Quote:
Originally Posted by Clovis8
Live 1/2 with a $5 button straddle.
Hero is button and has put straddle on. 89102 double suited
$500 effective stacks
Raised in early position to $20 and called in 3 spots. Hero calls. EP is loose but good player.
Flop 923r
EP bets $100 and it's folded to hero.
Play?
Pre-
I would not play this hand Pre let along straddle with it.
89102 double suited is not a really good hand in PLO/LIVE PLO.
If we play this hand we hope to hit a straight flush on the flop
right away which will only get paid off here by the nut flush
or we slow play and hope Villian boat up on the river.
We could also hoping for a flop of {567}. If flop is
single suited and we lead maybe we get lucky and getting ppls
to fold and make an easy $100
On a flop of {6710} if we lead and get call
any 9,10,J,6,7 look bad for us. Anything else on the flop and we
will be playing small flush versus nut flush, not a position I want
to be in.
Is Villian really loose or he just play his range really well
in position? This is something that I paid alot of attention to
when I play PLO.
Even as I type this I too do make mistakes with calling preflop
with hands that I know are not really that good but since everyone
just limp calling in live plo and i'm getting such a good price to see
a flop for cheap form late position that I would just told myself
just this one time as I put money into the pot. I've since been
working on stopping this bad habit.
Flop-
This is very intersting since EP raise preflp. If he lead here with
AAKQds we don't want to pot it here since there's only a small number
of card that would hurt us and we certaintly want him to stay in the pot
If he lead here it could also be something like 9910ds,9910J or 99QQ
hand that we are drawing dead too.
What if he lead with AA45, are we going to be able to fold out those
hand if we pot the flop?
Do we want to get it in with just two pair on the flop with no redraw?
If we just flat his call here what are we repping?
If we flat here what are we planning to do on the turn?
do we bluff the turn or check back and bluff the river?
If we are checking flop and lead turn what is our bet sizing be do
we pot it or bet $100 less than what is in the pot?
This is why I love PLO there's so many way to look at spot
and how we play them.