Pot Limit Omaha Mistakes

One of the reasons I love playing pot limit omaha is because a lot of people migrate to the game from texas hold ‘em and play with the similar, aggressive style that they play texas hold ‘em with. That’s their first mistake, and as it turns out, it was my mistake today too.

I usually play fairly loose preflop in an omaha game and make my money with post flop decision making, similar to what I do in texas hold ‘em, but I am much tighter after the flop in omaha.

I was dealt A♣J♣7&spades7♦ on the button and decided to make a small raise preflop. I was playing a $.05/$.10 game trying to get my “feel” for omaha back. I made it $.30 to go and everyone called, which is to be expected as omaha is a game that is determined by flops, not preflop hands.

The flop came 7♥3♣6&spades. Everyoe checked to me, I would have expected a 45 to bet to try and push out some of the higher straight draws, but no one did. Having top set and runner runner nut flush draw potential, I went ahead and bet the pot. Only one person called me and I figured him for AAxx or something similar.

The turn brought a K♣. I have a lot of outs at this point and again my opponent checks to me. I bet the pot, he calls again. Maybe my AAxx read was right and he just can’t get away from it. But I realize that my read may be way off as I don’t play much omaha.

The river is a blank, 9&spades and I am sitting with a set of 7s. My opponent bets the pot. What?! What could he possibly have that he decided to bet the pot with? Did he hang on to his 810 to hit an inside straight draw?

I reluctantly call his bet and he shows KKxx. He had checked called his set ont he turn with a potential flush draw out there - what the heck was he thinking? I don’t know, but he played the hand well enough to win and that’s all he needed to do.

If you’re an omaha player, please let me know what I did wrong, I know there was a way for me to lose less money in this hand, I just don’t see what it is. Would you have folded that set of 7s on the river?

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