"Every Hand"

A new player had just been seated at our Thursday Omaha game.  She asked, "Is there a bad beat?". Meaning of course, is there a bad beat jackpot.  A regular quickly answered, "Yes, every hand". Very funny,  so true, and so prophetic. We began short handed, 5 players, and I won a large first pot with trips.  Good start, but definitely not my day.  Lost with an underful and lots of 2nd best hands and flopped sets that were crushed by flushes or straights.   The nail in my coffin was a 7 player limped pot with 9/9. Was pleasantly surprised with a flop of A/9/9.  Thinking primarily of the half hour $100 high hand, bet $4 since the mandatory $20 pot was already in play.  Got 2 or 3 callers.  Next card? Ace.  Great, I checked to allow an ace to bet but everyone checked.  The river brought another ace.  Unbelievable.  I checked and the tightest player at the table bet.  I showed my hand to the dealer, called him the worst dealer in history and folded...The player's quad aces held up for high hand. What is amazing is that I only lost $8 on the hand and folded quads.

Recently tried the 1/3 pot limit Omaha game.  It played very big with button straddles 80% of the time and most pots 100-200 or more.  I was stacked on a set over set flop with the player next to me, but got most of it back a few hands later when she raised with A/A, I called with J/J, flop came 6/6/J.    Another happy moment when a big game (1500 buy in) player I recognized raised my A/A on straddle.  We got it all in and he flopped 2 pair, but running 2's counterfeited his pairs and I doubled up.  My poker pal (Gail, visiting from Cannon Beach) went broke in Hold'em so we left with me down "only" $80. Good experience though.