Live full ring PLO 1/2/5 on BTN with a $10 rock.

Hero BTN straddle $5 ($2200) KhQh9c9s
Villain BB (~$2000) Younger-ish maybe mid 30s, don't know a ton about him TBH

Rock is MP.

MP2 $25, HJ call, CO call, Hero call BTN, sb fold, BB pot $165, all fold to Hero who calls.

Is this bad/standard/clear? I'm not even sure. BB going to have AAxx like the vast majority of the time IMO.

Flop (~$415) KcQs4d
Villain check, Hero $240, call.

Turn (~$895) 6d
Villain check, Hero misclick $525, meant to $550, Villain call.

If we assume Villain has AAxx here, how often will he have diamonds?

River (~$1945) 4h... sigh
Villain check, Hero doesn't think it is going to get through enough and checks behind...

Thoughts on all streets appreciated!

Pre looks normal. Hand has some defects, but speculative/OK.

Flop I'd be bombing bigger, turn as well.

AP river check is fine.

I'm curious why you chose those flop and turn sizings? I would pot the turn. I also check river.

Key spot to fold pre versus an Aces heavy range. Not only do you have poor equity but you will find it hard to realize equity postflop with only one flushdraw and bad connectivity. Think about it, the 9s are more of a blocker than a helper to your straight outs, and against AA, KQ will always have two less out to a straight.Any PLO hand with a 2gap is disconnected.

This hand suffers from similar issues in a multiway pot. This hand is drawing to the second nuts on several fronts.

As played, postflop you played it pretty well.

I think your sizings are great. We want value, not pot commitment. Well done for not bluffing. Firstly, we have SDV. Secondly, he was obv calling with something and AA being far and away the most common candidate and unlikely to fold this river.

Could you clarify what you mean by this, Czech. Trying to understand.

We have position and we benefit from betting smaller and being able to play the hand out over three streets.

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Okay, thanks.

I used the sizing that I did in order to get called by weaker, mainly AAxx type hands. If I pot I expect him to fold AAxx a ton. Coming from a hold em back ground I struggle with this concept in PLO sometimes. Its like... am I betting for value? Am I bluffing? Potting 2 pair in PLO yet hating it when called seems to be a real thing, where as in holdem' it's seems pretty bad.

Also does anyone know the what % of the time a random AAxx hand will also hold diamonds?