2009 Aussie Millions: $10-$20 Lives! (Redux)

In an effort to get myself on local time I forced myself to stay awake until 1am last night. We finished Day 1a of Event 1 early, so after grabbing some dinner I made my way to the cash games. On the board was a game I've never seen before: $10-$20 limit Omaha high. It was the biggest fixed-limit game in the room and had a total of three tables going.

Fixed-limit poker is my thing. Natually I drifted by one table to size up the game and witnessed the following hand: six players limped in for $10. The flop came down 10d-4c-2d and brought a bet of $10. Two players called before the player I was standing behind picked up his hand and re-checked his card. He had A-K-7-4 rainbow(!) and decided to call(!!). The turn was an offsuit jack. Again there was a bet and a call and our hero(?) made the call. Of course he hit his three-outer gutterball with an offsuit river queen. He bet and was called by one player.

After the hand was over, the hero turned around and said to me, "Didn't think I was going to get there, did ya?"

I wasted no time in putting my name on the list. Two hours in the game convinced me that the play is uniformly as bad as the hand I witnessed would suggest. I foresee spending lots of time in that game before I leave Melbourne.