8-16 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo with Half Kill at Bay 101 and San Francisco and San Jose Trip Report

8/16 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo with half kill using $2 chips. Kill is for certain minimum scooped pot.

Hero played 2 rotations in a short period after being on the wait list for an hour.

The game was fairly loose. Almost everyone was over the age of 50 sans one lady (maybe in her 40s). There was an Asian player to hero's right.

Table Reads:
1 [empty for hand, eventually older male]
2 middle aged Asian female
3 middle aged guy
4 Hero
5 [empty for hand, eventually older male]
6 older male
7 older male
8 older male (was eventually friendly with hero and talked about where hero was driving from/to)
9 older male

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Hero dealt in SB: A632 rainbow

Kill Pot (3 small bet kill UTG)
Preflop:
Vil3 (UTG): calls
Hero (UTG+1): calls
Vil6 (HJ): calls
Vil7 (CO): folds
Vil8 (But): calls
Vil9 (SB): calls
Vil2 (BB): checks

(6 players - 18 small bets in pot)
Flop: 8c 8d 3h
(checks to Vil8)
Vil8: bets
(all players call)

(6 players - 12 big bets in pot)
Turn: 8c 8d 3h 6h
(checks to Vil8)
Vil8: bets
(all players call)

(6 players - 18 big bets in pot)
Flop: 8c 8d 3h 6h 6s
(all players check)

Hero: quickly shows A632
Hero says to Vil7: "I thought you were going to easily bet the river."
Vil7: "That was what I wanted seat 3 to think too."

Analysis:
Flop: Standard bet/call with nut low + pair.
Turn: Hero could check raise the field as hero may have lost value against 8xxx, but hero might be quartering self too.
River: Hero made mistake and should have donk bet the river. Worse 8xxx would call (which at least Vil3 and Vil7 have).

Hero ended up about $200 (15 bets).

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Hero also drove around to all of the Bay area (San Francisco and San Jose) poker rooms within 1.5 hours of downtown SF.