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Lols at HORSE
By Chips_Middle | October 15, 2008
Well. The other night I got my first chance in a while to sit down and play some poker. It was getting late and I wasn’t in the mood for actually risking money and ending up in some tilt slide at 4am, so I decided to check out the mixed game Sit n Go’s.
My Full Tilt account had gone down to $35 or so after disaster, followed by withdrawals, followed by disaster. It was back to $85 or so when I checked. That’s not bad but it means I’m underrolled even for the $0.05 / $0.10 games of Pot Limit Omaha and I couldn’t face tilting over $10.
I tried to get a HA (PL Holdem / PL Omaha) Sit n Go up and running but nobody sat down. I noticed the micro HORSE games were filling up quickly though so I ended up sitting there.
So I sign up for a couple of $1 + $0.25 Sit n Go’s and we’re off to the races. (See that little horse pun slipped in there). Now. Pot Limit Omaha is my game. I have almost no experience of limit poker and only a passing knowledge of the rules of the 5 games in the HORSE rotation.
I’ve played some No Limit Holdem like everyone else with an interest in poker. I’ve also played a tiny bit of limit Omaha Hi/lo and even limit Omaha Hi. But I’m Irish. When we played poker at home it was pretty much no limit. As for stud, razz and stud 8, forget it. I barely know what hand wins, never mind having any notion of basic strategy. I actually had to look up the rules on the Internet the first time Razz came round in the rotation 
.
This was great craic. Fire up 2 tables and off we go. At the first table I got my R and my S mixed up with only 4 players left and lost most of my stack with an unbeatable low. I was somewhat shocked when the other guy didn’t seem inclined to fold despite the obvious unbeatableness of my hand. I didn’t notice till after the hand that we’d moved from Razz (7 card stud where the lowest hand wins) to Stud (7 card stud where the regular best hand wins). Came third in that one.
Second in chips in the 2nd tournament with 3 of us left I get dealt:
With the 7 showing (Stud Hi/Lo is the game).
I bring it in for 75, my opponent completes (250) and the 3rd guy folds.  The limits are 250/500. My opponent has 6,405 and I am in 2nd chip position with 3,778. I call.
*** 4TH STREET ***
Opponent  
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He bets 250, I raise, he calls.
*** 5TH STREET ***
Opponent  
Me [ ]Â 
He bets 500, I call.
*** 6TH STREET ***
Opponent  
Me [ ] 
He bets 500, I call
*** 7TH STREET ***
Opponent Â
Me [ ] [ 
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He bets 500, I think a while and call
I start with 3 low cards and since he has a high card showing, I reckon I have a reasonable chance to win the low. Pretty much from then on, I forget totally that I need 5 cards 8 or lower to make a qualifying low. I lose 2,000 there from my stack of 3,778 and basically cripple myself. I don’t even know the rules . This guy must have been laughing his head off.
Just to add insult to injury. On the other table I manage to get a street or 2 into the next hand still playing razz while the rest of the table are playing stud hi (again). Didn’t lose anything serious in that one and went on to come 2nd in both tournaments.
So that’s 3 Sit n Go’s and I placed with 2 seconds and a third. Not bad considering this is mixed game poker and I don’t even know the basics of the games involved. On top of that, I was playing 2 tables at a time and frequently didn’t even know which game I was supposed to be playing. This was so much fun. Going to do it again soon.
Mixing it up a bit can really reconnect you with the joy of playing poker. It is supposed to be fun after all.
P.S. If I can get into the top 3 without knowing the rules, with no notion of basic strategy and so confused that I frequently don’t know what game I am playing, just imagine how bad my opponents must have been playing.
If anyone has no idea what this post has been about, you might want to check out What is HORSE poker? for some information on how HORSE is played.
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