Obama

I’ve been continuing to play a spot of Omaha, and enjoyed more success.

(I taught my girlfriend the rules of Omaha and Omaha High/Low. Initially she struggled to remember the name of the game, saying ‘Obama’ instead of ‘Omaha’. I thought Obama was amusing so the name has stuck now!)

High Rollin’

Up until this week I had only dabbled in low-stakes tourneys (nothing higher than about $30) but on Wednesday I had a stab at a $99 PLO game and won $600 for placing 2nd. I very nearly shipped it too, taking two bad beats heads-up, both times ‘for the win’.

It would have been sweet to nail my first four-figure score in Omaha. In any event I’m very pleased with the cash and with my progress.

I just play pretty nitty and (in my mind) fairly ABC, and it seems to work: there are plenty of +EV opportunities even at the $100 level, where players seemingly even less experienced than myself see fit to go bust with hands that look pretty – typically resembling ‘good hold’em hands’ – but are actually rather middling!

Gank Backfires

Ganktober is drawing to a close and I’ve had some unashamedly juvenile fun. (Sorry ThundrXpress!)

Of course the thing about slowrolling with Aces is that, upwards of 18% of the time, they lose, and you look silly. So I suppose I was tempting fate by timebanking in a four-way pot... :P


This pot was, naturellement, won by an unspecified player who cold-called a raise, a 3-bet, a caller, and a 4-bet shove, with... 5-5. Genius.

Top Dog

THEKID is kicking arse on OPR: he’s been ranked 5th on PartyPoker for the last three days.

In the aforementioned $33 Rebuy where I was disconnected (grrrr), Kiddo was at my table and went on to TID.

Nice work dude!