Tourney 1 wrapup, tourney 2 preview

As the liveblog states, I didn't do so hot last night, with the exception of one key hand I'll profile. I held 10-9 offsuit in early position, with the blinds at $15/$30. The table was full of limpers, so I limped (a little loose for me, but if I saw a favorable flop with a hand that isn't awful, I stood to make some money). We had one limper behind me (the big blind sat out and folded), and the flop came 10-2-2.

Pretty nice flop for my hand. I bet out $100 (about the size of the pot), and the other limper called me. This didn't concern me too much; I put him on an ace at this point, and I think he thought I was trying to steal.

Regardless, the turn was a GORGEOUS 9 of diamonds. I now had the top two pair, and the only thing that logically beats me here is if he limped with a deuce and smooth-called on the flop. I bet out $150, about half the pot, and the player behind me pushes all-in! He had me covered, and so I went into the tank. Could he have A-2? The table on the whole had been playing tightly, so I didn't think he would have seen the flop with any deuce weaker than that (unless he had two of them!).

After a few seconds, I decided I couldn't fold this hand and that A2 or pocket deuces weren't all that likely. I called him down, and to my delight, he held J-10! I'd outdrawn him, and when the river didn't bring a jack for higher 2 pair or a deuce for a split, I raked in a pretty large pot. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there, culminating when my K-9 was outdrawn by J-2 suited.

Tonight's another night, though, with a distinctly different feel: Pot limit Omaha. I've never been a tremendous Omaha player. I feel like I play too many hands and that I don't know when to get off a beaten hand. Regardless, I'm playing tonight (no reason not to, the price is certainly right!), and I'm going to play a few extremely low-priced sit-n-gos just to get my feet wet and develop some sort of strategy. I've already gloriously busted out of one; I was short-stacked in a fast-paced MTT, and pushed pre-flop with A-Q-J-7, only to run into quad kings!

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