Huge Bubble hand of PLO8 MTT
 

12 left in MTT, top 10 pays. Was just moved to this table, so no reads on villain, other than he is the other tourney big stack and has been in the top few for most of the tourney. I imagine I did something wrong on this hand, as it took out most of my chipstack, but i'm looking for opinions on how to play the hand better.


Seat 1: DJ_Sensei [6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img],J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img],K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]] ($13,961 in chips)
Seat 2: mrmosses ($7,732 in chips)
Seat 3: moneytomb1 ($3,338 in chips)
Seat 6: Sid Gautama ($15,301 in chips)
Seat 7: MrDelnoche ($4,229 in chips)
Seat 8: couch11 ($3,359 in chips)



ANTES/BLINDS
mrmosses posts blind ($200), moneytomb1 posts blind ($400).

PRE-FLOP
Sid Gautama bets $1,400, MrDelnoche folds, couch11 folds, DJ_Sensei calls $1,400, mrmosses folds, moneytomb1 folds.

FLOP [board cards 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img],A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ]
Sid Gautama bets $3,400, DJ_Sensei bets $6,800, Sid Gautama calls $3,400.

TURN [board cards 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img],A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
Sid Gautama checks, DJ_Sensei checks.

RIVER [board cards 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img],A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img],5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
Sid Gautama bets $7,101 and is all-in, DJ_Sensei folds.

Re: Huge Bubble hand of PLO8 MTT
 

You could've folded at every stage of the hand.

Re: Huge Bubble hand of PLO8 MTT
 

Your preflop call was terrible, until you learn to fold this preflop to a pot raise, there is no point talking about how you played the rest of the hand.

Re: Huge Bubble hand of PLO8 MTT
 

Fold preflop

Re: Huge Bubble hand of PLO8 MTT
 

yea, i guess it was a pretty much garbage hand, I was fortunate to get out with some chips left. Thanks for the scoldings.

Re: Huge Bubble hand of PLO8 MTT
 

Just a couple other comments; first, in a tourney like this, you ought to really try to stay away from playing pots against other big stacks at this stage, unless you have the mortal nuts. I've learned that lesson the hard way myself.

Second, suppose the preflop call was OK based on whatever reads you might have had. That flop just isn't a good flop. If the player is short and you have odds to call even though you're likely behind (to big two-way drawing hands), then it's reasonable to continue. But to call a reasonably sized stack, let alone one that covers you, on a board that's about as draw-heavy as can be, is definitely a bad idea. Raising is even worse.