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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (102348)8/30/2005 10:50:58 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Respond to of 132070
 
What I have discovered in Omaha is that some people don't even know the rules. I can be smug about this because I didn't know the rules a few months ago. <G> If you come to Omaha from Hold Em, you have a few things to learn. Last night was one of the best examples. I had a jack, queen, ace, nine in my hand and the board came ten, king, queen, ace and an 8. There were not three cards 8 or under on the board, so there was no low hand possible. There were no three flushes or pairs, so the ace high straight was the nuts. Most of the table dropped out leaving me with two other players. They would bet, I would raise, they would re-raise. O.K., we've all got the nuts, I thought. That's like kissing your sister. But when we turned over, I got all the money.

One guy was shocked because he had a Jack and thought he had the straight. Nay, nay, you have to use two of your pocket cards to make your hand. In Hold Em, he would have had the straight, but not in Omaha. What is funny, I saw this same mistake made by a guy on tv at The World Series of Poker last year. He thought he had a straight and he didn't realize he had to use two cards from his pocket holdings. Everyone had a big laugh at him, but, a few minutes later, he won the tournament, pocketed half a mil and can call himself a world champion. What a joke.

The other guy had 2, 3, 4 and figured himself for a lock low. Nay, nay, you have to use three cards from the board and there were only two cards 8 or less. I had not seen any mistakes like this one. The first guy, I'd seen that mistake made many times, but most folks know you have to get three low cards on the board or kiss the lows goodbye.

It was my luck to meet two guys making mistakes on the same hand. Some other player, one of the good ones, was grousing for the next 10 minutes about how lucky I was and that nobody was ever that stupid when he had a good hand. <G>