[Omaha8sPoker]

HERE ARE THE RESULTS:

Wasn't too bad, only ran into the 2nd best hand in O8...LOL...

I actually didn't consider my chip position at the time I made the play which was probably a huge mistake, but I just had eyes on winning the thing anyway so anything less than 1st didn't interest me...But here's my thought process...I figured I had fold equity in the hand...Like I said he'd have to call off 65% of his stack to play his hand and I thought I could force him to laydown some junkier hands...I knew the blinds most likely would not call in this spot unless they had AAxx because they would be calling off their tourney lives and they were quite passive...If I didn't come over the top of him here I knew he would just keep pounding on me and the rest of the table with raises...I figured if I won the pot outright great and if he called I probably wasn't in too bad of shape against his range, PLUS I think I get the added benefit of him thinking I'm a little nuts to be putting all my money in with that type of hand and it may slow him down a little bit because he knows I don't have to have AA (which pretty much everybody else at the table would have to have) to put him to the test for a large part of his stack...

I've had this hand on my mind ever since it happened and I still am coming to the conclusion I would have played it the same way against this particular opponent given what he had been doing earlier...I could be wrong and I know I coulda probably folded and coasted my way to another couple hundred bucks or so, but I was going for the $1500 for first...

PokerStars Game #10159624468: Tournament #51170354, $20+$2 Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit - Level XVIII (6000/12000) - 2007/05/29 - 00:09:40 (ET)
Table '51170354 33' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: lock1andload (108211 in chips)
Seat 2: < curAAcum > (133854 in chips)
Seat 5: mattg1983 (230070 in chips)
Seat 6: Fedigan221 (132475 in chips)
Seat 7: ragaly (34869 in chips)
Seat 8: deadmike81 (79630 in chips)
Seat 9: floydbob (87891 in chips)
ragaly: posts small blind 6000
deadmike81: posts big blind 12000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Fedigan221 [3s Ac Jd Kh]
floydbob: folds
lock1andload: folds
< curAAcum >: folds
mattg1983: raises 24000 to 36000
HERO: raises 90000 to 126000
ragaly: folds
deadmike81: folds
mattg1983: raises 104070 to 230070 and is all-in
HERO: calls 6475 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [7c Th 7d]
*** TURN *** [7c Th 7d] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [7c Th 7d 7h] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mattg1983: shows [2h Ah Ad 4d] (HI: a full house, Sevens full of Aces)
HERO: shows [3s Ac Jd Kh] (HI: three of a kind, Sevens)
mattg1983 collected 282950 from pot
No low hand qualified
nadatell [observer] said, "nh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 282950 | Rake 0
Board [7c Th 7d 7h Ks]
Seat 1: lock1andload folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: < curAAcum > folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mattg1983 showed [2h Ah Ad 4d] and won (282950) with HI: a full house, Sevens full of Aces
Seat 6: HERO (button) showed [3s Ac Jd Kh] and lost with HI: three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 7: ragaly (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: deadmike81 (big blind) folded before Flop