PLO! So I've decided to just start playing as much live PLO as possible. Clearly, it feels like most people don't know what they are doing. I'm no PLO wizard but so far it feels as if a patient style can be very rewarding!
Decided to drive through heavy Saturday traffic to make it all the way to the Shoe in Hammond. It's also on average a 1.5 hour drive which is why I want to start spending weekends here. Finally made it there and it sure does feel like a piece of crap town just like everyone says
Got carded at the door which felt weird after barely anyone ever caring in Vegas. Walked all the way through the sad pits of slot machines to the Poker Room! I always get a kick out of it cause I'm just some kid with no intentions to play pit games walking three times as fast as anyone else in the Casino. Got to get my poker on!
Ended up getting on new 1/2 plo table. It's sort of like a 1/2/5 game though because you can only call preflop for 5 but in a really passive game this is great! Table doesn't live up to some of the crazy Chicago PLO action I always here about. Apparently only the excited stuff is talked about! Game is really snug and I just grind it out for a while.
Eventually I get moved into the main game. There's a guy sitting two seats to my left with well over 2k. Everyone has a pretty big stack! The action stays stale for a while until it gets late into the night. Every pot is now being raised preflop by a number of different players.
I limp a hand utg with AQQxcchh and got a raise from LP. Decided to pop it up to pot since I've been playing really snug at this point. The pot was 90 and I end up with 3 callers.
The flop comes really wet AJ9dd. I decide to bet 100 with plans to barrel good cards and rep AA. Get one caller he's in position.
Turn ($560)
6 off suit.
I bet again for $200 and get called once again.
Decided I was going to shove any brick/board pairing river. Wether it's nesc with a showdown hand, Idk but it felt like he could have had some random two pair along with his draws.
River: ($960 )
3 off suit.
I decide to just bet $200 since he has about $250 behind. He folds. Guess this one turned into a steal gone crazy.
Table underwent a short crazy period where the average pot must have been above $800. A new player tripled up on first hand and over the course of 2-3 hours built a stack of over $6000. Never imagine this in a 1/2 game. One villain was raise/reraising about every hand and I was able to take quite a few nice pots off of him. There must of been several players stuck 2k+ in the game.
The game was winding down and I limped A
7
6
A
UTG. I expected this getting raised over 80% of the time. And it did so I 4bet to 65. However, the solid player who had also limped the button repotted it to about 280. Felt like he had AA every time. Having invested only 30bbs 350bb+ deep is it there any other play here? The reraise guy got it in for about 300, and he had just sucked out a previous hand when he went AIPF with 2278ss and hit a flush against AA for a decent sized pot. I ended up mashing $1500 in the middle covering the reraiser. He snap called. I'm still a bit confused if it was 670 more or 670 all day cause I'd just won a few pots and didn't really know my stack. Anyways, the pot was about $2k.
Reraiser: A
A
5
4
Reraise/hyper action guy: 77J2 not sure on suits. But the 77 matters lol.
The flop comes 853 as I hit the open ender on the flop. The turn however pairs my 6.
The river is the case 7. Giving the reraiser an 8 high straight.
Now the catch is. We're being dealt our next hand and the guy who won the last pot doesn't even want a free hand. He takes the first card the dealer dealt him and shoves it onward to the next player. I tell him a few things a long the lines of "You can't leave now. You're a big winner!" with a few different varations of it but he didn't even look at me. Haha I guess that's poker
Had a good experience and can't wait to play plo again here!
Session Stats:
14 hours.
+$403