PLO Round 3

In seat 4 we limp in with 9JJQ and wee the 34J flop with 3 other players. Our set of Js is huge right now, but there are 2 hearts on the board and a straight draw. The blinds check and we bet 400. The player behind us calls and the blinds fold. Turn comes 7d. If he has 56, we're in trouble. Otherwise, we're still in the lead. We bet 900 and he calls. River comes Th. Terrible. I double that gives him a straight (he'd need 89), but his earlier calls make his hand now a likely flush. We check. He bets 1100 and we lay down the top set. Painful. That's happened too many times today.

A new player, we'll refer to as Wild, had finally replaced Agro. Not sure why it took them so long to bring in a player, or where they found this guy, but I suspect they are having administrative problems and just grabbed the nearest person they could off the street.

We limp in with 789Q and see the 48A flop with the blinds. They check and we bet 150 into the 300 pot. The BB, the guy who recently paid my Aces, calls. The turn comes 9 giving us 2 middle pair. Not great, but okay heads up. He checks and we bet 450. He calls. River comes Q. He goes into the tank for a minute and then bets 1000. Hmmmm . . . What? There's very little chance he has TJ for a straight and I have one of the Qs, so he probably didn't just make a set. Fact is, I don't know what he has, but unless he has AQ, I'm pretty confident the Q was a rag for him. Moreover, as I've been betting every round, if he did just hit something, he might check raise me rather than suddenly launch in. The Q helped me, but really didn't. My Qs and 9s now is really no better than 9s and 8s pre-river. Hmmm, we call and he folds without even showing his cards. I like this guy. We have to come up with a name for people who feed the Donkey.

We discard 34TT. Wasn't even worth limping with because we're feeling a little burned by flopping sets and losing anyway. Flop comes with TT in it. We would have flopped Quads! Oh well.

In seat 3 we discard A37K even though the A is suited. I'd like to limp in and see the flop, but I couldn't call a raise and, even if a diamond flush comes, the fact that we have the Kd significantly reduces our chance of getting well paid. Flop comes 59T with 2h and no diamonds.

We discard and discard and see a couple cheap flops before discarding some more.

We finish Round 3 with our extra life chip and about 10,000 in live chips.
Eric Kurtzman
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