wow thanks for great responses everyone. Im going to need another reload tomorrow and Im not playing until I read a few things in the plo beginner sticky.
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Originally Posted by WereBeer
If you have no idea how to play PLO, read some books.
Short guide if you only ever played NLHE and want to play without doing any research at all:
Pre-flop: Big double pairs (TT+), 4 card straights and double suitedness are things to look for. 4 cards gives you 6 holdem hands, try to make sure you have multiple hands, not just one. Like KcKsQcQs is a monster, AcAdJh6s is not. Small pairs are junk. Position matters at least as much as NLHE.
Postflop try to make the nuts. K-high flush is not a monster. Bottom set is not a monster. Re-draws matter, so middle set with NFD is a monster. If you draw, do so to the nuts. TPTK is not a good hand.
thanks. I learned to not insta stack off with a a small set turned fullhouse. Of course I learned the hard way. Counting fullhouse possibilities seems a bit ridiculous coming from holdem but stacking off with the 5th best isnt a cooler. I get that now.
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Originally Posted by DalTXColtsFan
FWIW OP I had the same thing happen. PLO is 10 times as fun as NLHE or LHE. It's an emotional and bankroll rollercoaster, but holy cow is it fun. And yes, going back to a game like Hold'Em where it's standard to fold 20 to 30 hands in a row is like cultureshock.
As an attempt to make this post productive, one thing that playing PLO *and* NLHE helped me with is understanding how stack sizes affect implied odds and preflop decisions. The bigger the effective stacks the more hands you can profitably play preflop as long as you know how to get away from them postflop. In PLO, if you're playing on the right kind of site your implied odds are through the roof. If you're playing on the WRONG kind of site they can still be pretty high but you're more susceptible to REVERSE implied odds.
Hope that helped.
ya its so fun and I know Ill be a winner. its alot easier for spewtards to play every hand vs holdem and when you get a guy 3betting every hand...there's really nothing in holdem like that.
I'm doing really well at the 50bb tables. It might be a mistake to auto top-up to 100 bbs at the regular tables. Ill consider stopping that if anyone has any input there.
I half feel like one of my problems is seeing monsters under every turn card and shutting down after cbetting without a great hand.
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Originally Posted by BDHarrison
It's not that unusual for me to fold 20 hands in a row at live PLO. I think that preflop hand selection is vastly underrated by most players, even some winning players, at PLO.
If you are playing too loose in the game, you probably don't understand that you can fold KKxx preflop, that you can fold a suited ace preflop, that you can fold a double suited hand preflop.
ya I love players who stack off no matter what with any AA, any board when they only get 10bbs in preflop. As a matter of fact I just stacked one of them. pot bet the K 3 6 with AAxx no draw, 3 turn, of course pot bet again. wtf do you want someone to be calling with? KK for me thank you very much.