Saturdays with Dr Pauly

I managed to convince some people that I can play PLO this weekend, thanks to a second place finish in my first SWDP attempt. This is all the more remarkable because my brain was well on the way to a white wine marinade by the time we hit the first break. My friends were round for our now regular Saturday night dinner and ActionRich was cooking, because I was too tired and grumpy to do it myself. Twister was babysitting the game for me when I needed to do refills.

At some stage in the game with 2 tables left I think I had twice as many chips than anyone else left in, when we reached the FT I still had the lead. That all changed when my trip tens ran into zeems trip kings, the money went in on the flop and I missed the backdoor flush draw to double him up. I was still healthy but no longer able to bet with abandon. Zeem, StB and I were the final three. StB took out Zeem and we were headsup with StB having around a 40k - 15k lead over me.

I figured at this point that aggression and was my best hope. I raised any pair, and most of the paint I was dealt. StB didn't like my raises and I got back to level, maybe even ahead a little. Then the luck turned in his favour and he rebuilt the lead over me so that going into the final hand he had a 47k - 10k lead. Dr Pauly was recording the details ;

"TanOrpheus raised to 6,000. StB re-raised to 18,000 to put TanOrpheus all in. TanOrpheus called as StB said, "PLO8 hand."

StB showed Ah-5d-4h-3h. TanOrpheus was ahead with Ac-Kd-Qd-Jc.The board ran out 9d-8c-4s-3d-8s. StB won the pot with two pair and knocked out TanOrpheus in second place."

I really enjoyed the game. I ran good, hit some big hands. Made one big laydown (which was to a bluff but it was a smart bet) and think PLO is definitely a game I should play more often.

Congrats to StB for a game well played !

Thanks Dr Pauly for setting it up, I hope to be able to play again next week.

Saturdays with Dr Pauly is back !

That's right, an International Blogger tourney is back on the radar at a time when everyone can play, it's at 4:20pm ET which is 9:20 GMT. Don't you dare use that "I don't know how to play Omaha" excuse. It's high time you learnt (geddit? high? lolz) I thought you called yourself a poker player ?!

One other little thing, congrats to Kenn who has finally scored big in a FullTilt MTT. It was only a matter of time and $10k should see him through to the end of February for MTT buyins ! Shake and Bake !

I'll be playing tonight, there's a wee challenge at the raise the river forum where you have to play 15 games of 45-man SNG's to get points based on your finishes. Should be easy...