hand against these opponents and could isolate the Button.
SB starts saying "Aces?" and winds up cold-calling
Flop:
SB says POT and Hero has to fold, SB turns over: (so he's worried I have Aces but he still called me with this)
My last hand another crazy gambler had straddled pre to $10, bunch of callers, he pops it to $50 when it gets around to him, think we're four-handed to the flop:
I have and wind up getting it in three ways with the nut flush draw and two gutshot draws to the nuts
all-in cold caller has
raising straddle has (I have no idea what he was doing raising preflop either lol)
so equity wise I was actually in decent shape with 42% equity, same as the guy with top set, while the other player was under 15% equity. Unfortunately turn was a King, and river paired the 3 and that was it for me, I reached my threshold of pain for the day.
Well, hopefully I've gotten all the missed draws out of my system and will dominate at SQM this week. Bring your bankrolls fellas, I'm in a mood to gamble!