We fold hand after hand for a while, waiting for something good.
In seat 5 we raise to 2000 with TJKA (JKs) and get called by the blinds. Flop is 8KA. Top 2 pair is great, but there's a low draw, which we don't want to see come. A Q gives us a straight and a K or A gives us a full house. We bet 1000 and get one caller. Turn comes 7s. Terrible card as it makes the low, but now we have a nut flush draw (the As is on the board). We bet 2000 and he calls. River comes Qh. Perfect. We have nut high straight. We bet 2000 and he calls. We take the whole pot as he mucks; evidently he didn't have a low.
We then played 4 big pots. On one, we had KKJ9 and flopped TQK with 2 diamonds. We bet all the way down against a guy who hit a diamond on the river to flush and beat us. Pretty much the same hand happened as one of the other 3. We flopped a set of Ts and never filled while our opponent made a flush on the turn. A third bad hand related to us having AA and calling an all in down. I don't recall how we lost. The fourth hand we actually won, although I no longer remember how. Oh, wait, I do remember. We had 99KA and the flop was 34K. The turn was 9 and the river was 3, giving us a full house. Each of these hands were wins or losses of about 15,000-20,000. The result was a plummeting of our stack with great second best hands.
We get into a 5-way pot for 2,000 each with 234K (K4c). Flop comes 56Q. Great. A 234 or 7 gives us a great low and a straight. An A gives us the nut low. We bet and get all calls - great. Turn comes Ts, no good. Someone else bets and we call. River comes 5 pairing the board. Better bets again and we fold.
Terrible way to end the night. We fell from about 75,000 in chips through a series of great, but not great enough, hands. We end with 168 players and 39,400 in chips. Average stack is 36,071 (# of players and average stack may change with updates over night). I would rather have the 75,000, but hopefully luck will be better tomorrow. Right now I kind of want to vomit.
We resume play tomorrow at 3pm, so for those of you still with us, check the blog a little after 4pm. I know that Omaha is hard to follow, and hard for me to describe in a play-by-play. There are just too many cards and the hi low split is crazy. Each player has 6 possible hands (6 ways to use 2 card) going hi, and the same number possibly going low. The result is there's more action, less folding, and a lot of complexity in the strategy. Unlike Texas Hold'em, this is tough to describe. I hope you'll hear lots of good cards tomorrow, lasting all day.
Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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