5-5-10/20 PLO live: interesting Bomb Pot Hand
Aria, Rock game, with straddle.
i just sat down, 3rd hand or so, 2K deep, Bomb Pot (50 ante each)
My hand: 9h9c5h2h
board 1: 10h6h4h
board 2: 9s7d5c
so we have 9high flush with one out for straight flush (3h), and top set on a made str board (but block one out (5) for pot. full house
action:
SB leads for 150 (over 2K stack), i call 150, late pos. small stack goes all in for 600ish, now button pots all-in for 2K, and SB calls 2K all-in (he had a little more, covering)
what do i do???
appreciate all comments.
Spoiler
i decided to call all-in, all 3 other guys had the same str (6-8), that board bricked out (str still the nuts), so i figured i loose it all, but it turned out nobody had a flush but me, so my 9high flush was good for half.
still not sure if my call was the right play though.
4 Replies
This hand is a fold at your position. You do not have anything up top and ur draw is not nutted and down low ur behind a lot of hands and could be drawing slim to none.
This is why bomb pots are so profitable but it’s important to learn how to play them.
You either need 1 board completely locked or have heavy interaction on both drawing to nuts or blocking nuts.
I think calling the first bet is OK, but when it gets back to Hero for 2k, this is an easy fold.
Even folding to the 150 is pretty reasonable and may be better option. Drawing to a boat when we block boat outs is bad. And villains that connect with t,6 on other board also have straight-related equity.
Villains sound kind of spewy though, key blockers are mostly on the flush board, followed by top set - shoving 2k with no real redraws is kind of torching.
tend to agree with you guys.
had a conversation just right now with the first guy who shoved the 2K (reg also), interestingly he thought of his own play as spewy in retrospective (he had 6-8 with no redraw (nuts on board 2) and just a pair on the flush board), and he thought my play was only slightly (if even) wrong, for a reason i hadn't mentioned in OG post:
the second guy who called the 2K tanked for a while, so we could assume that he can't beat the flush, so i basically only have to be ok vs guy 1 (bc even if the shorty has a higher flush than me, i still win a big side pot against the 2 guys with 2K stacks each).
hadn't considered that in game, and might change your opinion also/maybe/no???
No.
Fold.
Your hand is just plain bad.
