A fun hand

I was fooling around yesterday playing a bit of cheap PLO8 at Full Tilt. A couple decent hands had built my buy-in from $4 to $6.50. One of the players had been slowing the game and I was thinking about leaving the table when I got this hand.



UTG folds. UTG+1 makes a min-raise. The cutoff makes it $0.75. Button folds. This puts $1.10 in the pot when it gets to me. With action from two players and one yet to act, I figure this isn't a time to get greedy. I pot it for $2.55 with the expectation of maybe one caller, possibly ending the hand right there.

Then the BB pushes all-in for $1.45 more. UTG+1 calls all-in. The cutoff pushes all-in for another $1.60.

This sure didn't go the way I planned. I'm thinking one caller. Now it's $3.05 to me with three players already committed. Of course, I call.



I can understand UTG+1's action here. The other two were just, well, let's say they made less than optimal plays.

I don't think I've ever busted three players in one hand before. Oddly, the table cleared out after this hand.

I played in Dr. Pauly's PLO tournament last Saturday. I didn't realize until I read it in someone else's blog that the good doctor had added a buy-in to the Sunday Million tournament, which explains the MUCH larger than normal turnout. I signed up expecting to see the usual two or three tables of players. Turns out we had 55 runners at start time. I played very tight and managed to capitalize on the few good hands I got. Sadly, there just weren't enough of those good hands to get me through. I busted in 15th.

That's about it for me and poker over the last few weeks. Perhaps in honor of the 1st anniversary of The Quest, I'll start playing with some regularity again. We'll see how it goes.