It was all Jared ‘Theblez’ Bleznick in the early stages of his heads-up battles with ‘Giselle54,’ but the anonymous pot-limit Omaha player has struck back in a big way. Giselle54 won almost $500,000 once again on Oct. 5. It was at least their third win of $500K or more in the past few weeks, including one monster $1.7 million session.
Bleznick started the match up millions, notably winning about $2.5 million in a single session.
But earlier this week, Giselle54 savaged savaged Bleznick in their latest session on CoinPoker. The two kicked it up to massive $1,000-$2,000 with $400 ante stakes again this week.
Giselle54 Picks Off Bleznick With Huge Hero Call
This hand took place with the players a bit shorter, 84 big blinds effective at $1,000-$2,000.
Giselle54 limped on the button, and Bleznick potted in the big blind to $6,000. Giselle54 called.
Bleznick bet $6,350, half the pot, on K♦8♦2♥. Giselle54 called, bringing a Q♣. Bleznick continued to barrel, potting it for $25,400. The river brought the A♥ and a bet of $54,000 from Bleznick.
Giselle54 called, and Bleznick could only show J♣9♠9♦3♥. Giselle54 didn’t have much either, but Q♠10♦7♣2♠ was enough to take down the $184,300 pot with queens up.
Giselle54.
Theblez.
$1k-$2k PLO. pic.twitter.com/rhJzwGLWQd— CoinPokerAction (@CoinPokerAction) October 10, 2025
Hand Analysis
Giselle54 likely introduced some limps into their strategy due to the shorter stacks, and weaker single-suited hands that don’t want to play a three-bet pot will be good limping candidates. The ante incentivizes the players to play close to 100% of their hands.
Bleznick raises the limp, immediately creating an unfavorable situation. He has a hand that has poor playability, being rainbow with a pair, and it isn’t very connected either. Bloating the pot out of position doesn’t accomplish anything good.
Giselle54 has to call because of the pot odds and having position, in spite of how weak their hand is.
Bleznick bets the disconnected flop, which is also questionable. He has bad blockers since some of the hands he wants to fold out will be stuff with pocket pairs between the 8 and the K. He does have the 9♦ at least, but this hand probably has too poor of blockers and equity to bet.
Giselle54 has a hand that should probably be mucked against a half-pot bet, but perhaps they realized how wide Bleznick was betting and decided a pair, some backdoors, and a diamond blocker was good enough to peel.
On the turn, Bleznick gets a pretty unfavorable card but opts to keep betting. Many of Giselle54’s hands with an 8 or K in them will contain a Q as well, so that card will improve them fairly often. And Bleznick doesn’t pick up meaningful equity since he only adds a gutshot.
In a normal situation, Giselle54 again has a hand that can be folded since it’s drawing dead or close against a good chunk of value. But against a too-wide range, queens up is going to do fine.
Bleznick winds up with an OK runout to blast off when he gets to the river like this. He’ll have a lot of two pair and sets with straight blockers, which are good enough to go for value on the river, though a smaller size is best. Having a J is nice, and not having two diamonds helps as well since it makes it more likely Giselle54 has diamonds.
Unfortunately for Bleznick, Giselle54 had a good hand to hero with, holding two pair with a straight blocker.
Players Battle 300 Blinds Deep
Quite the opposite of the prior hand, this one took place 303 blinds deep at $500-$1,000 with a $200 ante.
Giselle54 opened for pot preflop, Bleznick three-bet to $9,000, and Giselle54 repotted right back to $27,000.
Both players checked the Q♣9♦6♥ flop, bringing a 3♥ turn. Bleznick bet $32,000, and Giselle54 called. The river was the 6♦, and both players checked.
Bleznick showed Q♦10♠7♣5♦ for queens up. The $118,400 pot went to Giselle54, though, as they held A♥K♦K♥10♣ for kings up.
Another six-figure pot at $1k-$2k PLO. pic.twitter.com/DEqnqVspR0
— CoinPokerAction (@CoinPokerAction) October 10, 2025
Hand Analysis
This hand shows how deep-stacked PLO often becomes a bit of a stand-off or a game of chicken. It’s so easy for players to have big hands that everyone has to start playing cautiously in many cases.
Bleznick’s three-bet is much too wide, as this hand is too disconnected and only single-suited.
Understanding that, Giselle54 should open up their four-bet range some, and this hand certainly seems strong enough.
At shorter stacks, Giselle54’s hand is easily good enough to pot the flop and get it in. It might not look like a powerhouse, but an overpair with a nut gutshot definitely makes the cut at anything around 100 big blinds in a four-bet pot.
As it is, playing 300 blinds deep to start, Giselle54 opts for caution and checks back.
The turn helps both players as Bleznick picks up a double-gutter to go with his top pair. Unblocking hearts, check-calling is likely best here, but he opts for the aggressive route. This is just a middling hand that hates to get raised, although having a Q makes that pretty unlikely.
Giselle54’s hand is good but doesn’t do that great against Bleznick’s range for getting it in on the turn. So, calling is the play.
Bleznick has a similar situation on the river as he had on the turn. His hand isn’t that likely to win a showdown, but he can’t start turning all of his top pairs into bluffs, or Giselle54 has a very easy river call with anything better. Bleznick decides to check and hope to realize his small amount of pot share, but Giselle54 just checks back and wins with the better hand.
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