PokerStars Game #1078978631: Omaha Pot Limit ($1/$2) - 2005/01/14 - 20:51:13 (ET)
Table 'Canopus' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: heyheyy557 ($13 in chips)
Seat 2: ob1k ($390.25 in chips)
Seat 3: bignev ($80 in chips)
Seat 4: FelonusMonk ($179.70 in chips)
Seat 5: nmoroney ($101.70 in chips)
Seat 6: a1killer ($216.65 in chips)
Seat 7: Niknais ($198 in chips)
Seat 8: Brunomater ($189 in chips)
Niknais: posts small blind $1
Brunomater: posts big blind $2
bignev: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FelonusMonk [Qd Tc Th Ah]
heyheyy557: calls $2
ob1k: calls $2
bignev: checks
WCTPP has returned
FelonusMonk: calls $2
nmoroney: folds
a1killer: calls $2
Niknais: calls $1
nmoroney is sitting out
Brunomater: checks
*** FLOP *** [8h 3s 5h]
Niknais: bets $13.30
Brunomater: folds
heyheyy557: calls $11 and is all-in
ob1k: calls $13.30
bignev: folds
FelonusMonk: calls $13.30
a1killer: folds
*** TURN *** [8h 3s 5h]
Niknais: bets $61.90
ob1k: calls $61.90
FelonusMonk: raises $102.50 to $164.40 and is all-in
Niknais: raises $18.30 to $182.70 and is all-in
ob1k: calls $120.80
*** RIVER *** [8h 3s 5h Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Niknais: shows [8c 8d 4s Kc] (three of a kind, Eights)
ob1k: mucks hand
Niknais collected $36.60 from side pot-2
FelonusMonk: shows [Qd Tc Th Ah] (three of a kind, Tens)
FelonusMonk collected $499.95 from side pot-1
heyheyy557: mucks hand
FelonusMonk collected $55.15 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $594.70 Main pot $55.15. Side pot-1 $499.95. Side pot-2 $36.60. | Rake $3
Board [8h 3s 5h Ts 6d]
Seat 1: heyheyy557 mucked [7d 6h 3c 3d]
Seat 2: ob1k mucked [Jh 2h 2d 9s]
Seat 3: bignev folded on the Flop
Seat 4: FelonusMonk showed [Qd Tc Th Ah] and won ($555.10) with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 5: nmoroney folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: a1killer (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 7: Niknais (small blind) showed [8c 8d 4s Kc] and won ($36.60) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 8: Brunomater (big blind) folded on the Flop

And boy did I have a lot of bullets to dodge here! It seemed almost impossible the set could hold up on that board 4-handed, I was pretty disgusted when the river fell but then ecstatic as the pot was surprisingly pushed my way!

A little lesson in here about always keeping your stack topped up nicely in this game, as I'd have won another $40 from this pot if I had done so. On the bigger tables (200 and 400 buyins) I usually leave it until i'm down to 90% of my starting stack before rebuying; here I had 90% less 30 cents lol! Unless you're specifically playing short on purpose, it's always smart to refill after you get to somewhere in the 90-95% region.

Fun hand though, the first really big pot i've taken down in PLO high in a long while, and going to do my monthly figures no harm at all.

Monk
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well, one day with your help, i might be playing that game. However, still got a long way to go. You had plenty of outs on the river and hit none of them and still won the pot. Always feels good. Good Job.

I'm sure you twodimes'd it already. That looked easy to me! Very nice pot.. overpair with nutflush draw. and no st8 possible til river.

Oh, easy all in on the turn. Even though you know that in that spot there'll be a stack of outs for your opponents, there's no way that you can't be +ve EV to get it all in with the current nuts. Any blank high card, any board pair (though not in this case!), any heart and I win a big pot. My two biggest pots in the PLO games (both in the 800-odd region) have come in these spots - all in on the turn and dreading about half the cards in the deck, with the current nuts! On one fun occasion I had top set, jacks, with two flushes and a straight draw on board, $750-odd in the middle; a jack spiked on the river to give me the perfect hollywood finish!

Monk
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