Gustavo Siciliano

I don´t think it´s that obv :)

Do you have any reads on Martas111? I think it´s kindda spewy to 4B in this spot unless you guys have some kind of dinamycs. Yes, you are not that far behind AA** (around 38% equity), but why getting it in behind PF when you can call the 3B pre, with the opponent´s range pretty much face up, and play the flop almost perfectly against his range?

Well, against a value range of sets, straights and 2-pair, you have 20 - 25% equity. OTT, after the raise, you are getting 2:1, so you don´t have the odds to call. I think this turn is a b/f  unless you know your opponent is very aggressive and can have some draws in his range, which I wouldn´t assume w/o specific reads.

Just a side note, why didn´t you start that hand with a full buy-in? I believe it´s better to just auto top-up.

Yeah, I guess it makes sense what you said about preflop and also probably raising the flop is a better play, thanks.

The reasons you 3bet such hands, which are mainly to be able to represent big hands in flops other than high cards ones, are not necessary at 25PLO imo. As played, you don´t have many alternatives other than getting it in with a little more than one PSB eff left.

It´s a tough spot OTT, since if you bet I don´t think you can fold. If you bet like $10 and get shoved, you´ll be getting something around 3:1, and will have 30% equity vs a worst-case scenario range of sets and 2-pair, and will be ahead if you include TP + draws.

I think you played the hand fine

Agree. You have around 45% equity vs a value range of exclusively sets + 2-pair (not including dominated FDs). Call flop and hit an Ace or a club OTT.

What's with your 3bet sizing, missclick or some sort of FPS? Just pot it imo. After that, just get the money in preflop. That's all you can ask with such a hand. Yes, you can be against a better AA**, but even so, you are never that far behind and there is tons of $ already in the pot, you have the best hand and it's PLO10, people can show up here with all kinds of weird stuff.

Agree, but if he bombs a non-club turn and we don't fill up, just c/f? Or do we call and call non-club river? Is  a "typical 10PLO reg" barrelling 2 streets and bluffing a missed river or is his range skewed towards value (sets and T9) here?

If villains are both passive as you mentioned, I can't think of a better line than b/f OTF

When the river card changes the nuts so much and the guy keeps betting like nothing changes, it kindda smells fishy. The thing is that it's kindda tough for you to represent either a flush or a boat with the line you took. 

I believe I'd call with all my opening range from HJ, which most of the times is pretty tight.

It's a cold 4bet with people yet to act, I think you should just fold...

What if, instead of this hand, we had a really bad KK**, like KK72r?

I play very low stakes and agree that understanding what kind of hands people play from different positions and knowing the std lines are the basis for winning at lower stakes. A PLO series that outlined those ideas would be awesome.

I don't like 3-betting that hand, I'd either call or just fold it. But you probably already know that, since the main reason you gave for doing this was tilt. And Idk if that hand plays that terrible MW, but it surely plays way worse in 3-bet pots imo.

Idk, but you don't HAVE to 3b AAxx every time, specially when it's not the greates AAxx and you are OOP. Usually, the roots of some postflop problems come from preflop play.

I think cbetting is fine, and when he just calls, it's unlikely he has a lot of very strong hands, like sets and top-2 (with a gapped RD, like 678T), maybe bottom-2, with a low RD. He also have some TPs and maybe overpairs (JJxx, QQxx and maybe KKxx, but I believe AAxx would've 3b pre), 99xx, some draws like 75xx, 78xx.. 

OTT, some TP makes 2-pair, he might've picked a diamond draw, but his overall range doesn't improve that much. When he, again, just calls, I think top-2 are less likely (not completely excluded though). Barreling maybe is ok, since he can still call with the st8 draws, with a diamond draw and still some marginal made hands. 

OTR, some high RD, like TKJx, gets there, but it's a small part of his range. He can also improve to worse 2-pair than yours and, if he is a calling station, he can get stubborn with Axxx. And, since I don't think you have reasons to believe he would bluff his missed draws (w/o specific reads, I'd assume people tend more to passiveness on those stakes), I like putting the rest of the $ in rather than check/calling.

I'm also a small stakes PLO player transitioning from NLHE, so my range analysis may be very flawed, but I hope it helps...

I haven't even accounted for the GS outs. I did call and villain had JhJs5c6h, bricked river obv

If we 4bet-shove the flop, we are risking $36.32 to win $45.12, so you need around 44% equity (if I'm not mistaken). Against the range you assigned to him, which is the worst-case scenario, you have 45% equity, making the play BE. Since I don't think we can 100% exclude FDs and even some other draws or an eventual random spazz, I'd just go with it. And as Tom said properly, raise/folding all this equity is very bad imo.

I'd fold too. His stats shows that he is a loose-passive player and if we assign a legitimate 3betting range for him with AA** plus some broadway rundowns (hands like AKQJ, KQJT, AKQT, AKJT and AQJT) we have a little more than 30% equity and our hand doesn't flop very well.

Thanks Ibex, it helps a lot, since I'm transitioning from NLHE and still kindda figuring out preflop ranges.  Since the equities ruun so close, I guess there's less value 3betting from the blinds (OOP) and much more IP in PLO than NLHE.

Thanks Tom, I´m a beginner at PLO and I´ve been struggling with 3-betting ranges and 3bet-calling ranges, but I´m working on it.

Nice reasoning for leading instead of x/r, but I'm not sure if a smaller FD is folding to a x/r with this SPR at PLO10, unless it's a bare, bare, bare FD.