Hi Lo Omaha? Not for me
May. 7th, 2005 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksFor reasons that I won't go into in too great a detail, I played three tables of Omaha Hi-Lo 25c-50c for an hour. well, bascially, it was because Mike said that this was how he cleared off his bonus. Not sure how. I played for an hour and managed to accumulated a grand total of 10 (ten) points. AT that rate I would have to three-table for 60 hours to work off the bonus. I don't think so.
And I think I lost $20 as well. I was playing fairly tightly, but I suspect that I just don't really get the game. I know the theory (so, please, no explanations, I won't miss the game at all) and I even have a feel for when it is right to call and when it is right to jam (apparently the thing that most players find the hardest to get the hang of). Where I go wrong is in not having a winning hand (let alone a scooping hand) at the end. While other people were walking away with half the pots with, as far as I could see, total crap, I was getting royally stuffed both ways with the second nuts in either direction. Or I would have a massive draw to the nuts in BOTH directions, with five players still in, and I would miss both ways. Probably a bit of bad luck. Anyway, having decided that it "wasn't for me" it took me precisel;y one hand to win it back at the $5-$10 (and it was a bluff!)
Although I know that it is a cardinal sin, I'm doing a bit of hitting and running at the $5-$10. Although this is not good long-term strategy, it's a very good way to rebuild battered confidence. A $40 here and a $30 there, and, so long as you don't hit the inevitable occasional stinker too soon, you soon get quite a bit of money back and, more importantly, some confidence in your play.
And I think I lost $20 as well. I was playing fairly tightly, but I suspect that I just don't really get the game. I know the theory (so, please, no explanations, I won't miss the game at all) and I even have a feel for when it is right to call and when it is right to jam (apparently the thing that most players find the hardest to get the hang of). Where I go wrong is in not having a winning hand (let alone a scooping hand) at the end. While other people were walking away with half the pots with, as far as I could see, total crap, I was getting royally stuffed both ways with the second nuts in either direction. Or I would have a massive draw to the nuts in BOTH directions, with five players still in, and I would miss both ways. Probably a bit of bad luck. Anyway, having decided that it "wasn't for me" it took me precisel;y one hand to win it back at the $5-$10 (and it was a bluff!)
Although I know that it is a cardinal sin, I'm doing a bit of hitting and running at the $5-$10. Although this is not good long-term strategy, it's a very good way to rebuild battered confidence. A $40 here and a $30 there, and, so long as you don't hit the inevitable occasional stinker too soon, you soon get quite a bit of money back and, more importantly, some confidence in your play.
