It looks like I've found a live poker game to play in. Oddly enough, it's the old venue where I used to play. My wife and I used to play at this South Auckland pub on a regular basis when they held Friday night Texas Holdem Tournaments. But then I made the mistake of teaching the locals how to play Omaha Holdem. They liked it so much that the Friday night game became an Omaha ring game. This was unfortunate for me because by that stage I'd come to the realisation that Omaha is the most frustrating and annoying game in the universe. What's more, I'm no good at it. We went along to a couple of the games but gave it up late last year.
I continued looking for a new live game that was within my buy-in limits, but with no success. I like the convenience and variety of playing online, but you can't beat the experience of sitting around a table of actual people and fiddling with your chips. So, in the end I decided to bite the bullet and go back to the Friday night Omaha game.
It was a pleasant surprise to discover that the game was now dealer's choice: Texas Holdem or Omaha. As it happens, everyone was choosing Texas Holdem. We probably played about half a dozen hands of Omaha all night. What's more, this is a low stakes spread limit game, similar to the fixed limit games I'm playing online.
I didn't win in this session but that doesn't matter; I'm sure I'll get my chances in later sessions (although flopping a full house and then having my wife pick up a better full house on the turn didn't help the size of my chip stack). So I'm looking forward to a busy season of online and live poker games.
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