Vegas - Day 4 (Wednesday)

Went for the PL omaha $550 in the end. Gotta say i luved playing this regardless of the outcome. Was the first time ive played a proper live omaha tournament and i enjoyed so much of it from start to finish.

Starting stack 12k, my table was pretty easy and i took down some nice pots against obv chases and pulled off one nice semi bluff early too. I then had a huge hand QsJx10s9x on a AsKxXs flop. Was looking to gamble here and matey refused to lay down his AKQx and spade on the turn gave me a more than double stack and room for more play. This was only level 2 and by the end of level 3 i had 50k and was well relaxed at the break.

Unfortunately after shitting on the deck a bit it often comes back at ya especially in omaha and this was no different. I knew had "extra lives" so to speak to play some hands more aggressively and easily call anything closely resembling pot odds and i managed to just lose nearly all key pots in the next few levels after being moved to a new table where nothing seemed to go right. Wont go into detail cos there was so many 20-30k pots but even my bust pot was pretty nuts.

limp 600utg AA72hhxx and another limper before table arrogant english twat makes it 3100. comes back to me and i reraise pot to 10,800 total (ive only got 7000 behind) but fish still calls and flop is K89 2 diamonds. He had AJJ10 with 2 diamonds so i was in trouble but still ridiculous call preflop from him, i mean if he even considers folding on blank flop for 7000 into a 35800 total pot potentially. Obv he hit and i was gone to the rail finishing about 115/280 in the end which was disappointing but still very enjoyable.

Unfortunately after that magical first few levels the luck factor just went nasty and more unfortunately it transferred over to a 1/3 cash table i sat on in caesars an hour or so later. I know i have never run so bad at a live cash table, nothing would hit, hold up or i just got complete and utter junk the whole time. Im not one to moan about this live normally but this was truly something else and maybe a good learning experience on how to cope with such stuff. Could put so many hands on here but i know the swing affected my play and i mad a few bad marginal calls but i also made some good ones so i will put the 2 big key pots on here and no others.

Call $15 raise with 99 utg+1 and 3 of us see a flop. flop is 986 2 spades and utg checks to me and i lead out for 25$. button makes it 100$ to go and back to me. At this point ive been losing so badly and the table knows it so i know i can play this v fast and make it look like classic gambler flushdraw and hope matey is goin nowhere. So i move allin for 450$ maybe and he calls with 86. At this point i was in for $1400 so i was still down after this pot but hoped this would be the change of luck required. Also worth noting im certain this was only set i hit in the 8.5hrs i was at the table.

Another hour or 2 later and im floating around the $1050 mark when this interesting hand comes up. QQ utg +1 and i make it $15 to go. Get couple callers behind then sb makes it $70 total to go. I know his play and range is AK AA KK and slimer chance JJ but also know i could get a good feel from his betting and reaction of his holding. After careful consideration i flat call as im very very confident he has AK from my read. Flop is J9x and i check looking to confirm my read and obviously check raise if im still happy. He has $300ish behind and sticks $150 out. Everything about the bet and the way he made it and sat there told me AK and it wasnt long before i moved him allin. He took 30-60secs so i knew i had him and hoped he didnt understand pot odds but he made the call eventually. Guy to my left immediately asks me if i have a set of 9s. Before any more cards come i say no ive got QQ but im good if no ace or king comes. Bam K on the turn and $750-$800 pot shipped away. At this point i would have been only $50 down if this had held up but obviously i was crippled again and dribbled some more cash off before calling it a night $950 down on the table.

Anyway glad thats all blogged out of my system. Dunno what im doing today, im hoping i can avoid playing much live at all so im itching to get in the weekend $550 deepstacks. Pretty tired as stayed too late at that table and still woke up at 10am despite knowing another couple of hours sleep would have set me up good for today.