bluandbrneyes

"Your best chance to get a Roya Flush in a Casino is in the bathroom"


Okay, we've determined that holdem and Omaha are different animals with different starting hand selections. Omaha having the nuts preflop or even on the flop is not enough to win the pot. We know having Aces preflop in holdem is the nuts nuts, not so in Omaha. Here's my issue with Omaha and the gambling maniac who is not playing poker but plain gambling. I think thats the allure to Omaha (gambling) as its an action game but only when gambling.

The good thing about bad omaha players and there's plenty of them and they have no clue about starting hand selection or flop content. Naked aces is not the nuts, neither is two pair and yet I make alot of money from people calling with worse hands than mine (my setl/straight against their two pair or aces).

Now what ruins a poker player s game is a gambler with no cares about his money, they are hard to play against. They seem to waste their money and yours. In live play atleast for limit there are caps to betting. Sometimes its 4 bets, and sometimes its 5 bets. If heads up there is no capping. There is a play called straddling, this happens when the under the gun player raises or bets before any hands are dealt, so if UTG straddles its now 8 to play instead of the 4 in a 4/8 limit came. My friend Alan Schoonmaker says anyone who voluntarily puts money into pot before seeing their hand they are dealt is a huge leak and big mistake (hence gambling without an edge)

The issue arises when there's two maniac, either via straddling or raising. They raise each other till its capped and every one gets caught in the middle. First off you must know that you will only hit the flop 30% of the time in Omaha and secondly the best starting hand in Omaha is only a 3/2 (60/40) favorite against a random hand preflop. What happens is most people who put one bet in get raised will put in the next raise regardless. What happens here is you have 8 people seing a flop on capped preflop betting, and depending on whether its via straddling or open raising/reraising you have a pot of somewhere of 128.00 to 160.00 depending. This gets really expensive and all it is is gambling and NOT playing poker. Gamblers are building a super big pot for someone other than themselves. Usually when one person raises preflop normally speaking and there are callers as always the raiser usually never wins the pot he raised preflop, why is that, think about it.

Thats one issue that makes me want to leave the table, or go to another table. The other issue is a single maniac raising every other hand preflop, it gets old really fast and a waste of time and money, they usually fold the flop after raising preflop, and secondly they raising with shit hands like naked aces, or pocket kings. Its pretty obvious these habitual raisers dont have a worthy hand to begin with.

Dont get me wrong, I raise occaisionally with premium hands and fold the flop most of the time. I dont mind other people raising preflop once in a while, its easy to know if they are stupid and doing it only with AA which is easy enought to figure out so if you flop two pair, they aint folding and you win a nice pot.

I guess if I dont want to gamble I shouldnt play Omaha NOT...Theres other ways to gamble (play poker) in this game and in a way that most people dont realize and this is how you constantly remain a winner-Jamming it with the best and folding the worst. They are never folding!

PS I think I got sick from the poker room. I got pink eye. Hey I'm an old guy with no kids. Having pink eye is a rarity. It turned into a bad sore throat, then bronchial asthma. I'm on 3 different types of pills, eye drops, and 3 different inhalers. Today is the 10K freeroll and I am too sick to go and play, I havent been to the casino now for 5 days. When I do go back gonna have to take some protection with me!