Omaha Aces

[billy the punter]

I got AA three times in an hour when down to two tables in the 11k PLO on Betfair earlier. I played them differently each time, which may be interesting to fellow PLO players.... ***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 569482471 ***** PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $9 Entry Fee, Level:7 Blinds(150/300-(no ante)) - Sunday, August 30, 22:00:46 GMT 2009 Imper1um's $11,000 GTD Omaha Challenge #268387 Table 2 9-max (Real Money) Seat 2 is the button Total number of active players : 8 Seat 1: 5189 ( 15,874.71 ) Seat 2: danko02538 ( 6,134.25 ) Seat 3: Harold Boom ( 11,606.26 ) Seat 4: alunj ( 6,170 ) Seat 5: flowerace ( 7,344 ) Seat 6: Hans Gusen ( 4,830 ) Seat 8: mrstardust0 ( 25,083.65 ) Seat 9: pom poy ( 3,665 ) Tourney Level:7 Blinds(150/300-(no ante)) Harold Boom posts small blind [150] alunj posts big blind [300] ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to Harold Boom [ Ac, As, 6h, 8d ] flowerace folds Hans Gusen raises to [960] mrstardust0 calls [960] pom poy folds 5189 folds danko02538 calls [960] Harold Boom raises to [5,100] alunj folds Hans Gusen calls [3,870] Hans Gusen goes all-in mrstardust0 calls [4,140] danko02538 calls [4,140] ** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, 6d, Qd ] Harold Boom checks mrstardust0 goes all-in mrstardust0 bets [19,983.65] danko02538 calls [1,034.25] danko02538 goes all-in Harold Boom folds Returning uncalled bet [18,949.40] to mrstardust0 ** Showdown ** danko02538 shows [ Ts, 6s, 9s, 7d ] Hans Gusen shows [ Js, Kd, Qc, Ad ] mrstardust0 shows [ Jc, 7c, 9d, Td ] ** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ] ** Dealing River ** [ Kc ] ** Hand Conclusion ** danko02538 wins 1,439.25 from side pot #1 with a straight, King to Nine mrstardust0 wins 1,439.25 from side pot #1 with a straight, King to Nine danko02538 wins 9,810 from main pot with a straight, King to Nine mrstardust0 wins 9,810 from main pot with a straight, King to Nine ************ Game 569482471 ends ************ Didn't really like the way I played this hand. mrstardust is a calling station so wasn't gonna raise initially, I'm OOP and unsuited AA68 isn't that great. However once danko called the original raise I felt I could raise enough to get it heads up all-in with the original raiser. However, all three players called my 5k reraise. There was no way I was getting tied to them after that. ---- ***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 569491466 ***** PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $9 Entry Fee, Level:8 Blinds(200/400-(no ante)) - Sunday, August 30, 22:19:58 GMT 2009 Imper1um's $11,000 GTD Omaha Challenge #268387 Table 2 9-max (Real Money) Seat 3 is the button Total number of active players : 9 Seat 1: Mikki33 ( 22,440.87 ) Seat 2: danko02538 ( 3,334.25 ) Seat 3: Harold Boom ( 13,962.52 ) Seat 4: alunj ( 16,390 ) Seat 5: flowerace ( 6,144 ) Seat 6: Boollean ( 22,871 ) Seat 7: LuckyFuckr ( 15,300.01 ) Seat 8: mrstardust0 ( 32,197.10 ) Seat 9: pom poy ( 12,580 ) Tourney Level:8 Blinds(200/400-(no ante)) alunj posts small blind [200] flowerace posts big blind [400] ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to Harold Boom [ Ad, 8c, 9d, As ] Boollean calls [400] LuckyFuckr folds mrstardust0 folds pom poy folds Mikki33 folds danko02538 folds Harold Boom calls [400] alunj calls [200] flowerace checks ** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 8h, 9s ] alunj checks flowerace checks Boollean checks Harold Boom bets [800] alunj folds flowerace calls [800] Boollean folds ** Dealing Turn ** [ Kd ] flowerace checks Harold Boom bets [3,200] flowerace folds Returning uncalled bet [3,200] to Harold Boom ** Hand Conclusion ** Harold Boom wins 3,200 from main pot ************ Game 569491466 ends ************ This is how I should've played them in hand 1. Despite being on the button I just flat called, choosing to keep the pot small, enabling "play" post-flop. It's also a great disguise if I do hit trips. On a (straight)draw heavy flop I didn't wanna bet big and encouraging the all-in move from my drawing opponents. I also didn't want to check my two pair, a check may cause my opponent to bet the turn on a semi-bluff and then be priced in when I reraise. I felt betting small would be ideal, they will want to see a cheap turn, the pot isn't big enough for them to try and steal (pre-flop pot control paying off), and I can hope for a brick on the turn and shut him out then. Which is exactly what happened. ------- ***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 569511450 ***** PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $9 Entry Fee, Level:11 Blinds(600/1,200-(no ante)) - Sunday, August 30, 22:59:52 GMT 2009 Imper1um's $11,000 GTD Omaha Challenge #268387 Table 2 9-max (Real Money) Seat 6 is the button Total number of active players : 6 Seat 1: Mikki33 ( 22,165.12 ) Seat 3: Harold Boom ( 13,337.52 ) Seat 5: flowerace ( 6,913 ) Seat 6: Boollean ( 17,357 ) Seat 7: LuckyFuckr ( 34,800.02 ) Seat 8: mrstardust0 ( 41,878.59 ) Tourney Level:11 Blinds(600/1,200-(no ante)) LuckyFuckr posts small blind [600] mrstardust0 posts big blind [1,200] ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to Harold Boom [ 5c, Ah, 6c, As ] Mikki33 calls [1,200] Harold Boom folds flowerace folds Boollean folds LuckyFuckr folds mrstardust0 checks ** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, Ks, Td ] mrstardust0 checks Mikki33 bets [3,000] mrstardust0 folds Returning uncalled bet [3,000] to Mikki33 ** Hand Conclusion ** Mikki33 wins 3,000 from main pot ************ Game 569511450 ends ************ It's a pretty aggressive table, many keep to shove it in pre-flop, something I really didn't want to do. We were close to the button here (11 left) and cashing was the priortiy. With an early limper and the loosest player in the BB a pot-bet would be called 100%. Calling (9% of my stack) wasn't an option either. With an off-suit 65 with them I felt it was best to just throw my aces away, even though there had been no raise. A good decision I feel and I would've passed on the 3KT rainbow flop. ------- I think I made a mess of hand 1 (although many will say there is nothing wrong with reraising with aces), but very pleased with hand 2 and 3. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Don't forget this was a tournament, cash would be a very different story.

[Dreamkiller]

Re: Omaha Aces :clap Spot on IMHO ........ I didn't even see an ace in the 1 and 3/4 hours I was playing ..... :sad ..so no real hands to discuss .... but I played my 10 7 3 2 hand perfect .....:rollin. Wd again for reaching FT. Interesting that LuckyFcker got to heads up I think ..... he got so lucky vs Dangero early on ..... Dangero at least had a pair and re-raised all in QQxx and LF called him all in with AQ98 i think .... and hit an ace .... a crazy play at the time :( .... It wasn't like he was pot commited .... just a mad F I nni S H guy ......