Few weeks ago Poker After Dark featured a PLO cashgame for two weeks. In the next couple of posts I’ll be discussing these episodes with you. Big thank you to youtube user wsop2010fvp for uploading these.

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PAD PLO Cashgame ep. 1

The line-up is pretty sick: Brandom Adams, Patrick Antonius, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Brain Hastings and Phil Galfond. Andy Bloch is the guest commentator for these special episodes, and although I was pretty sceptical about this at first he really does a great job.

Here are some of the key hands of the first episode:
03:00 A classic example of why history between players plays such a huge role in any form of poker: Dwan calls a big bet on the river with a marginal holding.
04:00 Antonius wants a round of double stradles, sicko.
07:00 Brandon Adams makes a nice laydown.
12:00 Phil Galfond teaches us the art of the valuebet-bluff.
17:00 We already have our first all-in.
24:00 Ivey says he “really wants to gamble” and induces a pretty loose call by Antonius.
30:00 As we all know, aces can get you in some though spots in PLO.
34:00 Some great pot-control by Ivey with the second nuts.
40:00 Dwan makes a great valuebet, with quite a weak holding.

All in all very amusing first episode. But, don’t you think Brandon Adams looks really uncomfortable between these guys?