[LOW] $15 PLO Double board bomb pot in a 1/3 NL game
Join Date: Jan 2003
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9 players $15 each pot $130
Hand Qc 8s 7s 3s
Board 1: Ts 6s 5d
Board 2: Ks 4s 2s
Hero on the button.
Action: check, check, Bet $130 with about $150 behind, fold, allin $175, fold, allin $125, folded to hero with about $350 ... hero?
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Yeah, thanks. That's exactly what I did and would do it again without hesitation. But I'm inexperienced at PLO, so I took one final look at my hand, and my neighbor saw it - I didn't really care. He told me I folded the winner, probably for both boards. So, I made him a side bet that I was beat ... which, to my amazement, I lost. That damn hand would have won both boards.
The thing that gets me is two of the other guys are decent (for that game) no-limit players.
Join Date: Sep 2004
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You have the bottom flush. Yes it's certainly sometimes good, but more often it is not, and when it is you need to fade board pairs and hit your draw on b1.
For me it's a fold and congrats on making some EV from your neighbor.
Join Date: Feb 2013
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TBH this is a tough one to pass up. There's 8 spades accounted for and we do have 11 nut outs on top if our flush is ahead, 6 if flush is behind.
We are risking that the $280 stack has us dominated with a better flush .. that's the worst case scenario. Otherwise we should break even a lot in the side pots with over 20% chance to take the top Board as well.
BP are about having the nuts .. not drawing to it. So technically, yes, this is a snap fold. But the facts ..
1) Only 5 spades out there and the odds of another Player having 2 are pretty low
2) Plenty of Pot Odds drawing to the Straight nuts while spades are either our friend or we have them crippled, which adds to our equity on the top Board.
3) The problem with BP is your Pot Odds are 50% of what they normally are with the split pot.
As a pretty conservative BP Player I may not have been able to avoid this one. Nothing grinds me more than seeing a 'below T' flush win a pot and here we are knowing that spades are already crippled. GL
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Sorry, but I'm not folding -- at least not against the guys I play with. I just put it in. However, the guys I play with are terrible at these Omaha DBBPs.
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Bigger flush is out there most of the time in bomb pots, pretty standard fold.
Join Date: May 2023
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Don’t really play BP’s but I’d be fine to get it in at these stakes if I had a wrap instead of oesd up top. Would cry fold this hand.
