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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
A Pot Limit Omaha High/Low Hand
I wanted to revisit this hand that I mentioned last week where I lost all of my chips in an Omaha high/low game. I was playing with Hal Lubarsky who was sitting to my right and another villain who was involved and sitting to my left with the button.
We were shorthanded and I had K-K-4-6. Usually this is not a very strong hand in an Omaha game. But if you have a good feel for the game you can raise with this hand in some spots, it’s just a little bit tricky.
This was a $1/$2 pot limit game and I was down to about $60 when this hand started. I made it $6 to see the flop and I was called by the guy to my left on the button and Lubarsky in the big blind.
The flop came down J-5-7, so I still had an over pair, as well as the open ended straight draw and weak low draw. Lubarsky checked to me and I decided the best line to take would be to make a pot-sized bet. Since I can easy fake the A-2 low draw , my bet is designed to get people with naked low draws to fold their cards. This way if someone did come in with something weird like 9-9-J-J and now has a set, I will have a shot at getting my money back with the low or even hitting a straight to scoop. I was hoping to create a heads-up situation where my hand…either the high and low, would have a better chance of winning at showdown if I was called.
The villain to my left shoved in a pot size raise and Lubarsky instantly shoved in the rest of his chips (about $200 total).
This wasn’t what I was hoping for. I thought about this for a little while and eventually decided to put the rest of my chips into the pot.
I took a few minutes to put everyone’s cards into Cardplayer’s hand replayer, and you can see what I was up against in the image below.
I had almodt 35% expected equity and I was getting approx. 3 to 1 on my money, so It’s ok for me to make the call there. It took me a while to actually call the bet. There was quite a few things that I was worried about because my hand is usually going to be in pretty bad shape here.
At first glance this was an ugly looking situation for me. There is a chance that my high hand is worthless, and I can almost be certain that 4-5-6-7 is not going to be a valid low draw. But I was pretty sure about a few things. One of these guys was surely going to have the A-2 or A-3 low draw, and one of them was probably going to be drawing to a flush.
The one thing that I had going for me was the fact that I only had about $40 in chips left, so I was pretty sure that I was priced in to the decision. I felt that I could make this call because there were enough hands that my opponents could be holding in which I would be getting the correct pot odds to call.
The turn brought a pretty brutal card, it was the king of clubs which gave me top set and the villain to my left a flush. I could have still hit an ace or 2 on the river to make the best low hand, or pair the board to scoop, but I as unable to improve.
