Poker Hands and Strategy

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2465

$15 double board PLO bomb pot. Effective stacks ~1800 except for BTN who has ~350. 9 ways to flop, I have KKd9d5 UTG

Flop Qd Ts 3d
Flop Kc Tc 5h (Pot 135)

I bet 125, UTG+1 calls, MP calls, CO calls, BTN calls.

Turn 8h Qd Th 3d
Turn Jc Kc Tc 5h (Pot 760)

Checked to CO, who pots for 760, BTN calls AI for ~200, I call, UTG+1 shoves 1700, MP folds, CO calls, I call.

UTG+1 has J964ddhh
CO has QJ98r
BTN has Ac6cxx
River 1 is the Ts and river 2 is Qs
It takes like 5 minutes and some player assistance to chop, I get quartered in a tiny side pot and 1/6th of the large side pot.

Might be a punt, I dunno, wasn’t expecting UTG+1 to rip it ever.

2466

With this sort of hand OOP, I suspect going for a check-raise might be better than leading out on the flop.

2467

I never played Omaha really or even NL cash games a lot. I was a tournament and STT donk. What would be decent resources to study up on Omaha a bit? If my flights to Tahoe can’t be refunded and the concerts are cancelled because of the fires and toxic smoke, I’m going to go hang with my friend still and sit in the casinos probably. TIA.

2468

in tahoe? i doubt you’ll find a plo game.

2469

S. Lake Tahoe. Ok. Well that makes things easier. This thread is like crack for wanting to play poker again.

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2470

So, still open for Omaha stuff to check out though either way.

2471

poker is pretty dead in tahoe afaik. you’ll probably have to drive to reno to play some nitty 1-2 game or limit holdem.

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2472

Definitely not going to Reno other than to arrive and leave lol. If there’s no smoke I doubt I’ll gamble at all.

2473

Jeff Hwang’s book gets you through a lot of the basics for PLO.

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2474

Donked around on Bovada just now for a bit and won $25 in $.02-.05. On my tittays!

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2475

Worth watching for people trying to learn PLO.

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2476

Currently watching and just wanted to note that Weisman suggested checking with 100% of range in the first 4-5 positions in an eight-handed bomb pot during his analysis of a double-board bomb pot.

In general, I think players bet the nuts with no or weak re-draws too often when OOP against massively multi-way fields.

2478

Now you know how to play 95o.

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2479

RIP dog

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2480

If someone gets it in with you for 100bb with 95o that’s running good, not bad. :grin:

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2481

I assume he’s alluding to some sort of cheating, but cracking the rng and using it that way seems extremely unlikely.

2482

I remember before Black Friday when the losers would say that online poker was rigged due to the software being set to grace newbies with sucks outs and coolers to keep them playing.

I also assumed this was ridiculous, but I don’t know enough about programming to know if this really is even possible?

I guess I’m wondering about an AI version of:

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2483

And also cashout doomswitches amirite?

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2484

It’s not. No site has ever had their RNG compromised or purposely altered it in any way.

The people who say are the same ones who ask for a setup live or talk about being due.

2485

I thought planet poker rng got figured out or some other site.