0.5/1 Congress 4-handed on Poker Bros

CO open limps. BTN folds. SB limps.

I check in the BB with 2456Q with Q4 spades and 62 hearts.

Flop (3): 8c Ah Kh

SB checks. I bet 1. Both call.

Turn (6): 8c Ah Kh. 7d

SB checks. I bet 2. Both call.

River (12): 8c Ah Kh. 7d. 7h

SB checks. I bet 3. Only CO calls.

I chop with A3468 with 843 hearts.

I made a flash card for this hand to remind me to also bet small with monster hands in these spots.

I often go autopilot and bet small with weak hands and bet big with strong hands.

Also, this hand is probably too weak to bet 100% of the time since CO is actually slightly less loose pre than the others.

Super proud of this hand because I went out of my comfort zone and floated OOP.

0.5/1 Congress 4-handed on Poker Bros

I open pot in CO with A2389 with 23 spades and A8 hearts.

BTN and BB call.

Flop (11): Qh Kd As

BB and I check to BTN. He bets 4.5. BB folds.

I call!

BTN likes to take a stab when weakness is shown.

Turn (20): Qh Kd As. Ts

Check, check.

River (20): Qh Kd As. Ts. 4s

Check, check, and my 3 high flush is good!

2 hour and 35 min session on Poker Bros. Big Bet Winner's Choice. Auto reload for $100.

Won $110.46.

138 hands.

I'm getting around 50 hands an hour in this game.

Game was 6-7 handed half the time. The other half was 3-5 handed.

VPIP around 17%.

0.5/1 Congress 4-handed on Poker Bros

I open pot with (23)(45)7 from the CO. All call.

Flop (14): Ts As 7s

I have no spades. Checks around.

Turn (14): Ts As 7s. 9c

Checks to me. I bet 7. Only BTN calls.

River (28): Ts As 7s. 9c. 2c

I pot with nut low and pair of sevens. BTN folds quickly.

This whole hand might be too spewy since I don't have a spade and my story is kinda weird.

Based on reads, I thought BB and BTN would bet a flush on the flop and SB would bet the turn with a slowplayed flush.

I thought BTN would also bet the nut low draw on the flop.

I have a tight image and they probably think I'm capable of checking a crappy flush on the flop.

I might have to barrel the river (probably pot) if the river doesn't pair the board but the low doesn't get there.

For example, the Qh on the river.

Lots to think about when playing shorthanded!

I think your story is fine on the 75432 hand. When button flats preflop, you should probably be checking close to 100% of your hands on flop to give yourself pseudo last action (I don't have a solver and can't prove this mathematically, it's just my intuition).

My understanding is that solvers do this a lot in PLO from the cutoff because ranges are so similar between CO RFI and BU flatting. IE. there isn't a range advantage on many flop textures -- so, if you lead into the button it gives the button a huge positional advantage. Checking and seeing what the button does first helps to negate that.

Dang, that's cool. Never thought of that.

Especially multiway, checking seems good from CO because BTN has tough decision of ranging more than one opponent. He can mostly just bet with good hands because he has to beat multiple opponents. Therefore, "pseudo last action" makes sense for the CO since he can close the action if the BTN does bet.

Where did you read about PLO solvers and checking in the CO?

The PLO solver info is in a run it once course that I took.

I think button can probably bet somewhat freely when it's checked to him. He can bet with a lot of bluffs that are easy folds to x/r. He can obv value bet his good hands with good re-draws. He should be checking back a lot of hands that want to see a turn but hate a x/r.

edit: your hand is probably(?) a x/r if button bets. My guess is that it's close -- having the 7 gives us some backdoor boats.

Finally had a losing session. Thankful for my previous hot streak.

2 hour and 30 min session on Poker Bros. Big Bet Winner's Choice. Auto reload for $100.

Lost $59.70.

93 hands.

Game was 4 to 9 handed. We even had someone on the waiting list to join the game.

VPIP around 20%.

30 hands per hour seems really slow.

Yeah, it's because the game is super loosey goosey pre.

There were multiple hands where I was the only one who folded pre and the table was 8-handed lol

Starting a new streak of winning sessions.

4 hour and 11 min session on Poker Bros (home game). Big Bet Winner's Choice. Auto reload for $100.

Won $120.66.

184 hands.

Joined a Poker Bros union that has a decent amount of PL Omaha games. Mostly 6-max with an occasional 7-handed table.

Got back into my bad habit of playing too many too tables at once while also creating poker flash cards at the same time lol!

That caused a bunch of mistakes.

I think with these shorter than full ring tables that can get pretty deep stacked, it makes sense to only play 1-2 tables and concentrate on getting good reads. These reads are super important when stacks are deep.

Played for 13 hours and 35 minutes and lost 33.66 chips (0.85 chps = $1). In terms of bbs, I lost -28.25 bbs.

This is how much I was multitabling: I played 1817 hands!

I played these limits: 0.10/0.20, 0.20/0.40, 0.30/0.60, and 0.50/1.

I did well in the PLO6 but lost a bunch in PLO and PLO5.

Just single-tabled in PLO6 at the Poker Bros union and got a great read on a loose aggressive player that liked to bluff.

Here was the big hand of the session:

0.50/1 PLO6 6-handed at a Poker Bros Union

I’m eff stack with 190.

I open pot from CO with AAK964 with A4 spades and K96 diamonds.

He repots from BTN. Folds to me.

I call because we’re pretty deep. Plus, I want to trap because he’s aggressive when shown weakness.

Flop (25.5): 9c 6s 3h

We both quickly check.

Turn (25.5): 9c 6s 3h. 9s

I check!

He pots.

I call!

River (76.5): 9c 6s 3h. 9s. 7s

I check again!

He pots lol.

I check raise all-in and he folds.

I should’ve just called to see his hand.

Plus, I’m actually losing to 2 straight flushes and a bigger boat.

1 hour and 22 min session on Poker Bros (union). This is the single-table session from above. PLO6. Auto reload for $100.

Won 148.23 chips.

86 hands. (I played some hands HU at the end.)

re-potting with 99966 seems correct to me as there aren't a lot of 97xxx or SF combos available. It's probably closer than I think, but seems good to me.

Yeah, I think you're right. He could call with 93, 33, or 77. There are more combos of those cards than the stuff that beats me.

It reminds me of the hand where Dwan seems to be nit rolling Polk with a small boat on Hustler Casino Live. After the hand Dwan openly talks about it being close whether to jam or just call Polk's bet.