DrStrange
4 of a Kind
Playing in a ten handed game. NL holdem with double board Omaha bomb pots. Nominally a 1-2 game, but over half of the hands feature a button straddle of $5 to $10. The bomb pots are $5 when a pocket pair wins a pot, double that if the winning hand is a set. The hold'em side has a lot of "any two cards" players. As for double board Omaha, let's just say the table has fun even if the play is questionable.
Double Board Omaha bomb pots are stack burners. With starting pot size of $50 or $100, it is hard not to get all-in if there is any conflicting interest in a hand. Last night we had this hand take place. So memorable that there is a custom tee-shirt being made.
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Preflop was a $5 ante, blind. $50 in pot.
Flop brings a $20 bet with four callers. $150 in pot before the turn
Turn brings a $25 bet by the same player getting three callers. $250 in the pot before river
River betting starts with a POT! bet followed by repot. Three players all-in. It is about $1,600 main pot plus a trivial side pot.
Player one shows 
Nuts on top, jack high on the bottom
Player two shows
Nuts on top, pair of jacks on bottom
Player three shows
Nuts on top, pair of twos on the bottom
Player two gets the Fat Half, they share a sixth of the pot for the Skinny Third.
So blinded by the nuts up top, the villains are all oblivious to the void they hold on the bottom board. Third pair wins $800??!!! It was ridiculous.
Player one asked my opinion on the drive home. I was almost OK with the flop and turn, though I preferred a check-call line. But I thought a flop fold might be best as the hand looks like the exact sort of one-way hand that gets us in trouble. As for the river - it is pretty clear that J10 is possible in two hands or even all four hands. And there is no way to win the bottom.
None of the players should be eager to get stacks in due to the substantial risk of betting quartered. I saw the hand as evidence of the riches waiting for the patient player waiting for "just one lucky hand" in a night. Most of the rest are celebrating player two's fine play to turn $300 into $1000+.
Its never boring -=- DrStrange
For what it's worth, Hero folded
which would have won the bottom board. Not a chance I'd have called even the flop bet. Much less the all-in on the river
Double Board Omaha bomb pots are stack burners. With starting pot size of $50 or $100, it is hard not to get all-in if there is any conflicting interest in a hand. Last night we had this hand take place. So memorable that there is a custom tee-shirt being made.
Top board: <
> Bottom board <
> Preflop was a $5 ante, blind. $50 in pot.
Flop brings a $20 bet with four callers. $150 in pot before the turn
Turn brings a $25 bet by the same player getting three callers. $250 in the pot before river
River betting starts with a POT! bet followed by repot. Three players all-in. It is about $1,600 main pot plus a trivial side pot.
Player one shows 
Nuts on top, jack high on the bottomPlayer two shows
Nuts on top, pair of jacks on bottomPlayer three shows
Nuts on top, pair of twos on the bottomPlayer two gets the Fat Half, they share a sixth of the pot for the Skinny Third.
So blinded by the nuts up top, the villains are all oblivious to the void they hold on the bottom board. Third pair wins $800??!!! It was ridiculous.
Player one asked my opinion on the drive home. I was almost OK with the flop and turn, though I preferred a check-call line. But I thought a flop fold might be best as the hand looks like the exact sort of one-way hand that gets us in trouble. As for the river - it is pretty clear that J10 is possible in two hands or even all four hands. And there is no way to win the bottom.
None of the players should be eager to get stacks in due to the substantial risk of betting quartered. I saw the hand as evidence of the riches waiting for the patient player waiting for "just one lucky hand" in a night. Most of the rest are celebrating player two's fine play to turn $300 into $1000+.
Its never boring -=- DrStrange
For what it's worth, Hero folded
which would have won the bottom board. Not a chance I'd have called even the flop bet. Much less the all-in on the river
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