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PLO got very lucky advice please
This is not a raising hand. Don't fall in love with big pairs so much, even aces you want to get over 40% of your stack in preflop to be able to comfortably stack off not caring about the board.
Keep sticking to NLH until you feel comfortable with most spots you get into in that before you try branching out to other games such as omaha.
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Edit: Since realised this guy an any 4 merchant. Unfortunetly he was also a very lucky any 4 merchant. Called two all ins later for a J which he hit of coarse despite two J's being accounted for lol. Although there where no reads at this stage.
Im comfortable with No Limit Omaha which i actually thought this game was, didnt realise it wasnt until i started. Ive added a little extra about the opponent, but didnt know this at the time of this hand.
I had no idea about my opponent here, this was very early in the DYM, i quickly learnt after, he can only raise, he doesnt know how to fold or check.
This was the main reason id posted this hand, i knew i played it poorly but with it being Pot limit i wasnt sure how poorly. In no limit i probably would have played it differently.
Yea unfortunetly i managed to bubble it. This guy was just so predicatble with his betting, raise, re-raise, all in etc. He done this everyhand i think the whole table would have been happier if id had him covered here. As a result i thought a flopped mugs end was good but of coarse it wasnt.
1) you played it very poorly preflop
2) your opponent played it even worse on the flop
Your starting hand has only 2 nut drawing possibilities(J7 suited is too extreme to count in this circumstance). The main rule to use in omaha preflop is to judge the quantity,not quality, of 2 card nut drawing hands you have.4 or more is good, 3 is average and less than 3 is poor. So this is a hand that if you want to play it you should be looking to get to the flop as cheap as possible and evaluate from there.(this is the standard for most hands to be honest as it is a game of draws and redraws).You had the chance to take a cheap flop which you should have done instead of reopening the betting.
On the flop your opponent is drawing very thin indeed ( running kk or running AA) so you are lucky in that situation.But you should remember that you could easily have been behind to AQ KQ or TT and also your flush redraw could have been dominated or even dead.As played out you did the right thing on the flop but you made the decision about this pre flop when you reopened the betting and allowed the pot to get out of control before knowing where you stood.
The key to omaha is to take the flop and evaluate your hand. When you see the flop and you hit a set or a big draw then you bet out. Even the best hand possible is not guarunteed to be better than 65% fave preflop and in this hand i think it was probably about 50-50 preflop so you were risking a large proportion of your stack preflop on a coinflip. By keeping control preflop and then deciding you can then get a much larger proportion of your chips over the line when the odds are well in your favour
Im trying to play a little more Omaha now, i prefer omaha to hold em but im a little scared to get into the nitty gritty of omaha, where as im happy to grind away in hold em.
As a result next week i think ill be doing an all Omaha week so you may get a number of hands posted, not 100% decided however will depend on BR which is currently sitting strong enough for the levels im playing.
Not going to go over the top, just gna try my way and if struggling ill quickly flick back to Hold em.