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Originally Posted by bumblebee99
Cooler? Would you play it diff.?
You've posted in the newb's thread. The newb thread is not really intended for hand history questions such as you have asked.
Without looking at the results posted in the spoiler, clearly the river card is not to Hero's liking. Suddenly three straights are possible for Villain. If Villain happens to have KQ**, Q8**, or 87**, Hero is sunk.
I presume, since you're posting this hand, Villain did indeed have one of those hands.
I would have played the hand differently, but it doesn't matter how I would have played it, because there's no defense when you're all-in and the river card is such that Villain ends up with the winning hand.
Note that the river card could have been a five and if Villain happened to be holding 55**, your aces full would lose to Villain's quads.
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I'm having trouble against these 90/30 droolers (this was over 20 hands only for this villain).
I don't know what a 90/30 drooler is.
Casinos make a lot of money off their slot machines. They do that despite occasionally having to pay off a big jack pot. They make a lot of money because they have favorable odds. Favorable odds doesn't mean the casino with favorable odds will be destined to win every single wager. (If that were the case, nobody would play the slots).
Poker or Omaha-8 poker is no different in terms of winning and losing when you have favorable odds. You won't win every single time you have the odds on your side. But over the long haul, you can reasonably expect to win more than you'll lose.
I'm not going to read the results in your spoiler. No offense intended. If you lost, please accept my condolences. If you won, congratulations.
If you think your hand is worthy of discussion, please repost it in a separate thread. If you do that, you'll probably get different opinions about how to best play your cards.
Without looking at the spoiler, my guess is it's a "bad beat" type hand history post, where you had favorable odds on the turn and then got a cooler on the river. Sometimes posters post such hands in the monthly "catch all" thread. That is where they belong.
Buzz