Episode #146: Omaha
MAIN TOPIC
Feeling pretty confident with this little game called Texas Hold'em? Ready for a new challenge? When listeners ask us what game to tackle next, we always say Omaha. Why? Because the mechanics are the same as hold'em - the only difference is you're dealt four cards, but must use two, and only two. And that makes it wildly more fun, in my opinion. This week, we delve into the basics of this game, from it's Pot-Limit High-only form, to the limit Omaha 8-or-better variety. Click here to listen to the show.
OTHER TOPICS
AIPS: Congrats to lj47, who wins a banana in his first AIPS. Scott shows how you can donk off 5K in chips in short order, while Chris makes a run for the money. Oh, yeah, and a little guy named Lee Childs, who's done nothing but make the final table of the richest tournament in the world, was first man out.
New poker site: TexasHoldem.com launches a pay-money poker site, with cool new features like "Run it Twice" and "Rabbit Hunting."
Video games take skill: So say the folks behind WorldGaming.Com, a Web site where you can challenge other gamers to play for money. We love the argument, and admire the moxie. And a new Xbox game, Poker Smash, takes on a poker theme.
Hotline: Ante Upper Chuck has built a great new AIPS stats site. Check it out. And StatikKling buys a bushel of plastic bananas, so the Ante Up Nation will have to wait no longer for its plastic produce trophies. Thanks guys!
As the world turns: Australians will turn out the lights this weekend in support of the fight against global warming, so candlelight poker tournaments are planned. And cricket star Shane Warne is retiring to focus on his poker career.
Tampa Bay Poker Replay: Kenna James is scheduled to visit Orlando for a WPT Boot Camp, Corvette owners are invited to do a poker run of local WingHouses and Tampa Greyhound Track is dealing a Pot-Limit Omaha tournament on Sunday night.
HAND OF THE WEEK
We continue our Omaha theme with a Pot-Limit hand from Justin (Irish_Fan_34) from Indiana.
In a $5 FullTilt multitable tournament, Justin has three callers and raps the table from the big blind holding Jc-5h-2c-6h.
The flop: 4h-3c-8s.
The small blind checks, and Justin likes his wrap and backdoor flush draws, so he bets 320 into the 640 pot. It's raised to 1,600 and another player comes along for the ride and Justin calls.
The turn: Js.
Justin bets out 1,600 with his top pair, wrap and flush draw. It's raised all-in, and then reraised all-in. Justin calls.
The river: 2h
Justin takes it all with his straight, which beats a set of 4s and a missed straight flush draw.
NEXT WEEK'S SHOW
TBA
- SCOTT
Christopher Cosenza is co-host of the longest running poker podcast on the planet, Ante Up! He started playing poker seriously in 2003 and his favorite players are Phil Ivey and Kenna James, though he tends to act like Phil Hellmuth if you make a bad play against him.
Scott Long, Ante Up!'s other co-host, is the author of the monthly Bet on It column in tbt*. He began gambling way too young (don't tell the fuzz!) and in the seventh grade, named his state "Gambleland" for a school project (State Animal? Loan shark, of course).
Thank you for the Omaha episode, I loved it. I did hope you'd get into specific strategy like short-stacked play (the Slotboom-style I love to play, with the maniacs to your left) but that might have taken the episode well over two hours.
Anyway, you are now absolved from the original Omaha episode ;)
Posted by: Erwin Blonk | April 08, 2008 at 06:44 AM