Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)
Just a very lucky first hand that didn’t look like much: K♦ Q♥ J♠ 5♥. I was BTN and put in 1bb as dead big blind. CO limped in, I checked, SB raised to 5bb, CO and I called. Flop was A♣ 7♦ K♣ and SB bet out 8bb. CO folded, I called, and the turn gave me an ace-high straight with T♣ but put a flush draw on the board. It also ruled out a low. I had 13bb in already and SB bet enough to put me all-in to call. I gave the straight a shot, a 5♠ came on the river, and SB showed K♥ 6♦ T♦ A♠ for two pair. I took the entire pot and left.
1 hand, 1 minute. +23bb.
Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)
Turnaround from the previous game. In BB for the first hand with A♥ Q♣ T♥ 2♣. You’d think it would look good, double-suited with a setup for the low. Holding Q♣ A♥ T♥ 2♣, I called a raise to 2bb along with two others and the flop was 8♠ A♥ 8♣. Not looking good for a low for me. I bet 2bb to see if I could take it but only one of the three other players dropped out. 2♦ turn game be aces up with a queen kicker and I opened with another 2bb. Both players stayed in. The river was 9♥, of no help whatsoever. I checked, then folded when BTN bet 8bb. He showed an eight for a winning set, UTG showed aces up with a king kicker.
Got a straight-heavy Q♣ 9♦ T♠ 7♠ next hand on SB. I limp in after two others, BB raises to 2bb, and everyone calls. A♠ K♠ 7♣ puts me one card from the nut straight or a flush. I open with 4bb, BB calls, and the other two fold. The turn 3♦ gives me nothing and I fold to a bet that puts me all-in, which was probably a mistake.
An odd little 4♦ 5♦ 2♠ 5♣ for my third hand. I min-raise and SB comes along. I get almost nothing on the flop of Q♥ 2♥ J♦ but I go all-in for 6bb when SB bets 5bb. He’s got my pair with better kickers, another pair, and a flush draw: 2♣ 4♥ J♥ 7♥. I’m praying for a 5X that never comes. Instead, we get A♣ Q♣, which makes the deuces irrelevant.
3 hands, 3 minutes. -20bb.
Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)
One hand makes the session. I’m BB on my fourth hand with T♣ 2♦ J♦ K♦. I’m heads-up with a limper. I hit two pair on the A♦ J♠ K♠ flop and bet 2.5bb. HJ raises to 6.3bb and I call. I make a nut flush draw with 6♦ on the turn to go along with my potential full house or straight. I check, HJ puts me all-in to call and I pull the trigger. The river is J♣ and my full house beats his 7♠ Q♣ T♥ 8♥ straight.
5 hands, 4 minutes. +16.9bb.
Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)
Straight and flushes in 4♦ 6♦ 5♦ T♠. On SB on my third hand of the session. Five players in for the price of the bb. I make top two pair with the 7♣ 5♥ 3♥ flop and open with a 1bb bet. Only the BB drops out. T♣ for the turn gives me a higher pair of pairs and I bet half the pot, 4.5bb. HJ drops out, so only three of us are there for the river card: K♠. I check, UTG checks, CO bets 15bb, and only I make the all-in call. CO has 3♦ 8♠ 6♦ 9♠ and may have miscalculated his hand. He only had a pair of threes but with three cards in his hand he had a ten-high straight. Easy to do in Omaha.
I lost 12bb on the next hand, got nearly 10 back the hand after thatm then lost four more before I left.
5 minutes, 6 hands. +21.3bb.
Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)
A brief day of PLO wins came to a close with this crazy hand. I was UTG with 9♣ Q♥ 4♣ 5♣. Not a hand that gets into the books as the one you should play with. I limped in, HJ called, CO raised to 3.5bb, BTN called (and had already been forced with a small dead blind), the blinds and I called. Only HJ folded, and pre-flop there was 19bb in the pot. The flop cards were 6♦ 3♠ J♠. I had a sort of open-ended straight draw but not much else, and there was a flush draw on the board. The blinds checked and I bet out 4bb, nonetheless. CO called, but BB went all-in. I had squat so far, but I called for less. CO called, as well. BB had the nut flush, big-time with T♠ A♠ 9♠ 6♠. He even had three cards to a straight flush. CO was keeping BB from getting a royal flush with K♦ A♣ A♥ K♠, and he had the best made hand at the moment, but he didn’t really connect with anything on the board. Q♣ on the turn gave me an actual pair but didn’t do much for the hand as a whole. Then 4♦ for the river made me two pair and won me the main pot of 55.5bb.
6 minutes, 7 hands. +34.5bb.