Decided to put a couple K on PS the other day to mess around at some low stakes tables to get my poker fix. Ran into some interesting hands. Thought I'd post a few on here every once in awhile to and see some opinions of others.

Here's the first one.

POKERSTARS GAME #11424432312: OMAHA POT LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2007/08/11 - 02:43:17 (ET)
Table 'Rhesus' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: badblood1 ($366.65 in chips)
Seat 2: am-crm ($57.50 in chips)
Seat 3: Hunse ($305.15 in chips)
Seat 5: MMdomination ($126.55 in chips)
badblood1: posts small blind $1
am-crm: posts big blind $2
cmycardsfold: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MMdomination [2h 9s 6c 9c]
Hunse: folds
MMdomination: raises $5 to $7
badblood1: calls $6
am-crm: calls $5
*** FLOP *** [As Ah 9h]
badblood1: checks
am-crm: checks
MMdomination: bets $19.95
badblood1: raises $59.85 to $79.80
am-crm: folds
MMdomination: raises $39.75 to $119.55 and is all-in
badblood1: calls $39.75
*** TURN *** [As Ah 9h] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [As Ah 9h 6d] [2s]

Preflop is marginal at best. It's a very trashy hand, but if you know your opponents then it can be ok.

I don't think you have any choice but to get allin on the flop. If he has A9 so be it.

I agree fully. Once you raise pf, the rest is automatic. Why are you not playing on fulltilt and getting the rakeback benefits?

Players are very tight preflop and I like to put a lot of pressure on in position. Obviously the hand isn't good at all but i think given the players and position the preflop play is very +EV. Thought I'd get this reply but I raise the button almost everytime if its folded to me.

As for not playing FTP for rakeback: I'm not aloud to play there anymore because I had like 20 names on it. Also, I usually play much higher so rakeback doesn't do that much comparative to the blinds so I just play wherever the game is good. When I was coming up I used it and it made it much easier to build a BR.