What Are These Hands? Is it Badugi? High Stakes PLO Hand Review

$200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha

In all deals, we'll see one hand revealed before showdown for an extra sweat.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $124,638.40

– Kayhan definitely won't throw away a queen-high flush. I’m trying to work out what bluffs Gucci can have here. Maybe something with the ace of diamonds, but I don’t think it’s a hand that triple-barrels. Could just have a king-high flush. Kings with a diamond or something.

Showdown:

– Someone call a doctor for Gucci… because I don’t think they’re very well after what I just saw.

KayhanMok – alohamatey, $112,787.50

— Cayenne finds the most favorable river in the game. Not sure how he’s done it — he hits the offsuit eight.

If Aloha has J-5 or 5-4, they’re completely cooked. All-in from Aloha. He deserves to see pocket fives here for Cayenne to get absolutely cropped. Pretty unlikely though.

Showdown:

— Why is everyone trying to bluff Kayhan? That is the question.

112K pot goes to Cayenne. Aloha — welcome to the channel.

By the way, I tried to sit Alohamatey about two or three weeks ago at 10/20 and they sat out and typed “no game.”

KayhanMok – alohamatey, $89,686.50

— My god — Aloha must have a king-high flush here or just a total airball. K-8 of spades or something. 8-9 of spades. What the [__] is this guy doing?

Showdown:

— I thought this guy was supposed to be a reg. I gave him a nice intro — “Oh yeah, big-time player, high stakes,” whatever.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $87,649.24

— Kayhan made a straight on the turn, which only loses and improved to a full house on the river. He’s in call-mode today, not raising much. Gucci jams. Kayhan’s not folding never — 0% chance.

Showdown:

— Gucci makes the nut flush, but it’s no good. Goes for thin value. Yeah… I’m not sure about that one. They have nut flushes a lot, and Cayenne has tons of sets when he just calls down — straights too.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $85,020.00

— Kayhan 3-bets a pretty disconnected hand. He’s got the working together, but the deuce is just sitting there like the adopted child.

We see a 4-bet from Gucci. Flat from Kayhan. He flops the universe — taking back everything I just said.

Kayhan bets half-pot. Gucci’s all-in. Kayhan calls. If Gucci just has bare aces, Kayhan’s going to have around 60% equity.

Showdown:

— Kayhan loses twice. Pretty gross not to hit a straight there. I know Gucci has a ten, but that’s about it.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $80,000.00

— Kayhan flops a straight and a flush draw, and he has all the blockers. He literally has 5-5-6-6 in his hand. A raise on the flop from Kayhan seems reasonable. Gucci calls.

The on the turn is inconsequential. Check from Kayhan. He’s going to go for the check-jam, I reckon. Full pot from Gucci. All-in from Kayhan. Gucci is going to need a little bit of help here.

Showdown:

— The board pairs. Kayhan now loses to pocket eights and pocket sevens, and he does have a seven.

Pocket eights for Gucci. Absolute sickness. Kayhan flops the straight with a straight-flush draw, probably playing with his balls tingling at the same time thinking, “Oh yeah, this is going to be a nice pot.” He gets absolutely merked on the river. Brutal stuff.

They're going twice. Gucci makes a bigger flush on the river. Double death for Kayhan.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $80,000.00

— Middle set for Gucci. Probably going to go half-pot or three-quarters. Yep.

Kayhan raises. Gucci smiling on the inside and probably on the outside as well.

The 10 on the turn adds an open-ender to Kayhan’s arsenal. Gucci is just going to put all the money in here with a set of sevens and the open-ender.

Showdown:

– Probably not the favorite river for Gucci. He does lose to J-9 now and to A-J.

Kayhan has… oh — a complete whiff. Gucci scoops. Reasonable.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $80,000.00

— Open from Kayhan with 4-5-7-7-Q. Wouldn’t be my favorite hand to open.

Check from Gucci. Check from Kayhan, who has two pair and the open-ender. He does turn the nuts.

1.9K from Gucci. Upstairs from Kayhan for sure — he does have the flush draw, the gutshot, and the straight-flush draw.

Gucci is raising again. This worries me a little because we do have two sevens in our hand, but I think it’s quite clear that Gucci has 4-7 and probably a flush draw as well when he raises like this on the turn. He can also just have two flush draws — one nut flush draw and maybe a set of sixes or something.

Showdown:

— Well, it doesn’t matter if Gucci had the entire deck, because Kayhan rivers a straight flush.

I was pretty close. Gucci had an open-ender, a set, and a king-high flush draw. Kayhan makes two flushes — nearly makes two straight flushes, but that’s impossible. That would be cheating.

KayhanMok – iPunt, $63,732.50

— Top set for IPunt. He does have a four-blocker. Full pot from IPunt. Kayhan is going to put it in here with probably an overpair and a flush draw — probably something like K-K-9-8 with hearts.

Showdown:

— Turn: . That can’t be a good turn card for IPunt. I think Kayhan wins. I think Kayhan’s got a flush — king-high flush — the nuts.

He’s got A-A-K-5-3, so he does have the nut flush, and he even turned top set.

IPunt punted.

KayhanMok – GucciNIKE, $51,353.00

— Kayhan should probably check back. No advice taken. He bets. Gucci calls.

Showdown:

— 9-10 gets there. Kayhan does have a jack blocker. I’d be very surprised to see him put money in here unless he’s going to value-bet his aces, or unless he’s going to… I don’t even know. You can’t turn this hand into a bluff. You’ve got aces; you might as well check.

He does check.

Okay. Yeah — no need to bet. Gucci just had an eight. Rivered jack — no good.

