Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro found himself playing with Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Ravenswood13 at the highest PLO games available online when they battled in the $200/$400 games on PokerStars recently.
According to LarsLuzak forum blog (in Finnish) these are the biggest games he has played in a long while. Kelopuro has played the last 3 years almost exclusively online, dabbling in the PLO cash games and tournaments, where he has had some nice success.
Kelopuro writes:
“When you normally play $10/$20 and $25/$50, these games feel like from another planet when $100k moves in either direction like it’s nothing. At the peak I was winning $200k but then I hit a downturn. Finished with only +$65k, when I saw it’s best to quit so that I won’t end up feeling bad. These games can hurt you really bad, seems like Ravenswood lost $345k, which is not even that much in these types of games.”
He also linked two of his biggest pots:
https://www.weaktight.com/h/55d8afdcd390434a1f8b46e8
“This is a party. $125k pot with 0% equity. np. gg. I just didn’t feel like having any equity in the biggest pot of the year. I could check back flop because he check-raises so much. Then again it’s a nice hand to barrel with when we are this deep and the made is A6 high. He has a wide range here which have considerable equity against my hand on the turn so I can’t see any other option but the shove in the rest there. By calling there would be exactly a pot-sized bet left and on blanks I would have to call anyway. Certainly on this river where I would have saved the rest and at least in theory from bluff you could make some money by calling. But again, I see it as best to make him call the turn. I will only lose to one hand to which I have a blocker. And 86 is not the most logical hit. J or more specifically J of diamonds would hit his semibluff range the best, I think. T, 8 and 6 also hit him better than the 5. At least I assume that he will play all T8 hands like that. And I think also most of the flush draws.”
https://www.weaktight.com/h/55d8b18ed390436b7c8b471d
“Feels like I’m pushing a small equity edge preflop. I don’t think he believes me 4betting super wide here when he only calls. I believe he would 4bet AA/KK himself. Sure in dollar terms it’s a huge gamble to push as a small equity favorite. Or as a presumed favorite. He might even fold against a 4bet sometimes. Sometimes he has middling rundowns which I dominate. This is from the first session so the rungood gods gave me an appropriate flop and Isil pushed the flop with little equity.”
Nutblocker hopes that there will be more to report from the bug PLO games in the future!
Source: pokeritieto.com
