Bag of Tricks

[Ribbo]

There is one play at pot limit omaha/8 that rarely ever gets seen. I believe most players should have room for it in their arsenal, only to be used occasionally against the right sort of opponent. It's the reraise of a raise preflop with a hand that doesn't contain AA.

***** Hand History for Game 2552500091 *****
$200 PL Omaha Hi/Lo - Wednesday, August 17, 20:10:09 EDT 2005
Table Table 36542 (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: luetch1 ( $190.05 )
Seat 2: Ricky_Hard ( $257.22 )
Seat 4: Player6464 ( $213.18 )
Seat 7: stormclouds ( $181.50 )
Seat 8: BeltBuster ( $204.67 )
Seat 9: Ribbo ( $315.26 )
Seat 3: buckatari ( $74.87 )
Seat 10: Tindio ( $169.35 )
Seat 5: karfaton ( $200.05 )
Seat 6: obdachloser ( $100 )
BeltBuster posts small blind [$1].
Ribbo posts big blind [$2].
obdachloser posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Ribbo [ 3c Ad Qs 2c ]
Tindio folds.
luetch1 calls [$2].
Ricky_Hard folds.
buckatari folds.
Player6464 folds.
karfaton raises [$11].
obdachloser folds.
stormclouds folds.
BeltBuster folds.
Ribbo raises [$36].
luetch1 folds.
karfaton calls [$27].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Jc, 4d ]
Ribbo bets [$78].
karfaton calls [$78].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
Ribbo is all-In [$199.26]
karfaton folds.
Ribbo does not show cards.
Ribbo wins $433.26

Against an aggressive player who has a clue, they will always see the reraise as AA. If they dont shove back at you, that gives you all the momentum. It is most likely you have reraised with a hand such as A23x, and it is more than likely that your opponent also has said hand. So when the flop comes high, it's a good time to pick up the pot if you can follow through with your bet. Players with AA I would say around 99% of the time want it all in preflop. Very very rarely you find some tricky SOB who wont pot back your reraise (maybe he figures you for the other two aces and has a bad low, or maybe he thinks since he knows you both have AA now he can outplay you on the flop.

I'm assuming if he pots back at you preflop, you are going to just call and see what the flop brings?

Nice hand, sir.

[Ribbo]

Yes and likely check fold that flop. Notice how in a case like this where both players would have the same hands. It's the more aggressive player who wins the pot, worth noting.

I might be digging too deep, but trying to add to bag of tricks, as it were...

My next question is once you are called on that flop pot bet, what cards are you not going to push the turn with? The J seems like a nice card given the action, but are you pushing any low card (giving you nut low draw only) or pushing if an A, Q, 9, 8 fall putting a straight out? Is there anything that will fall that you won't push the turn with?