Lumiere casino in St Louis is running an occasional mixed game featuring NL, Crazy Pineapple, PLO and Big O.
So we are play 1-2 Pineapple and I raise cutoff to $30 because, in this room, it may only weed out a couple of players. I'm holding
Q-Q-10 with spades. Button snap calls. Couple of folds and folds and one caller out of position, who limped for $2 and now wants to see a flop.
10-7-3 rainbow
Sure, after one check, I bet $55, and sure enough button snap calls.
early limper folds quickly.
Now I'm worried I'm beat, and it's time to discard. Bye bye 10 of spades.
Button, who clearly has a big hand, now goes into tank mode about what to discard. For at least one minute. I'm stumped now.
4
on the turn, and now all four suits are on the board. Check-Check.
4
on the river and I fire out a bet of $110 and hope for a tough fold of a bigger pair, or a call from a counterfeited two pair. He finds a call.
He tanked for 20 seconds. Turns over K
-7
for a pair of sevens.
I show pocket Queens and he says damn, I folded a King. He wanted the board to pair, he says, with his seven. It never dawned on him the Kings could pair too, and were the better hand already.
OMG I love poker when guys like that try new games. One orbit of PLO and he was stacked twice more. Apparently gut shot straights arent good on paired boards which started as flush boards. :