Few players have matched the success of Kayhan Mokri over the past year. Crushing live tournaments and high-stakes cash games on CoinPoker as ‘KayhanMok,’ Mokri has been piling up wins everywhere he plays. He’s mainly been playing no-limit hold’em, but this week, he stepped up to take on Dirk ‘venividi1993’ Gerritse in the heads-up 5-card pot-limit Omaha games.
Mokri and Gerritse played $200-$400 with an $80 ante, and PLO cash game legend Gerritse came out on top with about a $175,000 win. Sometimes, Gerritse won with blind luck, such as when the players both got all in with aces and he hit a straight. However, he did profit a couple of big pots when he caught Mokri mixing it up with some weak holdings.
Mokri Gets in Way Behind on the Turn
With 135-blind stacks, Gerritse opened to $1,200, Mokri three-bet to $3,600, and Gerritse made it $10,800. Mokri called.
The flop came 9♦4♥3♣, and Mokri checked. Gerritse potted for $21,760, and Mokri called. On the 9♥ turn, Mokri put the remaining $21,224 in.
Gerritse called with A♥Q♦J♦J♥10♥ for the nut flush draw and an overpair. He was way ahead, as Mokri had A♦K♥Q♠8♥4♠ for nines and fours. The 8♣ on the river didn’t bring any meaningful help, sending the $107,728 pot to Gerritse.
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Hand Analysis
Mokri holds a fine hand to three-bet here if one of the suits is to the ace. However, his holding is suited to the lower cards, so it’s a little bit too weak, because of how disconnected the 8 and the 4 are to the rest of the hand. Something like A-K-Q-8-7, for example, would be a profitable three-bet with these suits.
As it happens, he does three-bet, and he faces a loose four-bet from Gerritse. Gerritse’s hand is supposed to call against the three-bet, but if the opponent is overdoing the aggression from the big blind, this can become a nice four-bet to get some added value. Since that seems to be the case, it’s hard to fault the four-bet.
The solver actually likes folding Mokri’s hand against the four-bet, but it’s close. Hands that don’t have a lot of potential to make straights aren’t great in 5-card PLO.
Mokri has enough equity to get stacks in on the flop after making a pair, but he may have been trying to make sure the turn wasn’t a pairing card that didn’t provide him a flush draw, such as the 3♠. In that case, he’d have been justified in folding, since he’d have almost no equity against aces.
When the 9♥ arrives, Mokri has to reluctantly put the rest of the money in. He was still in bad shape against aces with hearts, but he wound up having just enough equity to justify stacking off.
However, his out-of-line three-bet wound up costing him a stack when he couldn’t get there in the bloated pot on the river.
Mokri Three-Bets a Bad Hand, Gets Punished
Playing just shy of 150 blinds, Mokri three-bet from the big blind against a button open, and the two saw a flop for $3,600 apiece.
On the K♠8♦3♥, Mokri continued for $1,777, and Gerritse called. The turn was the 5♣, and Mokri potted for $10,914. Gerritse called again, bringing a J♣. Mokri potted again for $32,742.
Gerritse looked him up, and Mokri could only muster 10♠8♥7♥6♠2♥ for a pair of 8s. Gerritse took it down with K♥10♦9♠7♠3♦ for kings up. He scooped the $98,226 pot.
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Hand Analysis
This hand begins with another too-loose preflop play from Mokri. He has 10-8-7-6-2 double-suited, which looks like a nice four-card hand plus a dangler, but is just a bad holding in five-card. In fact, it’s barely good enough to call a raise in a non-ante game, so three-betting it is going to be quite costly.
Once Mokri does three-bet and flop middle pair with double backdoors, a small continuation-bet is a fine way to proceed. Mokri then turns an open-ender, and he opts to go for a pot-fold.
A pair with an open-ender is kind of a borderline holding in regular PLO on a board like this, so pot-folding it would be an iffy choice, because bet-folding and bet-calling are both unappealing. In PLO5, players have to bluff with stronger holdings, so pot-folding this hand seems okay.
Gerritse has a standard call with kings up and a nut draw.
The river is a total brick, and Mokri goes for the bluff. He has to be near the bottom of his range, and he blocks some hands that might call down like K-8. He might be able to get a hand like A-8-7-6-4 to fold, but he does have bad blockers to that.
Gerritse looks him up for another pot of almost $100,000 to add to his big day.
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