Played two sessions of Omaha H/L 0.01$/0.02$ antes, Pot Limit. Things really went my way, especially in the first session (this afternoon), went out with +3x Buy-In 🙂

Things didn’t go all that smooth in the second session and I donked out 1.5x Buy-In, but at least I had fun and got some more UltimatePoints to clear my bonus.

Favourite hands (session 2):
1. Four Kings – was too slow to make a screenshot, but here’s the hand history:

Showdown:
Ingoal shows 9h 6s Ks Js.
Ingoal has Ks Js Kh Kd Kc: four kings (high).
Ingoal has no qualifying low hand.
Player2 mucks cards.
(Player2 has Ac As Td Qc.)

2. Four Jacks: – a picture says more than thousand words (although I only yell the usual ‘Dem Quads Beetches!’ 😉 )

Played some Omaha H/L (or Omaha 8b how they call it at UB). I thought playing the 0.01$/0.02$ Pot Limit tables would be a good idea – and after donking my first buy-in off it really was. After the rebuy I kept hitting some nice nice cards (A-A-A-2, A-A-2-3, etc) and scoop quite some pots as there was no low hand or mine was the nuts. Groovy…especially when you play Pot Limit and it’s obvious that there is no low hand and you hold the nuts flush (in this case As-Ks) – one player not only calling but reraising…hmm…call! He holds Js-Qs 🙂

Nice one…played for over an hour and went out with roughly +2x buyin…nice…and I’m on my way to clear my bonus, too. Ever so slowly, but at least steadily…

Tried my luck in a little S&G with 8 other players…buy in at 0.50$…man do I like High Low! If your hand is good for either way you’ve got the chance for a real scoop (getting both the high and low pot), if you’ve got a big hand you’ve got the chance to get the high pot (and maybe even the low pot with A-x) and if you’ve got a low hand you’ve got the chance for the low and sometimes for the high too (wheel).

Held my own all night and was able to scoop some hands with nice high full houses (no low hand) and some wheels. Was the chip leader most of the way and was able to push some players around and even eliminate 3 players before the bubble! Nice…when it came to the bubble my mojo somehow took a break and I was down to short stack, but was able to bust out the fourth player of the night to bump me right up into the race and the money. Busted out another player to take a 2:1 chip lead (just over 10k to his just under 5k) and a secured second place. Played back and forth just to make some donkey calls and go down to 1:2 in chips…no way back as we split most of the following pots…then it was time for me to go…he busted my straight with a full house.

So, a second place in my first Omaha H/L tournament try, not bad…although I feel I should have won, but hey…I don’t complain…there’s always a next time 😉

Stats:

• Buy-In: 0.50$ + 0.10 fee
• 9 players
• Finished 2nd of 9
• Hands played: 113
• Money awarded: 1.35$

Back to almost even…nice 🙂

So, I decided that all the S&G playing wasn’t really paying off (I’ll try to combine statistics somewhere in the near future) – so “normal” play comes to mind. It wasn’t a good idea to play a mix of Stud, Omaha and Omaha H/L though. Switching between the two games put me a little bit off apart from the fact that I kept making good hands, but nontheless still run into even better hands. One example: I hit the diamond nut flush and keep betting and betting until I’m all in with one caller…sure enough he makes his diamond straight flush on the turn 🙁

Results: 4$ donkeyed off in less than 30 minutes…