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Join Date: Feb 08
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  1. I was playing lots of PLO and PLO 8/b tourneys on UltimateBet and then DorsalFin suggested starting a $5 rebuy NL Omaha 8/b tourney on FullTilt. I was very interested but it became such a crapshoot with everyone going all in preflop all the time I stopped doing that. I don't like to gamble. I'm not the world's greatest player but I do have an edge in Omaha - provided I don't tilt. But I still liked the idea of No Limit Omaha Eight Or Better so I stayed around on FullTilt and playing cash games. Soon enough I was up against the likes of Scott Clements who I doubled up against a few times. Wow. It takes me hours and hours of grinding on 1/2 NLHE cash cames to make a couple of hundred bucks and here I turn $200 in $800 in just 2 hours. But the variance is huge. This is what happened the other night. I hold a prety moderate hand that includes a 7,T and 2 face cards. Being the BB and 3 guys flat I get to see a cheap flop. The board comes up a beautifull T,T,7 (with the 7 suited with a T): I flopped the nuts! However don't want to chase everyone out so I just check. Everyone else checks. Turn is a deuce of the same suit as the 7 and the T. Expecting some players to have a low-draw or flushdraw I decide to pot. Fold, call and a raise so action back to me and I think this is a good moment to use the all-in option. Another fold an a call. I expected the caller to have a flush and a low draw. River: an 8. The villain shows 8, T gaaaaaah such a suck out and I loose a huuuge $800 pot. I say "nice river" and he replies "yeah got lucky". Then fortunately my computer starts playing up, disconnects from the internet and it takes me 20 inutes to get back on. By which time I'm annoyed with the computer but not on tilt anymore and I manage to recover my losses quickly. No Limit Omaha 8/b truly is a game of patience. Wait patiently until your opponents make mistakes and then take their money.

 
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