$5 SNG PLO8 hand....

[Marm]

Ok another one, ignore results, cause the action was done before the river.

My thinking street by street:

PF: Ohhh those are pretty, I think I'll limp.

Flop: OK I got thd nut flush draw and a ISSD, and a sorta-decent low draw. That guy bought the pot last hand by betting each street, I think he's got shit (dunno why, but he just rubbed me the wrong way)

Turn: Ok I got a low now, aint great, but it's there. I think I have enough equity here to get my chips in.

Poker Stars
Pot Limit Omaha 8b Tournament
Blinds: t10/t20
9 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: t1500
UTG+1: t1480
MP1: t1380
MP2: t1500
Hero: t1500
CO: t1500
Button: t1480
SB: t1480
BB: t1680

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is MP3 with
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls t20 (pot was t30), MP1 calls t20 (pot was t50), MP2 folds, Hero calls t20 (pot was t70), CO calls t20 (pot was t90), Button folds, SB calls t10 (pot was t110), BB checks.

Flop: (t120, 6 players)
SB checks, BB bets t120, UTG+1 calls t120 (pot was t240), MP1 calls t120 (pot was t360), Hero calls t120 (pot was t480), 2 folds.

Turn: (t600, 4 players)
BB bets t600, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t600 (pot was t1200), Hero raises all-in t1360, BB raises all-in t1540, MP1 calls all-in t640.
Uncalled bets: t180 returned to BB.

River: (t4560, 0 player + 3 all-in - Main pot: t4320, Sidepot 1: t240)


Results:
Final pot: t4560

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4560 Main pot 4320. Side pot 240. | Rake 0
Board [Ks 5s 7d 2d 3s]
Seat 1: MrRounder64 folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Taurus514 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Ron0000 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: cam8099us (big blind) showed [Kd 8h Tc 5d] and lost with HI: two pair, Kings and Fives; LO: 8,7,5,3,2
Seat 5: Hey-BabyFace folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ec02nku folded on the Turn
Seat 7: ~Bonnie56~ showed [Qh 2s 2c 4s] and lost with HI: a flush, King high; LO: 7,5,4,3,2
Seat 8: Blacklisted folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: ThadRL showed [4h 8s 9s As] and won (4560) with HI: a flush, Ace high; LO: 5,4,3,2,A

[Stoneburg]

[Kuso]

[JDLush]

Yeah, pretty much what Kuso said. No sense getting heads up here, call the flop and increase your odds.

I don't raise the turn for the same reason. You won't get an A3 to fold, well, ever. You would still have over T700 left if the river totally kills you (no flush, board pairs) and can recover. The thing is, the pot will be big enough that if you hit you are more than likely to get paid off since you'd get some crying calls based on pot odds alone. You have position here, might as well use it.

Of course the standard 'chip up or bust out so you can play another' SnG theory can also pertain here, in which case you push the turn as you did. I think either way is reasonable.

[Marm]

[Kuso]

[Felonius_Monk]

Well, I like the flop raise. Calling with just a one-way draw seems rather weak to me, I think I'd consider folding before calling here. It's not so much a case of getting rid of naked A2s (of which there may not be any, given you hold an A and there was no raise preflop) but getting rid of the A3s. You have good equity for high and you may "promote" your high chances by raising (i.e. it may allow you to win with one pair if you get heads up with an A2 or bare A3 or whatever). You may win outright. You may get all in with a hand like two pair which is a fairly big dog here. Basically, I think if you're going to call this hand preflop you can't really be expecting anything better than this, can you?

On the turn it depends on reads and the like. The way you played it I think I'm folding against most opponents - pot bet plus call = likely A3 somewhere, which basically leaves you drawing to half a pot or one card for the scoop. In a $5 SnG it's quite possible you're good for low, though again I'd hesitate to think that was the case at higher levels.

[Kuso]

[Felonius_Monk]