Update
Clearly I'm really bad at making blog posts. I just never think about it. I have two new plo videos coming out in the next week or so, one is a hu match with SirWatts, the other is the introductory video in a PLO theory series that I'll be making over the next few months.
I've been grinding some PLO and playing a few SCOOPs, but mostly working on a lot coaching and writing lately. I'm putting together a PLO theory book which I'll release in a couple months. It'll be rather expensive and targeted toward good small-midstakes players looking to move up and MSNL+ players who are interested in moving to PLO. A lot of the value comes from some work I've done on structural details that I haven't really seen anywhere, stuff that will be useful even to really good players. I'll release a 15-20 page sample and more details at the end of April.
I had interesting preflop spot the other day, which doesn't happen too often in PLO.
PokerStars Game #26701545060: Omaha Pot Limit ($3/$6) - 2009/04/03 23:46:54 CT [2009/04/04 0:46:54 ET]
Table 'Galatea VIII' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero($1449.30 in chips)
Seat 2: BB ($167.20 in chips)
Seat 3: UTG ($1812.55 in chips)
Seat 6: BN ($1255.85 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind $3
BB: posts big blind $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ad Td Qc Js]
UTG: calls $6
BN: raises $21 to $27
Hero: calls $24
BB: raises $87 to $114
UTG: folds
BN: raises $261 to $375
So BN is a good LAG, like 35/25 preflop and a bit crazy postflop, plus he may be tilting this night. The shortstack is shoving lots of random crap so he's not really important other than helping build the pot and creating this awesome spot. My first decision to flat instead of reraising could go either way, but flatting when OOP 200bb deep is certainly fine; if doublesuited i'd probably threebet more than flat but singlesuited I'm gonna have a few more dry one pair type flops that are ugly to play with <10% of stack in preflop against a hyper-aggro player OOP. So I flat.
But then the shortstack shoves and BN isolates, which I expect him to do with a ton of his range, so I cant possibly fold and I'm left to decide between shoving now or coldcalling and shoving a lot of flops (basically any flop I hit at all). Either one is some serious gambool, but there's overlay so I really have no choice - the question is whether having a slight equity edge pre-flop is worth trading the value of seeing the flop and knowing if I completely whiffed. But even when I whiff, having set myself up to checkfold in that big of a pot with likely some solid backdoors is kinda gross even if it's right. The side pot is somewhat protected because of the main pot, but if he shoves any piece I could easily make an incorrect check-fold on flops like 8d7s2c. In the actual hand I flatted and shoved when I flopped a pair+OE (J9x I think it was) but I'm still not sure if I like that better than shoving pre.
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