Anatomy of a winning Omaha session

When I came up with the title for this post, I remembered that I'd used the word "anatomy" in a title before. I just did a search and discovered that I wrote that post, "Anatomy of a poker death spiral", exactly one year ago today.

A winning Omaha session is all about patience. A lot of players don't display any at all, so if you can achieve a modicum you're ahead of the game. You have to be able to weather the heavy bettors while waiting for your ship to come in; this means you'll have to do a lot of folding. The good news about heavy bettors is that they usually don't last long.

Speaking of ships coming in, the prototypical winning Omaha session ends for you when an actual poker ship comes in -- a full boat, in other words. In more common parlance, a full house. You'll win on average a lot more money with a full house than you will with a straight or a flush, for the simple reason that it's more difficult for the opposition to detect. The only hint that's available to your opponents is that the board has paired.

When my ship came in last night, it was sevens full of threes, and the pot I won was worth $1,765.

During current Omaha session you were dealt 34 hands and saw flop:
- 5 out of 6 times while in big blind (83%)
- 3 out of 6 times while in small blind (50%)
- 14 out of 22 times in other positions (63%)
- a total of 22 out of 34 (64%)
Pots won at showdown - 3 of 3 (100%)
Pots won without showdown - 2

delta: $720
balance: $1,040,107