A PLO cash hand

[Royal Flush]

I have been on the table for only 5 minutes, however i know branko as a very aggresive fish from NLHE comps.

So what to do...

Real Money Ring Game
Table Name   Hand ID   Game   Stakes
English Channel   4914710-33560   Omaha Pot Limit   $2/$4
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Hand Start.
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 1 : A-jack has $260
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 2 : Flush Royal has $284
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 3 : mosco has $238.75
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 4 : branko has $754.47
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 5 : LUCKYROY has $391.71
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 6 : oink has $209.57
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 7 : drifwood has $642.50
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 8 : samdori has $231.87
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : Seat 9 : Lord B has $0
[Mar 26 00:07:14] : mosco is the dealer.
[Mar 26 00:07:15] : branko posted small blind.
[Mar 26 00:07:15] : LUCKYROY posted big blind.
[Mar 26 00:07:15] : Game [33560] started with 8 players.
[Mar 26 00:07:15] : Dealing Hole Cards.
[Mar 26 00:07:15] : Seat 2 : Flush Royal has As
[Mar 26 00:07:17] : oink folded.
[Mar 26 00:07:20] : drifwood folded.
[Mar 26 00:07:21] : samdori folded.
[Mar 26 00:07:24] : A-jack called $4 and raised $10
[Mar 26 00:07:29] : Flush Royal called $14
[Mar 26 00:07:29] : mosco folded.
[Mar 26 00:07:32] : branko called $12
[Mar 26 00:07:37] : LUCKYROY folded.
[Mar 26 00:07:39] : Dealing flop.
[Mar 26 00:07:39] : Board cards [ ]
[Mar 26 00:07:45] : branko bet $46
[Mar 26 00:07:48] : A-jack folded.

[Gamblor21]

bottom 2 pair?

PASS!!!

[ifm]

pass and don't call raises with rubbish

[londonpokergirl]

Funny enough I was gonna say why call $14 with A456,  you need top 2 pars, trips or nut flush draw to do anything
with this hand

I wouldn't have called preflop unless it was only $4 to see it

[Bongo]

Also you may know branko as an agressive fish in NLHE comps but he could be an expert PLO cash player.

[NoflopsHomer]

Pass.

[Milkybarkid]

Actually that hand would be in my group 2 of starting hands. Its better than hands like QQ79 and JJ68. Lots of people think high pairs have to see a flop but i look at it completely differently. Three running cards with a suited Ace is a good enough starting hand to call a single raise.

As for after the flop. I muck. I may try and get clever with it if there are no diamonds but not with the flush draw there as well.... even if you are in front there are too many hands that will still be favourite over yours.

[Royal Flush]

Wow Ben comenting on here, what a place.

I like the hand pre flop, 3 to a run suited to an ace.

On the flop i make a stubborn call.

[Mar 26 00:07:51] : Flush Royal called $46
[Mar 26 00:07:52] : Dealing turn.
[Mar 26 00:07:52] : Board cards [ ]
[Mar 26 00:07:56] : branko bet $138

Now i pick up a 3rd pair but also the nut spade draw, he comes out full pot, eek str8 is possible.

What now?

[ACE2M]

I would call having got this far but would strongly suspect that the flush is your only way out. He's betting like he has top set probably coupled with the nut diamond draw. I put him on something like x.

Then again he might just be a total maniac with a pair of aces.

I really like Mr Grundys 'guess my hand' section on his blog, maybe he or someone could paste them onto here with his permission?

[Royal Flush]

[Mar 26 00:07:57] : Flush Royal called $138
[Mar 26 00:07:58] : Dealing river.
[Mar 26 00:07:58] : Board cards [ ]
[Mar 26 00:08:03] : branko bet $414

Now i only have $86 back so ignore the 414!!!

At this point i couldnt put him on a hand that bets the river, other than a missed draw, with me flat calling all the way i think he had me on a draw so felt he could take this.

I made the call:

[Mar 26 00:08:11] : Flush Royal called $86 and is All-in
[Mar 26 00:08:12] : Showdown!
[Mar 26 00:08:12] : Seat 2 : Flush Royal has As
[Mar 26 00:08:14] : Seat 4 : branko has
[Mar 26 00:08:14] : branko has Pair: Kings
[Mar 26 00:08:14] : Flush Royal has Two Pair: and
[Mar 26 00:08:14] : Flush Royal wins $583 with Two Pair: and
[Mar 26 00:08:24] : Hand is over.


Now i think i played the hand very badly, but i got lucky and it all worked out. However i want to know can we class someone as enough of a maniac in PLO to be able to make these calls resonable, cearly i simple had the word nutter printed on my head when it came to Branko but in truth i hadnt played him enough to give myself the reasoning behind these calls.

[totalise]

Wow Ben comenting on here, what a place.

I like the hand pre flop, 3 to a run suited to an ace.

On the flop i make a stubborn call.

[Mar 26 00:07:51] : Flush Royal called $46
[Mar 26 00:07:52] : Dealing turn.
[Mar 26 00:07:52] : Board cards [ ]
[Mar 26 00:07:56] : branko bet $138

Now i pick up a 3rd pair but also the nut spade draw, he comes out full pot, eek str8 is possible.

What now?

I think this is a nice illustration of why you might consider passing on the flop, even though you suspect you have the best hand. You cant really play many turns with confidence, unless you have a stealla read on the guy.. like "the guy only plays this way preflop with AAxx". There are certainly many people that DO play AAxx this way, but all you have as a read so far is that he is aggressive, and he has kept his aggression.. so ur praying on the flop that all he has is the NFD... because by the turn, its completed most reasonable *other* draws, and if he isn't drawing, his made hand has you crushed.

Given better reads, ur hand is fine to play to the river, but when ur read is merely "he is super aggressive" theres too many combo's for him to have that scare you on the turn.

The hand is more then fine to call with preflop though, not sure why people are saying fold preflop.

nice pot, glad it all worked out

[stallyon]

in all honesty, he did hold the nut diamond flush draw so making these initial large bets would have made sense. the bet on the final card was maybe to throw you off the pot but since the pot was massive then it was certainly worth a call to see the showdown.

[Royal Flush]

This hand reminds me why i dont play much PLO, lol.

In all honesty i did little thinking in this hand, i just button clicked! On the river i was sat there thinking wtf am i in this pot for!

Totalise cheers for the analysis.