Just before the break, David Chiu found himself in a nasty spot, getting three-quartered to knock him down to 8,000.
We caught up with him betting pot on the turn of a board from the big blind position. The gentlemen in the cutoff and on the button both called.
The river was the and Chiu moved all in for his last 700 or so. The cutoff called, but the button re-potted. Mr. Cutoff called all in, and they were on their backs.
Chiu: for the nut low
Cutoff: for, well, aces
Button: for also the nut low
Mr Cutoff got half of both pots, and Chiu had to settle for a quarter of the main pot; Mr. Button got a quarter of the main and half the side pot.
Perry Friedman may have busted a while back, but his rather nice Tutankhamun hat remains. It's being passed around, but nobody seems to want to hang on to it.
Said Annie Duke: "It's like when you get the book" - we can only assume that she meant the copy of his own book that Barry Greenstein likes to hand to the player who busts him from every tournament - "And you're like, but I don't want the book."
Yet no sooner had David Benyamine mucked his quads then he was at it again. In a limped three-way pot, he wound up all in three-ways on a flop of . Michael Mizrachi, who had wandered away from the table, came back in time to see the hands opened.
"This could be it," Benyamine told Mizrachi. "I might get scooped. It's going to be hard but it could happen."
Benyamine: , the nut low, the nut flush draw and a pair of aces
Player 1: , a low and the nut straight
Player 2: , the nut low
Benyamine was actually in great scooping shape himself, but he wound up getting quartered instead when the turn and river came and . Benyamine split the side pot and was quartered for the main to fall back to about 18,000 in chips.
Pot-limit omaha hi/lo is an action game that, frankly, doesn't have as much action as you'd expect. That's because more than a few pots wind up being chopped. Take, for example, a recent pot at Nikolay Evdakov's table. There was a raise to 850 pre-flop that Evdakov (with a jacket draped from his shoulders like a cap), sitting in the small blind, and the big blind both called. Both blinds checked a paired flop, , inducing a bet of 900 from the pre-flop raiser. Evdakov raised that bet to 2,000, folding the big blind. The original pre-flop raiser called.
On the turn Evdakov made a strong bet of 5,000. He was called. When the river put a low and an ace on board, , Evdakov checked. His opponent bet 16,600. Evdakov tanked for well over a minute before calling with three jacks, . His opponent did not have a full house; he had for a low and two pair. They chopped up the pot.
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board from the big blind position. The gentlemen in the cutoff and on the button both called.
and Chiu moved all in for his last 700 or so. The cutoff called, but the button re-potted. Mr. Cutoff called all in, and they were on their backs.
for the nut low
for, well, aces
for also the nut low
. Michael Mizrachi, who had wandered away from the table, came back in time to see the hands opened.
, the nut low, the nut flush draw and a pair of aces
, a low and the nut straight
, the nut low
. Benyamine split the side pot and was quartered for the main to fall back to about 18,000 in chips.
and this time Mizrachi checked. Benyamine bet 2,200, his leg jiggling wildly under the table, and Mizrachi called. Interesting.
for quads. Must be nice.
, inducing a bet of 900 from the pre-flop raiser. Evdakov raised that bet to 2,000, folding the big blind. The original pre-flop raiser called.
. His opponent did not have a full house; he had