Sunday, October 03, 2004
Cash is king
A hand from the Dealers' Choice £100 cash game at my local cardroom. Not played too brilliantly.
The game structure is minimum buy in £100, two blinds of £2 one on button one to left of button. Button "chooses" game. Max 8 players. Typical games are Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Stud Hi/Lo, Irish (a sort of hybrid of Hold'em) and Padooki. Games are pot limit.
The hand. I am on button and call 5 card Hi Lo. I get 7899T. A right lot of crap! No one raises. Flop is 68T rainbow. I have "the nuts", I am last to act in a 5 way pot. First to act bets the Pot (£10), one guy calls and it's up to me. There are really only 2 ways to play this. First is to pot raise, other is to pass. Why pass the nuts? Well it's hi lo, I have no lo hand and there is a high % that a low card will come. In fact if a A 2 3 4 5 7 9 J Q come I am no longer able to scoop. 34 cards can therefore split pot or outdraw me. In fact more. I could be up against A2 and a set and lose the lot. I bottle it and call £10. Pot now £40. I have £70 left in front. The original player is very loose and the other caller is the only guy tighter than me. I put one on trips the other on a draw with A2 or A3. The turn comes 9. Gives me trip 9s but puts a heart flush draw out and means QJ is best st8 and I no longer have anything approaching nuts. Original raiser bets £40, caller calls after a long think. I pass. Probably should have passed on flop. River puts third heart up and "raiser" bets pot with a flush. He had A23 for low draw too. I don't believe I could make him pass on flop as he has a history of going for low in multi way pots.
This hand for me illustrates one of the keys in Omaha Hi Lo Pot Limit. That is you need a REDRAW as well as nuts. My hand was the nuts on flop but was so weak that that £10 call was basically throwing money away as the deck was very cold for me. Even with the straight and Top two Pair! That's what makes Omaha a fascinating game.
The game structure is minimum buy in £100, two blinds of £2 one on button one to left of button. Button "chooses" game. Max 8 players. Typical games are Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo, Stud Hi/Lo, Irish (a sort of hybrid of Hold'em) and Padooki. Games are pot limit.
The hand. I am on button and call 5 card Hi Lo. I get 7899T. A right lot of crap! No one raises. Flop is 68T rainbow. I have "the nuts", I am last to act in a 5 way pot. First to act bets the Pot (£10), one guy calls and it's up to me. There are really only 2 ways to play this. First is to pot raise, other is to pass. Why pass the nuts? Well it's hi lo, I have no lo hand and there is a high % that a low card will come. In fact if a A 2 3 4 5 7 9 J Q come I am no longer able to scoop. 34 cards can therefore split pot or outdraw me. In fact more. I could be up against A2 and a set and lose the lot. I bottle it and call £10. Pot now £40. I have £70 left in front. The original player is very loose and the other caller is the only guy tighter than me. I put one on trips the other on a draw with A2 or A3. The turn comes 9. Gives me trip 9s but puts a heart flush draw out and means QJ is best st8 and I no longer have anything approaching nuts. Original raiser bets £40, caller calls after a long think. I pass. Probably should have passed on flop. River puts third heart up and "raiser" bets pot with a flush. He had A23 for low draw too. I don't believe I could make him pass on flop as he has a history of going for low in multi way pots.
This hand for me illustrates one of the keys in Omaha Hi Lo Pot Limit. That is you need a REDRAW as well as nuts. My hand was the nuts on flop but was so weak that that £10 call was basically throwing money away as the deck was very cold for me. Even with the straight and Top two Pair! That's what makes Omaha a fascinating game.
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