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If you had Tikay slightly covered I would instacall and hope Churchy comes along and checks it down postflop with the hope of busting the bubble. In that scenario even if you don't bust the bubble your hand plays well over a board and you may at least get a split pot however with these stacks I would probably sigh and fold.
Morning Chris.
First up, I would not worry too much that your results have not been quite as good this week. In truth, your early results, when you were winning north of 70% of games played was near impossible to sustain. You are still winning almost 60% of your games, & even that may be a tad to high to sustain, but you have good basics, & I think you will settle around 57% or 58% imo, which is profitable.
Your numbers have been hurt a bit by losing the only 2 £5.50 games, too. Don't worry about that, the £3 & £5 player pools are virtually the same players.
There's more to these games than just knowledge of how to play PLO8 though - being DYM savvy, & aware of what is going on around you as to stack sizes etc is equally important.
You also need to look for "spots", in particular players who don't understand or grasp the different strategy required for a DYM compared to an MTT. The tactics are completely different. Also, look for players with big stacks who can't grasp the difference between a DYM & an MTT - these guys often open or look others up wide, as they seem to think more chips = bigger man sausage. You don't get a penny extra for ending a DYM with 10,000 chips, so think SURVIVAL not willy waving.
And when you get a big stack 4 handed, THINK about it. The game is locked, you don't need to mess about. Losing a DYM from that spot is a dreadful mistake & should never happen. Just play "savvy" poker.
You can learn by watching others, too - if you ever see helland or huuuuuume at the tables in PLO8 DYM's, try & watch them. Poetry in motion, they are effortlessly good & rarely waste a chip.
If you have any questions, or hand histories that you need help with, put them up & you'll get plenty of replies from the experienced players.
Good luck m8.
Hard to think of anyone who has improved as much as you so quickly. And the main thing is you enjoy the game, win or lose. That's is the big win for folks like you & me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wh9ayFpLhc
Canny cool dude him.
Hand History #1065660190 (19:46 06/08/2016)
Still a fold from button though imo.
Trick is try and not be in the last hand of a dym. Unless you are short and have to shove or you can call with a good hand and with ideally limited risk to tourney if you lose.
800/1600 though not much room to manoeuvre. Nice to get the point where in button and utg with chips left and then hope for an all-in.
Worked out the stacks at the start of the hand, and Pompey only has 780 chips. If you shove, you're probably ahead vs any 4 that Tikay has to call off with, but it's gonna be far better to not take that situation and ladder.
If you fold, it's reasonable to assume Tikay gets a walk, which is the most likely outcome in the hand (If mmmchips shoves, it's almost certainly a mistake anyway, and that's good for us). Pompey will be in the BB next hand for less than Tikay's SB, so you cash whenever Tikay scoops because you and mmmchips should fold close to everything, if not absolutely everything, in that situation with BB all in. I would not be at all surprised if folding any 4 is optimal for both of you.
Whenever he wins half of the pot or less, he's going to be all in from the SB on your BB the hand after, so when Tikay doesn't scoop, you cash if you scoop, assuming both opponents in the hand choose to fold. Tikay would be justified in limping some ultra strong stuff from UTG here I suspect, but mmmchips should (if he's playing correctly) fold any 4, and the most likely outcome is you flip vs all in SB.
If the SB survives that a second time, we can still fold the SB (even if he scoops) and have Pompey flipping against Tikay again before we have to stick our last few hundred chips in in the BB again. Essentially, folding gives us plenty of opportunities for one of our opponents to get scooped against (At least 2, often more) before we have to put our tournament life at risk, whereas by shoving, we put our own tournament life at risk for very little gain.
Cliffs: It's a trivial fold because of ICM in DYMs, combined with how equities in PLO8 are much closer than in other Poker variants. The value of our stack isn't linear in the same way that it would be at a cash table. Scooping, while useful, doesn't make an enormous difference to us, whereas getting scooped against is a disaster. Similarly, getting quartered is far worse for us than winning 3/4s is beneficial to us.