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More Lessons in Omaha II
Ok, so I know that my out of the gate success in this game was due to catch up with me. I had an absolutely brutal session at Pechanga on Saturday night. Nothing was going right for most of the session and the result was -$125 in a little under two hours. Here's how it broke down:
STARTING HANDS:
My discipline was tested early, i played very few hands in the first few orbits unless i was in the blind. Either my starting hands were dirty and raggy like 5-8-9-Q or I was being tempted by beautiful Omaha Hi hands that had no low draw like K-Q-9-10. I am trying to follow Bobby Baldwin's adage of only entering an O8/b pot when my intention is to scoop, especially in a 9-handed game. I did stay away from problem hands like that and I thought this was the only aspect of my game that went well for most of the night.
GETTING COUNTERFEITED:
I had a couple hands that were ready to take down big pots on the turn but got crushed by the river. One in-particular set up like this:
Called a bet with A-3-Q-J, suited Ace.
Flop comes down 3-3-9 and I bet, get a few callers
Turn is a Q which gives me 3's Full of Queens, I bet again and get only one caller.
River is a K and I instinctively check even though I though my hand was good. He mutters "the King did it" and after taking another quick peek at the board i'm thinking that maybe he held J-10 for the King-high straight. No such luck, as he turned over a hand that contained K-3-x-x.
GETTING QUARTERED:
There were a couple of hands that just baffled me. There was one woman at the table who was just getting hit with the deck on low cards. it seemed that if the flop was A-2-x, she had 3-4...if the flop was A-3-x, she had 2-4...if the flop was 2-4-x, she had A-3, etc...it was getting a little rediculous. There was one hand that she and I got involved in where:
I had a decent calling hand 2-3-9-9
The flop comes down A-4-10...lots of interest there. It goes check, check, check, bet, call, call, call.
The turn is a 7 so I bet out with the nut low and it goes call, call, call.
The River is a Q and since there are still 4 players in the pot, I bet out my nut low figuring i was in for half of this nice size pot. after player "A" called, the woman/villain raised making it 2 bets, player "B" calls and i re-raise figuring that she made her Broadway and we might be able to get these other guys to call. Player "A" folds and the woman/villain comes back over the top. After much consideration, player "B" lays his hand down. Figuring we were going to chop this monster pot, I called the fourth bet and fully expected the woman/villain to turn over the nut straight.
Turns out, she also had the 2-3, but with a pair of Queen's that represented a better high hand than mine. Quartered. Awful.
Player "B" was furious because he also put her on the nut straight and folded his set of Aces. He was yelling at the woman/villain "that's the second time you made me mis-play my hand". It was kinda funny, despite the fact that i had just been punched in the stomach by that quartering.
All-in-all it was a lousy session with very few highlights if any but it's still poker and it still beats not playing at all. I believe it was Nick "the Greek" Dandalos who said "The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing".
I have noticed that I am taking my beats at the table much, much better than in hold 'em. Maybe it's because i've properly prepared myself for the kind of momentum swings that are much more likely to happen in Omaha thank in hold 'em.
Ok, so I know that my out of the gate success in this game was due to catch up with me. I had an absolutely brutal session at Pechanga on Saturday night. Nothing was going right for most of the session and the result was -$125 in a little under two hours. Here's how it broke down:
STARTING HANDS:
My discipline was tested early, i played very few hands in the first few orbits unless i was in the blind. Either my starting hands were dirty and raggy like 5-8-9-Q or I was being tempted by beautiful Omaha Hi hands that had no low draw like K-Q-9-10. I am trying to follow Bobby Baldwin's adage of only entering an O8/b pot when my intention is to scoop, especially in a 9-handed game. I did stay away from problem hands like that and I thought this was the only aspect of my game that went well for most of the night.
GETTING COUNTERFEITED:
I had a couple hands that were ready to take down big pots on the turn but got crushed by the river. One in-particular set up like this:
Called a bet with A-3-Q-J, suited Ace.
Flop comes down 3-3-9 and I bet, get a few callers
Turn is a Q which gives me 3's Full of Queens, I bet again and get only one caller.
River is a K and I instinctively check even though I though my hand was good. He mutters "the King did it" and after taking another quick peek at the board i'm thinking that maybe he held J-10 for the King-high straight. No such luck, as he turned over a hand that contained K-3-x-x.
GETTING QUARTERED:
There were a couple of hands that just baffled me. There was one woman at the table who was just getting hit with the deck on low cards. it seemed that if the flop was A-2-x, she had 3-4...if the flop was A-3-x, she had 2-4...if the flop was 2-4-x, she had A-3, etc...it was getting a little rediculous. There was one hand that she and I got involved in where:
I had a decent calling hand 2-3-9-9
The flop comes down A-4-10...lots of interest there. It goes check, check, check, bet, call, call, call.
The turn is a 7 so I bet out with the nut low and it goes call, call, call.
The River is a Q and since there are still 4 players in the pot, I bet out my nut low figuring i was in for half of this nice size pot. after player "A" called, the woman/villain raised making it 2 bets, player "B" calls and i re-raise figuring that she made her Broadway and we might be able to get these other guys to call. Player "A" folds and the woman/villain comes back over the top. After much consideration, player "B" lays his hand down. Figuring we were going to chop this monster pot, I called the fourth bet and fully expected the woman/villain to turn over the nut straight.
Turns out, she also had the 2-3, but with a pair of Queen's that represented a better high hand than mine. Quartered. Awful.
Player "B" was furious because he also put her on the nut straight and folded his set of Aces. He was yelling at the woman/villain "that's the second time you made me mis-play my hand". It was kinda funny, despite the fact that i had just been punched in the stomach by that quartering.
All-in-all it was a lousy session with very few highlights if any but it's still poker and it still beats not playing at all. I believe it was Nick "the Greek" Dandalos who said "The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing".
I have noticed that I am taking my beats at the table much, much better than in hold 'em. Maybe it's because i've properly prepared myself for the kind of momentum swings that are much more likely to happen in Omaha thank in hold 'em.
