Playing with the Lord Admiral Club

I had been invited out to play with the Lord Admiral Club a couple of times, but fate had just intervened in the way. I finally managed to make it out this week to their first game in a while. It’s a group of players who have been playing cards for quite a while. It’s a tight knit and very cool group of players. I knew that they played a tight limit Hold-Em game, but what I was unaware of was that they also played dealer’s choice.

Seeing as I know how to play limit only, that was a bit of a surprise. But the guys were nice enough to walk through the general play of the game and I tried to do the best I could. We played a couple of rounds of limit hold-em and I was able to make money in this game which kept me ahead of the curve. We played Omaha Hi/Lo Seven Card Stud, Razz, and finally 5 card draw lowball.

I managed to draw the nut low in Razz and lowball but I misplayed the lowball hand, and checked where I should have raised (I wasn’t drawing cards anyway, so I’m not sure if that was right or wrong). I managed to pull in a couple of decent pots in Omaha and Hold-Em, but the Hi-Lo games vexed me. I’ll try and get some reading done in these games before the next Lord Admiral game in mid-December.

All in all, it was a great game with a great group of guys (and great atmosphere to boot) capping off my “week of poker” I finished down $20 at that game, my first loss in a while, but it just motivates me to learn both seven card stud and Omaha. Looking forward to the next game. The hand of the night was the two brothers Mark and Sean going at it. With an A on the flop both of them re-raised and saw the hand down to the river where they both revealed… a pair of Kings…