Got High at the Omaha H/L Game

     I waited a long time to get into the Omaha H/L  game this morning ( well didn’t actually get in till this afternoon) and was a little anxious to play.  I had played a single table Hold’em shootout tournament that morning and got knocked out fourth place ( no money) and because of my bad timing I was far enough down on the Omaha list to make for a long wait.  So i left the casino for  about two hours or so and got back  on the list.

      I sit down and right off the bat I get some premium hands that hit the board square on and get paid off. The start of a good session. I know most of the table really well, a couple new faces but all in all I know exactly how to play to squeeze out the maximum from the poor and frankly weak play.

     I get this hand on the button (Qd,Qs,3h,9h) which by all standards should have not only been folded  but burned might be more appropriate. Anyway there was the usual table full of limper’s and frankly I was thinking I was going to at least hit a Queen so I limped in also.  Flop came Kc,Qh,3c. Bingo! Well my feeling was right now My set of Queens  just has to hold up ( if I’m not beat already with someone holding pocket Kings) so after two people check a moderately aggressive younger guy bets out, couple callers and here I come over the top with a raise to try and protect my hand while  at the same time get more money in the pot.  I get two callers ( at this point I have a filthy three percent chance of wining after finding out what my opponents had I ran it through a calculator). The turn reveals a Ah. Not a horrible card  but it certainly made at least one of them a straight so it’s time to slow down. Sure enough the caller  was now betting with what I figured to be a made nut straight ( but I  still have a forty one percent chance of wining with my flush and full house draws). A beautiful 8h hits the river giving me a flush. The original better fires out a bet leaving me only able to call with my weak flush. The other person called also with their straight.

     My flush holds up for high and I get a very decent pot. Unfortunately the original better also had a 2,4 to split half the pot (he also had the nut straight with the club re draw)

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