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Originally Posted by pocketzeroes
I think having face-up aces in position in PLO must almost certainly be +EV. We almost always have a hand strong enough to bluff-catch with. As long as we're not bluff-catching more than we're supposed to, I don't see how we'll possibly lose in the long run when aces have as much of an edge as they do vs a random hand.
The ability to threaten having the nuts is very important. It's very difficult to realize showdown equity on boards where it is very unlikely for AAxx to have the nuts, such as non-broadway/wheel straighty boards, flush boards of a suit the AAxx doesn't show, or really any other boards without an A. Meanwhile, we can threaten nutted hands on tons of boards and therefore bluff extremely aggressively. AAxx has a very hard time defending it's equity, getting value or bluffing because it can't really bet with a face-up hand effectively.
The GTO strategy for the random hand player likely involves lots of mixing, but generally a good strategy would be potting all our hands that beat AA and using our highest equity hands as bluffs, and giving up our worst hands will allow us to have something like a 4:1 (very rough guess) bluff:value ratio on the flop and there's not much AA can do about it but try to bluff-catch the combos that have slightly better equity or blockers to our value.