Introducing Mad Max, Semi-Professional Omaha Player

My Omaha Poker Name and The M-High

I’m all for introductions, and I won’t hide behind the first letter of my name, my name is Max. Friends usually call me Mad Max for all the crazy stuff I pull when I’m drunk, but at the tables, when we are playing sweet Omaha Poker, they just call me Mad. So the “M” kind of suits me, but never call me MM or god forbid M&M. I hate that those shitty balls of color crap. Like one of the last hands I played, I think it was yesterday, not sure though, days just fly by, playing poker all day long can really get your head in a spin you’ll never get a grip on. It’s like a really cool high, let’s call it the M-high from now on. Yeah.

An Example Omaha hand; Tc6c9h5c

Anyway, I got Tc6c9h5c, what a cool hand, I was even on the cutoff, so my day just couldn’t get any better, you know? Oh and I forgot to mention, the guy in middle position limped, what a donk. So I go ahead and make a standard pot raise, like I always do in this spot, and I make it $1.10 to go. The dealer calls me smoothly, but then my day goes to total ruin as the middle position man re-raises me to $4.75, I mean what the hell. He thinks he is superman or something? I instantly call him, no hesitation, showing him who is the real man at the table, and the button calls, as he is short stacked, he shows he is a real donk by not moving all in with his remaining $3.52. I feel like I played it perfectly until this point.

Disaster Flop, Horrible Turn Card

But then, the flop comes, and I see God has abandoned me, “Qs2h3c”, I mean, such a beautiful hand, how could I miss? Anyway, the pot is $14.60 and I’m not about to give this hand up, so much money, I could buy myself another pack of condoms! But then something really odd happens, the Middle man bets $6.93 dollars into the pot. What is he trying to tell me here? That he did a 69 with 3 girls last night? That he likes anything that divides by 3? I just couldn’t figure it out, so I naturally folded, having no clue whatsoever. The button called with his remaining $3.52 making it a $21.64 pot.

Unable to buy any condoms

The turn though, spelled disaster for the remainder of my once beautiful evening, a 4s, that would have made me a straight and lots of condoms. The river was a Qc which made the button a set of Queens, he held Qh6sAd7d and the donk Middle man made Aces up with his Ac6hKhAh, the better donk won, but my evening was ruined. In the end I lost $129.2 and went to sleep without a good night kiss for myself.

Peace out,

Mad (Max)