Well I had a pretty long update but my computer got stupid on me and I lost it. I’ll try to get as much of it as possible here. I’m also going to try to include some hands in and probably say how my sessions went, but I’m still not going to post numbers.
Went to the Aria yesterday, got there around 7pm and got on the list for 1/3 PLO. I played 2/5 nl hold’em for about 10 minutes waiting for my seat at the PLO game. I took down a decent size pot with KK , and during the hand my name got called for PLO so it was sort of a hit and run but I told them why I was leaving so I don’t think anyone was mad.
Played the PLO game for about 4 hours. Its definitely a different game than the 1/2 at Venetian since there is no straddle.
A straddle is basically a third blind that people have the option of posting before they see their cards. It makes the game play bigger and creates action. The Venetian 1/2 game then plays more like 2/5 because the straddle is always out while Aria’s game actually plays like the 1/3 game it is supposed to be. It makes the game a lot more focused on post flop play rather than preflop.
I got in one interesting hand but I don’t remember all the exact action, but basically I turned top two pair into a bluff on the river when the spade flush card hit. I thought I had the A
but I actually had the K
. The first player checked to me and I shoved all in for about a 2/3 pot sized bet and the 3rd player starts thinking. While he is thinking the other player folds out of turn which I think killed me since the other guy knows he only will have to beat 1 player instead of 2. He ends up calling with a ten high flush. For people not familiar with Omaha, it may seem crazy to think he would ever fold a flush, but in Omaha when the flush comes in often someone has the ace-high flush and most players would fold the ten high flush to me there, especially since I had been playing pretty tight and the way I played the hand it looked exactly like I had a flush draw. I also thought I had the A
, which means he can’t have the ace high flush, but in this case it didn’t matter that I didn’t.
Racked up around 11:30 and with the help of the KK hand at 2/5 nlhe I only ended up losing a little bit.