It's been a while since I've posted a poker hand, but this one hurt.


***** Hand History for Game 1806021774 *****
$5/$10 Omaha Hi/Lo - Monday, March 28, 02:48:11 EDT 2005
Table Table 10699 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 5: Rubydog ( $104.9 )
Seat 10: ThePalimax ( $122 )
Seat 3: CMWANGS ( $226.5 )
Seat 1: kimpok ( $270.5 )
Seat 6: seitzseitz ( $121 )
Rubydog posts small blind [$2].
seitzseitz posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ThePalimax [ Kh Ad Kc Jh ]
ThePalimax raises [$10].
kimpok calls [$10].
CMWANGS calls [$10].
Rubydog calls [$8].
seitzseitz calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, Td, 9c ]
Rubydog checks.
seitzseitz checks.
ThePalimax checks.
kimpok checks.
CMWANGS bets [$5].
Rubydog calls [$5].
seitzseitz folds.
ThePalimax calls [$5].
kimpok folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kd ]
Rubydog checks.
ThePalimax bets [$10].
CMWANGS raises [$20].
Rubydog folds.
ThePalimax calls [$10].
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
ThePalimax bets [$10].
CMWANGS raises [$20].
ThePalimax raises [$20].
CMWANGS raises [$20].
ThePalimax calls [$10].
CMWANGS shows [ 9s, 9d, Jc, Ac ] four of a kind, nines.
ThePalimax shows [ Kh, Ad, Kc, Jh ] a full house, Kings full of nines.
CMWANGS wins $183 from the main pot with four of a kind, nines.
There was no qualifying low hand.

I really need to learn how to play this game well enough to survive.

Had a similar hand like that down at th Murongo (sp?). I had AK flush and there were two jacks on the board. After about what seemed a dozen raises he tempted me to go all in, I knew then he had pocket jacks. I called and there it was. A couple hands before that I had a nut straight and I went all in after a dozen raises (this was at a 3/6 table fyi, but was heads up) he had the same exact hand, just couldnt catch a break.

What caught me off-guard was the raise on the turn. On the flop, in this game, it was hard to put him on anything except a steal or a draw. The raise on the turn got my attention as if he'd made the straight on his draw. Raising me with 9's after I checked the flop and bet the turn was...suspicious. It was hard for me to put him on middle set after the overcard and the straight draw and me opening with the betting. Assuming that KKK99 was a scooper wasn't hard for me. Oh well. I rallied late to come out $50 or so ahead and make up the little money I had lost earlier on pot-limit.

Wow, this is like a whole other language to me. My knowledge of poker consists of video poker found at casinos. Is this kind of thing profitable?

Geeks that play poker LOVE to talk the language. I mean just LOVE it.

Poker is far from a "geeks" game buddy.....

Wow, this is like a whole other language to me. My knowledge of poker consists of video poker found at casinos. Is this kind of thing profitable?
A joke I read early today from, I think, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (a poker pro):

Q: "What is the difference between a poker player a large cheese pizza?"
A: "A large cheese pizza can feed a family of four."

Sure poker can be profitable. So can playing the stock market. =)

My latest bad beat at Hold'em:
I have KJo and the flop is KJ7. I slow play, and a 5 comes on the turn. There is raising all about, and a 7 shows on the river. More betting...and the other guy shows pocket aces.

BTW, anyone watching the 3rd Poker Superstars invitational? David Sklansky has just gotten his fourth set of pocket aces, and the round isn't even half over. Unreal.

He had 5 pocket aces, if I recall. One cracked, one or two just took the blinds, and the others landed him nice wins.

Yeah, he ended with 5 pocket aces; the gal whose name now escapes me netted two pocket aces herself. Sklansky is quite the mathematician...I wonder what odds he'd give of those hands coming his (and the table's) way.

Poker is far from a "geeks" game buddy..

Oh calm down. It's an epidemic among geeks the last 2 years. I dunno why. Sports substitute I think.

Poker has become a fad over the last few years. Sure its always been around, but now its popular. The "geeks" are playing too, but I think what Palimax was getting at is that everyone is playing, not just the geeks.

Hell, I just played over at a friend's house the other night. Such an assortment of players. Couple teenagers, couple geeks, couple... uh.. couples. We all had fun though. The problem with geeks is that they... we... will always start an argument over the little things. The argument de jour was which requires more skill, Texas Holdem or 5 card stud.

I like to play on Pokerstars.net for practice, but I find that people tend to play MUCH differently unless something is on the line. You get much more conservative players in the Sit and Go tourneys.

Well, it wasn't my point, but yeah, poker is pretty mainstream. I'm proud to have been playing before the big rush. Not for too long, mind you, but I started playing in casinos as soon as my local casinos had it available (10 years or so ago).

The only experience for live, for-money, play at any level is actual play at that level. 3-6 is nothing like 5-10, and 5-10 is nothing like 75-150. Limit isn't like PL, and PL isn't like NL.

Even after that beating above, I've been fortunate enough to have a winning month online. Thank god for new players :)

The only experience for live, for-money, play at any level is actual play at that level. 3-6 is nothing like 5-10, and 5-10 is nothing like 75-150. Limit isn't like PL, and PL isn't like NL.

There all the same to me. Ive played 5-10 and NL, never had the guts to, or the money to play 75-150 but from my experience, there all the same. At each table you got people who are dead serious and people who couldnt care less about losing. NL and PL do have its diffrences but its all poker in the end.

There all the same to me. Ive played 5-10 and NL, never had the guts to, or the money to play 75-150 but from my experience, there all the same. At each table you got people who are dead serious and people who couldnt care less about losing. NL and PL do have its diffrences but its all poker in the end.I honestly don't understand how you can feel that 3-6 and 5-10 are the same game; or that limit poker and PL or NL are the same game.

I guess the differences are more obvious to me.

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Lol...

is that poker or some programing code?

I honestly don't understand how you can feel that 3-6 and 5-10 are the same game; or that limit poker and PL or NL are the same game.

I guess the differences are more obvious to me.

poker is poker, you still have the same choices no matter what table you play, check/bet/fold. peoples attidutes to the game do differ from each table but the game is always the same.