Of bad beats and cash games...

Lafortezza

Wandered into the Fitz after work on saturday afternoon, expecting to play the freeroll and bugger off home afterwards.

Freeroll: €50 spent (in the feckin freeroll!) - €100 credit won! Which Luke kindly allowed me to use on the €15 rebuy Hold'em/Omaha tournament that night.

SNG: €10 ten-tenplayer PL Omaha SNG, I hit sweet cards and finally split it €45 each with Amp/Pam, because heads-up Omaha is a lottery.
And heads-up Omaha against Amp/Pam is chaos theory.

€15 rebuy Hold'em/Omaha tournament: Get off to a great start, second stack at my table, then get stung by a very nasty hand.
I have AQJ6, A6 suited, QJ suited. I limp UTG with about 4 others.
Flop comes QJ6 with two clubs.
My thoughts: "It's unlikely anyone has trips when I have blockers, but right now I'm ahead of the obvious straight and flush draws out there. Bet!"
I bet the pot and get raised by the button. I call, turn puts 3 clubs on the board.
I check and call the button's bet. River is a blank. I check/fold and get shown QJ, he didn't show his other 2 cards so as frustrating as it was to fold I think he was freerolling with the same 2 pair as me and hit his flush.

My Question! In Omaha, on the flop, is 3 pair any good? Juan Pablo and bohsman both gave me very different opinions last night so just wondering what the general consensus is.


On we go! I bust out of the tournament and still have the energy for more poker. Sit down at a €50 Hold'em/Omaha table with €100. Floating along, up to €200, down a bit, up to €250, bust back down to €100.
Then 4 Kings gets beaten by 4 Aces in Omaha. "Bet!" "Raise!" "Re-raise!" "Pot!" "Do you have it??!" "Yeah, you??!"
Cue mountainous Whoots and giddiness.
4 K's receives €3850, 4 A's receives €1925, and us other delighted punters each get €275.

The Bad Beat jackpot (which got reset to €2500) was won again about half an hour later at the other cash game table, not sure of the hands though.

Then I go on a run of good hands and turn my €100 (the €275 is safely in my pocket), into €401. I run out the door at 3.30am. I'm slowly coming around to 4-card hold'em... It's *nearly* all about the Omaha.

Juan Pablo

Aghhhhh! i was at that table! how long did i miss the bad beat by!

deeferdog

quad fives were outdrawn on the river by three sevens, big cheer to see the river come a seven.

punters got €117, think the guy who was beat got about 1250, it was literally his second or third hand at the table....

better than a hole in the head though

careca

Juan Pablo wrote:

Aghhhhh! i was at that table! how long did i miss the bad beat by!

I could actually feel the pain in that 'Aghhhhh' JP. Unlucky.

amp

lafortezza wrote:

Wandered into the Fitz after work on saturday afternoon, expecting to play the freeroll and bugger off home afterwards.

Freeroll: €50 spent (in the feckin freeroll!) - €100 credit won! Which Luke kindly allowed me to use on the €15 rebuy Hold'em/Omaha tournament that night.

SNG: €10 ten-tenplayer PL Omaha SNG, I hit sweet cards and finally split it €45 each with Amp/Pam, because heads-up Omaha is a lottery.
And heads-up Omaha against Amp/Pam is chaos theory.

Indeed. I'm starting to change my opinion of Omaha as I understand it more. Of course winning money playing it helps.

Shortstack

lafortezza wrote:

My Question! In Omaha, on the flop, is 3 pair any good? Juan Pablo and bohsman both gave me very different opinions last night so just wondering what the general consensus is.

About 50% better than 2 pair, ie 6 outs to boat instead of 4. Not a hand you want to be playing against a made hand but usually enough to play against someone on a draw to straight or flush, if they miss you will usually have the best hand.
I had 4 pair on the turn the other day!

Marq

About twenty minutes JP.