Your Daily Question, Sunday 26th April. Today it's a simple "why do you prefer?" question.

safc71

Enut said:

The joys of PLO8, FIRST hand of a small MTT

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
kulaz	Small blind		10.00	10.00	1990.00
Enut	Big blind		20.00	30.00	1980.00
	Your hole cards	A K 2 10
safc71	Raise		60.00	90.00	1940.00
pomfrittes	Call		60.00	150.00	1940.00
kulaz	Call		50.00	200.00	1940.00
Enut	Call		40.00	240.00	1940.00
Flop
		K 4 5
kulaz	Bet		20.00	260.00	1920.00
Enut	Raise		300.00	560.00	1640.00
safc71	Call		300.00	860.00	1640.00
pomfrittes	Raise		1460.00	2320.00	480.00
kulaz	Fold
Enut	All-in		1640.00	3960.00	0.00
safc71	All-in		1640.00	5600.00	0.00
pomfrittes	All-in		480.00	6080.00	0.00
Enut	Show	A K 2 10
safc71	Show	J 3 Q A
pomfrittes	Show	4 10 9 4
Turn
		J
River
		J
pomfrittes	Win high	Full House, 4s and Jacks	6080.00		6080.00
	No qualifying low hand

I was thinking of putting this in the poker clinic to see if anybody thought i should have folded. when i seen the flop i thought great chance of the low and the flush obviously you had me covered for both pots. Typical that you hit the flush but it was no good. Ever thought about changing your name to badbeat @Enut

BTW to answer the question i don't think the hold'em players are having as much fun as we are playing PL08. It's the nuts

Enut

safc71 said:

Enut said:

The joys of PLO8, FIRST hand of a small MTT

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
kulaz	Small blind		10.00	10.00	1990.00
Enut	Big blind		20.00	30.00	1980.00
	Your hole cards	A K 2 10
safc71	Raise		60.00	90.00	1940.00
pomfrittes	Call		60.00	150.00	1940.00
kulaz	Call		50.00	200.00	1940.00
Enut	Call		40.00	240.00	1940.00
Flop
		K 4 5
kulaz	Bet		20.00	260.00	1920.00
Enut	Raise		300.00	560.00	1640.00
safc71	Call		300.00	860.00	1640.00
pomfrittes	Raise		1460.00	2320.00	480.00
kulaz	Fold
Enut	All-in		1640.00	3960.00	0.00
safc71	All-in		1640.00	5600.00	0.00
pomfrittes	All-in		480.00	6080.00	0.00
Enut	Show	A K 2 10
safc71	Show	J 3 Q A
pomfrittes	Show	4 10 9 4
Turn
		J
River
		J
pomfrittes	Win high	Full House, 4s and Jacks	6080.00		6080.00
	No qualifying low hand

I was thinking of putting this in the poker clinic to see if anybody thought i should have folded. when i seen the flop i thought great chance of the low and the flush obviously you had me covered for both pots. Typical that you hit the flush but it was no good. Ever thought about changing your name to badbeat @Enut

BTW to answer the question i don't think the hold'em players are having as much fun as we are playing PL08. It's the nuts

A couple of very interesting points raised here.

Firstly, one of my dabbles with the ipoker skin years ago was as 'unluckyagainpaul' (there's a theme here), I just looked at my SS, ROI was nearly 50% for an average stake of £13 and a SS rating of 80, I guess it was much easier back then!

Secondly, I ran the hand through an odds calculator, My EV was 48%, @pomfrittes was 37% and yours was 15% (yea it was a horrible match up for you). As it played I think pom very nearly folded, he thought about it long and hard I think based on the time he took to call. With that action he would almost certainly be up against a bigger set. As it happens even if he folded pre you still scoop me with your J J run out!

Amazing hand.