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Originally Posted by RalphWaldoEmerson
good post
#4 I would never limp pre, I suggest you don't split ranges like this. I think you can fold it to single 3bet
That is good advice, though I'm guessing it applies somewhat more at stakes higher than the PLO10 I'm playing right now. There are a few thinking regs, but far more players who obviously aren't giving thought to this sort of thing, and FWIW, when the table make up is such that players at the table are 3betting or 4/betting based on their range, or in the rarer circumstance that they seem to be playing their range vs my perceived range, and not just bloating every pot pre as a matter of course, I basically always either open raise or open fold, for exactly the reason of not making it obvious that the quality/shape of my starting hand determines my opening play.
That said, there are a lot of maniacs at these tables too, and I think this hand plays more profitably against their inevitable 3bet than it does against their inevitable 4bet, particularly OOP. They are going to cbet close to 100% of the flops that get checked to them, so I'm going to be able to get least one big bet into the pot from them when I hit ~27% of the time or so, and see the flop for ~1/3 the price the other times.
Perfectly open to the possibility that I am wrong on this though, these are just my thoughts.
And obviously, it's a good reminder anyway. After all, I don't want to stay at PLO10 forever, so I should bear these things in mind even if my caveats about PLO10 are correct.