Tough Omaha Spot

[zydes]

PL $0.25/$0.50 Omaha - Monday, August 06, 15:01:40 GMT 2007
Table Loire 02 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: wealie ( $40.51 )
Seat 2: zydes ( $49.45 )
Seat 3: dudika ( $63.20 )
Seat 4: SHATIT ( $57.60 )
Seat 5: JIM65 ( $31 )
Seat 6: SweetLisa ( $56.80 )
SweetLisa posts small blind [$0.25]
wealie posts big blind [$0.50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to zydes [ Ac, 8h, Th, Ad ]
zydes raises to [$1.75]
dudika folds
SHATIT folds
JIM65 calls [$1.75]
SweetLisa calls [$1.50]
wealie folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 5h, 7d ]
SweetLisa checks
zydes bets [$5.75]
JIM65 raises to [$23]


I hate this spots, What can I change in my play and when I get raised now its a easy fold right?

[wallenborn]

I limp this preflop. None of your aces are suited, and the one-gapper T8s isn't very strong on its own. On the flop, you're obviously betting your aces up only, since you're not going to draw to a T-high flush on a paired board against two opponents. So, yes, bet and fold to a raise.

[cmyr]

You can play preflop however you want.


I don't understand why you say you hate this spot... You have an overpair and somebody has at least trips, so you move on. 3 handed this will happen on about 1/3 of flops, which means your bet is still fair, and now you've found out where you're at.


Some of the time, I would suggest checking paired flops, with overpairs, but I would do that less on boards where the turn could straighten somebody out, since you don't want some gutshot to get there that wouldn't have thought twice about folding to a bet.



so: you play it standard and get outflopped, move on.

[Ribbo]

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I limp this preflop.

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You should rarely limp on 6 handed tables.

[wallenborn]

That's probably one of the reasons why i mostly play at the nickel-n-dime level. Coming from NL Holdem, i feel insecure about most of the thinner raises i see people advocating here. At microstakes, i get paid off anyway, so i doesn't matter, but at 25PLO or 50PLO 6-max i lose against raw aggression.

[iggymcfly]

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I limp this preflop.

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You should rarely limp on 6 handed tables.

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I think it's OK to limp regularly UTG at a 6-max table even if it's not something you should do often from other positions. With a hand like this though, it doesn't really matter much what you do as long as it's part of a consistent overall strategy. It's not a mistake either way.

On the flop, I'd usually just fire for $4. In general, I've gotten into betting less than the pot a lot on paired boards as you get into a lot of tricky C-bet situations like this one where you don't want to invest too much and when you have a hand, keeping the pot small relative to your stack allows for a lot more play on the turn and river where many players will play make large mistakes and badly overplay trips that are drawing either slim or dead.

[Ribbo]

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I limp this preflop.

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You should rarely limp on 6 handed tables.

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I think it's OK to limp regularly UTG at a 6-max table even if it's not something you should do often from other positions.

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All comes down to metagame decisions. Raising or limping depends on your opinions of the three people who will have position on you post flop.