{"id":237,"date":"2011-05-19T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T23:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:12:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:12:44","slug":"omaha-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Omaha, Yo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a very lucky first hand that didn’t look like much: K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. 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<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> and SB bet out 8bb. CO folded, I called, and the turn gave me an ace-high straight with T<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> came on the river, and SB showed K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> for two pair. I took the entire pot and left.<\/p>\n

1 hand, 1 minute. +23bb.<\/p>\n

Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Turnaround from the previous game. In BB for the first hand with A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. You’d think it would look good, double-suited with a setup for the low. Holding Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I called a raise to 2bb along with two others and the flop was 8<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. 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<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> turn game be aces up with a queen kicker and I opened with another 2bb. Both players stayed in. The river was 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>, 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.<\/p>\n

Got a straight-heavy Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> next hand on SB. I limp in after two others, BB raises to 2bb, and everyone calls. A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> gives me nothing and I fold to a bet that puts me all-in, which was probably a mistake.<\/p>\n

An odd little 4<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> for my third hand. I min-raise and SB comes along. I get almost nothing on the flop of Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I’m praying for a 5<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> that never comes. Instead, we get A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>, which makes the deuces irrelevant.<\/p>\n

3 hands, 3 minutes. -20bb.<\/p>\n

Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)<\/strong><\/p>\n

One hand makes the session. I’m BB on my fourth hand with T<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I’m heads-up with a limper. I hit two pair on the A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop and bet 2.5bb. HJ raises to 6.3bb and I call. I make a nut flush draw with 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> and my full house beats his 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> straight.<\/p>\n

5 hands, 4 minutes. +16.9bb.<\/p>\n

Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Straight and flushes in 4<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. 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<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop and open with a 1bb bet. Only the BB drops out. T<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I check, UTG checks, CO bets 15bb, and only I make the all-in call. CO has 3<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

I lost 12bb on the next hand, got nearly 10 back the hand after thatm then lost four more before I left.<\/p>\n

5 minutes, 6 hands. +21.3bb.<\/p>\n

Cake Poker Odesa Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max (20bb)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A brief day of PLO wins came to a close with this crazy hand. I was UTG with 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Not a hand that gets into the books as the<\/em> 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<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. 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<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. He even had three cards to a straight flush. CO was keeping BB from getting a royal flush with K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>, and he had the best made hand at the moment, but he didn’t really connect with anything on the board. Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn gave me an actual pair but didn’t do much for the hand as a whole. Then 4<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> for the river made me two pair and won me the main pot of 55.5bb.<\/p>\n

6 minutes, 7 hands. +34.5bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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