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‘Clickr’ Steps Up As Latest Challenger To ‘Giselle54,’ Books Six-Figure Win

'Giselle54' Continues To Battle At High-Stakes PLO, But Faced A New Opponent Last Week


‘Giselle54’ has been atop the mountain for several months now in the CoinPoker high-stakes pot-limit Omaha games, and a new challenger has arrived. Top cash game regular ‘Clickr’ sat in and battled at $200-$400 with an $80 ante tables, and they allowed stacks to get deep as they continued playing. Clickr came out on top with approximately a $160,000 profit.

With the players mixing it up as deep as 300 big blinds, some fascinating poker developed.

Clickr Catches a Bluff

Playing 190 blinds deep, Giselle54 raised to $1,200 and called a three-bet to $3,600 from Clickr.

Clickr continued for $4,400 on the AQ3 flop, and Giselle54 called. On the 8, Clickr slowed down with a check before calling a pot-sized wager of $16,135. Giselle54 potted again on the 2, and Clickr called for almost all of the remaining money.

Giselle54 showed KQ76 for a pair with the nut blocker, and Clickr took the $145,240 pot with AQ105.

Hand Analysis

Clickr three-bets preflop with a strong single-suited hand, and they get a favorable texture that gives them top two pair. Normally, players will continuation-bet for about half of the pot in these three-bet pots, but playing deeper stacks, it makes sense to bet bigger and more polar. Top two with backdoor diamonds and a club blocker certainly wants to start getting money in the pot.

With a possible future nut blocker and second pair, Giselle54 has enough to continue. Clickr will still have some weaker hands like double-suited and connected middle cards that miss this board.

Clickr has an easy check on the turn, and it’s time for Giselle54 to start bluffing with the K. They go for pot, which is an appropriate size, setting up close to a pot-sized bet to play on the river.

While the river somewhat bricks off, it does bring a fourth club. That increases the attractiveness of bluff-catching from Clickr’s point of view. It’s now more difficult for Giselle54 to have a flush. Two pair or a set with a club blocker is going to be the main bluff-catching hand in this situation aside from a small flush.

Giselle54 still pulls the trigger in spite of the less-than-ideal river, but Clickr looks them up and is rewarded with a monster pot.

Giselle54 Overplays a Straight

This hand saw the players about 175 blinds deep, and it began with Clickr opening to $1,200 and Giselle54 three-betting to $3,600.

Clickr called, and both players checked the K86 flop. On the 9 turn, Giselle54 bet $5,501. Clickr raised to $19,254, and Giselle54 potted to $65,098. Clickr called the last few bucks to create a pot of $139,323.

Giselle54 showed A775 for a straight, but Clickr had the nut straight with 101075. The hand was already over, so the 3 river was inconsequential.

Hand Analysis

Once the players reach the flop, Giselle54 has to check with a weak straight draw and nothing else really going for the hand. They don’t have clubs, and they don’t block any board pairs. This hand can’t stand much heat, so continuation-betting isn’t advised with such a holding.

Clickr can stab the flop with their hand, though. It’s a better draw since it’s a wrap, and a club blocker could be useful for bluffing later. Furthermore, this hand can bet and call a raise at stacks this deep. At 100 blinds, checking is definitely best, but either play is going to be okay in this scenario.

Clickr opts to check, and the turn brings in both players’ straights.

At this point, Giselle54 can bet or check. Unblocking all of the pairs and holding two blockers to the nuts, betting is probably best, and that’s the route they decide on. This hand won’t face many raises for obvious reasons, but that’s actually what happens, putting Giselle54 in an uncomfortable spot.

Clickr will rarely have the nuts with two 7s accounted for, but when they do, Giselle54’s hand is dead. Most of Clickr’s other bluffs will be hands like pocket 10s with clubs, maybe something like A-J-10-10. Giselle54 rates to make more money against that range of hands by calling the turn and then calling non-club rivers. Getting this many blinds in with no equity is a disastrous situation.

Unfortunately for Giselle54, that’s exactly what happened, and this deep-stacked cooler proved quite costly.

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