FCP PLO 2-2

I have $300, villain has $500. Villain almost always raises on the button/CO and always calls a reraise/repot with position. Villain will fire all-in on the flop if checked to in position. He is extremely aggressive in position and has shown down various hands (some very strong, some not so much).

In EP, I limp with the hand above. Bunch of limpers follow, Villain pots. I repot, villain calls and it's HU to the flop with the pot around $90.

Flop is Q 7 5 rainbow.

If I pot, I'm pot committed. If I don't, I know that villain will pot any check or bet that shows weakness.

Preflop, should I have limped there or potted to isolate?

Postflop, should I pot or check/bet some other amount? If I check or bet small and villain pots, do I fold?

Omaha poker is known for its variance swings and hands like this are the reason why. In general it are small edges u have to push in big pots.

I like your pre flop play, but the problem with the play is that everyone now knows u have AAxx. Is Villain capable of picking up on this or is he not that smart and blast the flop anyway with a hand worse than AA?

If so, I suggest u Check-raise the pot and commit yourself to the rest of the hand. It will win money in the long run against this villain.

From what you described, villain has a random hand at this point and will bet it 100% of the time if checked to.

You are beating a random hand, so you should check-raise all in. If you aren't ready to play this way, you should just call the preflop raise, and avoid getting yourself into this situation in the first place.

This is not the way to trap a very aggressive player's entire stack.

Just to give you some stats.

Say Villain only made the bottom pair, and to be fair, had a gut shot straight draw, your hand is about 50:50.

Omaha Hi: 820 enumerated boards containing Qs 5c 7d
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
As 9s Ad Td 439 53.54 381 46.46 0 0.00 0.535
Ks 7c 3c 4h 381 46.46 439 53.54 0 0.00 0.465

Even if villain didn't have the gut shot, your hand is just about 65:35 favorite, but things can still go very wrong on the next two rounds and you don't want to hand over your entire stack because you are oop and committed.

The point of plo is, you can make nuts more often than nlh. You can be more creative and deceptive when you have the nuts or tons of draws to the nuts to capture your villain's stack. Unless you can put your AA preflop with most of your stack, give it up.

Play NLH if you fall in love with AA.

I usually flat call preflop. There's no point in getting agressive OOP.

I have $300, villain has $500. Villain almost always raises on the button/CO and always calls a reraise/repot with position. Villain will fire all-in on the flop if checked to in position. He is extremely aggressive in position and has shown down various hands (some very strong, some not so much).

One you can find better ways to spend your time than playing against this guy.

Two, if you can't get most of your stack in oop with this hand don't re-raise preflop.

Not hard.





good luck.

I really disagree with this part of your post.

I'll let Steve Badger tell you why.

http://www.playwinningpoker.com/omaha/holdem/

That article is talking about limit omaha hilo, not pot limit omaha hi.

i'm not so sure about that

plus, i don't think he would ever write about waiting around to push big edges in a limit game, because you can't capitalize on that edge nearly as much as when you play pot limit.

if you wait around to push big edges in any limit game be it hold em or omaha hi/lo you will get killed

The thing is that in omaha, top set will get all his money in as does the wrap flush draw. Its about 50/50.

Lyle Berman wrote about it in SS2.

GREAT chapter btw