Two Omaha/8 Hands
 

Ok here's two Omaha/8 hands that I just played on PokerStars. Tell me how expertly they were played.

Hand #1

Villain just recently sat down, he's fairly LAG. Would you call his turn push or fold?

PokerStars Game #10550307249: Omaha Hi/Lo No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2007/06/21 - 17:17:34 (ET)
Table 'Isko II' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: Max Raises ($49.70 in chips)
Seat 5: sollaz11 ($31.15 in chips)
Seat 8: HittinHard69 ($8.90 in chips)
HittinHard69: posts small blind $0.25
Max Raises: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Max Raises [Qd Qh Ah 5h]
sollaz11: calls $0.50
HittinHard69: folds
Max Raises: checks
*** FLOP *** [3s 4h Kd]
Max Raises: checks
sollaz11: bets $1
Max Raises: calls $1
*** TURN *** [3s 4h Kd] [Th]
Max Raises: checks
sollaz11: bets $29.65 and is all-in
stalenbl joins the table at seat #4
Max Raises: folds
sollaz11 collected $3.10 from pot
sollaz11: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $3.25 | Rake $0.15
Board [3s 4h Kd Th]
Seat 3: Max Raises (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 5: sollaz11 (button) collected ($3.10)
Seat 8: HittinHard69 (small blind) folded before Flop


Hand #2

EXPERT Pre-Flop push by hero


PokerStars Game #10550319995: Omaha Hi/Lo No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2007/06/21 - 17:18:24 (ET)
Table 'Isko II' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 3: Max Raises ($48.20 in chips)
Seat 4: stalenbl ($33.25 in chips)
Seat 5: sollaz11 ($32.75 in chips)
Seat 8: HittinHard69 ($8.65 in chips)
Max Raises: posts small blind $0.25
stalenbl: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Max Raises [5d 9s Ad Ah]
sollaz11: calls $0.50
HittinHard69: calls $0.50
Max Raises: raises $47.70 to $48.20 and is all-in
stalenbl: calls $32.75 and is all-in
sollaz11: folds
HittinHard69: folds
*** FLOP *** [Qs 3h 2d]
*** TURN *** [Qs 3h 2d] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 3h 2d 3c] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Max Raises: shows [5d 9s Ad Ah] (HI: a straight, Ace to Five; LO: 5,4,3,2,A)
stalenbl: mucks hand
Max Raises collected $32.75 from pot
Max Raises collected $32.75 from pot
stalenbl leaves the table
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $67.50 | Rake $2
Board [Qs 3h 2d 3c 4h]
Seat 3: Max Raises (small blind) showed [5d 9s Ad Ah] and won ($65.50) with HI: a straight, Ace to Five; LO: 5,4,3,2,A
Seat 4: stalenbl (big blind) mucked [Jh 4d Ac Jc]
Seat 5: sollaz11 folded before Flop
Seat 8: HittinHard69 (button) folded before Flop

Re: Two Omaha/8 Hands
 

Confusing NLO8! I almost said 'call turn' on hand 1 (because if you're facing a PSB this is a standard call), but here, no: your equity might be around 50% vs someone pushing a dubious high hand very hard (like KTxx, no low possible), but against top set or something like A2KT you're losing money by calling. Good fold.

Hand 2: teh gamblors showed up to pay off ur AAxx! Moneyz!!

Re: Two Omaha/8 Hands
 

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Confusing NLO8! I almost said 'call turn' on hand 1 (because if you're facing a PSB this is a standard call), but here, no: your equity might be around 50% vs someone pushing a dubious high hand very hard (like KTxx, no low possible), but against top set or something like A2KT you're losing money by calling. Good fold.

Hand 2: teh gamblors showed up to pay off ur AAxx! Moneyz!!

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[b]Yeah, my table was doing a lot of gamboooling, so I figured someone might call my push [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] .

Suited up AA with just a mild low in O/8 is a hand I don't like seeing cheap flops with. In this position, with 2 limpers and one guy who obviously bought in for the last of his BR (the guy who called me) I felt like I wanted to isolate one of them... because the hand could have gotten very ugly if it wasn't a HU situation.