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Honest_Rob · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject: How do you play this hand in O8?

If you don't flop a set or flush draw are you done?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4723830806: Table Old Time - $1/$2 - Limit Omaha H/L - 15:37:09 ET - 2008/01/03
Seat 1: As7d ($23.25)
Seat 2: Honest_Rob ($49.05)
Seat 3: givemeurstax ($53.75), is sitting out
Seat 4: MrAmbiguous ($18.50)
Seat 5: luckyfish ($53.90)
Seat 6: mbeany ($13)
Seat 7: SuicideKing21 ($52.65)
Seat 8: MisterJekyll ($47.50)
MrAmbiguous posts the small blind of $0.50
luckyfish posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Honest_Rob [Ac Jc Jh As]
MrAmbiguous: what?
mbeany folds
SuicideKing21 folds
MisterJekyll folds
As7d calls $1
Honest_Rob

Que 2 high's joke

Zophar · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

Raise for sure preflop. Post flop, just work from the texture of the board. If it comes 345, run. If it comes 8 9 K, I'm betting/calling and sometimes raising until the river. Even w/o a low draw, it's a very strong hand.

sixandfour · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:18 am Post subject:

Absolutely raise. The fewer people in the pot, the more likely it will hold up. +1 to Zophar on postflop

LazurusLong · High Card Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 6

I think it depends in the action in front of you. If there is a raise and 2 callers in front of you, your hand is barely worth a call. You are playing for half the pot, and with the previous action, you are out against two hands that will make the low if it comes and maybe a high hand who realizes that the first two have low oriented hands and has a good chance for high with wrap type cards. (Chance of high flop improves with raises and calls). Certainly AA can and does win high, but with babies on the flop, you have wasted a raise. Heads up, you are a 55-45 favorite, but you can't win low, and the only way to scoop is to bluff the other hand out of the pot, or when no low comes. 2 or 3 high card flops only happen around 30% of the time. Around 70% of the time, you are playing for half. Flushes make only around 4% of the time. Call with this hand and hope for an ace or a jack. By the way, with a raise and 2 callers, the aces are already out, so you are hoping to flop a jack or a flush for high. UTG or +1, you might try a raise to fold everyone out or to represent a great low hand, but most A3s and virtually all A2s won't fold to a raise, so this is useless. Comments please??

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