How is this a cooler? Lol
Massive overplay on the flop

I am definitely not an expert on PLO but there is absolutely no way this is a cooler. I am never, ever stacking off in a spot like this.

Raise preflop has to be 10x better than raising the flop.


With the J and straight flush draw I probably call flop, but I don't love it. And if he pots turn+river HU, I would guess we call turn and fold river.

PLO is this soft on ACR? What?

Yea squeezing preflop is better than calling. I am transitioning from NLH and usually follow the rule of raising > calling and folding > calling when its close.

What is your range for doing so?

This was a paired board. X/R then stack off is a big punt.

This is a better line if board wasn't paired.

Cooler is when you have 8J here then villain has JJ.

Probably just boats. My experience is that PLO requires you to be way tighter than NL.

What exactly did you think Villain had when he 3bet the flop? Just to see how bad this is for you, obviously if he has a boat you are drawing almost dead. But also, let’s just say he has trips. He has 3 different kickers instead of one! That is terrible for you because even though it looks like you have 20 outs to improve, he’ll improve to a boat or quads about 40% of the time (he has at least a 10-out redraw, not 4 and then 7 like in NL) which massively drains your equity. And this is just when he doesn’t have a boat, which he often will when he 3bets the flop, since if he doesn’t have one he has to worry that you do. Oh, and on top of that will be the uncommon but not totally rare instance of him having trips and also having your flush draw nutted or a redraw to some of the same straight outs as you.

As the last guy said, if I wanted to make a move with a massive draw, I’d wait for an unpaired board where only a set has a big redraw and even then it’s not as big as flopped trips.