TWO BOARDS? 4 CARDS? NO CAP?!

Dear friends, fans, and people who can’t even spell PLO...

If you’re new here, every week we talk about one hand that stuns, shocks, or just makes our eyes pop out of their sockets 👀. We call it the Hand of the Week!

This week’s hand has one player scooping a huge 4 way all in on the flop. It’s special because...

• It’s an $80k pot!

• It’s a double board bomb pot scooped by 1 player (rare)

• The game (uncapped PLO bomb pots) has since been banned from the rotation of bomb pots!

Now that I have your attention, let me tell you how we handle the rake on Table 1. When the dealer change happens (every 30 minutes), the house takes a time rake of $200 and we pre-tip the dealer $50. In order to make this happen we make a bigger pot so it doesn’t sting so badly. We do what’s called a bomb pot. If you’re unfamiliar, every player puts $200 into the pot and we go straight to the flop with no pre-flop action. And in our game, whoever is in the small blind position gets to choose what type of bomb pot we play.

The bomb pot can be anything from single board No Limit Hold’em with normal betting (we call this one “Missionary” 😉. Boring, to the point, but gets the job done.) all the way to Double Board 5 Card Omaha with half-pot betting on the flop with no re-raising and no turn betting, and full pot betting on the river. Confusing I know. We call that betting structure the Optimist (half-full 😂).

In this particular hand, the small blind player was down a lot of money, and asked to do double board pot limit omaha (two flops, and 4 cards in your hand). He also wanted the betting to be normal. Meaning you can get your whole stack into the pot instead of just a set amount…

Anyways on to the hand:

We're playing a $200 bomb pot with 9 players at the table. So $1,800 in the pot. The flop comes down Q♥️T♦️7♠️ on the top board, and Q♦️4♥️2♣️ on the second board. It checks to Achille in middle position; you may remember him from this hotw vs Chino. He decides to bet the pot, $1,800. One player calls in late position and so does the button and the player in the big blind position.

The last player to act next to Achille decides to go all in for his $10,000 stack. Achille moves all in over the top for $30,000. The button player CALLS ALL IN for $30,000 and the big blind player calls off his $6,000 stack as well. Now we’ve got an $80k pot!

The boards run out:

Q♥️ T♦️ 7♠️ T♠️ 9♣️

Q♦️ 4♥️ 2♣️ 2♥️ 6♣️

I’ll let the video tell the rest of the story.

See you next week for another Hand of the Week!

And if you haven’t checked out the Table 1 Podcast yet, here’s our first episode where Justin details how he lost his bankroll to Dan Bilzerian. We also tell our stories of how we got into poker and moved to Las Vegas.

Cheers,

Art and Justin

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