My Straight is Stronger than Yours Posted by kamassy , under: Omaha Hi Pot Limit, Omaha Poker Hands
I had so much fun today at Full Tilt Poker tables. Great hole cards kept coming, which is a total opposite of my regular routine. In this Omaha Hi Pot Limit Poker hand, for example, my hole cards were A-10 suited, another Ace and a Queen. With no reason to keep it cool, I raised a pot before the flop, which turned away couple of players, but the rest of them were absolutely stubborn to see at least a turn card.
Flop, on the other hand, was pretty bad for me. There was a potential flush (in wrong color from my perspective), but K-J is something I can be counted for. If flush doesn’t come out, I am pretty cool with the pair of Aces. I decided to push towards the river, except if another spade comes to the table. If somebody is holding pocket Kings or Jacks, I’ll lose, but that’s the risk you need to take sometimes. Since I was on the button, I could wait to see how strong my opponents are by watching the bets before the turn. One of the players raised half pot and both of us called that bet. I was convinced that neither of these two players has a pocket Kings or Jacks, because they would raise much stronger on the flop. Since this is Omaha Poker, and you never know what’s there for you on the turn or the river, You simply need to raise seriously with 3 of a kind on the flop, to force lots of hands to fold.
Turn card was close to nothing for everyone, except me. I didn’t care for that card, but it cut the hopes in half for flush draw, which was more then good. We had another half-pot raise from the guy on my left, and the 3rd opponent folded - I guess he decided that flush is too far away.
And then came the river card - her Majesty the Queen! I had nuts straight, Ace high. My opponent raised half the pot and I was all in, couple of seconds later. Yes, I was being a bit dramatic. He called my re-raise of course, and all the chips came to my pocket.
What I want to point out is that I was pretty surprised seeing his hand. He had no flush draw at all - he had a straight too, but King high. He was hoping for a Queen on the river, but ended on the bad side of the straight.
My Straight is Stronger than Yours
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