PLO Bubble
Posted: 2008-06-11 13:23:55By: Debo34
PLO Bubble
We have all been there many, but it never seems to get easier. The bubble is just a painful way to go especially in a WSOP event. Last night that was the case for me in the $1500 pot limit Omaha event at the series. I felt like I played really good poker all day long and just came up a bit short. I doubled early and cruised most of the day never really getting into any trouble and worked my 3k starting stack to 22k at the dinner break. After dinner was a different story. Nothing after dinner went good for me. Pretty much every single big starting hand I had got crushed by a bigger hand and I found myself hanging on near the bubble. With the blinds at 500/1000 I had painfully lost over half of my dinner break stack and was sitting with 10k. There were 78 players left and they were paying 72 spots. I decided rather than sit around and limp into the money, I was going to pick a spot to get my chips in for a double and give myself a chance to run deep in this tournament.
It folded to an aggressive player in mid position he opened the pot for 3200. Everyone else folded and it was up to me in the big blind holding Qc Qd 5c 7d. Not a great hand but I figured as aggressive as this player had been my hand was probably the best hand, and it was time to roll. I got all my chips in and the player despite getting the right odds to call seemed like he might fold his hand. At this point I liked my hand a lot more. He finally made the call and flipped up AJ45. When the flop came out Jd 8d 2c I went from a 60/40 to a 3-1 favorite. The turn brought a 6h which added a few more straight outs for his hand but I was still in the lead. The river was a 5h and it was to the rail to me, when he made 2 pair.
I'm really happy with the way I played, and hopefully will play the same way on Thursday when I play the $2500 half pot limit Omaha, half pot limit holdem.
Debo
