Read around and you’ll find lots of accounts of playing no-limit ring with other poker bloggers. It’s all fun and games until someone loses his stack. These games are sometimes a little nuts. Someone, somewhere, always feels obligated to go big with the hammer. Oh, Grubs, what have you done to us?
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Monthly Archives: December 2004
Omaha 8 Party
Omaha 8’s a nutty game. Put another way, “Omaha is about having the nuts.”
It sure is. If the fish think small pocket pairs are surefire winning Hold ‘Em hands, then surely A2 is the Omaha 8 equivalent. This makes for some really amusing outcomes:
[ 8h, Kc, 7h ] [ 4d ] Betting is Capped! [ 3s ]
Low #1 bet $6.5, collected $5.46, lost -$1.04
Low #2 bet $6.5, collected $4.89, lost -$1.61
High bet $5.8, collected $9.2, net +$3.4
[ 4c Ad 7h ] [ 5c ] [ Kd ] Betting is Capped!
Low #1 bet $6, collected $5.47, lost -$0.53
Low #2 bet $4.38, collected $3.84, lost -$0.54
High bet $6, collected $9.32, net +$3.32
If you’ll notice, people like to cap with the nut low. They throw in all their chips so they can lose half a bet.
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Speaking of 57…
So in my last “woe is me” post I’d mentioned that KK went down to 57o after he’d called two bets cold. But this has to take the cake:
Paradise Poker 2/4 Hold’em (10 handed) converter
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with Jc, Js.
1 fold, Hero raises, UTG+2 calls, MP1 3-bets, MP2 caps, 4 folds, BB calls, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls.
Flop: (20.50 SB) 9h, 6c, Ad (5 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, MP1 bets, MP2 raises, BB calls, Hero calls, UTG+2 folds, MP1 3-bets, MP2 calls, BB calls, Hero calls.
Turn: (16.25 BB) Kh (4 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, MP1 bets, MP2 calls, BB folds, Hero folds.
River: (18.25 BB) 8h (2 players)
MP1 bets, MP2 raises, MP1 calls.
Final Pot: 22.25 BB
Main Pot: 22.25 BB, between MP2 and MP1. > Pot won by MP2 (22.25 BB).
MP1 has Ac Kc (two pair, aces and kings).
MP2 has 5d 7c (straight, nine high).
Outcome: MP2 wins 22.25 BB.
Capping pre-flop and raising on the flop with the gutshot draw. Wow. Simply wow. I think this is the guy who later busted out, but still, what was going through that cold-blooded brain stem of his?
34th pays $161.86
So I’m playing 1/2 and 2/4 on Paradise and generally having a rough time of it. Paradise flashes me the announcement that their $35,000 guaranteed multi-table tournament is just about to start, and I remember what some poker bloggers have said about overlays in some of these guaranteed tourneys. I look at the registration page and notice that there aren’t that many people registered, so I figure, “What the hell? I’ll get more than my $30 worth” and throw my entry fee into the pool. Registration closes a few seconds later and I realize that this is a re-buy and add-on tournament. Uh oh. This is going to be a lot more than $30. Then I notice that they allow late registrations. Uh oh again. There goes the overlay.
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Maserati MC12
Woah. More pics at Automobile and some information and pics at Edmunds.