Tuesday, January 8, 2008

1/4 Notes

$219.96 (+$10.33)


O8

(Kc 2c Ts 3s) A weak starting hand, but I was capping the action five ways and had to see a flop. I was going to fold on the turn until I realized that the guy was all in.

(9d 4d As Ks) The perfect turn for a check-raise.

(Td Ah 7h 7d) I was regretting my flop raise, thinking I was probably behind a set of nines, a straight, etc., and then the turn came off and I was hoping I had been behind those hands.

(As Ad Kd Qc)

(Kd Qd Qc 5c) You can fluctuate between “good” and “crappy” a full four times in a hand of Omaha. I’d rather go crap-good-crap-good than the other way around, though.

(4c 2c 6c 8h) If I’d hit any boat I would have called, but not beating much by that river.

(7d 6d 6c 5h)Third-nut straight with only a longshot redraw to a boat is no good.

I keep getting hands that are good enough to bet on the flop or turn, and then aren’t good enough to bet or call with on the river. Have you ever heard of that in Omaha before? It’s really weird.

This may be the longest I’ve gone in an online Omaha game without going to the felt with a hand.

Which may be why I picked such a bad one to go with, here. I was frustrated with watching all those flop hands go to crap on the turn, and given his lack of a raise, I figured him for a straight draw. I was right, but he had the 8 as well. Boy, this game punishes mistakes.

Now I have to go, too. Crap. Well, lick my wounds on this session and come back again later. So beatable…

$5 --> $2.75

62 Hands


Back, PLO is pretty full, so playing some NLHE, but in line for PLO. Two-tables, full ring. (Then O8 opened up and I played two NLHE tables and 1 O8 table, so not as many notes.)


Table One

(AA) Paranoid about the two diamonds, I make a little bet on the flop with a set of aces, and get the beautiful shove in response.


$10 --> $13.75

25 hands


Table Two

(QQ) Ran QQ into KK. I don’t think folding is correct with no book at this level, but an overpair didn’t exactly surprise me. Take it and move on.

$10 à 0

12 Hands


Table Three – O8

I actually bought in for $5 at .10/.20. Nothing major hand-wise, just won a couple with no showdowns.

$5 --> $6.85

9 Hands


Won blinds with KK, KK, AK, and AK in the first 15 hands or so. Then…

(AKc) I’m all in against AJ and TT, and the jack hits. Bah. Blew the final .95 pf all in against KK shortly after.

$10 --> $0

25 Hands


My $200 roller coaster continues…


New table.

(88) Well, turns out I was ahead of the villain’s 77 the whole way, but the river was nice.

I raise, miss, c-bet, and fold to a raise a couple times, then win blinds with AJd and AKo on back to back hands.

Going to add a table.

(AJc) Weird hand. Normally I’m going to repop on that flop, but I decide to take a turn, and then it just gets worse.

(AA) no no no no no.

(AA) Another try an orbit or so later. I guess a buck after flopping a set of aces is better than the last result with them.

(A5s) I could have folded to the check-raise; that was pretty orange belt.

+$4

C-bet with AQ and took it down.

Won big pots with AA on back to back hands (one got in pf against AKs, the other put it in postflop with top pair), and on my other table (Table Three) got AA at the same time!

$14 --> $22.18

126 Hands


Table Two

62 in the bb flops a straight thanks to AQd limping instead of raising.

(TT) Three hands later, villain slowplays his KK against me until he lets me catch the straight.

Paid off a couple bucks to a short-stacked AA with AQ. Cashing it out now…

$10 --> $22.75

23 Hands


Third Table

(44) I flop a set and slowly get this guy all in by the river…and he shows 33? My fours were good without the set. Weird.

(JTo) Here’s me not orange-belting. Was actually going to call the other guy with JT based on notes, but I didn’t like the small-stack shove.

More annoying discipline with AKo. I pot-raise a min-raise preflop on the button, then have to fold when one of two callers pot-bets a 9TJ flop.

AA three times in consecutive hands across two tables, and they all hold up. Plus, the movie I was just watching ended. That’s last orbit, then!

$10 --> $16.05

35 Hands

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