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Some Pot Limit Omaha Action
By Chips_Middle | October 3, 2008
I played a quick session last night at the micros on Full Tilt. There are a couple of half interesting hands here from the $0.05 - $0.10 game.
Pot Limit Omaha Hi
Stack Sizes
Seat 1: Seat: 1 ($7.10)
Seat 2: Seat: 2 ($11.55)
Seat 3: Chips->Middle ($9.35)
Seat 4: Seat: 4 ($23.20)
Seat 5: Seat: 5 ($18.60)
Seat 6: Seat: 6 ($16.60)
Seat: 5 posts the small blind of $0.05
Seat: 6 posts the big blind of $0.10
Seat 4 is the button
Chips->Middle has been dealt 
Seat: 1 folds , Seat: 2 folds , Chips->Middle raises to $0.35 , Seat: 4 calls $0.35 , Seat: 5 folds , Seat: 6 raises to $0.60 , Chips->Middle calls $0.25 , Seat: 4 calls $0.25
Dealing FLOP: 
 : : Pot: 1.80
Seat: 6 bets $1.85 , Chips->Middle has 15 seconds left to act , Chips->Middle raises to $7.40 , Seat: 4 folds , Seat: 6 calls $5.55
Dealing TURN: 
 : : Pot: 16.60
Seat: 6 checks , Chips->Middle bets $1.35, and is all in , Seat: 6 calls $1.35
Dealing RIVER: 
 : : Pot: 19.30
Chips->Middle shows a pair of Jacks , Seat: 6 shows a pair of Nines , Chips->Middle wins the pot ($17.45) with a pair of Jacks
SUMMARY.
Total pot $19.35 | Rake $1.90
Board: [Th 9c 5h 2d As]
Seat 1: Seat: 1 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 2: Seat: 2 didn’t bet (folded)
Seat 3: Chips->Middle showed
Seat 4: Seat: 4 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Seat: 5 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Seat: 6 (big blind) showed 
My hand in this one is pretty half assed but I raise from the Cut Off. I am trying to raise as many of the hands I play as possible these days. Many of the marginal hands that I think need to be played in 6 max, play better for a raise than they do for a call. Here I am also hoping to buy position by folding the button out and possibly ending up heads up, in position against the big blind.
Things don’t quite work out that way but I hit the flop hard enough to get stuck in. I am marginally ahead of the AA that his pre-flop 3 bet represents. He is unlikely to be on top set here but if he is, I still have 45% or so. These small 3 bets pre-flop can often be bullshit efforts to disquise hands as AA and if he is betting out on that kind of hand repping an overpair, I may even get a fold. He should probably fold AAxx here but this is a $10 game and he is unlikely to.
And this is where playing at these levels and being aggressive gets to be profitable. The last thing I was expecting here was to get it in as a 75% favourite. But there you go.
The second hand (below) is a fairly weak affair. My starting hand is weak and I’m UTG and should probably fold pre-flop. I’m not sure it’s the kind of hand I want to get involved in a limpfest with.Â
On the flop I call a weak bet and call. The bet is probably a weak attempt to buy the pot by someone with a draw. The caller isn’t strong either and is either on a draw or has a weak made hand.
Well here’s where I get the comeupance for playing weak hands. I have no idea where I am here. I could easily be ahead, I have some outs, both my opponents are weak and I have no intention of letting go for a small bet into a small pot. At the same time there aren’t many cards that I want to see on the turn. I figure my Queens kind of act as blockers against some of my opponent’s possible draws and I might get a chance to steal. Not at all sure WTF I am doing here to be perfectly honest.
On the turn I get lucky and hit the nuts. I bet out weak hoping for a raise and get 2 calls instead. On the river I hope they still don’t believe me and bet out full pot, resulting in 2 folds. I’m pretty sure I misplayed this hand on every street. I didn’t make the worst decision in every case but I am pretty certain that I didn’t make the best decision in any case. Anyway, here it is so you can see what you think.
Pot Limit Omaha Hi
Stack Sizes
Seat 1: Chips->Middle ($18.70)
Seat 2: Seat: 2 ($12.15)
Seat 3: Seat: 3 ($7.80)
Seat 4: Seat: 4 ($14.15)
Seat 5: Seat: 5 ($38.10)
Seat 6: Seat: 6 ($11.10)
Seat: 5 posts the small blind of $0.05
Seat: 6 posts the big blind of $0.10
Seat 4 is the button
Chips->Middle has been dealt 
Chips->Middle calls $0.10 , Seat: 2 calls $0.10 , Seat: 3 calls $0.10 , Seat: 4 calls $0.10 , Seat: 5 folds , Seat: 6 checks
Dealing FLOP: 
: : Pot: 0.40
Seat: 6 checks , Chips->Middle checks , Seat: 2 bets $0.25 , Seat: 3 folds , Seat: 4 calls $0.25 , Seat: 6 folds , Chips->Middle calls $0.25
Dealing TURN: 
: : Pot: 1.15
Chips->Middle bets $0.65 , Seat: 2 calls $0.65 , Seat: 4 calls $0.65
Dealing RIVER: 
 : : Pot: 3.10
Chips->Middle has 15 seconds left to act , Chips->Middle bets $1.60 , Seat: 2 has 15 seconds left to act , Seat: 2 folds , Seat: 4 has 15 seconds left to act , Seat: 4 folds , Uncalled bet of $1.60 returned to Chips->Middle , Chips->Middle mucks , Chips->Middle wins the pot ($2.95)
SUMMARY
Total pot $3.25 | Rake $0.30
Board: [8d Kd Js Ah 3c]
Seat 1: Chips->Middle collected ($2.95), mucked
Seat 2: Seat: 2 folded on the River
Seat 3: Seat: 3 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: Seat: 4 (button) folded on the River
Seat 5: Seat: 5 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Seat: 6 (big blind) folded on the Flop
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