Mortensen Mucks Part II
Omaha-8
This has not been a great round for Carlos Mortensen. On an flop, Ian Gordon checked, and Matt Glantz bet. Mortensen and Gordon both called. They repeated the action on the turn. The river brought another low card, the , and Ian checked again. Glantz bet, and Mortensen folded as he grimaced and slammed his last 85k down in front of him. Gordon called and showed to take the low half. Glantz took the high with . for aces and eights.
After the hand, Marco Johnson told Gordon, "If you check-raise there, he folds." Glantz agreed, adding "unless I have a wheel, and then you can fold to the three-bet."
A hand later, Mortensen raised to 80,000, and in the big blind, Richard Ashby three-bet to get Mortensen's last 5,000 in the middle. Time to turn 'em up.
Mortensen:
Ashby:
The board fell , and they split it up, keeping Mortensen on ice for the moment.