V1: 20ish white male, new to PLO. Just moved from a 1-2 NHLE to the PLO table for a try. Been at the table for nearly an hour and turned a $250 stack to $100. V1 is UTG for this hand.

V2: Late 20s black male. Average-above average PLO player. Straddles many hands. Stack size is about $650. V2 is on the button in this hand.

Hero: 50 white male. I have been at the table for almost 3 hours. The first hour I was aggressive PF and winning a few hands by c-betting. Since then I went card cold and not doing much. Hero stack is about $425. Hero is two seats right of button.

PF:
V2 posted $4 MISSISSIPPI straddle on the button. All players call to the hero. Hero raises to 10 with KJ109. Hero gets 6 callers.

Flop:
10105
V1 open bets $75, leaving $20 dollars behind. Folds to hero. I raise to 200.
V2 3-bets pot. V1 calls with the his $20 something dollars. Hero calls with remaining stack.

not thrilled to gii but can't fold now, ul if you lost.

Understand what you are saying. When I raised to $200 I knew I was pot committed. The reason I raised to $200 was to push out flush draws. What do you think of the $200 raise. Could you call of raise a different amount?

V1's bet here is committal obviously and we have a strong hand here with a tonne of equity even if behind so I like to call the $75 flat here to invite some action behind me from draws, naked pairs etc. looking to float - depending how bad the players are at the table.

When we raise here I don't think we ever get our money in crushingly ahead. 55 and T5 will be willing to jam this flop and depending how loose any number of Txxx w/ high card combos will probably GII here.

Against a range of T5xx, 55xx we're 37.84% and against a range of T5xx, 55xx and any Txxx combo we're in solid shape with 51.54% so it's up to you whether you can profitably raise GII OTF or call-decide.

your raise is fine imo. it's still possible there are worse Txxx out there w/o a fd,
the worst hand we are up against is AcTd9cKh or similar. in that case we have 25%.
just a cooler that the bigstack wakes up with a bigger hand here

flush draws probably aren't calling anyway. i don't really get minraising the field. does action start with sb pre or utg?

^Mississippi straddles force SB to act first. As played, I like potting from HJ pre hoping to buy button with our hand. Rest is fine.

There are two ways of doing it actually.

How often do you think one of the 5 million limpers has aces here? The dynamics of live plo make it pretty lucrative to limp reraise aces, especially from EP. And a lot of nits don't like playing single raised pots with aces and will just flat until they can get like half their stack in.

I thought that 'Mississippi' straddle refers to precisely this. I know GN in LV offers a button straddle, which still has UTG acting first pre and just gives button last action, but they don't call it a Mississippi. It's all just semantics anyway, really...

perhaps you are correct, i thought mississipi straddle simply referred to button straddle.

Straddle is allowed anywhere except the blinds in this room. In this case the button straddled.

Results:

With the Mississippi straddle from the button, SB is first to act throughout the hand.

I have to agree, the small PF raise put me in a bad spot.