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Originally Posted by PocketKings
Thanks Buzz!
You're welcome.
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Your advice of raise SB's flop bet is eye-opening for me. What still confuses me a little bit is that I always thought I am draw on flop and Button's call adds to Hero's odds...
That's all true. But playing it like a draw in a three handed game when you have a chance to take command of the hand is not, in my humble opinion, the best way to play this hand.
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Another related question...Let's say you have a hand similar but not nut low draw, like J2X9, if X = 4, or 5, do you fold to SB's bet on flop?
You hold J
2
4
9
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the flop is A
7
Q
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and SB bets?
If so, I'd be inclined to usually fold.
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Do you mean by raise flop and bet both turn/river without making nut low to scoop/bluff?
I don't understand.
When you bet without having anything, that's a bluff.
When you win the whole pot rather than a fraction of it, that's a scoop.
You should always have an eye towards scooping. Most of my own scoops come from converting one-way fractional pot winners to whole pot winners by judicious, aggressive betting. The idea is you bet or raise and by so doing, you get your opponents to fold... but you have to have good card and people sense to pull it off. The idea is to not do it when it won't work. The idea is to do it when it will work.
Omaha-8 is quite different (in my opinion and experience) from Texas hold 'em, where some players tend to bet polarized hands (nuts or air). In Omaha-8, when some players bet, it is because they have
something, not necessarily the nuts, possibly a draw of some sort, and usually not air.
Ideally you learn and remember how your opponents play faster and better than they learn and remember how you play.
Buzz