PLO

We are playing a rather strange game called pot limit Omaha. It is my favorite game, but too difficult to explain in the hand by hand basis. If you want the rules, go to Wikipedia.

I will just give you a brief update. We started with 3000 chips. In the first two hours we slowly crept up to about 5000. Unlike yesterday's tournament, today's field is weak. Yesterday, there were a few people in the room paying their own admission. Today every table has only a couple of professionals. At this early time in the tournament, that differences enough to allow us an advantage and to do a little domination.

The only Big hand that we played was from the big blind. Playing 25 50, six people Limped in. So when it got to us, there was 350 in the pot. We raised to 300 and 3 of the people folded. We had eight Jack Jack King, with a suited Jack King. This is not a great hand, but with everyone limping, it is probably at least on par. The value of the raise is that now we are playing against equal hands with other people's dead money in the pot.

The flop was about as beautiful as possible. 55 Jack with 2 diamonds. We flopped a full house. We bet 400 and the woman to our left, who was wearing a 2012 wsop bracelet pushes all in!!! Everyone else folds. Crazy. The only hand she beats us with is pocket fives, but that would give her quads and she would not push all in with quads. Instead, she would try to milk more money from us, and everyone else at the table. The push makes no sense in terms of anything dangerous to us. We happily call. She turns over a five and three diamonds. She's playing the flush draw and the set of fives. Our only concern is that she gets the case five on the turn or the river. The turn comes an Ace and the river a nine of diamonds. Of course her flush is irrelevant. We take her money, and she takes her bracelet home.

We end round 2 with 7775 in chips.

War Donkey