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dalecooper
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01-24-2006, 02:09 PM
Post subject: Tale of Omaha (low to no content)
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Last night I was playing heads up with a buddy of mine. When we do this it's usually for no money or just $1 - we just like to sharpen our skills. We play a rotating format: NL hold 'em, PL omaha, PL triple draw, PL omaha 8.
We got into the omaha 8 part of the rotation and this hand came along. On the big blind I got A882 - the ace was suited to one of the eights. This looked mighty playable for heads up to me, so I bumped it by 2xBB, and my friend called the raise.
The flop came out A88. I didn't process the possible low draw (one of the dangers of playing omaha and omaha 8 almost back-to-back) or I would have probably bet something here; but instead I checked. He checked behind.
Turn card was an ace to give me quad eights and trip aces. I checked and he checked.
The river was a two, giving me quads, trips, and a pair - and a variety of boats. Of course I had almost no hope of getting any chips from him now, so I bet the full pot hoping he'd think I was stealing and call with some medium pair or something. The only other possibility was that he made some weird low, but if he did I obviously wasn't going to like it. He gave me the stink-eye and thought about it, but eventually folded. At that point I had to turn over and show him this behemoth hand that won me basically nothing, and he laughed at me. Nice.
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ihategnomes
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Full House
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 1,225
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I think I just got a little sick.
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Field mice are fast, but owls can see in the dark.
<Bbickes> i still wanna know if the thing in your avatar is a real chick or not
<Bbickes> or am i e-crushing a dude
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salt3d
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Love those aces-full kickers.
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dalecooper
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,107
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by ihategnomes
I think I just got a little sick. |
What, not a fan..? Heh heh. It can be a brutal game, but we are both pretty tight and laid back when we play against each other, so the pots don't escalate the way you might expect. Usually somebody makes a 9 or 10 low early and bets the other guy out of the hand. Only a couple of times have we gone apeshit on that game.
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ihategnomes
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Full House
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 1,225
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If I am gonna play a game with such small edges, I at least want to play it in limit form. Are guys playing A-5 or 2-7?
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Field mice are fast, but owls can see in the dark.
<Bbickes> i still wanna know if the thing in your avatar is a real chick or not
<Bbickes> or am i e-crushing a dude
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dalecooper
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,107
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2-7. I think you're right about the small edges, too - it gets absolutely brutal trying to make a hand stand up.
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