DrStrange
4 of a Kind
We are playing pot limit Omaha, both O8 and traditional PLO. This hand is high/low split. We are eight handed and playing $0.50 / $0.50 with a $20 max buy in to protect the worst of the players from themselves. We are mid-late in the session with three big winners and five modest to huge losers. Special betting rule - you can limp for $0.50 but every other bet has to be in dollar increments. Pot size is rounded up to the next dollar if there is an odd $0.50 chip.
Cast of characters: More details when we get to the key point in the hand.
Button is one of the big winners with $400. Loose, passive, sticky. Not very good at Omaha. Doesn't read hands well.
SB is just having fun with $16 left. He is about to leave with a departure in ten minutes. Barely knows the rules but can be aggressive even so (with the wrong type of hand)
BB is another big winner with $350. He has been feasting off the worst player for hours and bled him dry. BB knows Omaha better than most at the table, but has little experience playing Omaha 700BB deep.
UTG is folding
UTG+1 is the biggest loser playing $25. He is on his way to a 21 buy-in losing session ($420). Worse than no idea how to play Omaha. Really, about as bad as it gets. Wildly aggressive, sticky, calling station-bluffing machine.
Hero is MP with $290. Hero has been on a rampage lately, but still folks call his bets. Hero is experienced at O8 and the other players know it.
MP2 is another big loser with $20. Thinks like a bad holdem player, her hand ranges are hugely too wide. Bets second pair or better, but always tiny amounts relative to the pot.
CO has $180, but isn't much better than break even. Loose, passive but learning to be more aggressive. She views Hero's chips as extra valuable. She is racking up to go home as the hand is playing - likely to be her last hand.
The hand.
One limp to hero who picks up
Hero's options are limp $0.50, raise to a dollar or raise to $2. Pick one - share any thoughts.
DrStrange
PS I was torn between playing this hand from Hero's seat or villains seat . . . even now I am not so sure which way is more interesting.
Cast of characters: More details when we get to the key point in the hand.
Button is one of the big winners with $400. Loose, passive, sticky. Not very good at Omaha. Doesn't read hands well.
SB is just having fun with $16 left. He is about to leave with a departure in ten minutes. Barely knows the rules but can be aggressive even so (with the wrong type of hand)
BB is another big winner with $350. He has been feasting off the worst player for hours and bled him dry. BB knows Omaha better than most at the table, but has little experience playing Omaha 700BB deep.
UTG is folding
UTG+1 is the biggest loser playing $25. He is on his way to a 21 buy-in losing session ($420). Worse than no idea how to play Omaha. Really, about as bad as it gets. Wildly aggressive, sticky, calling station-bluffing machine.
Hero is MP with $290. Hero has been on a rampage lately, but still folks call his bets. Hero is experienced at O8 and the other players know it.
MP2 is another big loser with $20. Thinks like a bad holdem player, her hand ranges are hugely too wide. Bets second pair or better, but always tiny amounts relative to the pot.
CO has $180, but isn't much better than break even. Loose, passive but learning to be more aggressive. She views Hero's chips as extra valuable. She is racking up to go home as the hand is playing - likely to be her last hand.
The hand.
One limp to hero who picks up
Hero's options are limp $0.50, raise to a dollar or raise to $2. Pick one - share any thoughts.DrStrange
PS I was torn between playing this hand from Hero's seat or villains seat . . . even now I am not so sure which way is more interesting.
, the nut high. I do not think BB ever considered that he might have a shot to make low if an ace or two hits the board.
for the winning high hand - queen high flush.
