Omaha Round 10

Playing 1500 3000 we enter a pot with A367 (A3d) and flop 255. Turn and river are 9s and the pot is won by a guy who called my river bluff with a pocket pair of 3s. That's painful. Good call though. Sadly we're down to 23000. We have one big hand in us. That sounds bad; makes me think of my doctor.

We're in the BB with 9TJQ. I love this hand multi-player as if it hits it should sweep the pot. We call 2 raises and see the flop for 4500. It comes 459, all diamonds. What crap. We fold.

In a late seat we have 9TTQ double suited and call a raise to 3000. 3 people see the 56K flop, all spades. We made a flush, but our 9Ts isn't too strong and we could lose everything to an A or Qs. Player 1 checks, we bet, player 3 raises (that's bad), 1 calls and we call. Turn comes 3s, a whole board of spades. Everyone checks. River comes 7d. Player 1 checks and we bet 3000. I'm surprised that player 3 folds (she/he announced later that she had a 3567, so she had no low even though it seemed hard to miss. Player 1 goes into the tank. I'm hoping he folds rather than chase a terrible, but half pot winning, low. He calls, but when I show the flush he mucks. He didn't have a low either. Small pot, but we sweep it, which makes a huge difference. After losing 3800 on our blind hands, we have about 32,000 now. We need a huge stroke of luck!

Seat 3 limps and we limp in with 9JQA (A9c). With the blinds we see the flop come A27, all spades. Terrible! We fold, but at least it only cost us 1500!

Our table breaks and we move literally one table over. This one will probably break soon too. The screen shows 135 players but they're generally behind in their count. Still, the field is thinning. We need chips soon! First hand at the new table, we fold, but someone else gets knocked out. Droppin like flies. Wow - now he's autographing a book for the guy who took him out. Crazy!

In the BB we call a raise with 4669 double suited. Not a good hand, but it's 1500 more to see a flop and play heads up. Flop comes TTQ. We bet 1500 hoping he was playing for low or at least that he'll be afraid we have a T. He calls. Turn comes 9c putting 2 clubs on the board. Now we have a flush draw. We check and he bets. Is it worth 3000 to try to hit a 6 for a full house or a club for a flush? Yes. We call. River comes 8d. We could bluff, but spending another 3000 doesn't sound good or likely to win. We check and he checks and shows pocket As to take it down.

We finish Round 10 with 25,200 in chips. We are still in the place where we can make one huge push or see a flop or two cheap and still make a huge push. Hopefully you won't hear more for an hour!
Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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