Do you think Finns gii tighter than Russians?

Attn donks: Omahaha is going 3rd (2.8M chips) in the PLO TCOOP-18 with 28 left!!!

Also, a 2+2 PLO SNE shimmy has cashed for $1357.51, gratz to him (a soon-to-be father) on the 14 BI of his main game.

just cracked AAQ with AAK for 2.4m pot... fun times

15th is still not bad, good times, gratz to him. Let's not be result-oriented (what else can I say in my defence? ).

With 10-15 mins left in the rebuy period, he was open shoving for 20 BBs effective with 2467r and stuff. Basically he wasn't scared of losing. His goal was to build up as big of a stack as possible, regardless of cost.

If you're sitting there with 15k at 300/600 and 5 mins away from the addon with a +EV hand like AT23, are you going to call amok's shove knowing that getting scooped would double your effective buyin?

I would call it smart gambling

Well, maybe I'm dumb but I don't think the risk of getting scooped is that big with specifically AT23 - is only about 25%. With 2468r (dominating 2467r 67/33), it would however be a bigger problem , getting scooped by the range closer to 40% of the time.

Just barely... it's close between Russia (and former USSR), Finland and Brazil

grats! went out close to the bubble, did a shove which afterwards was not needed, i coulda just nit folded myself into the $$$

Thanks. 1000th post! for everyone! (even for you billy)


It did indeed work very well - several players at the table were opening 2bb with a 20bb stack and folding to a shove, which is almost always a mistake in my opinion, even without the antes. During the first 12 levels (=rebuy-period), my pfr was 24% and 3-bet 10%, so I was certainly getting it in light, but wasn't a complete maniac. Evbb/100 was 55.37 which sounds too good to be true, but at least three players at the table were leaking chips at almost every possible chance they were given (limp-fold or open min-fold). I believe that at least 30 evbb/100 could be maintained in the long run under those conditions, which is huge, as it's almost purely from pre-flop play.

After showing my superior coin-flipping skills in the mid-stages, I was in the moneys. Many players were playing way too tight, especially with 5-10bb imo.

Some hands from the decisive moments:

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that's just after pay jump, luckys luke was a clueless fish and E.O.M seemed to have only slight advantages over him. as the table shortie, I'd get it in here and hope for a HU pot.

either calling or folding is fine. folding slightly better as there are more + ev spots than this. Ie limp/folding to your now 5 bb shove.

Hand #1: cooler. Gotta go for it with 20ish players left. Don't think I can fold this unless we have Macieq as a nit or this is the FT and pay jumps are massive.

Not trying to be results oriented, but if you shoved, would Rustam have called? His 3-bet % was 50%, but was he reshoving a lot of spots where he had zero fold equity?

Hand #2: Shove > raise/calling imo.

Hand #3: Definitely calling with the extra 30k in chips that will most likely be added to the pot.

1. Definitely playing it the same especially with your reads.

2. I open shove under normal circumstances because I wanna pick up the blinds and antes and this hand doesn't play that great postflop. That said looking at how bad villain is and his 3b %, opening to induce the spew and get it in, is a viable option too IMO. He probably folds his hand to an open shove.

3. This is close. I normally make these Cev calls with slightly less bbs. I could do either depending on villain.

I presume rustam is a Russian clown and 2nd guy is prolly okish.

bad call anyway....2 low cards with the ak or aq ok but not worth it with this hand

hand 2...yeah ur hand is pretty trash but as the mule in the sb is shoving any 4 then raise calling him seems ok as long as you fold to bb shove. (reckon u wouldn't though)

ur 'friend' is correct though just shove and hope you don't get action from the bb. and prolly not even from the sb. happy as larry to pick up antes.

cant be bothered to read hand no 3 as u prolly just chucked away 30k.

who's all playing TCOOP-24 $109 PLO H/L ? Good luck all , i sattyed in for $1

TCOOP is the nut low.

The names at the top show what a luck fest it is.

Isn't the nut low a good thing?

You could have nut low and still lose half or more of your chips. And you can be counterfeited.

I would think the same even if I got deep in a TCOOP, because the average stack was a stupid number of big blinds at all of the later levels.

When you have equity of 10X the buy-in, do you want to be gambling on every hand you play?

Oh hi, when facing you at the table, I didn't know you're a 2+2'er

Do you really think this was a good hand for blind defence?

PokerStars - $100+$9|50/100 PL Hi/Lo (6 max) - Omaha Hi/Lo - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 10,435 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 3)
MP: 3,043 (VPIP: 66.67, PFR: 66.67, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 3)
CO: 10,010 (VPIP: 66.67, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
Hero (BTN): 3,220
SB: 4,900 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 3)
BB: 5,000 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)

SB posts SB 50, BB posts BB 100

Pre Flop: (pot: 150) Hero has 2 J 7 A

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 250, fold, BB calls 150

Flop: (550, 2 players) 9 7 2
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (550, 2 players) A
BB bets 300, Hero calls 300

River: (1,150, 2 players) 3
BB checks, Hero checks

Oh man, it looks like you're grossly overplaying medium pair + mediocre lowdraw (if any) type of hands that can easily get scooped, especially when facing a 3-bet pre...

PokerStars - $100+$9|100/200 PL Hi/Lo (6 max) - Omaha Hi/Lo - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 7,134 (VPIP: 26.67, PFR: 13.33, 3Bet Preflop: 18.18, Hands: 30)
BTN: 10,417 (VPIP: 15.38, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 25.00, Hands: 15)
SB: 8,700 (VPIP: 24.14, PFR: 10.34, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 30)
Hero (BB): 5,080
UTG: 6,103 (VPIP: 26.67, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 30)
MP: 4,174 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 18.52, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 28)

SB posts SB 100, Hero posts BB 200

Pre Flop: (pot: 300) Hero has 3 A 8 6

fold, MP raises to 488, CO raises to 1,764, fold, fold, fold, MP calls 1,276

Flop: (3,828, 2 players) 2 Q Q
MP bets 2,410 and is all-in, CO calls 2,410

(I doubt I played those hands ideally either, though , feel free to criticise.)

True, I got 9th

Congrats m8! Good Work.

@c00n i'v played PLO8 <20 times in my life (although i do play some FL08) , just playing lots of satellite's at the min to try get into some TCOOP's . But yea those hands look pretty lolbad