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The Joys of PLO8
Enut
Member Posts: 3,597
Some of you have already discovered the joys of Omaha Hi Lo on Sky Poker and the merry band of reprobates that play a game where you get dealt 4 cards and try and win 2 pots. Surely by simple maths this is 4 times as much fun as holdem!
In holdem there are 169 starting hands, in Omaha there are 16,432!! (Overuse of exclamation mark for Tikay's benefit)
In Omaha Hi Lo the Holy Grail of starting hands is AA23 with two suits, it ranks 1st out of 16,432 starting hands. This is a starting hand to die for, or at the very least to have a sharp intake of breath when you see it. After all you have a pair of aces, two nut flush draws, the nut low draw and the second nut low draw, what's not to like? Surely a dead cert winner, you would put your house on it wouldn't you? And the car and the wife.
Compare that to the hand ranked 14,112th (I looked that up too), 5h6d7s9h. It has an awful low draw, only one suit (which my Ah3h had absolutely crushed by the way) and the highest card was a 9. I'm sure Tikay once said never play a hand with a 9 in it.
So we go to war, David against Goliath, some peasant called Sparticus against the Garrisons of Rome, the mighty Russian army against some Afganistan sheep herders. It's a foregone conclusion surely?
See below for the result, I'll be back playing soon..... honestly.
Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
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| Enut | Small blind | 300.00 | 300.00 | 1955.00 | |
| tikay1 | Big blind | 600.00 | 900.00 | 2095.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| vagasbin | Fold | ||||
| xxxx | Raise | 1200.00 | 2100.00 | 375.00 | |
| Enut | All-in | 1955.00 | 4055.00 | 0.00 | |
| tikay1 | Fold | ||||
| xxxx | All-in | 375.00 | 4430.00 | 0.00 | |
| Enut | Unmatched bet | 680.00 | 3750.00 | 680.00 | |
| Enut | Show |
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| xxxx | Show |
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| xxxx | Win high | Straight to the 10 | 3750.00 | 3750.00 | |
| No qualifying low hand | |||||
Comments
If so I would like to emphasise the importance of having the BTN and being in position!!!!! (some more !'s for Tikay I know how he loves them).
If it wasn't me then very unlucky mate, opponent is obviously a complete donk
Yes Mark it was you. I think you had knocked me out of one shortly before that too, hitting a 3 outer or some such twaddle on the river. Have you no guilt or compassion? How do you sleep at night?
Anyway enough of this, anyone for a PLO8 DYM?
Regged for the games.
Edit: I see we have a revenge game on, glgl
game. I registered and didn't realise it was not Holdem. Imagine my surprise
when I received 4 cards. After a couple of minutes I realised I was in a game I knew
nothing about but I remembered somewhere seeing on the sky poker
channel that you have to use 2 best cards from your hand. So off I started
and about half way through the first hour I was doing okay. Anyway it was quite enjoyable although I found I had to actually think a lot more which was a bit difficult
for me lol. Imagine my surprise then to finish 2nd. Im sure it was more by luck than judgement but I really enjoyed playing so I might venture into some more PLO8
in the future and see how I get on.
But here's the thing........
I'm pretty sure that Freeroll was PLO, not PLO8.
I'd like a quid for every time I've sat in a PLO game thinking it was PLO8, & vice-versa. I played a PLO Tourney once on 'Stars for 2 hours before I realised it was not PLO8, & so I was on the receiving end of so many chat box comments that were, err, less than complimentary.
So PLEASE be careful if you plan to play any more PLO8. Or PLO.......
Congrats on the score Nanny!
All the players said "no worries, good luck M8". See "say what you mean".....
On a low only flop, multi-way, I pretty much throw 2 pair away. At BEST we are pulling for half the pot, & if wheel cards are being held everywhere, we can end up with zilch.
I prefer a low-variance line in SNG's & DYM's, too, but the more "lively" sorts might well go with 2 pair.
It's much clearer in PLO, however, but if we are multi-way - & we usually are - I much prefer top two, rather than bottom two, or top & bottom.
I thought they were all called PLO8 but I think you are right it was
P.L.O. You got to laugh. I thought they were the same game.
Oh well maybe its time to look at some videos.
Good luck whatever you play
Nannypat66