NL -- tourney -- flopping the nuts straight rainbow.

[quirkasaurus]

Omaha Hi/Lo NL -- 45 player tourney,
final 2 tables, flopped the nuts straight,
2 low cards on board.

I forget my other cards but I had the 8,7 and the board was:

10 9 6 rainbow.

I was around 3rd in chips at my table, early position,
and went all in. My thought was - - if anyone had a boat draw,
or low, I would make them pay to draw, otherwise the 1200
or so in the pot was fine. I had about 4200 in chips.

Got 2 callers, of course, one was the chip leader, who had
flopped trips, and hit his boat on the turn.

Is this just a stupid play in Omaha Hi/Lo ?

Thinking back, the other to play was:

Raising after the flop about 1200, then either
all-in on the turn or checking depending on
whether a trouble card hit. ( pairing the board,
higher straight possibility. )

Comments ?
Best play ?

[bbartlog]

Given the stack to pot ratio and the two callers, sounds like you played it fine. With deeper stacks, I would put in a pot-sized bet on the flop instead and go from there. The main worry if the pot is small compared to stacks is getting freerolled by hands like A278, 789T or whatever, but it's unlikely enough (and the freerolls small enough) that you can't worry about that here.

[quirkasaurus]

thanks, I thought my play was okay, but given a string of
bad beats, ( don't get me started ), I was curious about
this hand. My play seemed standard, but it sure backfired.

[nuclear500]

First question: how did you end up in the pot holding xx78?

And unless they changed the rules, a 9 isn't a low. You're only being called by someone with the same hand and a better draw, or some gamboolin' person with a set unless its standard for donks to call all-in's in this with just a low draw needing runners.

[franknagaijr]

[ QUOTE ]
First question: how did you end up in the pot holding xx78?

And unless they changed the rules, a 9 isn't a low. You're only being called by someone with the same hand and a better draw, or some gamboolin' person with a set unless its standard for donks to call all-in's in this with just a low draw needing runners.

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Hint: If this is stars, they only offer NLO8 at the $1.20 level, last I checked. Anything richer is PLO8.

OP: Useful things for putting together a post concerning a tournament hand, all of which can be found in the hand history:

Chip Stacks
Blinds (&antes as applicable)
A converted hand history (see the FAQ for examples)

In short, you should only have held this hand in the BB when the flop was free, unless the other two cards were somehow phenomenal. The situation you describe is exactly why middle cards are poison - you can flop the nuts, but there's not a card in the deck that can't hurt you on the turn and river.