Pot Limit Omaha Rounds 3-4

Playing 75 150, we limp in in seat 3 with A344 (A3h). Seat 4 raises to 500 and gets calls from seat 6 and the blinds. Big pot. We call. Flop comes 36T rainbow and everyone checks. Turn comes As, putting 2 spades on the board. The blinds check and we bet 1200. Everyone folds but the BB who calls. River comes 7h. He checks. He has about 3000 in chips and no resurrection chips. We bet the pot. He has to risk going home to call. He calls and takes it down with A7. The river 7 gave him a weak winner, but a winner nonetheless. That hurt.

Everyone folds to us in seat 8 and we pot raise to 525 with 79TT. The SB calls and the flop comes 445. He checks and we check. Turn comes 7. He bets 600 and we call. River comes J, putting 3 clubs on the board. He checks and we check. He takes it down with a 4 in his hand.

Seat 3 limps and seat 4 raises to 675. We call from seat 5 with 8JQK (3 clubs to the K). Seat 7 calls and seat 3 pushes all in for 3100. Seat 4 folds. We call and Seat 7 calls. Flop comes 8TA with the Ac. Good flop for us. A 9JQ or K gives us a straight and we have bottom pair. We push all in and seat 7 folds. We turn over our cards afraid to see AA in seat 3's hand, but he has a lot of random stuff including an A. He's in the lead, but we have a lot of outs and 2 cards to see. The turn comes T, which is bad for us, but the river comes 9 to give us a straight. We take it down.

Question for Sensei. Should we have checked the flop? Given all of our outs, should we have tried to get player 7 all in with us? Play slow? Bet the river?

We play 2 hands in a row with suited As. Both times the flop has 2 spades. The first time there's a post flop bet that we call. The turn is a spade and we check. The river comes and he checks, we bet, he folds. Not a huge pot, but happy. The second hand has pre flop action and big post flop action. We only stay in because there are 3 players. Flop was 5JK and we had A5s. Turn is a rag and there's big action. River is Ac. The aggressor checks. We have A5. We may have the best hand, but betting would allow him to raise and we would have to fold. We just check and are thrilled to take it down he had JK!

We didn't have a moment to count our chips at the end of round 3, but we're on the right path. Now in round 4 playing 100 200.

Seat 4 limps and we raise to 700 from seat 6 with AAK8 (AKh). Everyone folds to seat 4 who calls. Flop comes Q46 with 2 hearts. Great flop. He checks and we bet 1500. He raises to 4000 and we push him all in. He has a total of 8000. He turns over QQ. We need an A or a h, so we're about a 40% dog. Turn comes Q giving him Quads.

A quick count shows we still have over 20,000 in chips.

In seat 4 we limp with JQKA (KAs). Monster hand. Seat 5 raises to 600. Seats 8 and 9 call and the BB calls. Big pot. We raise to 2800 and get calls from seat 5 and 9. Flop comes 9TJ with 2 diamonds. Glorious. We bet 7000 and seat 8 raises all in. Seat 9 folds and we call, putting another 6000 in chips in. He turns over a pair and two diamonds. The turn comes 4d giving him the flush and he takes it down. All of the sudden we're crushed. We were so high a minute ago. That was a terrible beat. We were about a 65% favorite on a pot with 35000 chips in it!

We have just over 5000 in chips.

We limp from seat 8 with 99JK and see the flop with 3 other players. Flop comes 49Q rainbow. Great flop for us. Seat 4 bets 900 and seat 6 calls. We call and the BB folds. Turn comes 5. Great card. Seat 4 bets 2200, which is most of our chips. Seat 6 folds. Our all in doesn't surprise anyone as calling would be silly. We turn over our cards and he shows QQ. He has the over set and we now need a T for a straight or the case 9. We get neither. We get to go home.

Wow, frustrating. PLO is probably the fastest swinging game, but we got up to 30,000 and then took two beats in a row on huge pots, including a bad beat on a 35000 chip pot. Donkey taking tomorrow off!

Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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