Pkr.com – Case Study 2
www.pkr.com – In an Omaha tournament, you find yourself dealt (Ah,Qh,Qc,2h).
This type of hand certainly has it’s points of interest, but it also concerns me too, in much the same way as (A,J) suited, in early position, would in a Holdem game. I would feel compelled to play it, and one advantage in a Pot Limit Omaha game, would be that you can see how the flop develops without costing yourself a great deal of chips.
The pair of queens is an obvious plus point in the hand, and having an Ace with them is good too. The problems with the hand, are really that you have three hearts in your hand when you only want to see two. The extra heart immediately takes a little extra off your chance of making a flush, and takes up a suited card that would have been better matching the club you have. That brings me to our next point, the 2 of clubs. It brings an outside chance of making a straight with the ace, and perhaps another pair of twos will fall on the flop, but for the most part, the two weakens our hand.
I wouldn’t raise the pot myself in early position, but partly because most of the Omaha games I am involved in, are of the kind that there will often be a raise preflop on a full table anyway. So if there is a raise I will happily call, but I do not want to risk increasing the pot with my raise and the subsequent calls, only for someone in late position to then have the opportunity for a large reraise. As nice as this hand might seem to some players, any hand containing (K,K,x,x) or (A,A,x,x) has us in a fair bit of trouble.
For this reason, I always like to take a flop and see how things develop before comitting large amounts of chips to a pot. www.pkr.com
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