Ok.. lots of feedback, so first of all thanks to everyone who at least read it. I wrote the article mostly for myself to try to add some weight to my thoughts on a game I love but also to share them thoughts with other people who play the game so i'm happy either way.

However, I do take three things from the criticism expressed in this thread:

My sentence structure was terrible throughout the piece and since reading it back over I can really see it. I think many of my points may have made a lot more sense had they been properly structured at least.

My point on c-betting is wrong in the context of the article. I do feel it is a powerful weapon in PLO to c-bet alot but i don't properly explain in which situations I think a player should be c-betting and more importantly which situations they shouldn't, something that I think is more open to debate than the frequency of c-betting as a high frequency is clearly wrong. (Even though i did technically advocate it in my article.. )

The article covers too many topics to provoke a proper debate, which is what I hoped to achieve therefore in my next post I will aim to concentrate on a single issue and write all i can on that in order for you guys to tear it to shreds and let me know where i'm going wrong.

Thanks to everyone who appreciated my effort and to everyone who offered some constructive criticism.

Let's hope my next post is slightly better recieved...

Vin

I've found in PLO that c-betting too much will see players making moves on you all the time...

Yes, there are 4 cards so we hit the flop more but if we c-bet a lot this can actually create problems for us when players start to check raise light because it is now next to impossible to know where we stand...

Say we hold K A 9 T and we raise the button.

Because a player has seen us c-betting way too often he has check raised us last 3 pots and we've had to fold all 3.

Flop comes K T 3

So villain checks and we bet- he raises to pot- now, are we stacking off here, we know he can't have made the nuts on the last 3 check raises so what happens is we end up stacking off with top two pair because we feel opponent is playing back at us too much.

I honestly prefer to play an honest post flop game at low stakes so I know that when a player does make a big raise, that they actually have something...c-betting too much will make players make plays at us more often and this puts us in way more tricky spots- do we re-raise top two here, fold, call, what happens if we call and he pots turn etc...