2/2/5 ~ 7 handed


Eff 800

UTG limps
H in +1 limps w/44578(this should be a fold preflop right?)
co limps
Btn clicks it to 10
some callers including hero

6way pot 60
Flop 9T4r xxxxxx, maybe we should've bet?
Turn 9ss utg bets 50, Hero folds

Pretty hand but you see how being OOP really hurt you Fold pre.

AP I would've donkpotted but wdik and the check likely saved you 60.

This hand plays terribly multi way, just fold pre.

After we folded
Co jams for like 180 total
Btn coldcalls
Utg calls

no sidepot
riv blank
xx
showdown
utg shows ktss wtf???
Co shows 9T obv
Btn shows 9A

Make these folds more fun by integrating a mini ritual funeral that pretty hands that have to get folded get to go through.

This is a fold pre for a number of reasons:

1. You're in pretty early position at an almost full table

2. Pocket pairs 6 and under are hard to flop top set with. This isn't hold em where flopping a set of 4's on KJ4 is going to get you paid well. Non-nut sets in PLO are massive money burners a lot of the time

3. IF you do manage to flop top set, it means you're likely facing a board where a straight is possible.

4. Against the field from an earlier position, your 5 and 8-high flushes are going to be hard-pressed to continue

5. A lot of times the straights you'll flop or flop a draw to, won't be nutted


I mostly play 4 card PLO, and generally if you don't have the nuts and aren't drawing to the nuts, someone else is. And the good players are making their money off the guys who are stacking off with top and bottom pair, bottom set, underfulls, idiot ends of the straight and non-nut flushes. I imagine this is only magnified in 5-card