Final Table Play

[imported_big ben]

In spite of the very attractive pot odds (115:50 or better than 2:1), my first thought was 'you're in trouble here without having any low potential'. In hindsight, it's easy to say you should have folded, but cest la vie.

The question is, does a fold jusify playing on w/ 50k at 5k/10k blinds?

If you think the villain has Axxl, where l is any low, you could be as good as even $:

Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled boards
cards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV
Qs Qc 8c 8d 189411 307103 192826 71 0 0 0 0.497
9s 5s Tc Ah 192826 192826 307103 71 180011 0 0 0.503

Given the villain's agg play, this begs for a call. In general, when the pot odds are this good and your stack is that small, you have to gamble. (Which is why you raised in the first place, I think...)

[ZeroPointMachine]

Yeah, I raised to pick up the blinds. When he popped it back I knew I was in trouble, but the pot odds.....

I know the hand is no monster in Hi-Lo. But the blinds were big and I had very few opportunities to open the pot.

I guess I felt any hand worth playing was worth a raise for the fold equity.

I made the final table as the short stack(10K) and was forced to make a bunch of aggressive moves and shake my luckbox to get this far. But I also laid down a bunch of big hands when I didn't need to gamble.

I think I was a little too satisfied with a top three and got a little sloppy.

[gergery]

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In general, when the pot odds are this good and your stack is that small, you have to gamble.

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Exactly.

I play it the same. You have 8x BB Your standards must be loose here; this is not a ring game. And getting better than 2:1 you must call his raise. and don't raise to 30k when you can raise to 35k.

-g