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H.O.R.S.E.- What a game!

One of the regular crew held a HORSE tourney Saturday night. It was pretty cool. We only had 16 players. The game started at 8:00 pm, and at 3:30 am we were finally down to 2. Me and another guy.

I played pretty good most of the night. I really didn’t make any donk-plays that stand out in my head. I played pretty solid in all the games. My best 2 were 1st- Omaha 8/ob & 2nd- 7 card stud (regular). I had a solid showing in Hold ‘em, but it wasn’t where I snagged the most chips. Here are a couple hands of note:

Omaha 8/ob:
I hold Ac5c5d4d- This was s pretty good pot. It was 3 way action with betting all the way through. The flop:

4c Kh 5h

Well, I am no longer going for the low. But I feel that I have the high at this point. I don’t want to see a heart, and with me holding a 4 that only leaves 2 more in the deck to hit for a boat (and of course the lone 5 that is in there somewhere) The turn:

Kd

Good for me. I am pretty sure I have the high rapped up. So I am jamming money into the pot. One of the shorter stacks gets all his money in on the turn. Here comes the river:

7s

I get a little side pot going with the 3rd guy in the hand. I bet, he raises, I re-raise, and he calls.

The idiot I had the side pot with had a king, but was also drawing to a low. The funny thing was the other guy (the one who got his chips in on the turn) had the same low. So I took my half for the high and they had to chop the low pot.

One more hand in O8/ob:
I hold QcQd5c3d- flop:

4c As 8d

Sweet only a 2 3 has me beat on the low. The turn:

8 s

The river:

8c

I end up scooping the pot with 8’s full of queens for the high and 8-5-4-3-A for the low. That was a nice pot.

I really had a good time playing the tourney, and will definitely be trying my hand at the next one he runs. One thing I noticed- I was trying to pick up reads more that night then ever. More even then when I play no limit hold ‘em. I guess I get so comfortable with NLHE I sometimes don’t use my reads the way I should, but Saturday I was looking for them like mad. I actually picked up some that I should be able to exploit the next time I face these guys in NLHE.

Oh, by the way, if you were wondering who won…we ended up chopping. I had to be up fairly early the next morning.