A Pot Limit Omaha High/Low Hand
I wanted to revisit this hand that I mentioned last week where I lost all of my chips in an Omaha high/low game. I was playing with Hal Lubarsky who was sitting to my right and another villain who was involved and sitting to my left with the button.
We were shorthanded and I had K-K-4-6. Usually this is not a very strong hand in an Omaha game. But if you have a good feel for the game you can raise with this hand in some spots, it’s just a little bit tricky.
This was a $1/$2 pot limit game and I was down to about $60 when this hand started. I made it $6 to see the flop and I was called by the guy to my left on the button and Lubarsky in the big blind.
The flop came down J-5-7, so I still had an over pair, as well as the open ended straight draw and weak low draw. Lubarsky checked to me and I decided the best line to take would be to make a pot-sized bet. Since I can easy fake the A-2 low draw , my bet is designed to get people with naked low draws to fold their cards. This way if someone did come in with something weird like 9-9-J-J and now has a set, I will have a shot at getting my money back with the low or even hitting a straight to scoop. I was hoping to create a heads-up situation where my hand…either the high and low, would have a better chance of winning at showdown if I was called.
The villain to my left shoved in a pot size raise and Lubarsky instantly shoved in the rest of his chips (about $200 total).
This wasn’t what I was hoping for. I thought about this for a little while and eventually decided to put the rest of my chips into the pot.
I took a few minutes to put everyone’s cards into Cardplayer’s hand replayer, and you can see what I was up against in the image below.
I had almodt 35% expected equity and I was getting approx. 3 to 1 on my money, so It’s ok for me to make the call there. It took me a while to actually call the bet. There was quite a few things that I was worried about because my hand is usually going to be in pretty bad shape here.
At first glance this was an ugly looking situation for me. There is a chance that my high hand is worthless, and I can almost be certain that 4-5-6-7 is not going to be a valid low draw. But I was pretty sure about a few things. One of these guys was surely going to have the A-2 or A-3 low draw, and one of them was probably going to be drawing to a flush.
The one thing that I had going for me was the fact that I only had about $40 in chips left, so I was pretty sure that I was priced in to the decision. I felt that I could make this call because there were enough hands that my opponents could be holding in which I would be getting the correct pot odds to call.
The turn brought a pretty brutal card, it was the king of clubs which gave me top set and the villain to my left a flush. I could have still hit an ace or 2 on the river to make the best low hand, or pair the board to scoop, but I as unable to improve.
Related posts:
- A Hand From My Home Game
- Pot Limit Omaha With Hal Lubarsky at Full Tilt
- Omaha Hi/Lo
- Pressing a Small Edge
- Omaha Hi/Low
Categories: Poker Strategy
