I'm just getting my feet wet in Omaha and was wondering about the following hand.

Blinds are 75/150, my stack is about 13,000, the other stack is about 14,000. It's pot limit. Villain is basically a calling station with marginal hands and draws, only raising with big hands, not big draws.

I'm dealt A A A 6 in the small blind. I raise to 450, he calls.

Flop comes AKJ . I have four of a kind! (sw). So he either has the flush or the straight or I'm way ahead. I lead out with a bet of 800 and figure to get raised if he has it. He calls.

Turn is the 6 . I have four of a kind and a pair! (sw, again). I bet the pot and again he calls.

River is a blank. I check. I figure he either has a weak flush, a set, or even two pair. I think he'll call with the weak flush, but probably fold to a big bet with any other holding. He makes a pot size bet to me, which I really didn't expect. What's my play here? Also, should I have played it differently earlier?

Edit: Switch SB and BB; I was BB.

LoL tell me this was meant as a joke...i'm sure it was.

but your play is to fold your set of aces because you are obv beaten.

No, it's not a joke. If it's anything but heads up I'd throw it away no problem. He never laid a hand down pre-flop, so he could have anything.

I did lay it down at the end because I thought I could outplay him, so no need to go broke right there. But do you just check-fold after the flop? That seems pretty weak. Or is it bet the flop and then check-fold the turn if I don't make a full house?

Like I said, I don't have much experience in Omaha, so I don't know how loose you can play when heads up.

You aren't folding your set of aces on the flop. Whoever said that leaves lots of money on the table against a blind hand. I'd either check/call or check/raise depending upon the opponent. If my implied odds are good if I hit (which would be the case against a loose opponent), I check/call; if it's a tighter opponent, I check-raise to blow him off his small flush. It's very unlikely someone has the nuts on this flop. If he calls a check-raise or bets again on the turn, you're out.


Clear fold on the river.

I know about the danger of getting married to a hand, but what about married to a read? I didn't check the flop because he would check behind me with anything but the flush and then a check-raise wouldn't get him off the hand. I led out on the flop and the turn because I knew he would raise me with the flush. I checked the river more in fear of the straight then the flush and figured he would check the straight as well.

My read on him said he would raise with the flush, so why was he betting the river and why the maximum?

After I folded he flashed the Q 10 (and junk) for the royal! Seeing that, I see why he played it the way he did. I had seen him raise big hands consistently, but I guess when you flop the best hand in poker, slow-playing seems like a good strategy.

After that hand I got three huge hands in a row and ended up winning it...rigged...

This is the reason i thought it was a joke....4 of a kinda with trips in your hand...What?

Anyway my guess would be that your opponent has either a mid range flush or the nut str8...although nut str8 is more of a stretch with the pot sized bet on the river.

I still don't think folding top set here is a horrible idea, but i usually play a full ring game were the nuts are usually out there.