$1500 WSOP PLO

bell_boy

Made it through Day 1 of the Omaha event. I only have a half-average stack, but that puts me near the bottom but amonst the 46 of the 759 survivors. Marty Smyth is also among the survivors doing a little better.

Maybe the most interesting moment of the tournament was bagging up the chips and needing to put a "home town" on the form. I thought for a moment and then realized that Dublin fit nicely in that space.

Cheers,
Lawrence

BigCityBanker

Good Luck Lawrence

CHD

BigCityBanker wrote: »

Good Luck Lawrence

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5starpool

I was hoping that you were still in this Lawrence. Glad to see that the money I donated to you over the years is being put to good use.

kpnuts

46 left. Average stack 49,500. Resumes at 2pm Vegas time (11pm here, I think). GL Bell Boy & Marty!

(Table 4)
Seat 1: Jesper Hougaard -- 74,800
Seat 2: Martin Smyth -- 44,500
Seat 3: Allyn Shulman -- 21,000
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin -- 24,600
Seat 5: Ward Crane -- 67,500
Seat 6: Eugene Todd -- 103,600
Seat 7: Mel Randolph -- 65,400
Seat 8: James Lampropoulos -- 30,600

(Table 5)
Seat 1: Janice Pickering -- 40,500
Seat 2: Mark DeSerrano -- 27,200
Seat 3: Brian Sharrock -- 31,600
Seat 4: Nam Le -- 59,500
Seat 5: Douglas Smith -- 37,700
Seat 7: Jason McIntosh -- 20,200
Seat 8: Anthony Phillips -- 133,100

(Table 9)
Seat 1: Randy Holland -- 15,100
Seat 2: Daniel Martin -- 25,200
Seat 3: Vanessa Selbst -- 203,600
Seat 4: Todd Barlow -- 59,200
Seat 5: George Watson -- 34,700
Seat 6: Carter Gill -- 114,000
Seat 7: Stanley Statkiewicz Jr -- 41,600
Seat 8: Paul Magriel -- 26,500

(Table 10)
Seat 1: Earl Odom -- 31300
Seat 2: Eric Rosenman -- 25200
Seat 3: Ryan Lenaghan -- 26200
Seat 4: Colin York -- 21500
Seat 5: Will Failla -- 39400
Seat 6: Chau Giang -- 58300
Seat 7: Greg Cox -- 82900
Seat 8: Jamie Robbins -- 59700

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Craig Natte -- 80,900
Seat 2: Lawrence Cowsar -- 24,000
Seat 3: Jordan Morgan -- 70,100
Seat 4: Ken Lairson -- 7,600
Seat 5: Rob Hollink -- 70,600
Seat 6: Jeff Brown -- 14,700
Seat 7: Mike Cook -- 40,100
Seat 8: Max Pescatori -- 11,000

(Table 13)
Seat 2: Jae Kim -- 26,100
Seat 3: Tony Cousineau -- 40,000
Seat 4: Calen McNeil -- 31,900
Seat 5: Phil Reed -- 82,000
Seat 6: Thom Schultz -- 48,300
Seat 7: Trai Dang -- 69,000
Seat 8: Kyle Hegeman -- 32,100

OOps, bolded Jordan M instead of Bell Boy. Don't know how to unbold in edit LOL

Heisenberg.

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bell_boy

The Scientist wrote: »

Best of luck man...
You and Eugene Todd Bro for heads up!:D

Eugene was on my first table. Watched in dismay as he over called two all ins in the first level to find him holding KKJ6 vs AA** and AA**. He makes Jacks full of 6s to build up a huge stack from the get go. That's Omaha!

Next hand someone overcalls a bet and an all in with top and bottom pair to tripple up.

Rolf Slotboom quips that the table plays an "optimistic form of poker".

Marq

go on my son!

bell_boy

(Table 12)
Seat 1: Craig Natte -- 80,900
Seat 2: Lawrence Cowsar -- 24,000
Seat 3: Jordan Morgan -- 70,100
Seat 4: Ken Lairson -- 7,600
Seat 5: Rob Hollink -- 70,600
Seat 6: Jeff Brown -- 14,700
Seat 7: Mike Cook -- 40,100
Seat 8: Max Pescatori -- 11,000

Blinds start at 800/1600. So it looks like one likely scenario is that Max bets pot on my big blind, Craig folds. What should I defend with? Looks like I'll need about 40% equity against Max. That is a wide range, but is there an easy way to categorize? 4 connecting cards against big pairs, a suit would help something like JJT8. Four nonpaired cards with an overcard if he's paired. Or given that it is so close, I guess it won't be too bad to fold and I should let suitedness guide my decision.

eagle eye

Best of luck man. Hope you run as hot as a nuclear explosion and take it down.

5starpool

What are the blinds starting at?

