This was a great idea for a tournament format, with half the hands playing as O/8 and half as PLO8. Many people are going to be good at one game but not the other. Personally, I’m pretty strong in PLO8 but not so good at O/8. Naturally, plenty of people suck at both as well.
I got off to a nice start, playing well in PLO8 and running well at O/8. There was an awful player on my left who was giving me a lot of chips, but eventually he monkeyed his way into winning a huge pot:
Poker Stars
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tournament
Blinds: t25/t50
6 players
Converter
Stack sizes:
UTG: t6903
UTG+1: t2857
CO: t2540
Button: t3590
Hero: t12500
BB: t6035
Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is SB with :ah :ks :6h :3h
4 folds, Hero raises to t150, BB calls t100 (pot was t200).
Flop: :2d :qh :7h (t300, 2 players)
Hero bets t250, BB raises to t1050, Hero raises to t3450, BB raises to t5850, Hero raises to t8250, BB calls all-in t35.
Uncalled bets: t2365 returned to Hero.
Turn: :tc (t12070, 1 player + 1 all-in – Main pot: t12070)
River: :3d (t12070, 1 player + 1 all-in – Main pot: t12070)
Results:
Final pot: t12070
I flopped the nut flush draw and the nut low draw with counterfeit protection, and this guy got it all in with me for 120 BB’s with the second nut low draw and an underpair to the board: Td As 4s 4c. The board bricks out, and I lose a pot that would have put me in top 1%.
I did get him back eventually though:
Poker Stars
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tournament
Blinds: t40/t80
6 players
Converter
Stack sizes:
UTG: t7156
UTG+1: t2234
CO: t8584
Button: t8394
Hero: t5035
BB: t11526
Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is SB with :6h :ah :3c :7c
3 folds, Button raises to t240, Hero calls t200 (pot was t360), BB calls t160 (pot was t560).
Flop: :js :3h :as (t720, 3 players)
Hero checks, BB bets t80, Button raises to t160, Hero raises to t1280, BB calls t1200 (pot was t2240), Button folds.
Turn: :4s (t3440, 2 players)
Hero bets t2515, BB calls t2515 (pot was t5955).
River: :qc (t8470, 2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks.
Results:
Final pot: t8470
I couldn’t believe it when I scooped this pot. There was only about 1000 left in the effective stacks, but I was so sure I was smoked that I didn’t even think I had good equity against his checking range. I was just hoping he would check it back and I could escape with half. Turns out he had 4d Qh 3d 5s, having called the turn with nothing but a bad low draw and two pair.
I lasted for about 6 hours, which only got me through 75% of the field or so, before getting pretty short and busting in some nondescript way.