Game is actually a $1/$3 NLH game in a Houston card room, but we play a hand of PLO every orbit-ish. The NLH play is bad, the PLO play is worse. I'm playing at an unusual time (for me) so I'm not familiar with the players. Villain is the big stack at table and he's played TAGish in NLH - raising hands that he plays, cbing when he's the preflop aggressor), haven't seen anything note worthy out of him yet in the few PLO hands we've played. He's an older Asian gentleman, seems like he is probably a day game regular. I'm not a strong PLO player as this post will demonstrate!
I bought in for $1200 and ran it up to $1900 in about 30 minutes. Won a big PLO double board bomb pot without a showdown and won a good sized NLH pot where I took a chicken **** line with a set and got it to showdown (floated flop, spiked my set on the turn but it also completed the flush and I just called the pfrer's turn and river bets...villain in that hand was the villain in this hand).
Villain covers me, so effective stacks are $1900.
I'm the button and I've straddled to $6
There are a couple of limpers and then villain makes it $30 from LJ.
HJ Calls, he's pretty loose, no telling what he's got
CO folds
I call from the button w A
Q
J
9
One limper calls
How am I doing so far? Not sure if this hand should even be a call.
Flop ($130) K
T
7
EP limp/caller checks
Villain bets $85
HJ folds
I raise pot which is $385 (although the dealer initially tells me it's $245 and offers up several others guesses before we help him to the correct answer!)
Villain re-raises me to $885
Hero ???
Seems like this can't ever be a call, I'm either folding or shoving? Villain is explaining that he is out of position and has to press the action or I'll blow him off the hand, and he's encouraging me to shove so we can run it twice and chop.
I'm giving him KK at the very worst, just not sure if the 4b means it's always KK w clubs?