PLO25 RR pot tp mid fd in pos

Submitted by : Zetsnotdead

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$25.00 USD PL Omaha - Monday, May 14, 02:33:39 ET 2012
Table Pasiphae VI Real Money
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $57.04 USD - VPIP: 32, PFR: 21, 3B: 7, AF: 5.5, Hands: 3666
Seat 2: Player2 $25.00 USD - VPIP: 37, PFR: 21, 3B: 4, AF: 2.2, Hands: 131
Seat 3: Player3 $98.83 USD - VPIP: 14, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 5.0, Hands: 104
Seat 4: Player4 $16.68 USD - VPIP: 25, PFR: 9, 3B: 0, AF: 2.0, Hands: 32
Seat 5: Player5 $22.48 USD - VPIP: 41, PFR: 13, 3B: 3, AF: 2.3, Hands: 76
Seat 6: Player6 $24.05 USD - VPIP: 30, PFR: 18, 3B: 5, AF: 2.9, Hands: 119
Player2 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
Player3 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero [ ]
Player4 folds
Player5 calls [$0.25 USD]
Player6 raises [$0.65 USD]
Hero raises [$2.00 USD]
Player2 calls [$1.90 USD]
Player3 folds
Player5 folds
Player6 calls [$1.35 USD]

Flop (Pot : $6.50)

   
Player2 checks
Player6 checks
Hero ?

I think that pre you can flat anything that fairs well in multiway pots, looking to play pots with the weak player. Rainbow QQJJ type hands for example or double suited rundown hands. Also, depending on how aggressive the blinds are, you can be flatting a lot of your weaker big pair hands that you don't want to play in a 3Bet pot, but have some playability multiway on the button.

If player 2 is a weak player, I think he can show up with a lot of mediocre double suited hands, double pairs, alot of broadway combinations. Anything that looks pretty basically. A reg will show up with decent medium and high rundowns. Strong double pair hands. You could also see some decent kings that he doesn't know what to do with pre.

On the flop the SPR is still fairly high so I'm not estatic about the flop, but it's also not a terrible flop. I think if we bet and the reg jams, we may have to fold our hand as our flush draw will be dominated too frequently. Against the weaker player, I think his range will be too wide to fold to a shove. In the multiway situation I agree that we should fold.
In practice I like checking this flop and realizing our equity. I don't think we have a lot of fold equity on the flop against two players and I think our hand has too much equity to feel good about betting and folding. On the turn we can improve our hand and gain information on our players holdings.

I think this a perfect hand hand to have in your check back range here in a multiway pot, your equity vs hands that stack off isn't great but getting blown off your hand really hurts.

you are definitely thinking about all the right things. this is a checkback spot for sure. with you best of luck moving up!

Its a bit surprising to me people like checking back here, so many turns are bad for us and I feel like we do have a decent amount of fold equity. Villains could easily both have 3 or 4 unpaired high cards, and even with naked TT-KK they might not feel like getting it in. I guess something could be said about protecting your check-back range, but I think that's over-thinking for this level.

I agree with checking back, if we bet we have to bet fold and its a bit gross, we can call turns on K,9,6,7,8,4,diamonds (at the very least), we also gain value when diamond hits on turn then player2 checks and player6 decides to stab.
I think it just plays better that way