I continued with my poker New Year Resolution and headed to the Vic last night to play a cash game. The only game that interested me was the minimum £250 sit down Dealers Choice. There were two bad players a couple of average ones and a good player so it was too tempting to resist.
It seemed the game of choice all evening was Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit. I sat down with £1000 and immediately went card dead and I mean really dead. On a 7 handed table I didn’t scoop a single pot for 90 minutes and saw A2 only once in a starting hand during that time and was down to £350. I then hit quad Kings on a KK2 flop only for someone to hit a backdoor low when I was all in to split the pot. It seemed whenever I had a high hand it flopped low and vice versa. I eventually lost my last £250 when I had the Ace flush draw and the nut low draw but the board paired on the turn and the river high card meant I lost the whole pot.
Then I had to decide whether to continue as my cards and luck were very bad.
I decided to pull out another £1000 thinking that I was due some cards and my luck would change. I quickly lost £400 of that when I held JJ in Holdem and flopped top set on a TJ7 board and my opponent hit his straight on the river after I put him all in. Another 30 minutes of getting no hands saw me down to £350 which meant I was down £1700.. yikes! I then called a £25 raise preflop with 44 and the flop was 49J with two diamonds. I check from under the gun and the player who made the initial raise bet £150. I went all in and then the guy to my left reraised another £500. The initial raiser passed. Now I feared the player to my left may have a higher set. However, this player could have a number of hands as he is very loose aggressive and he could just be isolating me heads up with a big draw. Turn a 5 and the river a 3. He says, “You got me.” He turns over the Ace flush draw. Phew finally I won a decent pot for £1100.
I then hit a few hands and won a couple of £100+ pots and found myself just £300 down for the evening. On a Hi/Low Pot Limit hand I was then dealt 23389 and it flopped 239. I raise £25 to play and one of my opponents re raised me for £100. I call. River brings a 9 to give me the complete nuts. My opponent bets £100 and I raise another £400 and he thinks for a minute then calls. River card an A so the board is 2399A. This card is evil as it gives the low and he potentially has 9A or AA as which beats my full house. He bets £1000 without thinking. Hmmm I don’t like this at all now. I guess he must have at least the low and perhaps has me completely beat. After a long think I pass and he shows me AA. It was the only card in pack he could scoop with. How lucky.
That hand really set me back as I would have been in profit for the evening of about £300 but instead was back down to £1100. I then played super aggressive and picked up some decent pots from bluffing and when I made a full house on the river and decided to call it a night with £1600 in front of me and a loss of £400 for the evening.
Overall I don’t think I played my best poker and the cards I was getting were mostly garbage. So a lucky escape I think…..
I may make an unprecedented third trip to the Vic in a week on Friday.
*STOP PRESS* I am yet to play online in 2005.
5 comments:
your Blog is very interesting,what was the initials of the 2 loose players? also the player who raised 500 then folded?
The initial raiser only raised £150 so he probably had one pair or was bluffing.
As for details of the players. I am not good at names, especially poker players as i know so many faces i rarely remember their names.
Both of them were foreign guys. There was also practically a fight on my tabel between two Vic regulars which was very amusing. Both of them wanted to take it outside but it got broken up by the management.
Kid,
Your last hilo hand was very ugly, especially for five card. You need to be very careful if this is not your main game as there are a lot of ok to good hilo guys in the south who will grind you out if you play too loose.
gl
Dave
I totally agree my Hi/Lo hand was ugly. I only paid £5 to see the flop and the guy who held the AA hand that beat me also only brought in £5 as he was hoping to check raise. We also only had 20 minutes left before the game was due to finish as we were playing 5 handed and 2 players had announced they were going to finish when the next table charges came around.
Perhaps you can answer a question for me relating to a specific hand?
I check raised under the gun in a Hi/Lo hand with A234K with the A and K being suited making it £75 to play. The original raiser then raised again and made it £300 to play. What would you have done now? Raised again? I had £1400 in front of me! I called and it flopped 668 rainbow. I checked to see what his move would be and he bet £700. After thinking I passed figuring at best I would win the low, perhaps chop the low and lose the high unless I hit a runner runner flush.
Hi Kid
I am not sure I am in a position to offer definative advice as I am playing particularily shit at present. Clearly the fold on the flop is a sensible one. What I would say about the preflop action is that your hand, if you stop to think about it for a second, would really prefer more callers rather than play headsup, because its high equity without improvement is quite low. This is true for a lot of plo8b hands, unless you have aa-kk in them. Whether you raise utg or not is a matter of taste and game composition. One of the key questions in a plo8b hand is "do I want more or less callers?" Nearly always you want more. FWIW it would be a fine hand for raising with limpers. Hope this helps...also there will be more on my blog v soon,
dd
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