I'm somewhat new to playing Omaha hi/lo (fixed-limit) but I did fairly well in a Pokerstars tournament I played tonight. Started with 299 people and down to 2 6-handed tables. I'm on the short stack with 13k and only one other person in the tournament has less than 25k so I need to make a move just to make the final table. The limits had just gone up to 4k-8k and I was on the big blind with 10
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The first player raises and everyone folds to me.With just 9k left calling obviously commits me to the hand which is pretty mediocre. But if I folded here then the small blind would wear down my stack to only 7k and I wouldn't even be able to make a full raise when if I ever got a decent hand. So I decided to just call and then bet any flop hoping that if my opponent totally missed he'd fold and I could take down the pot. If that failed I figured I had a decent chance of at least a split that would buy me some time. If someone else had called I would have folded since that would dramatically cut my survival chances.This was a tight decision and I'm wondering what people with more limit tournament experience think. This was the very first hand at 4k-8k and if the BB had only been 3k I probably would have folded. As it turned out the raiser had a middling hand himself 10
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. According to CardPlayer's Omaha Calculator that gave me an Expected Equity of .429, 28% scoop and a 30% split.As you might guess from the fact that I'm still thinking about it, I busted on this hand. He missed the flop (Q66) but called me down anyway. I think it was the right time to gamble since folding meant I was going to have to double up just to get back to where I started. Anyone have any advice on this sort of general situation? Does the hi-lo aspect come change things?
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