Late Night O8

(This was supposed to be much longer but as I published it, I lost everything. So this is version two of this entry.)

I wanted to play some fun poker last night so I decided to fire up the internet and found a nice O8 freeroll, 550 players, 27 people paid and first place a whopping… $1.50. Yeah its not much but just some fun poker. I decided to play kinda crazy, capped everything preflop, and played my best after the flop. I could afford to do it cause it was somewhat deepstacked and ten minute levels gave us some time to work. Donked around for about an hour and a half, picked up some scoops and enough lows to stay aound average.

I hit a really nice hand with about 60 players left that moved me into the chip lead. I came into the hand with a better than average stack and found Kc3c5d5h. It was 3-bet to me and I capped it preflop, not exactly textbook play, but like I said just having some fun. The flop came down A26 all clubs and I can hear Vince Van Patten talking about sugar plum crap dancing around in my head (or something like that, I don’t really watch that stuff anymore.) Turn Jd, river the money card 4c, virtually guaranteeing me 3/4ths of this pot if not all. It was capped on every street, all three callers played every street, and I got to see what they were playing.

-Qc7cJsJh (flopped second nut flush, turned set of jacks)
-AsAh3h4h (flopped set of aces and nut low)
-Ad2d6s8s (flopped three pair)

Through the magic of twodimes.net:

Omaha Hi/Low 8-or-better: 376992 enumerated boards
cards          scoop   HIwin   HIlos  LOwin  LOlos     EV
Kc 3c  5d  5h  33600   82259  293867   9429  96048  0.162
Js Qc  7c  Jd  72964  100824  276168      0      0  0.230
As Ah  4h  3h  68032   90961  285165  87195  74433  0.295
8s 6s  Ad  2d  72787  102082  274845  91398  87813  0.313

Thank you, poker gods for the flop love, despite the poor EV preflop.

I ended up getting counterfeited at the final table, after my straight and 23 nut low, was undone. I came in ninth place loving the eight cents I won. A couple more of those and I can buy a gumball. But it was more about trying out a slightly new style and having some fun. That’s all for now, time for some lunch. Frozen pizza sound good?