KQo in BB after Calling Train

a goodly post, noble Sirre

re: a hand that doesn't play overly well OOP in 4-way pots - i'm still kinda fuzzy on this whole thing. can u point me at some further reading, plizz?

ta

Not sure where you'd find reading on this, but I'm sure there's plenty out there.

Basically, think about the type of hands KQo usually flops. Top pair good kicker is what you'll be flopping most of the time. Now if we're vs one or two people, the chances top pair, top kicker is the best hand go way up, and also our chances of getting called often by worse hands go way up since our bets don't rep as much strength into only one or two opponents. However, in a 5 way pot, the chances of top pair good kicker etc being out flopped are much higher and so our reverse implied odds (our chances of losing a big pot when we do flop a hand) go up. Additionally, people are less inclined to call our value bets with middle pair etc when we bet into 5 players.

Being OOP does what it always does to enhance this cocktail of meh by making it harder to extract value and easier to loose more money since we have less info on every street when we act etc.

A hand like 87s on the flip side, flops either some bullshit pair we're just folding anyways 5 handed, or some nuts which are very often the best hand and very often going to make us a lot of money. This is why we'd say 87s plays much better multiway way then KQo.

Have a further think about how other types of hands flop and what implications that has on how well they play in different situations.

i am now thinking of the cocktail of meh