$500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha

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Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $463,388.74

— This is what you want: you open, you get 3-bet, then there’s a 4-bet. Oh my god — you’ve got aces. Let’s just put all the money in.

An 81K preflop pot. Giselle calls.

Now, I’m not an expert in this game, but when you’ve got aces and it comes 5-6-7 after putting $80,000 in preflop, you’re probably not happy. Stack-to-pot ratio is less than 1. This is going to be a $450K pot.

Gucci all-in. Giselle calls. Can Giselle find 8-9 with their aces or kings or whatever they have?

This is going to be disgusting if Giselle has something like 10-8, J-9, whatever.

Showdown:

Oh my god. That is so disgusting for Gucci. And Giselle put in 81K preflop with A-10-8-6 and got there on the river.

It’s literally the most horrendous turn card for Giselle. They must be, what, like 20% on the turn? I’ll check that later.

That’s disgusting.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $236,352.68

— Open from Gucci. 3-bet from Jazelle with 3-4-7-8 — power poker.

Flops a gutshot, a flush draw, and some dreams. Bets half-pot. Call from Gucci.

Turn: . Absolute dream for Jazelle. Turns the nut straight with the open-ender to the nuts as well. It’s like nut-nut-nut. 27K. Gucci is just putting money into the fire. Jazelle is going to ignite into Gucci’s face like a flamethrower.

All-in. Gucci obviously calls because they don’t have a fold button.

Showdown:

— This is the worst river in the universe for Jazelle — pocket sixes, pocket jacks — very likely.

Don’t worry. Gucci just had a nut flush draw and a gutshot. Jazelle wins the 236K pot.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $228,090.40

— Just instantly puts all the money in. He has to really hope Gucci doesn’t have aces with the nut flush draw.

Showdown:

— Gucci does have A-A-10-8, which was right. Pretty good turn.

It’s so sick that Jazelle has the king-high flush draw on the flop and the backdoor spades come in. And they go once — real guys.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $212,733.32

— Pretty good flop — top set just for fun. 10K into an 18K pot with three tens.

Turn: . Brings the second flush draw. J-9 now turns a wrap — J-9-Q-X, etc.

38K from Giselle, who is praying for no spade, no diamond, no nine, no jack, no seven.

Gucci is all-in. If Gucci somehow has pocket fours here, Giselle is moving to Albania.

Showdown:

— Gucci rivers a king-high flush with a four and puts the money in. Jazelle stays put.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $209,390.00

— It looks like Gucci is bashing up Giselle on the other table though — sitting with a 500K stack.

Five-bet from Gucci. Giselle puts in 81K pre and flops the nut flush draw. Gucci basically broadcasts: “I have aces. I have aces. I have aces.”

Showdown:

— The on the turn would be so disgusting — it would be the one-outer. The J on the river gives Giselle top two. Any good?

Oh my god. Gucci had A-Q-Q-5. Giselle flopped the nut flush draw, turned top pair, and rivered top two. Brutal stuff. I thought Gucci just had aces — 81K pre with that hand. Guys, please check out PLO Genius because some of these five-bets are way out of line.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $202,400.00

— The turn is not the best card in the world for Giselle, but with 46K already in, he’s putting it in with the nut flush draw.

There is a near 0% chance Giselle wins this one.

Showdown:

— Confirmed — Gucci has the nuts. 200K pot.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $142,710.00

— Do not watch this hand. Oh dear. board. Giselle bets three-quarters. Gucci calls. on the turn. Giselle, with the blocker, probably goes pot — and he does.

Gucci calls again. River: . Such a good blocker, right? When Gucci checks, Giselle is going to pot this every time.

Gucci calls — but what's he calling with? Probably a 10-high flush, but I think this is more like a nine-high flush.

Showdown:

— Nope. He calls with a 7-high flush because Gucci gives zero f***s.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $128,439.90

— The flop comes — pair plus wrap. The turn adds an open-ender. The river improves him again — only losing to . Giselle pots it.

Does Gucci raise 6-9 here? That is the question.

Showdown:

— Answer: yes… except no — he just calls.

Giselle has two jack blockers and nothing else. Gucci realizes raising only gets called by better. Sick line.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $121,080.00

— Seven on the turn. By the way, Giselle has pocket sixes. Check from Giselle. Check from Gucci.

River is a . Full pot from Giselle. What is he trying to get to fold? Gucci is not folding an ace — probably has A-K.

Showdown:

— Oh wait — Gucci rivered the nut straight and had trips on the turn. Giselle just blasted money away.

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $118,935.00

— on the turn gives Gucci top two. Probably irrelevant — Giselle loves potting. He bets three-quarters again. Gucci calls.

River: If Giselle bets and Gucci bluffs, that would be gangster. If Giselle bets and Gucci calls, that’s less gangster.

Four-pot from Jazelle. Gucci calls.

What bluffs does Giselle even have? The 2-5-7-8 type hands?

Showdown:

— It looks like Giselle was playing Badugi and accidentally made an eight on the last draw. What the hell?

Giselle54 – GucciNIKE, $118,935.00

— Turn: .Top two on a paired board. Not loving life, but probably not folding. Check from Gucci. Giselle fires 35K into 45. Gucci calls.

Showdown:

— Nice. What the hell are these hands from Jazelle? 6-4-7-9.

In October, Giselle54 won about $2.7 million from GucciNIKE in 7,000 hands at heads-up tables. But November didn't start off so well for him; in the first week of the month, GucciNIKE ( Editor's note: this nickname is rumored to belong to PLO regular Sanita55 ) won back about $900,000.