4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Last night I was playing heads up against a good friend of mine. When we play heads up we usually play HOPE (no limit Hold 'em, pot limit Omaha hi, pot limit crazy Pineapple, and pot limit omaha Eight), changing games every six hands. The game had been swinging crazily back and forth, but right now I had him semi-on the ropes with a Rippy-like series of raises, re-raises, and total bluffs. I had him outchipped probably 2:1.
Omaha 8 hand: I am dealt JJJ6. Obviously a terrible hand, especially for hi lo, but per usual I fired out a raise from the button. He re-raised (not that much) and I called. I wasn't really hoping to set, just figured I could use my position to bully him, which had been happening on many recent hands.
Flop is just about perfect: J84 with two clubs. He bets into me, pot-sized (!). I'm amused by this and raise the pot, which is most of his stack. He mulls over the 2:1 odds and eventually goes all in for a small raise, which I of course call.
He turns over AA9T - overpair plus an open-ended straight draw. He doesn't have a low draw or the flush draw, although he does hold the ace of clubs. He also has a backdoor spade flush draw.
Turn is a blank, river is... well, whatever.
What do you think of his play here after the flop? I felt after the hand like he had no reason to take such a big risk with a marginal hand, when he still had chips to play with. He probably had to call when I raised him on the flop, but he set himself up for that by betting into me so strongly. Essentially he put himself all in as a 2:1 dog. Considering he had no low draw at all, though, it could have easily been worse than that if I had any two low cards to go with my set. Then again, considering how much I had been blasting him with raises, maybe he felt that it was worth the risk here to try to get into the pot first and take one away from me. If so, he definitely wins the bad timing award.
Discuss...
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