‘Giselle54’ has created plenty of buzz at the high-stakes pot-limit Omaha tables at CoinPoker lately, mainly due to a match with Jared Bleznick at tables as big as $1,000-$2,000. However, the anonymous account also recently battled ‘yolof1,’ and managed a nearly $70,000 win on Wednesday.
Today’s high-stakes hand reviews delves into the four-card streets. Giselle54 and yolof1 duked it out at mostly heads-up $100-$200 games, but plenty of money changed hands in the ring games at the same stakes.
Giselle54 Gets Dream Turn In Four-Bet Pot
The players started this hand 150 blinds deep, so this was one of the bigger pots of the match. Four bets went in preflop, with Giselle54 putting in the last raise on the button. Along with the antes, that meant the pot was already $10,880 with $25,144 effective behind.
Both players checked the 8♠4♣3♠ flop, bringing a 5♥ turn. yolof1 potted, Giselle54 jammed, and yolof1 called.
yolof1 had turned two pair with 8♦7♦7♣5♣ but was well behind the [invalid notations] of Giselle54, good for a wheel. yolof1 needed a six for a higher straight or an eight or five to improve to a full house. The J♦ sent a pot of more than $61,000 to Giselle54.
Giselle54 and yolof1 play a $61k pot at $100-$200 PLO. pic.twitter.com/dL39FXUo09
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Hand Analysis
Double-suited connected hands make for good three-bets in PLO, though holding a pair reduces their appeal a bit. Still, yolof1 makes a normal three-bet and has to call the four-bet with a hand that has a lot of equity. Giselle54’s double-suited hand can get some value with the four-bet, clearly, and it has decent equity even when dominated (unsuited aces will usually only be about a 60-40 favorite).
On the flop, Giselle54 passes on a continuation-bet opportunity. They have a hand with poor equity and very poor blockers, holding no pairs and no spades. Taking a free card and hoping to improve to something that can continue against aggression makes sense.
The turn fills a sneaky straight. Facing a pot-sized bet, calling is an option since they could be up against a higher straight that has them dead. On the other hand, shoving enables them to get the money in against hands like sets and combo draws without having to play tricky rivers like a spade, board pair, a seven, or a six.
yolof1 has a multi-component hand with two-pair and a straight draw, but the value of the draw isn’t very good since it’s a gutshot and only chops against the current nuts. Granted, having two sevens in their hand makes running into a nut straight unlikely.
In any case, they opted to slam all the money in with two pair. A case can be made that a smaller bet makes more sense to target a hand like aces without spades. Unfortunately for yolof1, they ran into a very unlucky turn and got stacked.
Giselle54 Gets Lucky After Cooler
Giselle54’s good fortune extended to preflop all-in hands as well. They made a standard three-bet to $1,800 and faced a four-bet to $5,400. Holding K♠K♣7♠6♣, they went for the five-bet, leaving crumbs behind. yolof1 obliged by getting all the money in with A♥A♣J♥4♣, finding themselves in a dominating position to scoop a $40,000 pot.
Unfortunately for yolof1, the board ran K♦5♠3♣4♥6♦, leaving them stone dead on the turn.
Big pocket pairs clash at $100-$200 PLO. pic.twitter.com/RMUEvk3c8f
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Hand Analysis
In general, getting kings all in against aces is one of the worst things a player can do preflop in PLO. Equities run close in this game, and unpaired double-suited hands do much better against aces than paired hands.
However, an exception comes with double-suited kings that have some connectivity. These hands can be OK to get in, especially in a looser format like heads-up where your opponent might occasionally show up with something like A-Q-Q-10 double-suited.
Unluckily for Giselle54, they were facing not only aces but aces that dominated one of their king-high suits. That drops the kings’ equity from around 40% to closer to 35%. When you’re hot, the 35% hands seem to come home, though, as this one did.
King-High Good Enough For yolof1 In $39K Pot
This hand was too fun not to share. It’s not often you see king-high drag a pot worth nearly 200 big blinds, but that’s exactly what happened at one point in the match.
This hand began with yolof1 opening to $600 on the button and Giselle54 calling. yolof1 continued for a large size of $935 on the Q♥8♣7♣ flop. Giselle54 responded with a check-raise to $2,800, yolof1 three-bet to $9,665, and Giselle54 jammed for $18,955.
Giselle54 had 10♣9♣6♠4♦ for a monster draw including a straight flush draw. yolof1 had K♣J♥6♣5♣ for another unpaired combo draw that included a better flush draw.
The Q♠ turn and 2♠ river missed both players, leaving yolof1’s king-high the winner for a pot of $39,190.
yolof1 and Giselle54 squaring off at $100-$200 PLO. pic.twitter.com/uIRVi11dDS
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Hand Analysis
On the surface, a lot of players new to PLO might think this was a disaster for Giselle54. Getting all in with a dominated draw in hold’em is a terrible situation.
That can be true sometimes in PLO too, but this hand is a good illustration of the power in the “wrap plus flush draw” subset of hands. Even with a dominated flush draw and yolof1 holding three blockers to their straight, the Card Player Omaha odds calculator gives Giselle54 47% equity. It’s important to note that the straight flush draw adds about 5% equity here as well.
If yolof1 held top set against this draw, Giselle54 would actually be favored.
Holding a draw like that, it’s no surprise Giselle54 wanted to ship the money in. Getting in for stacks was a lot riskier from yolof1’s side, as they could have been around a 4-to-1 underdog against a nut flush draw. As it was, they actually had the best of it and realized their equity edge with the king-high draw.
