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Cake Poker Daily $800 PLO/8 Guaranteed (3,000 chips)

Tried this for a lark. First online cash play since Friday.

My first hand was T J 6 Q as UTG in ten players at 10/20. I raised to 45 and there were three callers. Flop was J J 7 making me a set, and I half-potted to 105. One call. 3 on the turn, I bet the pot (420) and got a call. 2 for the river, we both checked, my set was the high hand and the other guy got a low. Most of the money in the pot belonged to us, so we only made a 60 chip profit.

Got 5 J 4 6 on the big blind. UTG raised to 70 and got three calls. SB re-raised to 440. I called and everyone already in the hand stayed in, so there were six players to the see the A 8 7 flop. I had a low straight draw, when SB went all-in for 2,540 I called. UTG went all-in for less than the bet, UTG1 called, there was a fold, and BTN was all-in for another 10 chips. I called and UTG1 called. Turn was J, which didn’t do much of anything for me, but UTG1 raised his last 70 chips and I called with mine (he’d been the low I split the pot in the last hand). BTN showed A K 6 5 for a pair of aces and one of my straight draws. SB had 3 A J T for aces and jacks and an inside straight draw to the JX. Things were looking grim for any real hand for me. UTG, with 3 Q K Q had to hope for a TX to make Broadway to win. UTG2 had 9 Q T K to fill in the gap between the nut straight. The river was 4. Amazingly enough, I had a low hand with A 4 5 6 7 and took back my 70 chips from the last round of betting. BTN had the same low, and we split the rest of the low pots, with me taking a total of 3,905.

The fourth hand, I picked up Q A 5 3. I raised to 70 from BTN, SB re-raised to 120, UTG2 three-bet 460. Both SB and I called. 8 2 T on the flop gave me the nut flush draw. I potted it to 1410, SB called for less, UTG2 went all-in for more than 5,500 and I called all-in. SB had J 7 6 A for not much of anything, UTG2 showed 4 8 A 2 for two pair. The turn and river were unclubbed: Q K, turning SB’s not much into Broadway. He got the main pot of 5,130; the two-pair took 4,210 (a good bit less than he’d started the hand with, but then I got nothing).

5 minutes, 4 hands. First player of thirty permanently out because I refuse to rebuy.