It seems I can't win in this game when pots get big. Standard? (Sorry sbout the sloppiness, trying to recant from memory.
Pretty loose 2-2 PLO live. Hero is in the CO with A
8
8
5
. Calls a 5 dollar bet pre. 7 to the flop. Effective stacks are around 400.
$35 in pot. Flop comes Q
6
7. Checks to hero, hero pots, 3 folds, 2 callers, UTG+3 shoves for about 100 on top. Hero iso repots essentially ai. 1 fold. V talks himself into calling with an open-ended straight draw (45xx).
Obv 8 hits turn. River bricks. V shows the nut straight. UTG+3 claims to have had a set of queens.