Well, after my WIN last Thursday it doesn’t make sense anymore to hide my real player’s name. With still two events to go lorflasheart13 suddenly is in THIRD place on the leaderboard now after winning the PLO event. But I’m going for the absolute win, especially with a deepstack tournament still scheduled for Tuesday.

So first things first: event 7 (Deep and Steep) was a big disappointment. I misunderstood the concept, as I thought this was going to be a super deepstack one. But the word ‘steep’ was pointing to the ‘turbo’ blind levels^^. Some kind of strange formula, I don’t think I’m gonna be a big fan of it. In the end I went out by shoving with 68 (after mostly being blinded away) and  ran into Aces. But then: Thursday.

I missed the first PLO event because of a concert and I almost missed the second one also. Five minutes before the tournament started I realized  had to play, I went for my laptop and 8 seconds before the tourney started I at last succeeded to register. Four hours later, I won the thing. Of course, I was lucky, as every tournament winner is. Although I  was NEVER behind on a showdown during the WHOLE tournament; I just needed the luck to not be unlucky, the luck for my premium hands to hold up.

I certainly couldn’t complain about the hands I was dealt: most of the times it was rags I could easily fold and the other ones were premiums I doubled up with each time. As you can see at my chip evolution, I was short stacked till the end, even during my first 30 minutes on the final table, where I constantly was in last place till there were only 6 players left:

The only reason I was at the final table (besides patience, obv) was because I got AAxx three times on very decisive moments. Here’s the first time:

Seat 1: kevsherri – 750
Seat 2: Galwaysontilt22 – 2,735 (BUTTON)
Seat 4: ChrisWrok – 48,793 (SMALL BLIND 800)
Seat 5: Purplerose82 – 3,160 (BIG BLIND 1600)
Seat 7: miragedrum – 12,672
Seat 8: lordflasheart13 – 5,082
Seat 9: TangentTed – 8,580
Seat 10: sonofgimli – 34,974

Dealing to lordflasheart13
miragedrum folds
lordflasheart13 raises to 4,800
TangentTed folds – sonofgimli folds
kevsherri calls 750 (all-in)
Galwaysontilt22 folds
ChrisWrok raises to 8,000
Purplerose82 folds
lordflasheart13 calls 5,082 (all-in)
Returning 2,918 to ChrisWrok uncalled
Pot sizes: 3,000
Pot sizes: 9,514
kevsherri shows
ChrisWrok shows

Dealing Flop
Dealing Turn
Dealing River
ChrisWrok has One Pair: Kings
lordflasheart13 has Three of a Kind: Aces
lordflasheart13 wins 9,514 from side pot #1 with: Three of a Kind: Aces
lordflasheart13 wins 3,000 with: Three of a Kind: Aces

According to my personal PLO advisor Adam Breit, this is the perfect PLO hand so I was never scared of being sucked out here. The second time I got AAxx was when I had 1,5 BB left and I was on the BB with 11(!) players left. I  doubled and went to the final table, where I was about to be elmininated in 7th place when I got AAxx on the big blind . From then on I began to eliminate players myself till only Hellboy101 was left, the one I predicted to be the last man standing and one of the two players ahead of me on the current leaderboard. Here’s our final hand:

Seat 2: Hellboy101 – 291,640 (BIG BLIND, 20,000)
Seat 8: lordflasheart13 – 509,360 (BUTTON, SMALL BLIND 10,000)

Dealing to lordflasheart13
lordflasheart13 raises to 60,000
Hellboy101 calls 60,000
Pot sizes: 120,000

Dealing Flop
Hellboy101 checks
lordflasheart13 bets 120,000
Hellboy101 raises to 231,640 (all-in)
lordflasheart13 calls 231,640
Pot sizes: 583,280
Hellboy101 shows

Dealing Turn
Dealing River
Hellboy101 has Two Pairs: Jacks, 4s
lordflasheart13 has Flush, Queen high
lordflasheart13 wins 583,280 with: Flush, Queen high

Of course the excitement was great after this grand win, especially because of PKR’s graphics See what I can do on Sunday: Double Chance!