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Cheap as Chips! New affordable PLO8 DYM's now in the Lobby.
After some Community comments last week, two new PLO8 DYM's have been introduced today...
£0.60
£1.15
Go on, you know you want to, & you have no excuse now.
I guess if enough of these games run, they'll remain in the Lobby. If they don't, they won't......
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If you have any questions about how to play DYM's, or the PLO8 variant, fire away, loads of folks will be on hand to help.
Good luck FCHD.
Great way to learn PLO8, or even brush up on it, at reasonable cost.
VERY low-variance, too, so plenty of poker per £.
Volume is good tonight, the real test will be whether this holds up over the middle to long term.
if i post a few hands it might help other newbies.
note i was limping as i want to take flops to get a feel for the game. whether that is a no no i didn't care, i just wanted to get a feel for how the game played post flop. first off a v basic question: do we have to use a different set of 2 cards for the high and low element of the pot?
now onto the hands:
here i raise. hand has no lo potential but has a good shot at the high? betting the open ender is ok, even though it's obvious im on a draw here?
Hand 2 - There is no Low as there isn't three different A-8 cards on the board. The board looks pretty dry until that pair up on the river, but that also gives you a made hand. I think I'd probably go with your line here, but be kicking myself if somebody has hit the house on the river.
Hand 3 - The double paired board does mean there are loads of potential full houses out there. so I would assume that by the river, the Ace flush is probably no good. However, you have the Low nuts, and with three people playing, even if you get "quartered" you're still not too far off breaking even. If it was heads up I think it would be a fold considering how few chips you've already put in to the pot, but three way I can see the benefits of calling.
This is great stuff, thanks lads.
Any PLO8, PLO or DYM questions, fire away, plenty of folks here on hand to help.
I kept an eye on the Lobby last night, & a good few games were running all evening at £0.60 & £1.15.
You will struggle to make your fortune playing these, but you'll also struggle to lose much money in them, by the very nature of how they play. They are the ideal vehicle to help anyone learn, understand & appreciate the nuances of PLO8, which really is The Beautiful Game, imo.
Teddy;
The replies FCHD gave are much the same as I'd reply.
The one with the flopped nut flush would have anyone scratching their head, believe me. So many possible scenarios here.
Without the pair up, we want to do the OPPOSITE of traditional poker wisdom, in that we MUST NOT LOSE OUR CUSTOMERS, as we are three-quartering all of them. String them all along with small bets, then bet the lot on the river, none of them holding A-2 will fold. We have THE best situation ever here, this is THE perfect scoopio situation, we have the hand we wait for all day. And yet, the moment the Board pairs, EVERYTHING changes, now we could be in a world of pain. In that spot, we can't really get off the hand, but I just check/call down.
And there you have some of the beauty of PLO8.
Did any of you guys find a situation in those new PLO8 DYM's where you folded A-A-x-x pre-flop?
If you play 10 PLO8 DYM's in a night, that situation WILL arise once or twice.
Can you fold them?.......
there was a few of them playing. but on the downside not as many 2.25 games filling as quick as they ussually do .think the novelty will wear off in a month or 2 and it will just be back too the same regs playing day in day out
there is also a couple of 3.30 tournaments as well 12.25 , 4.25 and another at 1025pm (or about those times)not as many play these compared too the £1.10
and finally there is the £100gtd £5.50 buy in at 8.25 pm usually between 20-30 runners
gl at the tables......tikay can you ask sky about this please?????
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3a3e58dba3-40f2-494c-9832-8812694e9fe6Discussion%3af4d2a75a-2e02-4ab7-8ffd-e00eb0dc8e7b
7, 8 & 9 are known as "Killer Cards" in PLO8, they kill your hand, they only make bad low OR High hands, & you can almost never have "nut-nut" with such cards. Remember, we ONLY want "scoop" hands, or hands which at least make a nut at either end. Almost impossible with such cards as 7-7-8-9.
Just guessing, I'll have a look tonight, but I doubt any hand in the Top 500 PLO8 hands contains more than one 7, 8 or 9.
OK, we'd probably play A-A-7-8 & the like sometimes, but even that is a really bad hand to go to war with.
Two brains? Me? I'm struggling with the one I have these days, mine is only half what iy used to be. It's just something you just learn with time. Keeps you interested, too, as some of the decisions are quite complex.
Ok when you consider ranges of the opponents on the board into effect then you are looking at most likely halving or quartering the pot whether HU or 3 way.
So for the maths side.
HU Put in 50% of pot to win either 25% or 50%.
3Way. Put in 33% of pot to win either 25% or 50%.
So this means that HU it is always a losing play to be playing nut Lo only, or break even at best. Yet 3 way it is either small loss or slightly bigger win to play it. Lo only hands play really well multiway but really poorly HU