Whoohooo, result baby!

[SlaineMcRoth]

Orrrrrr not

Neah, in all honesty I'm pretty pleased with my result last night. I reached the final table of an Omaha Hi/Lo split tournament so can't really complain now can I? I wheedled through a field of 214 players and finally busted out in 7th place. It was a good tourney all 'round and some pretty imaginative play on the final table. A couple of tough decisions being made by people playing in pots with at least a third of their stack in play and then calling, and winning I might add, another big bet on the river with, par example, two Queens.

Made a deadly mistake about an hour or so after reaching the final table. Here it comes: I put my opponent on A,2 + two hi cards. I myself had 8h 5h Kh 2h suited.

When the board flopped 4d 7h 2c of different suits and my opponent started betting out. I then proceeded to call, thinking I could make a straight (albeit a gutshot) and already had my Lo. Fourth street comes 4s making a board of 4d 7h 2c 4s. My opponent, I think, now still doesn't have a Lo, so am still ahead on that front and my straight change is pretty much the same. My opponent bets out again, and once again I proceed to call. This is a call with a bet on the river in mind. Final cards flops and the river shows Jc. Complete board now shows 4d 7h 2c 4s Jc (no flush possibility).
I now start the betting in the hopes that he might fold his two pair Ace kicker and no Lo. (Yeah I know, what was I thinking eh? :P)
After a little deliberation my opponent decides to call me and shows his hand, 2d 6h As Td

Ends up like so:
Me: shows [8h 5h Kh 2h] (HI: two pair, Fours and Deuces; LO: 8,7,5,4,2)

Opponent: shows [2d 6h As Td] (HI: two pair, Fours and Deuces - Ace kicker; LO: 7,6,4,2,A)

Ouch!

Managed to outlive another two opponents but never really recovered from that blow, which was admittedly, a completely stupid move on my part. Where ever did that 'inspiration' come from eh? I wonder who was whispering in my ear...

[VancouverKarl]

Do you ever play Hi/Low cash tables online?

I tried a little but I am not great at any Hi/Low games.

There seems to be lots of occasions where you are heads up after the flop, lots of betting occurs, one player has the high the other the low and the pot is split, leaving the online card room the only winner. Do you find this makes it hard to make profits?

[2bad4u]

Try to play hands that are more likely to sweep.

[SlaineMcRoth]

Exactly! I find playing cash hi/lo games are very profitable indeed. You need to adjust your hand selection and basicly only play scooping hands. The lo is the most important bit as you hi might still develop on the flop, turn, and river. If you only have one part of the pot, either the hi or the lo, there's no point in staying in as you run the danger of quartering your bets/calls.

There are soooo many people that play only one side of a hi/lo game that they tend to pay you off big time whenever you're in a pot. Since you only play starting hands that can scoop, you'll soon start scooping as well. And with the amount of callers you get during online play, two or three scoops an hour is usually good enough for a tidy profit. Obviously when you play more often you'll learn when to play a few more starting hands and the scooping percentage goes up and up and up!

[7-2offsuit]

"Never leave home without an Ace"

p.s. What were you thinking?

[SlaineMcRoth]

hahaha, I was thinking 'I'm making a move here and all the planets are alined so I can't possibly loose'

[higgi17]

Yes with plenty of practice there is decent money to be made on the cash tables. I find alot of players seem to concentrate on the high hand and not bother with the low so if you hit a big low on flop the high can get better and u shud still take half the pot.

[SlaineMcRoth]

As I said before, getting half the pot is not something I'm happy with. (Unless there are 3 or more people involved of course) Since you only get your money back, minus the rake. Ouch!