Hollywood Dave makes Omaha Day 2!

WSOP blog

by ‘Hollywood’ Dave Stann

June 4th, 2008

Well it looks like my World Series is off to a great start — after winning nearly every tournament I played last year but failing to make a single day 2 in the 25+ WSOP ‘07 events I played, I finally got the monkey off my back tonite by making Day 2 of the first WSOP ‘08 event I played this year! So tomorrow I go into day 2 with just over chip average in Event #6, Omaha 8/b…

I’ve been pretty psyched for this particular event for a long time, since over the past 6 months or so I’ve spent 6+ days a week playing Omaha 8/b online, and not too long ago i took 3rd in an oe/b event at the Bike. So rather than starting this year’s WSOP with just another no limit holdem event, i wanted to kick things off in something that I feel like I have a much bigger edge in.

Don’t get me wrong, I love nlh tournies. But let’s face it, the ‘average’ player there is actually pretty decent. Not so in Omaha hi-lo — for some reason, most people just don’t get the subtle differences between Omaha hi and hi-lo. Which means that while I know i’m not the BEST player out there, i sure as shit have a monster edge over the majority of players who just don’t get the strategy differences.

Probably the biggest difference i notice is that people LOVE to raise with all high/all low hands, especially from early position. Don’t get me wrong, there’s definitely a time and place for that, but as a general rule of thumb you’re just not gonna accumulate many chips if you insist on isolating yourself in a pot with a hand that has much smaller scoop potential. If you’re playing for half the pot, then make sure that half is as big as possible, right?

anyway, we’ll see what happens tomorrow. Even though i’m sitting at 14k in chips (12k chip average), the blinds are going up to 600/1200 so i’m not far off from being in trouble. Today was a rollercoaster — i was the chipleader of my table from about 20 minutes in until over 6 hours later — but after a couple big stacks moved to my table & outdrew me in a few key pots, I was on life support for a hot minute. Luckily in the last hour of play I was able to scoop a few big pots (from some players who were obviously getting tired and chasing bad draws) and actually take out a couple short stacks, including one guy who was actually one of the big stacks an hour earlier who kept fucking with me. Karma, baby…

alright, i gotta crash. Obv getting a massage tomorrow before we start, those Amazon room chairs are anything but comfortable. Rock on & more later –

-hd.

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