Not Shying away from PLO

And I lost like 100BB at PLO last night. Just disaster. Started tilting, felt it, made stabs and pots and lost. Made calls hoping to hit and lost. So lost about 2 bucks.

I was lucky enough to win a $5 SNG after that, though, so it was all moot. We got down to three handed by 40/80. I was the low stack of course, and fought and fought. It looked like they did not want to tangle with me and was able to steal a lot of small pots to chip up. I felt like I was controlling the action at the table. Everyone was pretty deep compared to the blinds, so I was able to play a little poker without having to gamble or put a lot of chips at risk without having the goods. Ended up hitting a big hand (flopped trips to his paired A, I think) to take a massive chiplead going into HU, and then my opponent came all the way back from 1100 to take the chiplead against me.

We got it all in for my tourney life on a nothing flop. I shoved with AQ, and he called with A3, and he had paired his three. On the river I needed a queen and she showed up for me. Interestingly, I hit quads twice in that game.

I then played a $2 SNG with an interesting dynamic. It was 4 handed, and the player to my right was gone. BUT, he had a ton of chips. I was able to steal for quite some time before anyone noticed. The problem is that everytime I stole from the dead guy, my raise would have to pass by the other two guys. They were in a much better spot to steal than me. It took a ton of time to leak all the dead guy's chips out, and I barely hung onto third place.

I had a situation where I had JJ, raised, and got called. Flop comes KJx. We are still 4 handed at this point, knowing the dead guy is not at his computer. We get the chips in there - I think I'm way ahead, but he flips over KK and I am crushed. Luckily, I had my opponent covered and was knocked down to 1k chips or so, and was able to chip back a little bit with some shoves. I think by that point, my opponents knew about the dead guy. And I say I think because even at the end, I wasn't totally sure. They gave him a walk in his BB once, which I thought was strange.