Update from the past couple days
Recently I have been playing online alot. I havent written it down, but I think i lost around $50-60 in the begining, and then I found myself to the PLO tables and just crushed them. After reading around I realized that Full Tilt has some of the toughest competition of any online poker room if not the toughest. Realizing this, i decided to try a game other than hold'em where maybe the players arent so tight. And boy was I right. I turned $5 into $25 got up and sat down at a .10 .25 and turned $10 into $40. Bam, just like that I was back to around even for online poker.
A couple of nights ago we finally had a live cash game. The game was small and loose. It consisted of me, Dustin, Tim, Tadley, and Smitty. We played .50 $1 NLHE for a while until we finally decided to play H.O.R.S.E. To those of you who dont know horse is a rotation of Holdem, Omaha, Razz, Seven Card Stud, and Eights Or Better(a.k.a. Omaha Hi/Lo). It was fun, i ended up being down $15 after the night was over.
One specific hand came up when Tadley raised 5x the BB with AA44 double suited. After the hand was over I questioned his raise and then thought about it. In my thinking, Tadley's raise was probably correct, it just may have been slightly too high. The answer is simple. While this hand does not rank in the top tier of Omaha hi/lo, it is quite possibly sometimes the best hand at a 5 handed table. Consider the following:
The best Hi/lo starting hands are hands such as AA23 AA24 A234 A235 A245 A236 and so on. Tadleys hand probably ranks in the top %40 percent of Omaha starting hands. His bet would(should) get rid of any hands that are ranked in the bottom %50. Meaning if his opponents call his raise, he may be beat preflop, but has potential to hit a set, flush, flush draw, or a low hand. The only mistake with Tadrocks raise would be its too large.
A common mistake of holdem players when they play either type of omaha is overrating the power of having AA as two of their four cards.... hands like AAKK double suited in omaha usually go down and lose to hands like 3478. Anyway, tadley got me to fold a bottom %50 hand and he ended up winning the pot in the end....
A couple of nights ago we finally had a live cash game. The game was small and loose. It consisted of me, Dustin, Tim, Tadley, and Smitty. We played .50 $1 NLHE for a while until we finally decided to play H.O.R.S.E. To those of you who dont know horse is a rotation of Holdem, Omaha, Razz, Seven Card Stud, and Eights Or Better(a.k.a. Omaha Hi/Lo). It was fun, i ended up being down $15 after the night was over.
One specific hand came up when Tadley raised 5x the BB with AA44 double suited. After the hand was over I questioned his raise and then thought about it. In my thinking, Tadley's raise was probably correct, it just may have been slightly too high. The answer is simple. While this hand does not rank in the top tier of Omaha hi/lo, it is quite possibly sometimes the best hand at a 5 handed table. Consider the following:
The best Hi/lo starting hands are hands such as AA23 AA24 A234 A235 A245 A236 and so on. Tadleys hand probably ranks in the top %40 percent of Omaha starting hands. His bet would(should) get rid of any hands that are ranked in the bottom %50. Meaning if his opponents call his raise, he may be beat preflop, but has potential to hit a set, flush, flush draw, or a low hand. The only mistake with Tadrocks raise would be its too large.
A common mistake of holdem players when they play either type of omaha is overrating the power of having AA as two of their four cards.... hands like AAKK double suited in omaha usually go down and lose to hands like 3478. Anyway, tadley got me to fold a bottom %50 hand and he ended up winning the pot in the end....
posted by Matt at 4:51 AM
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