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Originally Posted by amok
After you check the flop, you are mostly looking to fold. I get the feeling you are overvaluing your hand by quite a lot.
As for the pre-flop, you often should be raising when it's likely you have the best hand. That is the way to punish people limping weak hands, you force them to put more money in when you are the favorite. It doesn't matter if you need to check-fold many flops. In a 5-way pot you are not supposed to win a lot more than 20% of the time.
I would agree with you in a Casino or online...however, our home game has some of the worst Omaha players I've ever played with.
The raiser had 3410K, tightish caller had three pair, and last to call had bottom set with a 3. No one had hearts or a straight draw.
Turn was a deuce of hearts, raiser shoved all in...other two called.
River was 4...set with 3 took 3/4. Of course I would have scooped with wheel/queen high flush...actually wheel alone was good!
I don't have an issue folding the flop after potting preflop...however, oftentimes some of the truly spewy ones will repot with garbage and we'll go 4-5 handed into a 500+ pot. Then it's truly lotto with shortish stacks.