Last night at 9:26PM, seven players were shooting on table 15, playing $2/$2 PLO. Éric M, sitting in seat 4, opened the pot to $10, a rather common opening bet at these stakes. Two players called before Anthony C made it $25 to go. Out of seven players, only one did not call the 3-bet!
Six players went to the flop:
Anthony was the pre-flop aggressor, and when you raise and get called by a sea of players, there is no better feeling than to flop the nuts with redraws to the super nuts! He cautiously placed a continuation bet of $25, trying to get as many people as possible to stick around. Only Éric did, raising to $100, enough to cover Anthony’s $55.
Turn:
River:
Éric, too excited to wait, waived his right to show last and slammed his monster open:
Éric:
Anthony did not react right away, possibly not realizing he was holding the absolute best hand in poker. To be fair, he did improve in all sorts of ways! He finally tabled his hand:
Anthony:
The whole table jumped up! Anthony got outdrawn on the turn, but the Bad Beat one-outer showed up to save the day, giving away a fifth Bad Beat Jackpot in March!
Éric’s queen high straight flush was beat, and he took $9,323. Anthony, for having the winning hand, got himself $4,661. The other five players at the table got $932, more than enough to cover their $25 investment in the hand!
There was one other active PLO table at the time, and playing 3-way only, they got a fair deal: they chopped the remaining 20% in three, and got $1,554.
Congratulations all!