Omaha Round 9

Playing 1200 2400 people are going to drop like flies. Let's play slow.

Seat 3 raises to 2400. Folds to donkey in SB. BB is short stacked pro and we have AA89. We want all the chips in pre-flop. So much for slow. We braise and the short stack raises (obvious move with almost any short stack). We get to the 6000 cap pre flop with seat 3; BB all in for 5500. Ultimately a low comes and we take the hi, seat 3 takes the low, we each make about 2700 on the hand, and the pro (steve monamo (sp?)) leaves the table.

New guy sits to my left with 80,000 in chips. Someone sits to his left (yes we've lost 2 players). I'm really not sure if this person is male or female. Even the voice isn't telling.

In seat 3 we have A237 with A7s. We call everyone else but never raise. Still, we're 4800 in with 2 other players when the flop comes 34K. We continue just to call. This gets bad as they bang up the flop and then the turn (T), but the river comes 8 giving us nut low. We start betting and take down half the pot for about 10,000.

What we won, we lost back in a series of 2-5,000 losses. Then, an interesting hand came. We called pre flop with 9QQK double suited and folded when the flop came A5J with 2 hearts (we didn't have any). A Qh was no longer good for us. All that really helped was a T(non hearts). After we folded the turn came Td. Before the wound could fester too much, the river came 7h putting a low and a flush on the board. The TQh took the high. Glad we dropped out early.

We have 37,100. The problem we have is that people are going to drop like flies, and that will increase the average chip stack. If we don't take some stacks down in the next 90 minutes, we'll start heading toward short-stack land.

We play one more big hand and flop a set of 4s that loses to a set of 9s. We finish the round with 144 players and only 32,000 in chips. Enough to fight with.
Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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