PokerDiagram Does Omaha
I'm still trying to get everything caught up from vacation, so I'm a little behind on listening to my favorite poker podcasts. I listened to this week's edition of PokerDiagram on my way to and from work yesterday, and it's a miracle that I didn't get into a wreck because I was laughing so hard.
If you've not listened to PokerDiagram before, you really need to check it out. Each episode features Henry and Zog playing in an online tournament with one playing the tournament and the other offering color commentary. As the tournament plays out, they discuss the hands and the situations that are coming up. The guys usually play an NLHE sit and go on PokerRoom, but sometimes they venture into MTTs as well.
This week they decided to play a pot limit Omaha/8 sit and go. I really enjoy Omaha/8, though I haven't played as much of it lately. Thinking back to when I first learned the game a couple of years ago, it was very easy to identify with their stuggles. For example, early on in the tournament Zog was dealt 4-5-6-Q (total crap in O/8), and he played it. His comments were that it looked good because he had three low cards and the Queen was suited. Fair enough, but if you're not familiar with the game, O/8 (especially the pot limit variety) is a game of nuts. With a suited Queen, they would likely be second or third best if the flush came (or worse if the board paired). With low cards of 4-5-6, they would need a miracle board of A-2-3 to hit the nut low. In other words, this kind of hand can cost you a ton of chips in O/8.
The absolute funniest moment of the show comes about 40 minutes into the podcast. It was like a lightbulb went on over Henry's head, and he casually reckoned that perhaps the best pots to win are the ones were there is no possible low, and you get the whole thing. Or possibly hands that have a shot at winning both the high and the low. Scoop is the name of the game in O/8. I'm not doing their comments justice here (it's not nearly as funny when I type it out), but at the time it was so funny that I almost had Diet Coke come out my nose.
Seriously though, you owe it to yourself to check out the PokerDiagram podcast. The show is always entertaining, and they often have very good discussions on poker strategy along the way.
If you've not listened to PokerDiagram before, you really need to check it out. Each episode features Henry and Zog playing in an online tournament with one playing the tournament and the other offering color commentary. As the tournament plays out, they discuss the hands and the situations that are coming up. The guys usually play an NLHE sit and go on PokerRoom, but sometimes they venture into MTTs as well.
This week they decided to play a pot limit Omaha/8 sit and go. I really enjoy Omaha/8, though I haven't played as much of it lately. Thinking back to when I first learned the game a couple of years ago, it was very easy to identify with their stuggles. For example, early on in the tournament Zog was dealt 4-5-6-Q (total crap in O/8), and he played it. His comments were that it looked good because he had three low cards and the Queen was suited. Fair enough, but if you're not familiar with the game, O/8 (especially the pot limit variety) is a game of nuts. With a suited Queen, they would likely be second or third best if the flush came (or worse if the board paired). With low cards of 4-5-6, they would need a miracle board of A-2-3 to hit the nut low. In other words, this kind of hand can cost you a ton of chips in O/8.
The absolute funniest moment of the show comes about 40 minutes into the podcast. It was like a lightbulb went on over Henry's head, and he casually reckoned that perhaps the best pots to win are the ones were there is no possible low, and you get the whole thing. Or possibly hands that have a shot at winning both the high and the low. Scoop is the name of the game in O/8. I'm not doing their comments justice here (it's not nearly as funny when I type it out), but at the time it was so funny that I almost had Diet Coke come out my nose.
Seriously though, you owe it to yourself to check out the PokerDiagram podcast. The show is always entertaining, and they often have very good discussions on poker strategy along the way.
posted by Chris at 10:19 AM
3 Comments:
I have heard of PokerDiagram before. Caught wind of it from the Cardclubs.net site. I normally listen to Card Club on Lord Admiral Radio. They also mention Poker Diagram in their podcast.
Sounds like that podcast would be a hoot. Wonder if they record their podcast while drunk. lol.
Omaha is a different animal for sure. May have to pick that up as a sideline for when Holdem gets on my nerves.
We do like a drink when we're podcasting - in fact we like a drink at any time, podcasting or not.
However, even stone cold sober we would have been all at sea in the Omaha podcast - we really didn't know what we were doing, but having recorded it we thought we thought we'd expose our incompetence, on the basis that it might be amusing.
cheers for the mention!
Henry
PokerDiagram
Holy Cow! What an honor to have my humble blog read and commented on by PD Henry himself.
Henry, thanks for reading. You and Zog keep up the great show. I always look forward to my weekly dose of PokerDiagram!
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