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Joker161:
$400 PLO bounty today. 12k in chips and 30m levels. They use the card shuffler at the Venetian, so perhaps more like 40m levels. Level 1. After two hands I've lost half my stack. First, I get T976. It's 100 to call, so why not? Flop is Q76. Bet, call. Turn is a third club. Hmm. Check, check. River a fourth club (obviously irrelevant) and I don't hit my boat. Check, bet, fold. The very next hand I get QJJT. Pretty. I've already forgotten the exact details, but I have top two and a flush draw. I call the flop bet and the turn, but miss everything. Hmm. Then about four hands later I get some of it back when I hit the nut flush on the river, but he doesn't call my river bet. Perhaps I should have pushed to look desperate (and the tempter of the bounty). Back to 7.5k. I need to fold some hands! And so I do in a much quieter end of Level 1 and for all of Level 2.

Joker161:
Level 3 (100/200). I get KQQJ in EP. I just call, another caller then a raise to 1k. Call, I call, third call. Flop is queen high with two clubs. I pot it and everyone folds. Up to 10k. No more action until the very end of the level. I get KQJJ and call EP. Four more callers. Flop is KQ3 two clubs. I bet out 3k, which turned out to be an error given three of the other players all went all in! I obviously fold. The hands were a nut flush draw, third nut flush draw and KK for top set. The turn was a three, so the KK man had it, but the side pot was with the other two and the river hit the flush. So I would have been fourth! Down to 5.5k.

Joker161:
Level 4. I raise with A245 and the BB calls. I'm clearly having flashbacks to yesterday! I need a very specific flop! It comes A75, so could be worse, but he pots and I have to fold. Hmm. 4.5k. Getting to the point where I wait for AAxx and get it all in pre. No more action for me in this level, but a hand where three players were all in. All of them had a flush draw, so there weren't many spades left in the pack. The winning hand was a pair of aces, and not a pocket pair. I'm beginning to feel like PLO is not my game! There's a $600 limit Omaha high/low tomorrow. Much harder to lose chips. Given the success (ish) yesterday I'm tempted to play that, and then play Day 2 of the $1,100 on Saturday. We shall see. 15 minute break now.

Joker161:
Level 5. First hand the nice old bloke on my right somehow manages to get his whole stack in with AKxx. He's up against AAxx with a flush draw. The flop has an ace and the flush hits too. He loses both ways. He had over 20k in chips and was the first to raise pre. WTF? The very next hand I'm UTG and decide to raise with T976 double suited. There are three all ins behind me. WHAT IS GOING ON AT THIS TABLE??? One of them has AAAJ, another has the other ace with pretty random other cards and the third...I forget, but not special. The bloke to my right says "you've got the best hand here" and he's got a point. They all seem to have each other's cards. And so it proves. The board comes low, doesn't pair and I hit two pair with the 76. QUADRUPLE! I have 15k somehow. Feels like a massive win, but basically all I've done is get back up to average. Someone has come to the table (an alternate) and on his first hand has got it all in with AJT7. Obviously he misses. WTF is going on? There are only five on our table now. They've run out of alternates! I foolishly call a raise with AK76 (feeling good about 76 clearly). I miss the flop. Waste of 1200. Concentrate! Another alternate comes to our table and gets it all in on his very first hand. Loses. Mental tournament.

Joker161:
Level 6. I finally get AAxx (one suited) and raise. Two callers. I bet out the K87 board, I get potted and the other bloke goes all in. I have to fold. The all in is out as the raiser gets the flush and the straight! That's five bags down the drain. Down to 7.5k. Hmm. Quite a few showdowns with players having pretty poor hands. Easy when you have loads of chips, I suppose, to play a load of  average hands. I'm in the BB and there's a min raise and three callers. Massive odds, so I call with K764 (suited king). Flop comes Q44. I check, bet, call and I go all in. Fingers crossed. Fold, call. He has Q974 rainbow. How s**t is that hand? Might as well call every hand. I don't hit a king and am out. I just don't think I'm aggressive enough for PLO. Hopefully I'll have a bit more luck later in the week.

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