Today's installment highlights the stellar play of someone I'm certain you're familiar with. We can't, however, be sure exactly who it is, since their screenname indicates that it's actually TWO players.

MyriamAndMax is undoubtedly known for a MyriadOfBadness, but this particular play puts him/her on level with Fancygirl.
He/She starts the hand with 5bbs - just over 1000 chips. UTG player is ptbros1972, who also makes a fairly questionable play with his stack, but we'll save him for another time. I was not involved in this hand, but the play was too brilliant for me to pass up.


RowJimmy Posts SB 50.00
italian3140 Posts BB 100.00
ptbros1972 Raised to 200.00
boom247 Folds
MyriamAndMax Calls 200.00
Veyesine Folds
IamyourGod75 Folds
DollarsAndCents Calls 200.00
ChipTowerzVA Folds
RowJimmy Folds
italian3140 Calls 100.00

So...there's our pre-flop action. Ptbros1972, starting the hand with just over 5bbs, decides his best option here is to min-raise from UTG. Obviously, in a game as tight as a PO freeroll, this strategy is sure to work. Except that only two seats over is MyriamAndMax, one of PO's loosest and most passive. With only 5bbs him/herself, she looks down at two cards that compel him/her to call 1/5th his/her stack preflop. Probably setting up some kind of future bluff-calldown. Another caller can't get away, nor can the big blind, who is also critically short-stacked.

The flop drops, showing A♣5♥9♥

An interesting texture, for sure, and with 3 short-stacks in the hand, our Big Blind, italian3140, takes the initiative and finally gets the rest of his li'l pile in. It's unlikely he called with an Ace of any strength, so it's likely he's on some kind of draw. Since ptbros1972 min-raised, we have to assume he likes his hand, and you have to admire this "trap" with only a few blinds remaining. Clearly he was looking for action (which in this game is like looking for tie-dyes at a Grateful Dead show).

italian3140 All In 772.00
ptbros1972 All In 873.00
MyriamAndMax All In 832.00
DollarsAndCents Folds

As expected, ptbros1972 follows italian3140 into the pot with his remaining 4.5bbs, and our friend MyriamAndMax, after giving it quite a bit of thought, springs the trap with a call as well. I'm on the edge of my seat awaiting the collision of these monster hands...


MyriamAndMax Shows 8♣6♠ <-----You KNOW you'd have a hard time mucking that.
italian3140 Shows 2♥Q♥
ptbros1972 Shows A♦Q♦

There's really only one surprise in there. Italian3140 does indeed have a Q-hi heart draw, and ptbros1972 effectively trapped himself with a hand that should have simply shoved his 5bbs pre-flop, AQ. Our hero, MyriamAndMax, was in a real quandary. He/she has now seen an UTG raise (which he/she called), a 4-way Ace-hi flop with two hearts, a Big Blind shove, followed by that early raiser's shove as well. Naturally, as an 11% favorite in the hand, he/she simply cannot at this point get away from the 86 offsuit. It had so much promise pre-flop as well, after all, since it could make twice as many flushes as either of the other hands.

Well..the turn was a calamity, bringing the 6♥. He/she got it in praying for one of those 3 non-heart 7's, but alas, it wasn't to be.

MyriamAndMax Out <------But how does that miss???
italian3140 Won 3166.00 from Pot 1 with Flush Queen High
ptbros1972 Won 120.00 from Pot 2 with Pair of Aces
ptbros1972 Won 41.00 from Pot 3 with Pair of Aces

Normally the protagonist in these stories goes on to win some massive pot, but not this time. We can only hope that MyriamAndMax will continue to show the passive-aggression that it takes to call-call off a stack with 3 outs in the deck. Undoubtedly this play has worked many times in the past, and I'm sure it will work again someday. Maybe we'll even get a chance to analyze it in this thread.