5starpool

Just reading some of the past updates on the cardplayer site. I lol'ed at this one

"With Selbst in the big blind, four players called 1,000 and the option was to Selbst. She min-raised to 2,000 and everyone jumped into the pool with her. The flop was AQ9 and Selbst led out with a bet of 8,000. Every player folded quickly and Selbst was nice enough to show her hand to everyone. She had A10JK for a flopped straight."

bell_boy

5starpool wrote: »

What are the blinds starting at?

800/1600

bell_boy

eagle eye wrote: »

Best of luck man. Hope you run as hot as a nuclear explosion and take it down.

Thanks, but I'm anti-nukes.

5starpool

bell_boy wrote: »

800/1600

Well if it is folded to him and he pots it for half his stack and the sb folds then call/bet with a decent hand that catches a piece of it would be preferable to raising I think, although with the stack sizes not sure if it matters.

Run good please Lawrence.

con_leche

If you are thinking about defending some of the likely scenarios may be awkward for you on the flop given Max's stack size.

So you should decide on your attitude to risk/reward before sitting down to play.

E.g. say Max pots his first button and you defend with a rundown and hit top pair on a 9 hi flop. Are you happy to stick it in?

Conbro

Best of luck Lawrence. One of the stronger omaha players Ive faced over the years. A bracelet certainly wouldnt look out of place around your wrist imo.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

5starpool wrote: »

Just reading some of the past updates on the cardplayer site. I lol'ed at this one

"With Selbst in the big blind, four players called 1,000 and the option was to Selbst. She min-raised to 2,000 and everyone jumped into the pool with her. The flop was AQ9 and Selbst led out with a bet of 8,000. Every player folded quickly and Selbst was nice enough to show her hand to everyone. She had A10JK for a flopped straight."

glenjamin

Marty Smyth out. Bell boy on 23k. 35 players remain. Avg. stack around 60k.

5starpool

Abou 30 left now, Lawrence on 68k.

Go on my son!!!!

cardshark202

best of luck lawrence

kpnuts

Lawrence Cowsar Eliminated in 20th ($5,905)

At the same time that Brown elimination was taking place, the last hand on another table saw another bustout.

Lawrence Cowsar limped from middle position, Eugene Todd called behind him, and the big blind checked. The flop came {4-Hearts}{7-Spades}{J-Hearts}. The big blind checked, Cowsar bet the pot, Todd reraised pot, the big blind folded, and Cowsar called with the rest of his chips.

Cowsar {3-Hearts}{3-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}
Todd {A-Hearts}{7-Hearts}{10-Diamonds}{J-Spades}

Once again we're seeing a flopped set vs. flush draw situation. The turn and river -- {Q-Hearts}{6-Hearts} -- brought one more heart than Todd needed, and Cowsar is out.

Todd is up to 102,000.

GG WP UL.

5starpool

ya, just read that. Booooo.

Well Played Lawrence, hard luck.

Four of a kind

wp dude!

William Money

just logged on... very well done lawrence
excellent result for your first attempt!!

this should give you loads of confidence for the next event

best of luck!

smurph

Well done Lawrence, great result, great pity about the exit hand. You will be greatly missed around the Fitz, a gent on and off the table, if only we could clone your manners lol.

Take care

Martin & Colette

Marq

ship the 50k HORSE imo.

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bell_boy

Thanks for all the congrats. I was great craic.

While I wished my exit hand would have stood up, I had been given a gift already. Blinds are 1500/3000. Selbest makes her standard and frequent 9000 raise from MP. Natte on the button calls. I'm in the BB and have 16k behind, so I push with As8s5c4s (or something similar). Selbest calls the extra 10k. And then Santa comes to town. Selbest must have been on around 300k, Natte has 125k or so. Natte asks if he can raise!?! And he does. I inappropriately stick my arms in the air and exclaim yes! I'm smiling, Selbest is shaking her head and has to fold. Natte turns over a good hand KhKdQhJh, but one for which I'm actually a tiny favorite! (Gotta love Omaha). I triple up, and Selbest is slightly tilted as she says she would have won.

I make a huge bonehead play just after the redraw for 3 tables. Blinds are 2000/4000. I'm in the small blind and it's folded to me. I have 90k and the BB is on 45k. I haven't played with the BB before. I look down at my hand and then quip "Maybe they'll let us chop". I complete. The BB looks at his hand and raises to 12k. The BB doesn't look very comfortable (I _never_ make body language reads, and you'll see why) as I think what to do. I realize that i uncharacteristically joked when I looked at my hand and decide I'll represent aces as that fits with the speach paly. So I reraise. BB eventually calls with kings, one of the hands I thought could lay down. I turn over my KJ98ds, but don't catch lucky.

A few hands later is the exit hand and Eugene was deep enough that I don't think the outcome would have changed. But hopefully confession will be good for the soul and I'll get that play out of my book.

Cheers,
Lawrence

BigCityBanker

great effort, well done