Straight
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 147
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NL texas shorthanded.
I'm on the button with A9 sooted, spades.
Limped pot, three playing.
Flop comes: 3d 8s 10s.
1st villain leads out for about 3/4 pot, 2nd calls.
I call. (I usually raise these nut draws in position, but I put villain 1 on a lower flush draw, and villain 2 was a total calling station, you had to show him cards)
Turn comes: 3s (great, right)
(ORIGINALLY TYPED 4S, THUS FUCKING UP THE REPLIES, AND THE POINT OF THIS THREAD, BEING THAT I WAS OVERLY SKITTISH CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE BOAT)
Villain 1 checks (duh, original bet wasnt enough to protect against draws, and now checks, smells like a made flush)
Villain 2 bets 1/4 pot (pointless).
I call, Villain 1 raises 2x pot.
2nd folds, I call.
River comes: Kh
Villain 1 bets 1/2 pot, I make a crying call.
Weak as hell.
Sure enough, villain turns over Kx spades, I take a decent pot.
Now, the relevance to Omaha:
As soon as the board paired I was afraid. A great majority of times, in omaha, this means your flush is no good, and while you might make a small boat fold, it rarely is legitamately good.
My origianal read was correct, but I had the nagging fear that he had top a set that filled up, or a weird two pair that filled up (unraised pot).
Has anybody else experienced this problem?
I guess it can have its plusses, that you tighten up playing NL texas and don't push ridiculously small margins too far, and I haven't been losing at texas recently since I started playing omaha (might even be doing slightly better) but I find myself, even in shorthanded games (!?!?), being wary of hands that might be legitamate in omaha but that villains couldnt possibly have in NLHE.
I usually multitable omaha and shorthanded NLHE, could this be part of the problem?
Any feedback is, of course, as always, appreciated.
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