2/5 PLO8 Live

[niss]

bdd,

Funny thing is after our brief exchange above (and your appreciated explanation), I played a flopped nut flush (two high cards) your way with two other players, wound up having them both go all in (one had K flush the other had top set), the hand held up, and I felt I maximized my profit by playing the hand that way. So don't think your strategy discussion has been entirely wasted.

[zizazziza]

Do we think that he is not going to bet the turn on a non-spade board? I dont understand this. The turn is a spade ~1/3 of the time. If he bets 1/2psb-psb, then the pot is $450 and he has to call on the turn with pretty much any 2 decent cards and you could be freerolling to win the whole pot (he might have A3ss or something like that). I think that the board pairing is not something you should ever worry about. As played, I shove turn expecting to quarter him a decent amount of the time. And if he does have A2ss, then you have 4 outs to half the pot. But b/c you played it so passively, he could try and push you off an A2 with A2PP or something like that

[Big Dave D]

Tx Niss,

In general, there is a huge tendancy for advice in both PLO games to be of the kind, "smash it in on the flop." There are probably two main reasons for this, imho. One is the curse of 2+2, GroupThink, the other is that it is easy. But sometimes, this is poker, and well, you can actually *play* poker through the streets. Enjoy your game, plo8b is about as good live as it gets.

gl

bdd

[tuttufin]

In general? I hope not. In this hand there is no reason for not putting money in on the flop, but there are lots of situtations where I don't like putting money all-in on the flop.

[PiquetteAces]

Where was that game ?

I have played in many pokerrooms in the last 2 years ( reno, vegas, LA, AC, foxwoods ) & the only room where I saw PLO8 was the RIO during the WSOP !

- jpp

[Pokerbrat]

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Where was that game ?

I have played in many pokerrooms in the last 2 years ( reno, vegas, LA, AC, foxwoods ) & the only room where I saw PLO8 was the RIO during the WSOP !

- jpp

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It's not in a casino.

[davebreal]

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But sometimes, this is poker, and well, you can actually *play* poker through the streets.

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but CardRunners has advised me to always fire on all streets to maintain the initiative????

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[Big Dave D]

My best CardRunners quote was for PLO, where Aba said he liked to raise with suited aces, get reraised, hopefully by AA, so he could call and stack with a pair and the flush draw on the flop. Interesting [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

gl

dd