Did I Play This Right?

Props to Phil for letting me post this.

#Game No : 2931545738
***** Hand History for Game 2931545738 *****
$25 PL Omaha Hi/Lo - Tuesday, October 25, 21:28:25 EDT 2005
Table Table 64828 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 3: badabing71 ( $64.40 )
Seat 5: UnifiedHeart ( $88.22 )
Seat 8: BadbeatPhil ( $18.93 )
Seat 10: davebreal ( $124.14 )
Seat 7: IFoldedKings ( $22.20 )
Seat 4: C_C_W ( $25 )
Seat 6: MADBOMBRFOR3 ( $11.47 )
Seat 1: drew_ster ( $25 )
davebreal posts small blind [$0.10].
drew_ster posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to davebreal [ Qh 2d Th Tc ]
badabing71 calls [$0.25].
>You have options at Table 65857 Table!.
C_C_W calls [$0.25].
UnifiedHeart folds.
MADBOMBRFOR3 folds.
IFoldedKings folds.
BadbeatPhil raises [$1.35].
davebreal calls [$1.25].
drew_ster folds.
bambellm has joined the table.
badabing71 calls [$1.10].
MEATEATER33 has joined the table.
C_C_W calls [$1.10].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, Jh, Ah ]
davebreal checks.
badabing71 checks.
C_C_W checks.
BadbeatPhil checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
>You have options at Table 65857 Table!.
davebreal checks.
badabing71 checks.
C_C_W checks.
BadbeatPhil checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
davebreal bets [$5.40].
badabing71 folds.
C_C_W folds.
BadbeatPhil is all-In [$17.58]
davebreal calls [$12.18].
davebreal shows [ Qh, 2d, Th, Tc ] Royal Flush.
BadbeatPhil shows [ Td, As, Ac, 2c ] four of a kind, aces.
davebreal wins $38.81 from the main pot with Royal Flush.
There was no qualifying low hand.
nice one
sorry phil
Game #2931556025 starts.

[DrewOnTilt]

Enjoy your royal and enjoy your grocery shopping and guitar playing [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

I just beat everyone to that comment. I got lucky as all hell and know it.

Pre-flop judgement was based solely on implied odds.

[steamboatin]

Okay, I am clueless but is this even a playable hand preflop?

I am struggling with Omaha but it looks like you were about to lose a significant amount of your chips and only a miracle saved you.

Don't take this as a negative remark about your play, I'm just looking for information.

It's fine, I don't mind the question. To analyze my actual holdings of 10-10-Q-2, it's ok to take a flop with high ranking suited connecting cards in Omaha Hi-Low, usually you want to get in cheap. The 2 basically makes my hand garbage, with an Ace instead it becomes a somewhat reasonable hand, even a King would do wonders for it.

As far as losing a signficant amount of chips goes (???). I had $1.35 in this pot total. With J-J-A-A on the board, I would have folded for a wooden nickel. Even if a King of the wrong suit hits, my straight would barely beat a bluff.

If you're new to Omaha 8, stick to suited Aces with wheel cards. You won't find 10-10-Q-2 on any premium hand charts!

[dcasper70]

[ QUOTE ]
but is this even a playable hand preflop?

[/ QUOTE ]

No, no it isn't.
Limping in the sb at this level with this hand is fine. Hell, I'll play anything for 3 nickles! But he was raised and had 2 people to act behind him. IMO, this is a garbage 3 card hand.
OP may believe that his call creates good pot odds for the other 2 to come along, hence that 'implied odds' comment, but it's still a mediocre, 3 card, high only hand in a 4 card split game.

He's right, he got lucky and knows it. Thanks for the brag post.

PLEASE, gergery, winter, ribbo, ANYONE, show me how this was a good preflop call. I really want to know if I'm missing the boat....

It's not a brag post. It's an insane bad beat/bad call post. This an absolute -EV play, the posting has no strategic value at all, and my implied odds joke was inferring implied royal flush odds. Hand is purely posted for entertainment value, as I sit here chuckling.

[steamboatin]

I think you got added to a bunch of buddy lists.

When not tooling around, I do my best to scoop pots, avoid being quartered, and play aggressively. Sure, it's ridiculously easy to win at the $25 tables in general, but anyone else here who plays the same tables has seen my improvements.

[Paxosmotic]

What on earth is with that preflop call? You're playing for at best a really weak high.