The day finally came yesterday, I dealt in the Nosebleed Stakes Pot Limit Omaha... 50/100 with a 200 dollar straddle. I have never seen that much cash surrounding me in my life, just brick after brick of cash. Nutty Stuff!
So when I first sit down I notice that the guy in seat 9 has two-hundred in cash in front of him, so I imagined it must have been from the last pot he did not stack yet... so naturally I deal and then I see seat 1 putting in 200 and so forth, and then it hits me that they put a straddle in middle position, in which at the WSOP is not allowed. I ask the table what we are doing and of course I get yelled at to just deal that the floor has allowed it, and I oblige.
Second hand I deal of course we have a straddle and five limpers before it gets pumped to six-hundred. All six limpers and both blinds call, an 8-handed raised pot at the nosebleeds nice.
We have a $4800 pot before we even see a flop.
Flop Ad-Qc-10s
UTG a fiery Hispanic man comes out betting 3k. Now I don't know much about Omaha, but I would imagine on a board with with that kind of texture with 8 people seeing that board we may see a big pot brewing, and thankfully it did not disappoint. Middle-Aged man in seat 5 (MP) asks me what is in he pot dealer, and I reply " 78 hundred, sir". He thinks it over and smooth-calls for the 3k. We get one more player in there, the button, and then we see the turn...
Turn 10d
The turn seemed as though that may make for a whole lot of drama or at least some long deliberations, but nothing doing as it went check around. So here comes the river...
River 4s
Now here comes that little old Hispanic man firing at it again for a wrapped 5k and 2 more spread out, making it 7,000 total. Middle-Aged man thinks it over for a long time and kept muttering something to himself, before finally calling off what he had behind... which was 6500. Sure enough the player on the button quickly calls.
The Puerto Rican man flips his hand for the side-pot and shows A-10-K-J, for a full house and a flopped straight and I figured that the guy on the button was going to flip over a winner... and no doing, he mucks. Middle-Aged man flips over A-10-Q-J for the same hand for the massive 33,300 main.
At this point my head is spinning, because I had been previously warned to not touch their cash when it came time to split, that a player would do it... but no one was man-ing up and the pot just stood there for a handful of seconds. I decide that I should just go ahead and open up the guys 5k brick and start splitting all of the cash... instantly I get a ear-full from like 5 players telling me that I should pass over the chips to one of the winners and the cash to the other and they will split it themselves. I actually felt relieved by that response and moved on the next hand.
From there, I dealt a handful of other massive pots... none of which got to showdown though. But the whole time I could not stop wondering that the guy from the button over-called with. He didn't raise the flop, he checked the turn and OVER-CALLED the river. I honestly have no clue... maybe a K-J-x-x with no re-draws and just did not want to play for all his chips, but then why in the world would he overcall the river.
Like I said before, I don't know much about PLO but the game just seemed really soft to me. A ton of limping, a ridiculous amount small ball type of action... I mean I never had a pot-sized bet, but there was so much marginally loose action that every pot got to be a decent size. I couldn't believe I did not see one big name at that table ripping it apart. There was one young kid, who was playing the best by far of anyone there, but I am really not sure who he was.
Overall in tips I had a pretty bad night but i did get in 5 tournament downs, so that kind of makes up for it. Again in my tables I dealt I did not recognize one player, though again I saw plenty of them in the big fields. Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu are having great WSOP's thus far... Phil Ivey has 3 cashes and a bracelet and Daniel I believe has 4 cashes, a second, and still in the Omaha 8/B with 15 left. Hopefully, I will deal to some of these guys soon as I have 6 straight days of work coming up.
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