Quote:
Originally Posted by crawfurd
What happens if I sit down with $1000 and don't straddle?
It doesn't matter if you don't straddle if others are juicing the pots. It only takes two guys on opposite ends of the table to start raising and reraising each other and trapping people between them for a game to become a preflop all-in shove fest pretty quickly
Quote:
Originally Posted by ColliePoker
I don't really play PLO, but I think it's a bit like NL MTTs where it's exponentially harder to study spots such that you frequently remember them from your solver work, when compared to NL cash games.
In PLO you're going to really be looking at how many outs you have in a spot, which doesn't necessarily require you to memorize charts and percentages.
As a for instance, let's say you hold 9
8
7
4
and the flop comes
K
6
5
You can hit any 3, 4, 7, 8 or 9 to make the nuts, giving you 17 outs twice. Sometimes you'll have combo draws where you can hit flush outs as well further increasing your outs. In some cases a strong draw can be a favorite over a "made" hand.
In the above, if you're up against top set with your opponent holding K
K
Q
3
the equities are pretty close with you around 47% to your opponents 53%, a relative coinflip (you also have backdoor hearts in this spot)