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Old 02-21-2005, 06:48 AM
donkeyradish donkeyradish is offline
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Default A difficult NL Omaha situation

Maybe this illustrates why NL Omaha isn't that popular.

I'd never sat down at a NL Omaha table before yesterday but a European poker site I occasionally play at has them. So anyway I thought it was worth a try. Anyway I've been there a few minutes and on the button I get

J [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 10 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Two middle position players limp in and so I do as well.
The flop comes:

K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Player MP1 who has $35 pushes it all in the middle.
Player MP2 who has $80 calls, leaving them $45

Its down to me to act and I have about $110 in front of me.

What an ugly situation, I have the temporary nuts but (my guess was) probably MP1 has them as well. I have no redraws to speak of. What to do now? Push it all in? Call and fold if the board pairs/3-flushes? Or fold, because a split pot is the best I can hope for anyway?
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