High stakes gamblers Steve Sung, John Juanda, and “LoLiNa” met up on Full Tilt Poker table Icy Mistral for some $16K Omaha flips. Sung would flip two times against “LoLiNa” and take down both hands before Juanda wanted a part of him. Sure enough, Sung would win his third flip in a row and leave [...]

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Time to bring out the white coat with the buckles and straps attached .

I suppose that if they want to push the envelope and flip hands like this in a real game, it only pushes variance up and will discourage players to take a shot at the table until they have a bankroll that can survive the variance.

The game of PLO Hi does have an element of raises with microscopic (or non-existant ) edges, as you go up in the limits.

In my Blog from August 1st, 2008 (www.myspace.com/flintsword), I detail how a young player (Money 579) took $450 and in a Heads Up PLO Hi game $5/$10 against a deep-stacked player, won over $7,000. The hands are edgier, much more dangerous.

Sometimes at the $1/$2 level, you have a table where someone is *always* raising and I used to hate that ... now I love it and regularly take these wild raisers for hundreds of dollars.

I used to just fold and play strong hands. Then suddenly a line out of an old Daniel Negreanu article surfaced in my mind: "Call them and force them to make a hand." I found the article, so you can go "tsk, tsk, tsk" thinking about how my mind works, but the idea was to call the raise and then let the guy make a hand. The article was about Daniel Negreanu's first trip to Las Vegas.

Look Out Vegas Here I Come! by Daniel Negreanu May 21st, 2001.

Today I had a table like that on FullTiltPoker ... and went from $80 to $500+ in 30 minutes. Flippers and hyper-aggressive players are a dime a dozen ... call them ... then break them.

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