******* Hand 1 ********

I have a lot of hands with Button. He's a LAG, 36.5/8.5 but seems to be a thinking player. I think he tries to put people on hands and outplay them. He's a marginal loser over 1k hands but I wouldn't be surprised if he is a winner in the long run. No stats on shortstack.

Party Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
7 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $43.39
UTG+1: $19.41
MP1: $26.40
Hero: $38.04
Button: $32.05
SB: $11.75
BB: $5.22

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is CO with
2 folds, MP1 calls, Hero raises to $1.1, Button calls, SB calls, BB calls, MP1 folds.

Flop: ($4.65, 4 players)
SB bets $2, BB folds, Hero calls $2 (pot was $6.65), Button raises to $12.45, SB calls all-in $8.65, Hero raises all-in $34.94

I figure that if I just flat call it will look like I have AA. If button has a hand that beats AA I am sure he will pop it, he *might* even do it with a worse hand because I am fairly sure he knows I would fold AA to a raise here, but the shorty being will probably stop him. Once he gets committed there is no way he is folding, of that I am sure.

If shorty has a draw I'm not getting rid of him either way, so I figure I don't lose to much by risking giving him a free card.







******* Hand 2 ********

This is BB's first hand, so no read. I only have about 30 hands on CO, he seems tight-ish (25%) and have only bet a few flops so far, but too few hands to be sure of anything.

Party Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
7 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $26.63
UTG+1: $18.75
MP1: $17.10
CO: $39.85
Hero: $20.65
SB: $3.90
BB: $25

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is Button with
3 folds, CO calls, Hero calls $0.25 (pot was $0.6), SB folds, BB checks.

Flop: ($0.85, 3 players)
BB checks, CO bets $0.85, Hero calls $0.85 (pot was $1.7), BB raises to $3, CO raises to $10.7, Hero folds

OK to dump it here? Ok to flat call with position or should I have popped him?

Cool.

Hand #1 he had J2 and called my all-in. Of course the retarded shorty with A433 hit his gutshot and took down the main pot, but thanks to the LAG at least I made a small profit.

Hand #2 BB had 22 for bottom set and CO had QQ for top set. Some complained that you can't get away from a set. I thought about telling them I folded JJ but thought better of it.

Hand 1 I like, though I would just call the re-raise too. You're not folding at any point and you want all of button's money in the pot; best way to do this is to call and let him push the turn. I might raise the original flop bet sometimes; happy to mix it up really. Here I like the deception, though.

Hand 2 I probably raise flop, there's limited amount of deception here and lots of hands the other guy could be holding that you want out of this. Too many draws can hit this board so I'd rather minimise the number of guys you're up against. After the raise and re-raise I think you can safely fold.