Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Finally An Omaha Hand!

Ok here we go for another short session as I have finished up with work for the day!

I bought in $120 into a $1/2 Omaha table and I picked up a good hand pretty quickly

PokerStars Game #16249251709: Omaha Pot Limit ($1/$2) - 2008/03/25 - 19:14:01 (ET)
Table 'Martir IV' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: bigbadray2k ($794.15 in chips)
Seat 2: chico134 ($296.75 in chips)
Seat 4: hanbangoo ($130.95 in chips)
Seat 5: diebitter ($217.80 in chips)
Seat 6: Annette ($117 in chips)
chico134: posts small blind $1
Salcifufu: is sitting out
hanbangoo: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hanbangoo [Js 9d Ah As]
diebitter: calls $2
Annette: folds
bigbadray2k: folds
chico134: calls $1
hanbangoo: raises $6 to $8
diebitter: calls $6
chico134: calls $6
*** FLOP *** [5c Td Ad]
chico134: checks
hanbangoo: bets $16
diebitter: folds
Salcifufu leaves the table
chico134: calls $16
*** TURN *** [5c Td Ad] [3d]
chico134: checks
hanbangoo: bets $44
chico134: raises $142 to $186
hanbangoo: calls $62.95 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [5c Td Ad 3d] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
chico134: shows [Qc 8c Tc Ts] (three of a kind, Tens)
hanbangoo: shows [Js 9d Ah As] (three of a kind, Aces)
hanbangoo collected $267.90 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $269.90 | Rake $2
Board [5c Td Ad 3d 4c]
Seat 1: bigbadray2k (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: chico134 (small blind) showed [Qc 8c Tc Ts] and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 4: hanbangoo (big blind) showed [Js 9d Ah As] and won ($267.90) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 5: diebitter folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Annette folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I know that I said last time that if you pot it from the BB, it screams Aces. But I had only been at the table for about 5 hands and I had already made preflop pot raises in 2 hands out of the 5 so I had set a loose aggressive image. That's why I wasn't afraid to pot it from the BB with the Aces..

The flush draw was the one hand I was supposed to have had to worry about but I really didn't feel like he was drawing for it. Usually in Omaha you tend to see people try to steal pots on the flop with their drawing hands and with his smooth call on the flop, I felt like he was trying to trap me with a strong hand like a set. Luckily for me I had the top set so I knew I was good to go. I made a larger bet on the turn that pretty much made me pot committed and I was happy to see him move in. I was pretty certain he had the set of 10's before he showed and he did!

What's interesting is that he had a chance to lay it down on the turn. He should have been wondering if I had either the set of Aces or even the flush draw but he couldn't let go of his set..

This was another short session but it's time to hit the gym!

Overall
Start - $236
End - $368

2 comments:

Road to Rio said...

welcome!

it's nice to see some omaha hands for a fresh new perspective...keep it up!

In terms of cool, I'm like a blazing inferno. said...

good job andy!

poker blogs are fun when you do them together. hahaha.

way to explain why you did stuff for those who dont know how to play omaha well!