Of my five wins in 21 hands so far, only one has been at showdown when a short stack moved in, the rest were won with flop bets after a pf raise. I'm up about $3.
I blow all that sugar on this hand, when the double-suitedness of my kings and my opponent's short stack cloud my better judgment, and I call the third pf raise. I don't think I've seen a third pf pot bet in PLO that wasn't aces, and unlike certain other AA vs. KK scenarios that have been discussed recently, I've seen it many times. How about my brilliant flat call, as if maybe I can get away from a bad flop? Poker genius.
(QJJ8ds) Here's an example of what I mean by position being valuable in Omaha because of the clean information. OOP, that's a tough flop; you pretty much have to check/fold. In position, I'm usually good when it checks to me, and I can bet and take it down. A random 3 needs to bet that, and if a random king chooses not to, it's because they are afraid of a random 3.
(AKT3ss) In the interest of fair reporting, I get unclean information in essentially the same spot eight hands later. Oddly played by the villain; it didn't cost me much, and he let me pick up the nut flush draw on the turn and draw to it for free.
(AQ63dd) I make a disciplined check/fold with the nut diamond draw on the turn. I couldn't play for the rest of my stack with only six clean outs given the three diamonds in my hand, and a paired board potentially rendering any flush worthless.
I buckle down for a few orbits, then pick up a hand and get paid. Quads for the overkill. This guy didn't read my previous hand summary about the whole "paired board potentially rendering any flush useless."
OK, I managed to recover from that horrible call with KKXXds, so I'm cashing out my dollar and going to bed.
$6 --> $7
63 Hands
2 comments:
I like the position play on the 33K board, because you are playing Omaha and not Omaha 8. In O8, so many people, including myself, like a 3 in their hand so a random 3 is almost like a random 2 or random ace, it is not random, it is by design. Since you are playing Omaha, it is a good play.
Bummer that you were not able to laydown the KK double suited hand. You may want to run on poker tools, I am pretty sure it was a bad call against AAxx but vs. pot equity it probably wasn't a horrible call.
In either Omaha or O8, a person with a 3 is going to bet it, there, which is my point: position is extremely valuable in O/O8 because the information is generally cleaner.
Against AAxx, I'm a 2:1 dog. A call commits us both, essentially meaning that I'm calling $3.05 to win $5.60. It needs to be $6.10 to be EV-neutral, so yes, it was a bad call. Not horrible in terms of the strict numbers, but horrible in that I knew with near certainty that I was up against aces, and made the -EV call anyway.
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