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‘Samjazzykins’ Battles Top Pros In $200-$400 5-Card PLO Games

The Anonymous Account Took On The High-Stakes Heads-Up Cash Game Champion



The high-stakes 5-card pot-limit Omaha games are seeing some action in recent days on CoinPoker, and there’s been a familiar opponent at the heads-up tables for several of the top pros. ‘Samjazzykins‘ has been in the mix at $200-$400 with $80 ante, as well as $100-$200 with $40 ante. That account has taken on the top regulars on the site, including Heads-Up Cash Game World Championship winner ‘Yodogoki‘ and ‘Giselle54.’

Card Player put two of samjazzykins’ biggest pots from the past few days under the microscope, including one where they got it in way behind and hit a lucky river.

Giselle54 Punished for Three-Betting Borderline Hand

Playing $200-$400 with 100-blind stacks, samjazzykins raised to $1,200, Giselle54 reraised to $3,600, and samjazzykins four-bet it to $10,800.

On the Q75 flop, Giselle54 potted and called the rest off for $29,120 effective.

Giselle54 showed KJ1043 for an unpaired combo draw. Samjazzykins held AKKJ10 for an overpair.

The A, 4 runout paired Giselle54, but it wasn’t enough to overtake the aces of samjazzykins. Samjazzykins dragged the pot, adding $39,840 to their stack.

Hand Analysis

Preflop, samjazzykins has a very strong hand and opens. Giselle54 opts to three-bet, and this hand is right on the border of being a good three-bet. It’s good in a low-rake environment and good in games with an ante, so it’s probably fine in this spot, but it’s really close.

Samjazzykins has a hand that the solver prefers to call rather than four-bet. Double-suitedness is critical in 5-card PLO. Even the triple-suited versions of A-K-K-J-10 four-bet, as long as the other two cards are suited. So, this combo is just a hair under the four-betting threshold, but again, it’s probably fine in an aggressive heads-up match with antes.

Once the flop brings a combo draw for Giselle54, they aren’t going to fold, so they have little choice but to jam the money in. It’s always better to be aggressive in these spots if the player is going to call off anyway, just in case it folds out something like A-K-J-10-9 without a flush draw.

Without any additional equity, getting all in isn’t exciting for samjazzykins, but it’s a mandatory play. They are actually an underdog on the flop with just 46% equity despite facing a pretty weak hand, illustrating how bad these overpairs can be in some cases.

Samjazzykins Hits a Lucky River to Scoop

At $100-$200, but with 185-big blind stacks, Yodogoki opened for $600 and called a three-bet to $1,800 from samjazzykins.

On the A106 flop, samjazzykins bet $2,760, and Yodogoki called. The turn was the 4, and samjazzykins continued for another $6,900. Yodogoki responded by potting to $29,900, and samjazzykins called, leaving just $2,537 back. Samjazzykins put that in on the Q river, and Yodogoki called.

Samjazzykins showed KQJ93 for the nuts, having cracked the K101053 that Yodogoki held, good for a flopped set.

Hand Analysis

Unless the 9 and the 3 are the same suit, samjazzykins’ hand is a good three-bet. Double-suited combos of this hand play well, even with the ugly dangler.

On the flop, samjazzykins doesn’t have a good hand to continuation-bet. They have the nut advantage, having more pocket aces than the in-position player. However, that’s not terribly important in a situation where the stack-to-pot ratio is high, the nuts will change frequently on the turn and river, and samjazzykins’ hand doesn’t block any strong holdings.

Bet-folding this wrap at any point would be a sad result, so checking is the play on the flop.

All of the same principles apply on the turn, except they become magnified, especially the fact that samjazzykins doesn’t block any value. So, the turn bet just serves even more to expose samjazzykins to a jam, and that’s exactly what happens when Yodogoki slams almost all of the money in. Bet-folding a nine-card wrap on a rainbow board on the turn sucks, but bet-calling is probably even worse.

Luckily for samjazzykins, they get there on the river, bailing them out of a hand that saw them put a ton of money in on the turn with just 21% equity.

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