Hi guys,
first of all, Happy Newyear everyone! I decided to start the year by playing $2-$4 limit Omaha 8/b for 10K hands, track all results in PT and look for possible improvements. I play on stars, one 6-max table at the time (true, my overall income will suck but hopefully my game will improve a bit so that it will pay off later).
I'll post some stats once they become meaningful in the hope that you can point out weaknesses in my game, and in the meantime I simply want to discuss one or two hands where I should have done better.
Here is one from last night's session.
OMAHA HI/LO LIMIT ($2/$4)
DadofSKG: posts small blind $1
__firehawk_: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ojingo [8s][Ac][9d]
Ojingo: raises $2 to $4
3 folds
DadofSKG: calls $3
__firehawk_: calls $2
*** FLOP *** [Qd][Ah]
DadofSKG: checks
__firehawk_: checks
Ojingo: bets $2
DadofSKG: calls $2
__firehawk_: calls $2
*** TURN ***
DadofSKG: checks
__firehawk_: bets $4
Ojingo: calls $4
DadofSKG: calls $4
*** RIVER ***
DadofSKG: checks
__firehawk_: bets $4
Ojingo: folds
DadofSKG: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
__firehawk_: shows [Kh][Th][4d] (HI: three of a kind, Kings)
DadofSKG: mucks [Jh][3d][2d]
I clearly made a bad misread here; I thought that Dado had the low, and that firehawk wouldn't bet out on the turn with a weaker hand for high and/or a low draw. Maybe it makes more sense for a straight to checkraise the turn, but then he might be afraid it gets checked around. Clearly he didn't put me on aces; otherwise his flop call does not make a lot of sense.
Raise the turn? Crying call on the river? How do you make the correct read here? When I folded the turn I was quite sure I was making a disciplined laydown which would save me that 1BB per session.
Pieter