{"id":2857,"date":"2018-12-08T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T07:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T07:51:26","slug":"r-day-minus-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"R-Day Minus 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Poker Mutant\u00a0<\/strong>will be retiring (mostly) from poker\u00a0on 1 January. This is the latest installment in his thrilling countdown to the\u00a0End of Times<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Before I went to bed last night, jumped into the\u00a0Ignition Casino $400 GTD PLO<\/strong> and played it for about 45 minuted\u2014actually getting up to 2nd place in the 60-player field after a big hand\u2014and only realized it was actually PLO8<\/strong>\u00a0after\u00a0<\/em>I’d busted out. At least I wasn’t the guy I played with at the Venetian a few years back who bought into a $400 tournament only to do the same sort of thing (“I was kind of wondering why none of the hands had a low\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6”). It might be embarrassing if I mentioned it to anyone.<\/p>\n

This was how the second hand of that tournament went. I had won the first hand, and was up to 6000 chips from a starting stack of 5000. Late entry, blinds were 125\/250. 8 players at the table, I was hijack, with T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I was the first caller. The dealer (6450 chips, T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>) limped in with me, then the small blind (12,197 chips) raised to 1450 with A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I called, then the dealer called.<\/p>\n

Now, according to the\u00a0CardPlayer<\/em> Omaha Odds Calculator<\/strong>, with the player in there with aces my chance of winning the hand doesn’t change from a heads-up match against the pair of tens, but he’s the dog in the three-way fight. Flip the Hi\/Lo switch and things stay pretty much the same.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the flop is great for me: 8<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I shoot up to 57% equity. The small blind pots his aces, I’m all in to call with my full house, and the dealer\u2014who has nearly a full starting stack\u2014shoves with a weak flush draw (beat by the nut flush draw of the aces) and a bad low draw. The aces called.<\/p>\n

The turn 3<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> counterfeited the lows of both players, then the 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> river shipped me the pot, so I more than tripled to 18375. Nice start, but I made a bad call another 40 hands down the line.<\/p>\n

Got a 5x\u00a0NLHE Jackpot Sit-n-Go<\/strong>, and managed to get out front after a bad start, but ended up going out third.<\/p>\n

After doing stuff around the house (mostly sitting), I headed out to the\u00a0Final Table $2K GTD NLHE<\/strong>. Our table had a drunk guy from “down the valley” who said he’d won a tournament earlier in the day. I stacked him twice in the same level, once when he 3-bet Q<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> and I 4-bet Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and he called. I don’t remember what he had when I called his shove with almost an entire rebuy stack, but I won that, too. I was up to 45K early on, then doubled up an annoying player I’ve mentioned before when I had aces under the gun and just limped in expecting a raise from someone at the tableNaturally, when I c-bet and the annoying guy raised for most of his stack on a king-high board, I had to put him all in and he had K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> for two pair.<\/p>\n

Doubled up once when I got down to about 10bb and we were at two tables, lost a chunk to the player I doubled through with an open-ended straight draw where he had top pair and a deuce kicker, then just never managed to put it together.<\/p>\n

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