An interesting night at PKR.... the usual suspects MINUS Rick.... what's up with that? At any rate, I tried to play appropriately but it is difficult when there's a table full of folks who don't know when to bet and when to fold in Omaha. It is an exciting game with a lot more action than Hold'em, but you find a lot of hold'em players trying to make the transition with no real clue about how to play and what hands to play. I feel like one of them most of the time... LOL.
My basic strategy with O8 is only play two-way hands.... hands that give you a shot at scooping the pot. And you are correct, with four cards in your hand, any hand COULD be a scooper, but most aren't likely to be....
There was an interesting hand with Frank tonight and yes, he sucked out on me. I had Ah, Qd, Qc, 2s.... the flop was Kc, Js, 10s. NUTS! I'm in late position and bet the pot... $40. John is between me and Frank and folds. Frank calls and it folds back to me.... The turn is a 4d. Frank checks and I bet the pot.... $120. Frank calls and the river is the 9s. Frank bets the pot and I only have about $25 remaining and of course call. He turns over the As, Ks and two bricks.... Nice! The other interesting thing about this one is that Akash folded 2 spades and as he was asking around as sometimes happens during a game in Wake County.... he discovered that 2 other people folded 2 spades (I know, its almost impossible to believe) that means with the 2 on the board + Frank's + the aforementioned that's 11 accounted for.... ye olde 2 outer!
I won a nice pot later though hitting the nut flush on the river against him and Mike D though... although I did have a nice low draw as well which ended up being counterfeited. Hey.... crap happens....
I ended up taking down a nice pot once when I flopped Quad Fours and the nut low.... by the time we got to the river though everyone ran away.....
The last hand of the night I ran into Joe.... I flopped sixes full of sevens and he flopped Quad Sevens.... No Monkey in Cary though....
It had been a few weeks since I could get out on Friday night so it was good to see the guys again! And now, on to Saturday's tournament!
See ya!
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Rumor has it that Rick got busted up pretty good from The Juice and has lost all his mojo and thinking of going back to bingo.
Rick has most-assuredly not lost his mojo. He has, however, lost a lot of sleep with a nasty bout of the flu this past week. As sick as he was, he was well enough to kick butt in yet another PKR Saturday tournament (ho-hum)...
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