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Originally Posted by jack492505
I don't play much PLO but I think from what little I've seen if you wanted to you could actually play a winning style with relatively low variance.
Most of the time there will be mostly limps preflop, so you can play tight, see relatively cheap flops and put money in when you flop strong. Given how much players overvalue TP or weak 2pr hands you could probably get money in a lot as a pretty strong favorite.
It will be higher variance than NLHE, but maybe not super high like high stakes PLO games we see are. That may be completely off-base, most of my PLO experience is spewing at 1/2 while waiting for 5/10 games at Foxwoods so I dunno.
But I guess if you are worried about losing with the best hand too often PLO probably isn't really for you.
I completely understand the PLO is a drawing game and big wraps, especially double suited wraps are great PLO hands.
At my casino, the 1/2 PLO game may as well be 8/15 lol cause there's always someone who will make it 15 preflop. You can basically wait for the nuts or even the second nuts and get paid off easily.
E.G. I have K
Q
J
T
it's 15 and someone raises to 45, sure to be at least 6 callers, so I call, since there is always multiway action, wraps are especially valuable. Flop comes J
8
T
, I'm gonna check to the raiser, when he raises I'll go all-in here as he likely has QQ or maybe even 2 pair. There are too many possibilities here for me not to go all-in.
Anyway, usually top two pair is good in these games, but it's best to wait for made hands and get paid off cause it really sucks when you're good on the flop only to lose every time for your whole stack cause that's how much the pot usually is by the flop and you're all-in cause you have to bet with the best hand.
I'd love to learn more about PLO though cause it's more fun than Holdem IMO. Any good references you could point me too?
On the other hand, I may switch to nights at my casino where all the gamblers are and just fit or fold. Value betting at these times can win some mega pots. Suckouts occur more often though too cause of all the callers.
Is it true that Axs and Suited connectors have more value because of 6+ callers, even when raised?