Ship it!
Because things in Omaha go so wrong so often, it feels all the sweeter when they happen to go right. Check out this hand I won on stars recently.
I raised my button, then made a defensive min-reraise on the flop, hoping to see the last two cards cheap. On the turn, I a questionable call (drawing to the non-nut flush is usually a no-no, but because of the way he was trying to bet me out of the pot, I thought a flush would be good). I did made the jack high flush on the river, but had to give my call a lot of thought since he shoved for such a big amount. This player had been slow playing his big hands all session, and I just had a feeling (because of that, the timing of his bet, and the way the hand had played out) that I was good. Indeed it was. I made $160 on that one hand, and am still dancing around my living room.
Things worked out well for me in this hand, but I still think I should have probably bailed on either the flop or turn even though I was certainly playing the player here, and not as I typically would. Any thoughts?
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I generally like how you played the hand.
The preflop raise is ok, because you’ve got position, even though you have that horrible 5 dangler, but I think it’s ok, because it suits up at least. Plus position is everything!
With 15 outs to improve, I’m raising this flop, too. We’re even ahead of a set here.
Turn: Now our outs are severely diminished. The pot is offering us 2-1 against the obvious straight. Or the opponent is dumb and doesn’t see the straight and is still betting his set? I’d give us maybe 10 outs here. Now you have to decide how showdown bound the opponent is… does he fold a lot if the obvious flush card hits? or if the board pairs does he play straights/flushes passively? How good is your flush? So yeah, if you fold here it’s not bad and if you call with a read, it’s ok. I guess readless I could maybe see a turn.
On the river, well… you had already made up your mind on the turn, you were calling for flush and you hit, easy call
Would love to hear others chime in on the turn…