peterbirks | That Mad Omaha Hand

The hilarious Omaha hand. No, I don't understand it either.

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Started at 12/May/05 11:07:31

barber77 is at seat 0 with $25.
jacquouille is at seat 2 with $23.20.
JamesScott is at seat 3 with $17.65.
Birks is at seat 7 with $51.10.
wakefield is at seat 8 with $48.90.
Tracy_Ly is at seat 9 with $8.50.
The button is at seat 8.

Tracy_Ly posts the small blind of $.25.
barber77 posts the big blind of $.50.

Birks : 7h Ks 8s Th

jacquouille raises to $1.75. JamesScott folds. Birks calls. wakefield calls. Tracy_Ly folds.
barber77 calls.

jacquoille sees about 95% of flops and raises 50% of hands. This raise in early position has a technical meaning. It denotes that the guy has four cards, two of which bear some kind of tenuous relationship to each other.

Flop 8d Kd Jh

barber77 checks. jacquouille bets $7.25. Birks raises to $29. wakefield folds. barber77 goes
all-in for $23.25. jacquouille goes all-in for $21.45. Birks is returned $5.75 (uncalled).

Jesus Christ, what have I walked into? On that flop I had put jac on some kind of drawing hand, and I decided to make him pay. But as soon as the initial checker calls, and jac overcalls, I figure I am toast.

Turn 8d Kd Jh 4c

River 8d Kd Jh 4c 5s

Showdown:

Birks shows 7h Ks 8s Th.
Birks has Ks 8s 8d Kd Jh: two pair, kings and eights.
barber77 shows Ac 9s Kc Ad.
barber77 has Ac Ad 8d Kd Jh: a pair of aces.
jacquouille shows 5h Td Jd 9c.
jacquouille has 5h Jd Kd Jh 5s: two pair, jacks and fives

So, barber, who failed to reraise pre-flop with his Aces, decided that his hand was worth calling all-in for with a pot bet and a pot raise. Meanwhile Jac decides that he can call all-in with a flush draw and ropey straight draw.

Birks wins the main pot $68.60 with two pair, kings and eights.
Birks wins the side pot $3.60 with two pair, kings and eights.

Well, here's the bad news. I am only 42% to win, with jac being 48% and the pair of aces being a pathetic 9%. BUt I'm still hapy with the raise, because jac could have ahad a range of hands that would have made me a good favourite.

But it was all a bit insane.