Playing non raked, social home game PLO8...1/2 blinds, effective stacks 300 (other two players have nearly 1000 each)...game is very loose and players have no idea how to play PLO8 (don't understand 3/4 and scoop principle).

I have A358ss. I think it was limped around (common).

Flop 46Q, two spades.

Maniac bets 12, gets four callers.

Turn: 2!, non spade.

Maniac bets 60, MP (fancy play guy) calls, one donkey caller, I raise all in another 200 or so.

Maniac calls...MP mulls.

Question: I have nut/nut, with 100% counterfeit protection. Do I want a third player to call here? Or fourth?

He ended up calling, donkey folded.

River was a K. Maniac shoves on side, MP snap called. Maniac shows a set of queens, and MP had straight to 6, no spades/no ace.

I got 3/4 of middle. MP scooped 1K plus on side!

Nut-Nut with non-counterfeiting low? You want players from other tables calling too. The more the merrier.


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I guess in such game raising works fine. Without nfd I'd favor raising, with it (you don't mention how high your flush draw is) I guess I'd rather call, but no biggie.

My question is, how was your poker face on the turn. Id have a grin a mile wide


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We probably make more money on the hand with every player that enters, given how you say the game/specific players in the hand are playing. We obviously scoop the pot a ton HU and generally come out with 1/2 or 3/4 the rest of the time, but we're going to get 3/4 of a multiway pot so often, and sometimes even back into a scoop that it's probably more valuable to go multiway.

Hope you had a competent dealer for this one.

This hand in an unraked, loose PLO8 home game with at least 3 people in the pot is what dreams are made of.

I'd ask if I could go north.

/sarcasm.

Jokes aside, yeah, don't be fancy here. People will overvalue flushes, weaker lows, and the like and the pot is already big, so rip it on in and hope for action.

Aint that the truth?!

Bring em in. Tenant of this game. Sacrifice marginal equity with additional card draw for significant gain. equity loss of additional bet does not exceed what you can gain from the additional revenue generated from the caller.