WCOOP Event #12 Pot Limit Omaha H/L & Event #13 6-handed Pot Limit Hold Em

I'm going to make these fast since I didn't make it past an hour and a half in either event.
I was looking forward to Omaha H/L especially given my relative advantage over the field in that one.

There were lots of bad players, but at my first table the player to my left was Barry Greenstein. I only played in 1 pot with him (he folded the turn) before I moved. I was sad to go despite having a pro to my left because many players at that table were bad. I got in a raising war with my Ad2d3J vs 246J on a 25J flop (with 2 diamonds). Somehow neither of us improved and we split the pot with Jacks and Dueces. That's the kind of play you see in this event. Awesome.

I again got all my chips in where I had beautiful draws only to split to a player with a much worse hand. Then comes the hand that crippled me. I limp UTG (not many large raises happening) with JT98 double suited. Not the best hand in the world but like 6 of us see a flop that comes 997 with 2 spades giving me trips + big straight draw + straight flush draw. I bet almost the pot and get 2 callers. Turn is the J giving me a boat. I pot it and get 1 caller putting us both almost all-in. River is a K and he puts what little he has left in, I call, and he shows K9xx and the rivered higher boat. Gaa! Winning that hand wouldn't have made me chipleader, but it would have put me up there. Instead I am crippled and go out soon after.


As for 6-handed PL Hold-em, I tried to move to a super-aggro strategy. Instead I kept running into big hands, and eventually paid them off. Blah, I was out of that one pretty quick. I don't even have any hands in mind but they all went like this: I raise with Ts 9s. Flop comes T high and I get check raised all-in. I fold. Eventually I check-raise someone all-in with mid-pair and a flush draw. They flop top set and it holds up. Aggro is fun cuz when you lose, it's fast.