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Originally Posted by MarkD
In one course the instructor makes a comment about:- get your preflop right
- get the flop mostly right
- we are in the streets here and playing poker, but our ranges are mostly correct
This is my candidate for post of the year.
As we come to the end of the year and before I get too busy with the holidays, I thought I would bump what I think is the most important way to get better at PLO. Get the damn standard preflop ranges correct. And resist the urge to constantly come up with excuses to deviate from those standard preflop ranges. Over the last year I have seen a crap ton of posts where people give their excuses for deviating from the standard preflop ranges. But the problem is their deviation was usually wrong in some way. Okay, one of your opponents is playing to wide so you are now going to widen your range, but you widen your range with the wrong mother ****ing hands. Your were better off sticking to the standard preflop ranges. Your deviations will be wrong because you picked a dog **** hand to widen with or because even if it seemed like a reasonable hand to widen with it still doesn't overcome the horrible rake. You were better off sticking to the standard preflop ranges. My sympathy level is evaporating. There should be a sticky in the PLO section that reads, "you are almost guaranteed to **** it up if you deviate from standard preflop strategy." That is enough about preflop. On the flop try to get it mostly right. And this starts by having some standard betting sizes. Wow, who knew that how to play this game well is to standardize stuff. Pick some bet size ranges. I don't care what they are, but some popular standard sizes that will make your life easier and are well spread apart would be 1/3 pot, 2/3 pot and pot. And again resisted the god damn urge to deviate. My sympathy level is evaporating for anyone that comes up with some standard bet sizes and then constantly comes up with excuses to deviate from them. And then after the flop we are in the streets playing poker. Pick up a stick. Pick up a rock. Fight like hell.
Good luck. Happy Holidays.