Unfortunately, they were both in PLO8 events with fewer than 200 runners. But I was 5/135 in the $100 and 2/180 in the $200, so not too shabby, and it was fun. The heads up was interesting in the $200, the guy was playing $10/$20 PLO8 cash at the same time, so I assumed he was pretty good at the game. He probably was better than I was in general, but he didn’t seem to be adapting well to the tournament format. He wasn’t putting as much pressure on people as he could have been at the final table, and we were heads up, he repeatedly criticized me for getting the money in with hands that were smallish equity favorites if not traditionally “good” PLO8 hands.
In a deep-stacked situation, it’s a lot harder to play stuff like a bare QQ, and so it’s often correct to fold it even when you suspect you’re ahead of someone’s preflop range. But when stacks are shallow enough to get the money in pre-flop, it becomes a better hand. A good example is he seemed to think it was bad for me to check-raise him with 2349 on AJ2 flop with a flush draw possible. He got it in with 8652 and a flush draw, and I was actually a 57/43 favorite. There were a few more spots like that, too.
He actually wanted to chop it and seemed to think it was a lot of money we were playing for. The difference between 1st and 2nd was about $2000, or one buy-in in the cash game he was playing, so I don’t know what that was all about. Chopping would have been the smart thing, especially since our heads up took like an hour and a half, but I was enjoying myself and making a video, so I figure I gave up $50-$100 in equity to keep playing. He eventually won it when I got it in with a straight and a bad low vs. his good low and top two pair which ended up rivering a scoop on me. I can’t say I didn’t have my share of luck, though, and he probably did deserve to win it.