I won a ridiculous amount of money at last night’s home game–more than doubled my buy-in. Our game’s spread-limit nickel-quarter-half dollar. Big blind posts ten cents. Yeah, I know, it’s a bit screwy.

Mostly we play Texas Hold ‘Em, but two-thirds of the way through last night’s session I was itching to play something else. The table sort of hemmed and hawed and rejected my suggestion of switching to non Hold ‘Em games, so I called Omaha 8. Now some of us thought that this was a dirty trick to pull, but the way I figured it, it wouldn’t screw up the sequence of blinds, and anyone who objected to the game could fold.

Anyway, it was the only non Hold ‘Em hand we played last night, and it was brutal. All of us limped to see the flop (4xx) and there were calls all around when SB bet a dime. I’d made my set (with 4456) and raised a quarter. From there on out, we were swelling the pot: got SB and CO to call the quarter on the flop and two more quarters on the turn (3). When the river showed an ace and SB bet a quarter, I got nervous about the wheel and just called after CO.

At the showdown, my high (444) and low (A3456) hands beat out SB’s two pair and CO’s A3458 to take down the whole pot. I think there was at least 4 dollars in that pot. It was a ridiculous amount of money. Oh, did I already say that?

Elsewhen, I won two or three other pots of decent sizes, which contributed to my overall win.

Oh, and two of the regulars got wiped out (five whole dollars!), which is unusual. We’re a fairly tight table, and we almost always end up getting some of our buy-in back. This, of course, allowed three of us to end up +$$$ and the fourth almost even. I’ll have to ask the others, but I think I was playing more aggressively this week, and this may have thrown off the table. Or it could have just been a bad run of cards and beats.