Played a lot of PLO Fri night, Saturday and Sat night and I have questions!

1.) My hand: A776
FLOP: QJ9
I'm first to act, I check and he makes a pot size bet of about $120. He obv has a straight but I call. Dumb?

Turn: 3

I check and he pots for about $400. Mind you he's a dealer and known as a solid PLO player. I tank for a minute or 2 and fold. Is this an insta-fold? I folded hand face up and was told "What were you thinking about, fold that shiat." Is this advice correct? ty.

2.) I'm sitting in the 1 seat, villain in 2 seat, and an elderly woman in 3 seat. Every time I would act, seat 2 would do nothing but tank. Every. time. Then 3 seat would think it's her turn and act, which would cause seats 4, 5, 6 to act, THEN after they'd fold seat 2 would say "Pot". I didn't say anything the first few times this happened but after the 5th time I exploded at the dealer saying "it's not seat 3's fault but get control of this game. This has happened 5 times so far, we are playing for money not matchsticks, blah blah blah". Mind you, I was running over the table for hours, had the lion's share of the chips at the table and was annihilating villain in seat 2. So after my explosion, it just kept happening so I went after seat 2 hard, felting her literally 6 times until she stopped reloading.

Of course I looked like an ass with my outburst while winning, but please - what should I have done? These are regulars and I expect I will play with them again in the future. ty.

Hand: If their range on the flop is literally straights and only straights (it shouldn't be) it's probably a fold on the flop. You will be likely facing a large bet on the turn so you have 20% to hit your hand with very little implieds. As played it's an easy fold on the turn.

Preflop action here matters a lot because our hand is mostly ****, your first to act so if you defending in BB for a single raise that is fine but if you opened this from early position or defended against a 3-bet it's likely a very poor choice.

I would not blow up, I would ask nicely. People make mistakes in live plo and take their action out of turn all the time myself included when we think the action is on us. If this is clearly an angle I would ask the dealer and inform the table so the idiots behind him can act accordingly.

If you can't figure out if drawing against a straight out of position is a good idea or not, you might as well not ask other questions. There's no hope for you. Then you didn't list stakes, number of players that saw the flop, or preflop action. There's no hope for you.

Hand 1, more info helps but very standard fold, you need implied odds to want to continue, since opponent could make straight flushes and boats that beat you even when you make your nut flush, its an unattractive spot

As for yelling at the dealer: probably not handled as tactfully as possible but bring up a recurrent problem is fine.. something like please act quicker preflop and reminders to other player not to act out of turn

Cash out and go home

im trying to understand the 2nd part of your post...did they actually call the bet and then pot once they seen how many limpers?

No, she would tank, next person who was elderly would act and then the next 2, 3 or 4 people would follow suit. After all this action then person in seat 2 would say "I haven't acted yet." and proceed to bet big or fold depending on the free intel. This happened 4-5 times until I made an issue out of it, which I did because it was deliberate angling. However, I made a lot of money there and I'd like to go back.

Let's not get all hopeless here. I already knew the answer to my question but wanted confirmation to drill it home.

I'm learning, which means I ask stupid questions. It's the only way I learn. I'm actually a pretty decent poker player.

We're all decent poker players until the rake hits us.

I don't think rake is the deciding factor for op

Whore!

lol j/k

I'm hitting the felt tonight. Your comment is making me consider playing just NLHE but I want to crush PLO like a boss.

I'm going to take lots and lots of notes....