Good Luck!!!

That's a very, very, tough game!
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yeah... things I picked up about omaha.. assume someone's got the nuts...
count your outs on the turn, get your money in (more so PL High only)
Don't push hard 3 players or less with just the nut low.. you'll lose some money.
Starters are much more important than Hold'em.

Sweeping pots is nice.
Getting caught with 2nd best on both ends sucks.
The swings are much larger for me....

What am I missing? LOL
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Omaha went well tonight. Finished a winner. Hit quad 10s twice. Got paid on a hand set over set. I'm pleased.
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Had another good session last night playing 1/2. Been on a good run. Flopped a set of 10's, got someone to bite. 25 on the flop, 50 on the turn, just about bit for 120 on the river. He was just about convinced I missed a flush a draw, but he folded his bottom pair.

He didn't want to believe me when I told him I flopped a set later that night.

Bought in for 100, worked it up to 500 when someone else sat at the table with 600. Game on. He was playing pretty loose. Didn't get to take much of his chips, maybe one 80 pot, flopped middle pair and flush draw, turned trips. He was betting all the way through. Gave him a value raise on the river he called with top pair.
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Played my hand correctly last Sunday but blew it overall in a 8/16 game.

A-7 off suit (I dumped the hand preflop)

2 players left

Flop comes A-A-6

Both players check

Turn was the case Ace

Bet & called by 2 remaining players

River rainbow deuce

Bet with no call. Winner exposed her hand. J-J

By throwing my hand away, I gave up 50% of the Jackpot.

:-)

(and no I never said a word) LOL
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ouch!!!! but it was the right thing to do.

Hit one in Biloxi for 6k last year.

First hand, JJ. on a 1/2 nl (100-300 buy in, I'm in for 2)

Flop JJx, I check, one bet for 10, I call

Turn A, I check, other player checks.

River is a blank, I pot bet for 40, other guy ($500 stack) goes all in with Aces full. I instacall.

Guy is cussing till the other players tell him he just won $12k.
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I'm a little confused! I assume that you are referring to a bad beat of some kind. If that's the case, every bad beat, that I have ever seen, requires that both cards in your hand must play. You would have had 4 Aces, however, only one card in your hand would play!
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Kelly... that story my friend makes you want to play bad poker! LOL. I'm sure that was doh moment. Sorry to hear the session didn't go so well. I hope you didn't have your mind set on that Bad Beat jackpot.

Johnny, both of kelly's cards would have played on the board A A A 6 2. His 7 is the kicker for quad A's.
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No! That's not the way it works in any casino I've ever played in, and I've been playing in them for over 40 years. Both cards must play, and not as a kicker! With 4 of a kind, you must have two of them in your hand! With any five card hand, it's obvious that both cards in your hand must be part of the actual winning hand.
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Johnny, that's interesting.....

so with this board A A A 6 2 and A 7 as your hole cards, what 5 cards play to make the best hand?
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Actually it is the way its played. In Gardena CA casinos anyways.

The quads would constitute 4 cards and the 7 (since it's higher than any other card on the board not already being played) becomes the kicker.
So, in actuality, both hole cards are playing for the 5 card hand.

Now I know every casino sets their own rules, but in Southern CA many card casinos have that ruling.
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The four Aces and the seven are the best five, however, the Bad Beat Rules, in all casinos in Nevada, clearly state, that with four of a kind, the two hole cards must be a part of the 4 of a kind! Check with any casino that offers a bad beat Jack Pot, or even High Hand Jackpots.
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If you say that's the way it is in CA., I cannot dispute that. The last time I played in a Poker Room in CA., was over 15 years ago, and there were no bad beat or high hand jackpots back then.
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http://www.hustlercasinola.com/a/fly...rogressive.pdf
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I called them to ask how their rule actually applied. I was told, that in their Casino, in the case of four of a kind, there can be three parts of the four of a kind on the table. For example, in their casino, there can be 3 Tens on the table and lets' say a nine and a jack. If your hole cards were a ten and either a jack, queen or king, you would have a valid hand. Your kicker must either tie or beat the other kickers on the table. In all other California Casinos the kicker in your hand must beat all other kickers on the table.

The person I was talking to said that they were the only ones who allowed a tie with the highest kicker to count as a winning hand. He also said that in Nevada, the rules were completely different. He agreed that both of the whole cards must be used to make up the four of a kind.

I learned something today!!!
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The Normandie casino in Gardena is also like that ($15K JP). They do however have a larger jackpot ($40K) if quads are beat by quads and both players have pocket pairs. Hit it during certain hours and it doubles.

This is my usual haunting grounds

http://www.normandiecasino.com/Tourn...M-PROG-JPT.jpg
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My post #35 above has troubled me for several hours now. Something about it does not make any sense to me, so I called them again, and I was again explained the same exact ruling on how their rule about the hole cards apply. So, what I explained above #35 is correct, based on their rules.

However, it makes no sense to me, and here is why. Using the example that I was given, 3 tens, a nine and a jack are on the table. Your holding the 4th ten and another card. According to their rules, the other card must be a jack, queen, king or ace for your hand to count. Their rule, as defined by them, states that your kicker must be equal to or higher than any other cards on the table, beside the 3 tens. In other words, your kicker must tie or beat the other kickers on the table for your hand to be considered a winning hand. That makes no sense, as you have 4 tens. No one else has four tens, therefore the kicker is irrelevant. It should make no difference what your kicker is, even a duce should be good. Kickers, by all poker rules, only come into play to break two or more hands that tie, and sometimes kickers will also tie and the pot is split. With any four of a kind hand, there can be no ties. Who ever has four of a kind, can never be tied with an equal hand. As a result the kicker is irrelevant!


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My brother in law has in the past 6 weeks or so won...

$10k online
$23k real life tourney
$5k online
$10k online
$17.5k online
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Well all I can tell you is what I know. A poker hand in Hold Em consists of a 5 card hand, not 4. So the kicker does apply. If given the example you posted

10-10-9-J-10

And you have A-10, the Ace kicker counts as the 5th card to complete your hand.
If for example you instead had 8-10 in the hole, you have quads but the "J" on the board out ranks your 8, so therefore you do in fact have quads but you are not using both your hole cards, only the 10.

The key being that both players must have both hole cards contribute to make up a 5 card hand to qualify for bad beat JP.
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Poker,

You have missed my point completely! Yes, the kicker in your hand must play, making a five card hand, however, the value/rank of the kicker in your hand is irrelevant, as your four tens is the winning hand, no matter what the value of the kicker is. There is no other hand that can tie the four tens, so the value of the kicker, in your hand, should be irrelevant.
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