It must be an interesting dichotomy to focus on Pot Limit Omaha and, at the same time, chop the weekly PokerStars Sunday Millionfour ways for $148,000. Such is the life of Belgium’s jonna10, who recorded his largest online poker cash to date last month. He wasn’t necessarily pleased with the chop, telling us, “It wasn’t the greatest deal from my point of view considering I got $12,000 less than what I should have gotten according to ICM.”

So why take the chop? “The reason I agreed was the simple fact that I was definitely outclassed by the two short stacks,” he admitted. “The guy in the second chip position had only one or two blinds less than me, but he didn’t worry me. The other two players who both had around 20 big blinds were definitely more skilled than I was shorthanded, so I had to capitalize on my chip lead and push a deal through.”

He added, “I didn’t mind dropping anywhere between $0 and $10,000 since I would be getting approximately second place money and, considering the short stacks, no one wants to gamble with those kind of pay jumps when there’s just too much influence of variance.” Being a PLO grinder also complicated matters, as he doesn’t specialize in No Limit Hold’em in the first place.

jonna10 was multi-tabling up to the point when 400 players remained in the Sunday Million. “I remember playing pretty TAG up to that point because I never had a big stack,” he recalled. “I hovered around average most of the time. After the bubble burst, I kind of went card dead, but I managed to keep a 25 big blind stack. With around 400 players left, I remember re-shoving 8-8 into J-J and rivering an eight, which gave me a big stack.”

At that point, according to jonna10, he asserted that he “had the stack to really be able to do something, especially since I had a really weak table. One hand I definitely remember is one where I almost busted and was left with six big blinds with approximately 70 players left. A weak player opened from the cutoff with a min-raise and I defended with 10-9 of spades. The flop came K-7-4 with two spades.”

He checked and his opponent c-bet about two-thirds of the pot. jonna10 called with his flush draw and the turn was an offsuit eight. jonna10 checked and the villain bet over half of the pot once more. In response, our interview subject moved all-in and was snap-called by A-6 of spades.

“I thought, ‘I would be folding out hands like that considering the size of my check-raise,'” jonna10 told us when looking back on the hand. “The river bricked and I was crippled to just six big blinds.” However, he rebounded for a fourth place finish officially and a payday of nearly $150,000. All in a day’s work for a PLO grinder, right?

He got started in poker five years ago at a bar and began taking the game seriously in 2009. “A friend from college was a small-stakes grinder and provided me with the insight that a thing or two had been written about this game,” jonna10 jested.

He continued with a little history of his poker playing career: “I was playing tournaments and cash games on UB, Full Tilt, and some smaller Euro sites at the start, not really focusing on one aspect of the game. In the last two years, I have decided to solely focus on PLO. I played Turbo SNGs for a while, but after Black Friday, they became too hard and I didn’t feel like putting in the hours anymore to improve my game because grinding SNGs really numbs your mind after a while.”

What doesn’t numb your mind is a payday of $148,000.

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