Another High Variance Game

Sometimes you immediately know when it is going to be one of those crazy, high variance games.  That was yesterday's game.  Two "big game" PLO players were seated on the newly opened game.  Predictably all of the pots were jammed and rejammed preflop.  Figured the game would settle down after the PLO game started.  How wrong can you be?  Turns out there was a crazy guy who literally played every hand, raising 97% of the time.  Also, he was seated next to very aggressive older player who would re-raise almost every time.  A dealer on a heater added to the jamming.  The kid rebought more times than I could count, the older guy did too, and ultimately busted out.  It would have been wise to move to another table but with good cards that unfortunately lost and $200 pots did not excercise that option.

 A couple of "run bad" examples for you.  Playing pocket aces, the flop comes J/8/3.   It gets bet, raised and called multiple times.  The turn is an ace.  My turn to ram and jam.  River is a 3, filling me up with the nut full house.  More jamming.  Turns out that flop was set over set, 8's and 3's.  River gives the worst hand quads.  This happened again to me with my flush losing to quads on the river.  Also at least 3 "under-full" houses, including one runner runner queens. 

The only bright spot was a high hand (AAAJJ) worth $200.  If not for that the loss would have been much more severe.  Lesson learned:  request a table change when running cold on a crazy table.