Decided to start playing a bit of micro PLO cash games to break up my usual grind. Very little experience or knowledge of PLO, apart from a couple of Phil Galfond youtube videos which were way over my head.
Was heads up at the time, no reads on villan, I don't think I would be able to detect calling station or maniac players in PLO yet even if the tells were slapping me in the face..
Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
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Thoich | Small blind | | £0.02 | £0.02 | £4.75 |
XX | Big blind | | £0.04 | £0.06 | £1.91 |
| Your hole cards | | | | |
Thoich | Call | | £0.02 | £0.08 | £4.73 |
XX | Raise | | £0.08 | £0.16 | £1.83 |
Thoich | Call | | £0.08 | £0.24 | £4.65 |
Flop |
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XX | Bet | | £0.12 | £0.36 | £1.71 |
Thoich | Raise | | £0.36 | £0.72 | £4.29 |
XX | Call | | £0.24 | £0.96 | £1.47 |
Turn |
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XX | Bet | | £0.96 | £1.92 | £0.51 |
Thoich | Raise | | £3.84 | £5.76 | £0.45 |
XX | All-in | | £0.51 | £6.27 | £0.00 |
Thoich | Unmatched bet | | £2.37 | £3.90 | £2.82 |
Thoich | Show | | | | |
XX | Show | | | | |
River |
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Thoich | Win | Three 5s | £3.60 | | £6.42 |
My thoughts...
Pre-Flop: I have 4 fairly nice looking cards of the same color, lets see a flop.
Flop: With him raising pre and betting flop I am guessing likely hands are broadway hands and overpairs. I raised to fold out broardway hands that have good equity against my hand, also thinking it might be possible for them to lay down 1010/JJ type hands??
Is it too ambitious to think some people would lay down QQ/KK/AA here?
Turn: Thankfully binked trips and guessing and I am assuming my play is pretty on turn.
Mostly wondering if I should be raising hands like this pre, or is limp calling hands like these okay to avoid getting 3bet?
Also not sure about my turn play, maybe a bit ambitious??
Any words of wisdom would be appreciated
Comments
Not an expert on PLO HU, but I don't see a problem limp calliing or raising the hand if you are looking for straights or other strong hands against his raise.
Flop, you have pair and OESD, and so I don't see a problem with reraise on a low board that likely hasn't hit him too well. Not sure why he calls though with no draw and two kings. Not a lot of outs to play for, but maybe he thinks kings are still good.
Turn. He pots it with KK still no draw. THis is suicide giiven flop action unless he is trying to convince you he has a 5. Yes, he could have a set of 7's or 2's or bigger kicker 5, but given it's the only hands that beats us I shove too.
As I said, my PLO HU is non-existant, so this could be bad advice, but I'll see when others post.
Hi THoich,
Ideally, Omaha is a game of BIG cards, but rundowns are fine, as are gapped rundowns. You can really hit a flop hard with a gapped rundown, though ideally we want the gap at the lower end, say, 7-9-10-J.
Anyway, that has nothing to do with anything really.
So, this hand, & the guy could not fold his Kings.
FWIW, in Omaha, MOST money is lost with big pairs, players seem unable to fold them. (Guilty as charged, on occasion).
The guy with Aces or Kings has to raise pre, & has to c-Bet on almost any flop, so if you hit your flop, you'll generally get 2 streets of value, minimum.
In this case, the flop was fairly dry (5-7-2 cc), so he is guaranteed to continue. Once the board pairs, & you continue to show interest, he really ought to let go. In many cases, they can't or wont. This is exactly where we earn our profit in PLO.
Remember, though, when playing these low connectors, that unless you hit the flop hard, just give up. That's where we can lose our potential profit in PLO.
In other words to the OP. If you didn't see the OESD then your reraise with a pair of 5's was bad. Fairly high chance he has a better pair. Neither player showed in glory really, but PLO takes time to learn. I don't consider myself an expert at all. I enjoy it as a change from holdem, but that is my main game.
So thanks for giving met he urge to play some PLO, and no you don't get a fee. :P