Flopping a nut straight in O H/L

john003

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What's the best way to handle this?

Last night I'm playing at a .25/.50 dealers choice. I'm the BB. 5 handed.

UTG raises to $1.50. Everyone calls. I held 10J46 rainbow. I call cause of pot odds. Probably a bad call (if so, point it out now but like I said. pot odds. Cost me $1 to see a pot of $6.50) but the calls not what we're discussing.

Flop is 3c5h7c, two clubs. Already a low, but I flop high straight.

What do you do here?

Person to my left bet the pot. I reraised the pot to give any draws horrible odds. Get called and original raiser is all in with a call.

Turn pairs the board, 3c5h7c7s I check. Active player remaining checks. Juicy pot and I'm sweating bullets. River card completes the flush with 3c5h7c7s9c.

I check, guy moves all in for another $25. I'm so angry at this point cause its such a huge pot that originally had my name on it.

I tank for a moment, knowing I'm folding but just thinking as I look at the digusting turn of events that occured in this hand.

I sniffed my cards and jokingly said "I had nuts but it doesn't smell so nutty anymore".

I fold.

Player all in on flop shows boat. Other guy shows flush as well as A2 for nut low.

Question is: with pot odds, was this still a bad call PF?

Also, did I get out of this hand as cheaply as possible? I know I reraised on the flop but at that point I had the best hand. Was this reraise a bad move?

I just hated seeing such a juicy pot get split and shipped elsewhere cause of fish chasing!
 
undone

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u got out of the hand as cheaply as possible i think... i dont think you should have reraised... just called... another thing is your low was not very good at all... being 34567... you gotta figure someone had either 26 24 A4 A2 A6... so on the low you are probably done... i think you played it right after the flop.... but i think you should have folded preflop because this hand was not very good... you have no high flushed and you are depending on hitting a straight or a boat with 2 cards... also you dont really have a great low hand... but thats just my take.
 
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Undone got it right on all points, imo
 
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kudos for you for folding there, it was a very tough thing to do, and i beleive you got out at the right time. as for cheapest, i don;t think so. it's better to raise on the river in omaha when you know you have it made, because there are so many variables
 
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Thanks for the responses.

After reading undone's post and doing some O H/L research, PF call was bad as well as reraising.

Calling with this hand refreshed the statement in my mind of "playing marginal hands can put you in very bad situations for expensive decisions".

Thanks for the kudos for folding isaac. I slowed down on the turn cause of the board pair. Then the flush completed. I had a lot of money in there, but if there's one thing I've learned about Omaha in general is: if you don't have some type of nuts (in the case of this board, boat or flush) there's definitely someone that does. :D
 
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Easy fold preflop and river, I think on the flop you want to keep it small because with that many people you have to be splitting so you're drawing to a tie. Clear fold on the river of course.

Pot odds is overused to play marginal hands preflop IMO, you don't have pot odds to call because there is absolutely no flop that can make you happy about your hand (literally the only flop that you like is quads or a FH).
 
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