$5/5/10 live PLO in EP with weak AA and flop top set.
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$5/5/10 live PLO in EP with weak AA and flop top set.
I show up to the casino and see 2 PLO tables running. The table has a few mid/high stakes NL players with deep stacks and a few faces I have never seen. I am a PLO reg but not at these stakes, but these stakes dont run much. Villian in the hand is a solid pro. I dont see him play much PLO but when he does, I have seen him run very well and get involved in questionable hands preflop. Examples are hands like 2377 4489 and those types of hands. But I have seen him get quads vs bigger sets 2x in about 10 hours of play together.
My image vs these players I think is tight but to the others I am a solid winning player and aggressive (its weird that I have 2 different images). I raised one pot preflop and bet the flop and took it down and that was all so far. It is early in the session.
I am in EP with $900 and have AA72 no suits and I think about making it my standard $30 here but I assume that I will get at least 5 callers and will be OOP the whole hand and be lost in a big pot with weak AA's. I decide to limp and am pretty sure if it is raised I would reraise it and get HU with my hand. That doesnt happen and we get 9 players in the hand and the pot is $90.
Flop
Ah Ts 6h
My standard is to bet here and lead out when its checked to me but this flop has potential and I think it makes more sense to let someone bet, get a straggler, and repot it. I choose to check and villian to my left makes it $60. I am amazed when its folded back to me and I have now completely underrepped my hand and consider calling but not for long and I make it $225. Villian has me covered and he repots it and we get it in.
The rest of the hand doesnt matter. Its obvious what he has here.
I have questions though:
1-Is my preflop thought process good here? Remember, this is live and I am in EP. I still think that if I raise, I am just causing issues for my hand. There is really only 1 kind of flop I can continue with and when that happens, I underrep my hand.
2-On the flop, should I lead this? I lead almost always but bc I limped AA and flopped an A, I think I can check it being 90% certain that someone will bet. I would NEVER check this if I thought it would check through.
3-Can anyone make the argument to just check call the flop? I dont think that makes any sense and it opens the door for my making mistakes later in the hand. I dont think anyone will say calling the flop makes sense, especially HU.
4-Is my thinking way off in this hand?
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