2 hands from first PLO session

[Alchemist]

This is literally my first session of PLO, so I'm largely clueless. I've read the section in SS2 and that's about it. I've only been here for a couple of orbits and there hasn't been much raising preflop; your typical $25 table I suspect.

I'm interested in hearing about both hands, however the Villain was the same guy in both so it's probably relevant to the second one.

HAND 1

Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
6 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $10.55
Hero: $24.65
CO: $30.55
Button: $47.65
SB: $32.85
BB: $18.85

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG+1 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $0.5</font>, CO calls, Button calls, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop: K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ($2.5, 5 players)
SB checks, BB checks, <font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $2.5</font>, <font color="#cc0000">CO raises to $10</font>, 3 folds, Hero calls.

Turn: 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($22.5, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero is all-in $14.15</font>, CO calls.

River: 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($50.8, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $50.8)


Results:
Final pot: $50.8
<font color="#ffffff">Hero showed 9s Ac 3h Ah</font>
<font color="#ffffff">CO showed 2h Kc Ks Td</font>


HAND 2

Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $8.35
UTG+1: $7.75
CO: $66.55
Button: $39.55
Hero: $18.10
BB: $52.80

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is SB with 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, CO calls, Button folds, Hero calls, BB checks.

Flop: 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($1, 4 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">BB bets $1</font>, UTG+1 calls, CO folds, Hero calls.

Turn: K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($4, 3 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">BB bets $4</font>, UTG+1 folds, Hero calls.

River: 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($12, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $12</font>, BB calls.

Results:
Final pot: $36

[TheRempel]

First one I'm not sure what your plan is. People are not folding sets/two pair on that turn so you are not accomplishing anything by not pushing the flop.

Second hand, probably fold preflop, turn call is fine if he pays off a club on the river.

[MaxRaises]

Hand 1: Push flop.

Hand 2: Raise flop, but as played your river play is fine.

[Alchemist]

Hand 1: So basically shoving the flop is correct because we're getting 2:1 pot odds and even if we knew he had a set we're about a 2:1 dog anyway and he could have lesser holdings?

Hand 2: As played, how clear is the turn call? Is it still a call without the gutshot? On the river my PSB was a semi-bluff of sorts, rather than for value--maybe trying to represent backdoor diamonds. How often does he call with a worse hand? Since he bet pot on the flop and turn, what do you put his range of hands to be?