For those who play 4-Card Pot Limit Omaha, please make plans to light your bankroll on fire and stop by the Maryland Live! $2/$2 5-Card games. They play $200 Minimum buy-in, $1K Max, mandatory button straddle.
It’s not for the faint of heart and it’s nothing like 4-Card.
Li Cheng lives in the 5-Card streets. She fired a single $2,200 bullet at the Mid Atlantic Poker Open $2,200 Main Event ($500K Gtd) yesterday and found herself on the short stack approaching the bubble. Sub-20 BB stack and one of the few players she covers limps the small blind pre vs her big.
There’s a bet and a call on the Qc8c6c flop. They’re playing at the table right next to where photog Eric and I had set up shop. I was sweating the hand when her opponent check-raised all-in on the turn after she again bet the Ace of clubs on the turn.
Easy call for Li w/ king of clubs, nut flush.
“Hold ’em is nice. He was drawing dead. They’re never drawing in 5-Card.”
She bagged almost 30 bigs for today, survived the first round of eliminations, and went out 32nd for $4,460.
She’s self-aware enough to know the other 5-Card enthusiasts were rooting for her to make a final table finish.
Her first ever Day 2 and she may be the only player busting with a smile today.
Joseph Crowley 31st followed by Hal Rotholz, Florin Elisei, and Alan Gendelman
Also out since last update for $3,920:
Valentin Lita, Frankie Zeta, Arthur Zabronsky,
