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Originally Posted by phunkphish
Disagree about equities. Most important is skill level. Next is playability. You flop no pair no draw so often with this hand. When you do flop a pair, your equity still sucks, you are OOP, poor implied odds, and villain always has two overs or has you beat. 62s is a bad hand.
I'd also want more support that you should defend 80% OOP in omaha vs an ep raise.
In no particular order:
- I can’t defend the 80% Omaha assertion if you are telling me equity doesn’t matter.
- I have said “playability” a million times in this forum, so trust me, I get where you are coming from. I still cringe at weak offsuit aces in spots where I know they are profitable because they are super tough to play well (opening from cutoff in tough lineup, 3 betting from small blind vs tricky button or sticky big blind).
But the whole point of trying to play in a tough and well balanced way is to protect the weakest part of your range, and make your overall strategy more “playable”.
- Nearly all hands have poor “playability” vs a strong ep raiser. Whenever we don’t flop huge we will struggle to play well out of position vs a strong range. The hand isn’t easier to play when we defend ATo unless we flop huge.
- there is legit disagreement possible over what hands to put into a wide range. Someone might want to fold these small suited cards and defend say K7o. If we can’t use equity to help decide then we are all just grasping at straws.
- I can defend three additional suited hands for every offsuit combo someone incorrectly plays. So if something seems on the margin, err toward playing a suited marginal hand and folding an offsuit one if you aren’t sure. The suited one has higher “playability” and it will be 3x less often in case you are wrong about its value.
- the bots do it