Yeah I was doubting myself in editing about the trip tens. Omaha can be confusing at times especially since I don’t play it regularly.
I’ll be sure to do better research if I do another Omaha hand review in the future.
-Marc
Marc, OK, you will do better in the future. Do you want to leave a vid full of incorrect info as part of your past, where everyone who finds your channel will see it? Redo it and have it right or take it down and move on. Getting traffic to bad content is brand suicide. Marc, we all want you to do well!
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Concur!
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I have re-recorded the episode and it should be out later today.
-Marc
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Hi everyone,
Just uploaded the re-recording of Marc’s Hand Review episode 5. You can view it below:
-Marc
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Hi Marc, nice video. I have one technical point to make, the terminology used when you hold a card that matches a board pair is “trips”. Sets are when we have a pocket pair and the board contains a card that matches our pair. Technically you can refer to sets as trips but not the other way around. It may seem like semantics but it is important when discussing HH’s that we’re all on the same page so the discussion and analysis can be conducted accurately. Sets are much more disguised than trips so therefore they are way more valuable in an EV sense. On top of that, if you have a set, no one else can have that set. Trips you can be dominated by another player holding the same trips with a better kicker.
In this hand we flop very well in a short stacked multi-way pot. Having trips with a Q kicker and no possible low is a hand we should be trying to get all in with. We’re just too strong not to with where we are in this structure. 300-350 flop shove turn is probably the line I would have taken. As played you have a 40% psb on the river, shove. If he’s calling 800 he should call all in.
I’m no expert by any stretch of my imagination, but intuitively I feel like having the QQ here kind of sucks. Sure we block QT pretty hard which beats us but we’re blocking a significant number of draws our opponents could have i.e. KQ overs and oesd (8) and AQ overs and gut shot (8). That being said we don’t choose our blockers anymore than our starting hands.
Couple of final points. I think it can be fine to preserve a 3 bb stack in a split pot limit game but I would be surprised if that’s still true in a no limit split pot game. I don’t really know though, if I played these I would definitely want to go find the answer.
Lastly, for the viewers not familiar with the game of high lo, you really want to be playing starting hands that have the ability to scoop or win both halves of the pot. Example of the best starting hand in this game would be something like AhAc2h3c. This hand has AA plus two suited A’s (Ah2h, Ac3c) for nut flush draws and three cards to a wheel (straight). All good for going after the high hand. You also have the three nut lo cards for going after the lo, you want the third nut lol card to protect against being counterfeited. Say the board has a qualifying low hand as Q7A J 4, you can no longer play A2 for low because there is an A on the board. Now with A23 you have the nut log on the lo end. Don’t worry about straights and flushes, they don’t count. So our hand AhAc2h3c on this board Qh7sAd Jh 4h we would win with the nut flush on the high and guaranteed at least a chop on the low with the nut lo. If no one else in the hand has 23 we would scoop the entire pot.
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to provide an update on the YouTube series. I know it’s been awhile since I’ve last posted a new episode and I want to post more content soon. I’m currently in the process of moving into a new room in my house which will give me more space and more time to create new episodes of Marc’s Hand Review as well as other projects I plan to start soon. Unfortunately the move into my new room is taking longer then originally expected for reasons beyond my control, but I’m hopeful I’ll be able to get settled in my new room early December and create new episodes of Marc’s Hand Review.
Thanks for your patience!
-Marc
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Looking forward to the next installment, Marc!
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Hi everyone!
I just posted a new episode of Marc’s Hand Review! In this episode I review a hand where I play KJ in the early stages of a tournament. I hope you enjoy it!
-Marc
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Hi everyone!
I know It’s been awhile since a new episode of Marc’s Hand Review has been posted, that is mostly due to the pandemic and I just feel more comfortable recording when no one is around but I am happy to say a new episode will finally be posted on Wednesday September 2nd!!!
Going forward I will post new episodes of Marc’s Hand Review as time permits. I will post here on Wednesday when I post the new episode.
-Marc.
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Good job Marc 
. That table looks so ugly compared to the new ones ! Looking forward to tomorrow!
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Here’s one to review…
#645567953 it is one in a mil. or higher…
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Thanks Mark! I’ll add this hand to the list of future hand reviews I want to do.
-Marc
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The newest episode of Marc’s Hand Review is now available! In this episode I look at a hand where I flopped a straight 10 to Ace.
-Marc
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Hi everyone,
Just posted a new episode of Marc’s Hand Review. In this episode I review a hand where I’m dealt pocket aces and discuss how I should bet with this hand.
-Marc
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The guy made a mistake. He clearly wasn’t paying attention if he called and mucked the hand.
He didn’t muck the hand after calling, he mucked it after showing down and losing. He lost the showdown and opted not to show. His call was last to act, and as soon as he made it, he lost the hand. He didn’t have to show.
I would have played this hand very differently. The opening preflop was too low, and each street your betting was too low. Nice job winning the hand, though.
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I agree the betting was too low but still to limp in and call after the river card was nonsensical. Okay he mucked after a showdown but what a waste of a call and chips that was!
I doubt he was just chasing the board. If so, why call the river bet? He probably had some sort of pair plus a straight draw or pair with a flush draw. He called the river because he had some showdown value, but wasn’t strong enough to raise.
I don’t get the big deal about the call/muck. He had auto muck on, of course he’s gonna muck fast if he loses at showdown.
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