Is 9 Hours of Poker too Much?

Last Sunday my friends and I had a poker marathon.  7 players, 9 hours, and a 30 minute break to duck down to Oportos.  We managed to fit in 4 no limit hold’em poker games and 1 game of Omaha.  I was dizzy by the end of it.

The game of Omaha killed me.  It was the first time I had ever played it, and it was really confusing.  Never has holding triple 9’s and a K hurt so much.

 Have you ever tried Omaha?  You get 4 hole cards, and the board is dealt just like Texas Hold’em.  2 cards from your hand must be used with 3 cards from the board. No more, no less.  So there’s much more chances to get 4 of a kind, straights and flushes, but you are very restricted on which cards you can use from the hole and the board.  Your hand could change from being the best, to the worst, to the best, and then the worst with each card that comes out on the board. It gets frustrating!

I recommend you to give it a try next time you have a game at home.  All the guys who played for the first time really liked it.  It woke them up from our multiple no limited hold’em games.