I guess it's pretty obvious what villain has .. the question is: can I call and look for a favorable spot? Or am I spewing money by calling?

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Hero (CO): $50.00
BTN: $57.75
SB: $487.30
BB: $56.30
UTG: $134.50
MP: $201.70

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is CO with Q 9 7 8
1 fold, MP raises to $1.75, Hero raises to $6, 1 fold, SB raises to $20.25, 2 folds

call, u have a double suited connected hand w/o an A in position. other than the top gap this is about the best spot u can be in against AA. u are 43% vs random AA.

how much do you like variance?

I don't care about variance, otherwise I wouldn't play PLO

If it's +EV I'll take it...

there's a thread ages back about calling 4bets pre, and working out how good a hand is preflop and if you can call and stack profitably vs obvious aces. If you go and graph these hands at propokertools you can work out what you need. At a guess you need about 30% equity to stack on the flop, you get that on about 66% of flops or so. I'm not going to do the numbers or anything, but I'd guess that in this case the preflop call is very very close to breakeven, maybe leaning towards sliiiightly profitable, mainly because the hand flops such a nice smooth equity distribution. It's a really small edge though, if it's there at all. Obviously the deeper the stacks the better the call.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/38...pf-plo-396202/

there you go. Have a crack at that and see what you get.

Great link, thanks a lot.

Would confirm that this call is +EV PF against AAxx 100BB deep, assuming you play the hand perfectly on the flop, fold Ah flops, etc...

yeah, awesome link. ty.