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Omaha hand
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | Small blind | 50.00 | 50.00 | 1450.00 | |
| a | Big blind | 100.00 | 150.00 | 545.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
| ||||
| mrlogic | Fold | ||||
| RUGRATS | Fold | ||||
| notarat | Fold | ||||
| The_Don90 | Call | 100.00 | 250.00 | 1650.00 | |
| x | Raise | 150.00 | 400.00 | 1300.00 | |
| a | Call | 100.00 | 500.00 | 445.00 | |
| The_Don90 | Call | 100.00 | 600.00 | 1550.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
| |||||
| x | All-in | 1300.00 | 1900.00 | 0.00 | |
Not sure what to do here at alll.
Comments
4 possibilities come to mind for what he is shoving with.
1) chip steal bluff
2) flopped set
3) Flush Draw
4) OESD
Also bear in mind it could also be any combo of 2,3 and 4 including all of them.
If it is a draw he is betting even straight and flush then you are getting the right odds to call and should do.The biggest concern i would have is not with either of those but with the flopped set which would put you behind and drawing very thin.
Omaha is a game where draws are bet a lot more than NLHE and personally i would put him on either a draw or steal with this hand .
You have to gamble at some point playing the game and for you i think this is as good a situation as any to get your chips in whilst you are more than likely ahead.So for me i would be making this call but it would not be the easiest call to make
Can i just ask Talon since your good in omaha would i expect to see a raise with a 7,8,9,J with 3 of one suit pre flop in most games of omaha? Also is it a correct call with 2 suits covered myself? And should i have been the origional raiser?
When assessing any starting hand you first of all count all your nut drawing hands. In his hand he has 78,79,89,8J and 9J which is 5 out of the 6 with the sixth drawing to the second nuts so i would deem this to be a very strong starting hand which has lots of possiblities of flopping the nuts or a nut draw.
In your hand you had AT,9T 96 and A6 suited which is 4 nut drawing hands so you would be quite well justified to have raised preflop yourself.
The purpose of a preflop raise is to build the pot and to get rid of the weak hands( that is the any4 card merchants).The hand described above is a good standard omaha hand with 2 players playing a pot with great starting hands and both getting enough of the flop to warrant going all the way with it. If you ever get in that situation again just play it exactly the same way because to fold that hand at any point would be really silly.
My biggest worry is always starting hands. this is something im good in holdem which has allowed me to break it up the way you have, but i always miss one or two combinations and have often folded bigger hands.
Ill post a few more in your topic to discuss areas where i want to improve on. Unfortunetly this hand in this case crippled me, which didnt help with an undefendable BB hand of 4,4,4,4 which left me pretty much dead and burried and ended shoving on a flush draw knowing my opponent couldnt fold and then just praying he either had nothing or id hit it. Which neither happened to be the case.
Thanks again mate