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Beginner Questions

Iv'e played a decent amount of hands of PLO, but always with a bad approach. My idea was that since hand equities run close together, I could simply out-agro people IP by 3betting a lot and just being very aggressive in general. The idea was that I could make them fold a lot of marginal hands and even when my range was way behind theirs, I could make up for it with position and PLO swonginess. However, as you can imagine, that idea worked much better in theory than in practice. So, I've decided to begin taking it seriously by forgetting everything I know and starting over. Therefore, I have some very basic questions that I would like to get out of the way if someone is willing to help me. If you read this all the way though, then thanks a lot for your help!

1. I am starting out on Merge 4pl (ouch, I know), so the games are very loose passive. In a game like this what kind of stats should I be expecting to see optimally? I know there is some wiggle room in PLO, but what is too tight, and what is too loose? So far, I have played about 3k hands across 6 tables over 3 days. The first day I played only 17/10 with a 46 AFq. I thought that was too tight so the second day I tried to adjust by playing more hands in late position. That day I ended up playing 21/14 with a 54 AFq. I thought that might still be too tight so I made it a point to loosen up a little more today by limping behind with suited aces. That came out to 23/14 with a 48 AFq. Should I continue to open up more or are these numbers ok for the type of game I'm playing in?

2. My 3bet is very low right now. In the past, I would 3bet like 12%, but now my 3bet is down to only 2.5%. The games have very few people who open a wide range, which I think is the reason this is so low, but is it too low? The average person in my games is playing 45/12, and ofc arn't adjusting to anything, so does that mean it's ok to have such a low 3bet?

3. I have heard in the past that is correct to call every 3bet in PLO hu. However, I didn't assume that translated to 6max, especially OOP. My fold to 3bet is 51% right now. I was thinking that was about normal because the average player is folding to 40% of 3bets and they are all way too loose, but I could be wrong. Is somewhere in the 50% range normal, or is that high?

4. When I first started trying to play seriously, I just have up on hands like A842ss, suited to the ace. However, during my session today, I thought I would try limping behind with these hands, since there are so many limped pots. I figured if nothing else, I could get value in flush over flush situations vs some of these stations that are playing 80/10. I have had some mixed results over a small sample. I have flopped a lot of flush draws and gotten some value in a couple spots. However, I also run into the problem of limping behind and then the btn mashing the pot button and having to limp/fold. So my question is, is it always right to limp behind with suited aces? Should I only do it on the btn so as to avoid having to limp/fold, or is it ok to just limp/fold because I might be getting enough value on the times is works to be willing to lose 1BB sometimes? Or, maybe it's not correct at all because your just not flopping flush draws often enough and can run into trouble with 2 pair type hands in 5 way pots or whatever.

Anyway, I have many more questions, but I'll leave it here so I have a chance for someone to actually get through this! Thanks a lot for any help and glgl.

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