FTP: Benyamine's PLO Hi/Lo Sessions
Published on 27 Aug 08 10:32 by Drakhor
David Benyamine won $1.4M since early August on the PLO-High tables on FTP - he could have finished the month as a big winner if it hadn't been for his costly PLO Hi/Lo sessions.
The Pot-Limit Omaha-High tables on Full Tilt Poker
(FTP) mainly belonged to one man this month - David Benyamine.
Over $1.4M make him the biggest winner in this variant in August (as of 25.08) according to highstakesdb.
In
the past few days though, the tables were turned. At least on the Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tables the Frenchman never really got into his game and lost over $800,000 in the past week alone. Since the beginning of the month, he is even down $1,418,965. That Benyamine still finishes the month in the green zone is due to his H.O.R.S.E. matches from which he gained $526,255.
Yesterday's sessions haven't been included in the statistics yet, but you were able to find Benyamine on the PLO-High tables again, on which he also won a few bigger pots. Amongst other ones he won a $123,996 pot against 'slaktarn':
Pre-flop, Benyamine only completed the blind. 'slaktarn' raised to $1,200, and Benyamine called. The flop came with 
, 'slaktarn' made a conti-bet of $2,400, and Benyamine called. The turn came up with a 
and a further conti-bet from 'slaktarn' to $7,200. But this time, Benyamine re-raised to $28,800 and thus took over the initiative. 'slaktarn' called. On the river came the 
, and 'slaktarn' checked to Benyamine who put him all-in for almost $30,000. 'slaktarn' called again, but he had no chance against Benyamine's trips with 
. The loser hand wasn't transmitted and will unfortunately remain 'slaktarn''s secret.
