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Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - $0.25 NL - Holdem

CO: 28.2 BB
BTN: 53.68 BB
SB: 72.16 BB
Hero (BB): 62.28 BB
UTG: 136.68 BB
UTG+1: 129 BB
MP: 40.28 BB
MP+1: 154.88 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 6d 6s
fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 5 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 4 BB

Flop : (10.4 BB, 2 players) 4d 2d 3c
Hero checks, CO bets 23.2 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 23.2 BB

Turn : (56.8 BB, 2 players) 7h

River : (56.8 BB, 2 players) 7d

0.88 BB was deducted from the pot for the jackpot.

Not much info on villain.
I find myself scratching my head at spots likes these, against a 25% CO opening range my equity is doing great, but still unsure.

What do people think about this spot vs. similar spots?

I am working on when I should / should not be c betting flop, and why?
I think this could be a useful thread for a lot of people.

I'll start by throwing out a couple hand histories and see what peoples thoughts are.

Seat 1: 1n4th3fun ($4.65)
Seat 2: Tomkotecki ($5.07)
Seat 3: ProfJames ($3.10)
Seat 4: charless888 ($6.17)
Seat 5: thinkingplayer ($2.71)

BB: 101.4 BB
CO: 62 BB
Hero (BTN): 123.4 BB
SB: 54.2 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Kd Ah
CO calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 5 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 4 BB

Flop : (11.4 BB, 2 players) 3s 4h 7h
CO bets 1 BB, Hero raises to 6 BB, CO calls 5 BB

Turn : (23.4 BB, 2 players) 5d
CO checks, Hero checks

River : (23.4 BB, 2 players) 8s
CO bets 13 BB, fold

CO wins 22.4 BB

HAND HISTORY # 2

SB: 262.5 BB
BB: 132.7 BB
UTG: 140.7 BB
MP: 100 BB
Hero (CO): 86.5 BB
BTN: 119.1 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Ac 3c
UTG calls 1 BB, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, BTN calls 4 BB, fold, BB calls 3 BB, UTG calls 3 BB

Flop : (16.5 BB, 4 players) Jd Qh 8d
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks, BTN checks

Turn : (16.5 BB, 4 players) 6h
BB bets 11 BB, fold, fold, fold

BB wins 15.7 BB
0.2 BB was deducted from the pot for the jackpot.

I'm sort of new to PLO so bare with me. There are some very soft 2/5 and 5/10 PLO games where I love, most of them play very deep and the players are very loose and bad. It's very hard to get isolation and most pots go 5+ ways to the flop. Obviously, these are amazing games.

In position I essentially value raise a wide range and limp behind some hands that have nut potential but aren't great (Axxx with an A high suit, JJxx, QQxx type hands, etc). It's pretty easy to play in position. 

In EP however, I've been battling with the idea of open limping as opposed to open raising pre. Here's a couple arguments I've come up with:

1) Open limping seems to encourage the bad players to limp behind with garbage in EP and MP, while raising seems to fold out some garbage hands but I still am usually going 4-5+ ways to the flop. My assumption is I'd like those garbage hands in the pot against most of the hands I'm playing UTG.

2) Open limping encourages raises more than open raising. People seem comfortable making raises or even making small juicer raises (lol I know) when people have limped, but are not as comfortable 3betting. If I can get some limps and a raise, I'll be able to pump it up huge with my strong hands. While if I raise, I probably won't get as many opportunities.

Do you think these are valid? Coming from a hold'em background, it seems dirty to open limp at all but I feel like it might be a superior strategy in these types of games where the players are so poor and unaware.

Playing in a loose, live 5/10 PLO game. No one is especially deep (stacks range from $1,000-$3,500), there is very little 3betting.

Very laggy player who is playing way too loose but is young and seems to know what he's doing raises from the SB/UTG to 70 with a button straddle on. Semi-loose/passive player in EP calls. I call in Early MP with AKJ3ccxc (too loose?). CO and Button call.

Flop comes KK6 rainbow. Raiser checks, caller checks, I bet 180, folds to original raiser who calls, other guy folds.

Turn is a 3 putting a heart flush draw (I don't have hearts but now have a boat). He checks again, I bet 500, he calls.

River is a Qh. He checks. Do you bet here? I'm worried about two things here: 1) This seems like exactly the way he may play KQ but not AK. 2) He seems savvy enough to realize KJ is a bluff catcher here, as well as AK. I'm worried I'm value towning myself. Thoughts? I apologize if I'm structuring the hand poorly, I haven't posted a hand history in a long time!