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Old 11-08-2006, 06:04 PM
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Default Re: Help me understand - PLO8 vs. NLO8

Position is more important in pot limit. Basically, the disadvantage of being first to act is magnified in pot limit because choosing to bet gives your opponent greater betting options than he had before, where in no-limit of course he already had the option of pushing all-in regardless of whether you bet or not.

IMO there is also a range of drawing hands that play differently in pot limit than in no limit. In particular there are some hands where you have a backdoor low draw combined with some outs to the high (like if you are playing AsJs3x4x, flop is KsQs2, opponent has KQTT or the like). In NL you can jam here since you're slightly ahead overall, but in pot limit it's less clear that betting the flop is profitable because you are feeding a situation where you are slightly more likely than your opponent to be forced to dump your cards on the turn. So in general I would say there is a set of marginal drawing hands that are less bettable in PLO8 than they are in no limit.
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