Last night, I played my fourth Omaha hi/lo tournament since competing in the WSOP. I have made the final table in two of these four tournament; and cashed in three of them.
The tournament started with 126 players. Not to my surprise, a few players jumped right out of the pack and ran away with the chip leads. Two of these players were at my various tables. Both of them played every hand -- and played every hand to the river. Sure they were lucky, gut-shot straight draws on the river, etc. This allowed them to create gigantic chip leads -- even going to the home stretch into the money. As fate would have it, neither of them made it into the money, nor the final table. The axium of playing good versus playing lucky caught up with both of them.
As for me, I became dangerously short stacked on at least three occasions -- down to 800 chips when the blinds were 200/400. In spite of it, I fought my way back from each occasion -- as even to become chip leader when we made it into the money. But the cards didn't hold up, and I went out in 8th place instead of making it into the big payouts.