Played the weekly Omaha8/Stud8 hi lo games last night. After 6.5h picked up maybe 10 playable hands, won 3-4 1/2 pots and was down 14-16BB. Played very patient. The game was great -- it was 11 handed, but if you can't get a hand there's nothing you can do. Tried representing a full house in a stud round with QQ88 showing only to be called down by trip 2s. Reminded myself that I just had to be patient in this game and the goal is not to try and make moves, but just wait for the cards against 90% of the table.
6.5h in the game became short, 5-6 players left and the consensus was to switch to only omaha8 for the rest of the night. Only 1 strong player in the game, and I thought at least I could play more hands now with less players. In the next 1.5h got some monster starting hands that I'd been waiting for all night and sinply outplayed almost everyone who wasn't a strong shorthanded omaha player -- went on a +50bb swing and ended up for the night.
For the night, 8h of play and +35BB for +4.5BB/h.
A frustrating night for the most part that turned out well. 11 handed stud rounds with no hands can take a longgggggg time to sit and fold, but that's what you have to do with rags, sometimes for hours, to beat this game.
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