Hi.
I am pretty new to omaha and rly dont know what i am doing. But i found my self in this tricky spot and had no idea what to do........... It would be nice to get some comments on this hand. I know now he had nothing but it looks and will almost always be 3-6 or set there.


Poker Stars $0.05/$0.10 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players
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Hero (MP): $9.40
CO: $12.65
BTN: $7.00
SB: $23.76
BB: $21.13
UTG: $31.95

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is MP with 3 5 2 4
UTG raises to $0.35, Hero calls $0.35, 2 folds, SB calls $0.30, BB calls $0.25

Flop: ($1.40) 2 4 5 (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG bets $0.89, Hero calls $0.89, SB folds, BB raises to $3.85, UTG folds, Hero raises to $9.05 all in, BB calls $5.20

Turn: ($20.39) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($20.39) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $20.39
Hero shows 3 5 2 4 (two pair, Eights and Fives)
BB shows T A 2 6 (two pair, Eights and Deuces)
Hero wins $19.47
(Rake: $0.92)

What a brilliant level! I was shocked twice when I made ProPokerTools sims.
Please 1) don't post results, 2) fold this trash preflop - it's a rundown, but the lowest one and it's offsuit. The 1st (small) shock is that this hand's PPT rank is 94 out of 100 (1 is the best, 100 is the worst) - well, I knew that it's trash but I thought it's in the top 90% at least...

And the 2nd shock is that shoving here vs a competent BB is as profitable as folding!!! The thing is that, if BB is quite tight from the blinds (correctly so), A3 is much more frequent in his range than 6-3 and sets, and he undoubtedly plays A3 in the same manner if he perceives you and UTG as good/unknown players who play tight preflop because he thinks your hands seldom contain 6-3, but he still needs to defend his str8 from sets. We need to have 40% equity to shove profitably (to count the odds you need correctly, imagine that the game is no-limit and he simply shoved into you), and we have it! (Most of the time we've got 10 outs to win and 3 outs to split.)

ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation

2,861,800 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 245

Hand	Pot equity	Wins	Ties
5s4h3c2d	41.00%	1,014,186	318,505
(A3,63,55,44,22):25%	59.00%	1,529,109	318,505

Calling now and folding on blank turns doesn't make much difference to shoving because we'll have equity ~24% facing a bet only slightly bigger than half the pot.

So we've got a rare case when all the 3 flop decisions are close. Which one to choose? It depends on what table image of yourself you want to create. However, if you've already noticed before that BB is such a drooler, then shove without any second thought.