OP: Make Penneywize Not Suck At Omaha

[paratrooper99]

call river. never raise. he is repping a set on flop and turn. give him credit and just call.

[swiggidy]

call river. never raise. he is repping a set on flop and turn. give him credit and just call.

lol, what?

[Penneywize]

Hey all, first off thanks for the replies to my previous hands, notably drmc and swiggidy (everyone else can fuck off, obv )

So after winning like 8 billion sessions in a row, I finally had a pretty horrid session at 5PLO, losing 3.5 BIs in rather short order. I ended my session immediately and took about an hour off to work out and shake off my tilt. The thing is, most of the losses came from this one hand where my AAxx went up against an opponent's AAxx while we were both 250bb deep. Unfortunately for me, villain's 'xx' happened to make him a boat on the turn and his AA didn't play, and I shipped anyway. Anyhow, here's the hand:

Villain was running 65/35 w/ a 17% 3bet over a small sample.

$0.02/$0.05 Pot Limit Omaha Hi
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5 Players
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Stacks:
UTG CristianUrso ($8.24)
CO Penneywize ($14.65)
BTN Royalkid7575 ($12.50)
SB C.MSRBIJA ($12.53)
BB Gonnaw1n ($14.51)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07, 5 players) Penneywize is CO
1 fold, Penneywize raises to $0.17, 2 folds, Gonnaw1n raises to $0.53, Penneywize raises to $1.61, Gonnaw1n calls $1.08

Flop: ($3.24, 2 players)
Gonnaw1n checks, Penneywize bets $3.08, Gonnaw1n calls $3.08

Turn: ($9.40, 2 players)
Gonnaw1n checks, Penneywize bets $8.94, Gonnaw1n goes all-in $9.82, Penneywize calls $0.88

River: ($29.04, 2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $29.04
Penneywize shows

Gonnaw1n shows a full house, Threes full of Jacks


Gonnaw1n wins $27.62 (net +$13.11)

Penneywize lost $14.51



So, in retrospect I feel I played this hand pretty horribly. If we're each 100bb deep - which will be the most common scenario once I get up to 10 PLO and further - it's fine to shove all flops after 4-betting pre (what I mean by this specifically is that this is a generally unexploitable play). The problem is I think I took this vague concept and applied it to 250bb stacks and, even worse, shipped on the turn on a board that looked like total shit to me.

Given all action up to the flop, villain's range obviously looks like either AAxx, some type of premium double suited broadway, or a high double pair like KKQQ. So why then would I decide this is an excellent flop to pot out when checked to this deep? I'm not really sure, I suppose I expected to get it in, failing to realize that this type of strategy - if my opponent were to realize I'm employing it - can be easily exploited by cherry picking boards where they have decent equity against my obvious holdings etc.

Anyhow, I want to point out that the main reason I'm posting this hand is to make sure I'm not being results oriented in my analysis of it... I just need to pay more attention to the changes in dynamics that come with playing 250bb deep as opposed to 100bb.

As played, then - check behind flop, or bet a smaller amount (perhaps 2/3)? c/f turn when I don't improve?