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I was playing PLO last night with an interesting lineup and found myself in an interesting spot.
The first interesting thing is that I was one of the tighter players in the game. There were a couple maniacs and the game was DEEP.
We were six or seven handed at the time
The lineup - EP is a maniac. He will play any four, he is hyper agro on all streets, he likes to 3/4/5 bet pre to isolate against other big stacks or to gamble for stacks vs small stacks. If he decides you have AAxx he is likely to just jam it in and take the worse of the coin flip for the action. He has a couple thousand blinds (uncapped game) He is probably stuck - the game was insane earlier and he was very active in it.
Me MP, playing very tight for me, maybe 25/15ish. I think I three bet once or twice all night and 4/5 bet maybe 3x.
I have 200-300 blinds at the time. Probably in for 350 blinds.
HJ, plays a lot like I do. He's feeling down on his luck and steaming - Had been up early and is stuck at the time. He's playing about 125-150 blinds.
CO and BTN, both local pros, both very good and very tight. Playing about 400-500 blinds each. BTN has a tendency to bet at pots on the river when checked to.
For the hand I am going to fast forward to the river because it is the only interesting spot.
The action, EP pots, because, you know, he has 4 cards.
I call with 7889 or something similar, the 88 is key, and the fact that I do not have any spades or threes.
HJ, CO, and BTN all call.
~20 blinds in the pot
Board runs out 3s4s3c7s8s
EP checks river, I check river, HJ bets ~12 blinds (which is consistent with his value bet sizing - he rarely pots)
HJ and CO fold.
EP pots it for about 55 blinds.
So holding the third nuts in a strange checked down pot facing sudden huge action from action players. WWYD?
The first interesting thing is that I was one of the tighter players in the game. There were a couple maniacs and the game was DEEP.
We were six or seven handed at the time
The lineup - EP is a maniac. He will play any four, he is hyper agro on all streets, he likes to 3/4/5 bet pre to isolate against other big stacks or to gamble for stacks vs small stacks. If he decides you have AAxx he is likely to just jam it in and take the worse of the coin flip for the action. He has a couple thousand blinds (uncapped game) He is probably stuck - the game was insane earlier and he was very active in it.
Me MP, playing very tight for me, maybe 25/15ish. I think I three bet once or twice all night and 4/5 bet maybe 3x.
I have 200-300 blinds at the time. Probably in for 350 blinds.
HJ, plays a lot like I do. He's feeling down on his luck and steaming - Had been up early and is stuck at the time. He's playing about 125-150 blinds.
CO and BTN, both local pros, both very good and very tight. Playing about 400-500 blinds each. BTN has a tendency to bet at pots on the river when checked to.
For the hand I am going to fast forward to the river because it is the only interesting spot.
The action, EP pots, because, you know, he has 4 cards.
I call with 7889 or something similar, the 88 is key, and the fact that I do not have any spades or threes.
HJ, CO, and BTN all call.
~20 blinds in the pot
Board runs out 3s4s3c7s8s
EP checks river, I check river, HJ bets ~12 blinds (which is consistent with his value bet sizing - he rarely pots)
HJ and CO fold.
EP pots it for about 55 blinds.
So holding the third nuts in a strange checked down pot facing sudden huge action from action players. WWYD?