Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
6 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $68.75
Hero: $50
CO: $51.10
Button: $27.40
SB: $153.85
BB: $40.80

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG+1 with K 8 Q 9
UTG calls, Hero calls, CO raises to $2.75, Button folds, SB calls, BB folds, UTG calls, Hero calls.

Flop: A 8 J ($11.5, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, CO bets $9, SB folds, UTG calls, Hero raises all-in $47.25,

Raise preflop

I like the flop play.

i don't understand why raising preflop is a good play here with this hand. I feel like in most situations potting pre would be right but in this circumstance i just dont know if i like it.

It's a case of punishing limpers; taking advantage of weakness. I also gain position and the betting lead. People rarely reraise preflop without aces, so when they do repop me I can call with a wide range knowing what flops I can bluff at and what flops I can get value from.

http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...t&p=2276198

If you look through that post and the one after it, you'll notice just how often it gets checked to me on the flop. That is immensely powerful.

The reason I don't often raise with weaker hands such as this one from UTG and UTG+1 are so that I can still call a raise from behind me, if there happens to be one, and get to a flop. If I pot it to $2.50 here, it gets repotted to $9.50, and I'm in a spot that I don't want to be in, having to call and put 20% of a stack in preflop with single suited connectors. Put me in the cutoff or on the button with a limper in front, I raise it 90% of the time now.

Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $68.75
Hero: $50
CO: $51.10
Button: $27.40
SB: $153.85
BB: $40.80

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG+1 with K 8 Q 9
UTG calls, Hero calls, CO raises to $2.75, Button folds, SB calls, BB folds, UTG calls, Hero calls.

Flop: A 8 J ($11.5, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, CO bets $9, SB folds, UTG calls, Hero raises all-in $47.25, CO raises all-in $48.35.
Uncalled bets: $1.1 returned to CO.

Turn: 9 ($76.75, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $115)


River: Q ($76.75, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $115)


Results:
Final pot: $76.75
Hero showed Ks 8s Qh 9c
CO showed Th Ah Ac 4c