Date: 10/14/1999
From: Jim Geary
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker
Subject: Re: Pot Limit Omaha Hand
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, JohnnyD wrote: > A few weeks ago I got this hand and believe I played it very poorly and > would like some feedback. I bought in for the minimum of $500 and at this > time have just over $1500. It's pot limit omaha, high only with 5 and 10 > blinds. I'm in the small blind with a very poor hand - QJ92 (QJ suited). > > There are no raises and 4 caller to me. I would make 5 if I call and the > big blind would make 6, so I pay the $5 and call. I'm probably wrong, but > for $5 for a $60 pot, I thought I would at least see the flop. > > The flop is QQ2. At this point, I have the best hand. But I don't feel > good about it because if anybody else has the other Q, they will probably > have better kickers and could draw out on me. So, I just check. Somebody > in middle position under bets the pot ($25). I call, everybody else folds. > I put her on the other Q. > > Turn is a 7. I check again and she under bets the pot again ($75). I just > call. > > River is a T. I check and she under bets the pot for the third time ($150). > Okay, now I'm thinking that she has the other Q but did not make the full > house. So I raise $500, enough to put her all in. I'm thinking she will > just fold. But instead, she turned over QT. She had the nut hand. > > I didn't notice what her other two cards were, but does anybody think that > she would have folded if I would have been more agressive after the flop? > Is there anything, short of not playing the hand in the first place, that I > could have done? I clearly should not have raised after the river. But I > had never played with her and didn't know if she might pay me off with a > lone Q or with another full house of something over Q's. > > I welcome any comments. Given that at the river she has the option of cutting loose if she doesn't make her hand, I would say that it makes sense to get in as much money as possible before she finds out. Unless your plan is to go to war at the river only if the J or 9 is the high card, then I'd say you should have tried to get your $500 in on the flop. Whether this is possible I'm not sure, but you could've tried harder.
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