flop feels pretty iffy to me given only mid pair/2nd NLD and no backdoors while OOP. could you elaborate on why you feel it's c/c?

also OTR, how would you handle playing riv shove vs a tighter player? like if you know shoving frequency here is really high with, say, A3/pair of T's+, it's a fold, correct? like maybe you've seen them just make a PSB OTR before with NL/middling pairs, and checking back all bare nut lows.

caterina, i'm definitely check/jamming on turn. think check/shove is best. given nut low made and a pair. plus folding out a better pair is super good here. would like to hear what others think though.

I'm quite astonished someone thinks it's not an easy check-call. I think check-folding is a huge leak (I even like check-raising better). If you habitually c/f decent hands on the flop in HU-pots you will be ran over by a monkey with a bet button. Just plug some ranges into propokertools and you will see that this hand does easily well enough to be check-called.

Yeah, if I perceive villain's range as so strong that I get less than ~43,6%, I fold. In practice this requires that I think they have two sizings on the river. Against small bet I c/r AI and against shove I c/f.

This last hand. Would sometimes 3! Vs a btn opener but its situational, and the hand itself has minor flaws.

As played flop call is standard and turn is either a bet call or xr, it should never be a xc because we want to force opponent to fold high equity incorrectly.

As played river is a call.

Btw, to respond to the question in the OP. It sounds like you spend too much time thinking about your hand and not enough about what hands opponent are likely to have. While equity always matters your play is way too tight postflop - you need to really make an effort to bet more medium strength hands when you have position because it puts your opponents under a lot of pressure. You also don't need to worry as much about the river when betting aggressively on other street vastly reduces the range of hands villain will show up with.

Weak-tight strategy does not work well in Omaha games, it's a constant bleed out where opponents realize too much equity for free and take advantage of a face-up range to run low-effort semi bluffs with little fear of being penalized.

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i see your point. what i typically have been thinking up to this point is being OOP with non-nut LD and a mid pair and no real high draw all adds up to some troublesome spots where heavy pressure is tough to deal with.

like i was thinking it's really obnoxious to put myself in a spot where i might be faced with a PSB on turn and riv while still holding this middle pair and often with a second nut low made.

but as you said the PPT equities show a more advantageous situation. even a 20% opening range we're basically 50/50, and against random a2/a3/a4/23 there's still an uptick in equity.

this makes me wonder if my approach to the turn has also been fundamentally flawed, and it certainly seems like i've been overfolding. so my question then is: what turns are you folding to a strong bet?

I agree that it is somewhat troublesome. Still, you need to try to realize your equity OOP. You can't just fold the flop every time you don't have a hand that can stand 3 barrels or that can raise.

I am folding some turns certainly, definitely non low completing . Very situational of course, against some very aggressive players I might check-shove to an offsuit J/Q for example and so on.

Thanks everyone. I didn't want to hear it, but I appreciate that you point out still being too weak/tight and I'll work on it. It's certainly true.

I'm not sure, everything applies that seems to be implied by the responses. Additional information:
- opp does not bet flops often in this situation (small BTN open, HU), responding to this, I started leading a good amount.
- opp does not bet flop and turn without some strong hand, especially since the 2 shows. Pretty sure, he has A3+ something made or a strong draw minimum.
- This is the first time in ~400 hands that he makes a huge overbet on the river.

A bad adjustment IMO. You should be leading when you have a range advantage, not when villain plays a low cbet strategy.