Was this a good play? PLO

Phytopath · #1 (**permalink**) 11-21-2005, 11:51 PM

Well, I was taking a break and have recently become somewhat interested in PLO, played a bunch of ring and have done fairly well and started playing some tourneys and SnGs. I have been doing amazingly well in SnGs, I just play great starting hands and push with the nuts or near nuts and it works I get callled

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Well here was a hand near the end of a SnG

PokerStars 10 +1 SnG, Blinds 75/150

Seat 1: Hero (10840 in chips)
Seat 5: BB (1025 in chips)
Seat 6: Button (1635 in chips)

Preflop: Hero is SB with

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Button raises to 300, Hero raises to 450, BB raises all in, Button raises all in, Hero calls

I was a huge stack at this point, and figured I was ahead of their hands, though not by much. Was this the right play to make? Both these players were marginal, they made alot of weird calls earlier and I was stealing alot. I thought about letting them beat each other up and take of the winner for 1st place, but I decided to try and finish it off here.

Mint · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 12:04 AM

We got a winner!

Marm · #3 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 12:22 AM

I'm not a great PLO player, and PTO has me pretty rockish, but, I fold that without thinking to a raise. Then Epsecially to an all-in.

EDIT: Ok, thought its PLO8, and then its SH. I dunno, maybe.....

Mint · #4 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 12:27 AM

Hey this is PLOH or PLO8? PLOH I would probably still call.

Beavis68 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 08:53 AM

wtf with the min reraise?

only thing I don't like about it. I would pot it and force out the BB. With those stacks and 3-handed I would gamble 3-way here. Worst case you end up HU with 8600 and your opponet has 4200.

Phytopath · #6 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Beavis68

wtf with the min reraise?

only thing I don't like about it. I would pot it and force out the BB. With those stacks and 3-handed I would gamble 3-way here. Worst case you end up HU with 8600 and your opponet has 4200.

yeah it's PLO high

Still not quite used to PL, I guess I should have potted it instead of just hitting the raise button. I still thought It would be enough to force out the BB, since I assumed he would rather finish 2nd than 3rd.

Beavis68 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 09:33 AM

450 out of the buttons 1600? Then what, fold on the flop is an A hits? Get his ass committed to the pot. i wanna go to the river with this hand and I want to get the money in while I am ahead.

Steve-O · #8 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 12:59 PM

with that kind of chip edge you can push this hand strong. BUT, be the one doing the pushing, you don't want to play this 3 handed and you would be better to put the button to the test for all his chips instead of him being the aggressor.