[Dr_Chris]

SPR is not just about shortstacking it applies to any effective stack depth, the conclusions just differ a little.

It applies even more to PLO than NL Texas holdem since proper planning of your hand and pot manipulation is essential if you want to get your whole stack in the middle good.

As I wrote in the last thread I think a good target SPR is 13 for most good PLO hands where you either flop the nuts, a strong draw to the nuts or nothing. If you hit the flop hard you can then get your whole stack in the middle in three bets without help from your opponents, it also means that you may semi-bluff two streets and still have enough chips for a credible river bluff if you miss (and you believe your opponent may have missed too).

Another category hands are the ones with four big cards where your most likely favorable flop gives you TTP or some combination of top pair and gutshot straight draw. These hands may play better with a SPR of 4-5 which would mean that you should three bet them in position preflop.


It would be nice to have a creative discussion about these things, if you don’t want to use the technique you can probably play perfect Omaha anyway, but could we please not have 30 posts “ this doesn’t apply to PLO” just because you don’t use it and don’t want to learn.

Chris