OMAHA …. LIVE!

Just played my first live Omaha tournament.

It was part of the current festival at the Vic. Played the £500 event – courtesy of Virgin poker; gawd bless their cotton socks (that they give out on long distance flights).

It was not only my first time playing live Omaha it was also my first time playing full ring. I didn’t have much of a game plan going in except to play very tight from the first 3 or 4 spots It was a weird line up – really spectrum of players; household names like Chufty, Dave Colclough, Surinder and then some players who were – to be nice about it – if not dead money then money on life support.
It’s definitely hard to adjust to the walking pace of full ring live from 4 tables of six max… actually I’d have loved to have had my lappy there to play a bit while the tourney plodded on.

I’d write about some hands but I didn’t have too many interesting spots. I got chips early when my Aces plus nut flush draw held up against a wrap – that was a nice spot for me.
As the tournament wore on I started to run out of cards and spots to steal.
A couple of losing confrontations with all in players and suddenly I was short stacked. Kudos to the Vic though the structure was great with very slow blinds and plenty of time to play. With about 40 players left I got lucky to have my KK75 suck out on Surinder’s AA1010 – hey you gotta have one right!

Nothing much to report until the hand I went out on. A mid position player limped and I potted it on the button with As5sKJ – the limper called. The flop is QT6 with one spade. Basically a great flop for me – I’ve got 13 straight outs all to the nut straight and back door spades so I’m at least 50/50 ish against anything he can have He checked, I bet and he quickly checked raised. Obviously he had a hand but this is one of those Omaha spots where the money was going in whatever. He had TT43 for a flopped set – his hand held up and I was out. By the way I hate his preflop play; I’m winning that pot the vast majority of the time but there you go. Think I finished 15th ish.

Anyway – good tournament, good experience and well run by the Vic. Thanks to Virgin poker – I’ve got one more of these to play before Vegas so I’ll up date you all!

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