OP: Make Penneywize Not Suck At Omaha

holy jesus, don't you have the nuts on the flop in that hand? i mean, you'd be an equity favourite over 54xx with all your redraws wouldn't you?

Originally Posted by rpm

holy jesus, don't you have the nuts on the flop in that hand? i mean, you'd be an equity favourite over 54xx with all your redraws wouldn't you?

This is accurate. I suppose my concern at the time revolved around having the deck crippled and never getting value, but this is omaha and people are much more likely to have weird draws / 54xx / two pair and so on. It indeed was a pretty large mistake not to bet that flop.

Update on 10 PLO:



For fuck's sake, 10 PLO, what is your problem? I think I am destined to run shitty at this level and never move past it.

A more likely issue, however, is the mother fucking rake. I'm down ~4.5 BIs over ~4.7k hands (and ~6.5 BIs under all-in EV) and have paid $80 in rake over that span. That's just f'n ridiculous.

It's really looking like the only way to beat 10 PLO is to simply not run under all-in EV.

I've got about 50$ left in my shot at this level. I'm going to play 4 tables of 250bb deepstack and see how that works out. I get stacked twice, and I move down to 5 PLO and regrind 100$ for another shot.

Originally Posted by Penneywize

A more likely issue, however, is the mother fucking rake. I'm down ~4.5 BIs over ~4.7k hands (and ~6.5 BIs under all-in EV) and have paid $80 in rake over that span. That's just f'n ridiculous.

It's really looking like the only way to beat 10 PLO is to simply not run under all-in EV.

Yeah I think I said it earlier in this thread, but I wouldn't play lower than $50PLO. I even think $50PLO is a bad idea cuz I got raped by rake there, too.

Yeah rake is pretty ridic. But I am beginning to think that 10 PLO is indeed beatable, so long as you don't run some huge value under expectation. Players are just generally very bad, it's quite possible to win a great deal by keeping exploitation to a minimum (and minimizing neutralish-EV situations) and just valuetowning bad players when you have the nuts.

It's just such a swongy game though, definitely not for the faint of heart. Maybe I'll be able to speak with more authority on this topic when and if I beat 10 PLO finally.

Alright, time for a stats checkup. Roughly 7k hands at 10 PLO:



Looking over this, I seem to be playing very passively (low 3-bet and cbet percentage, low raise flop cbet percentage) which may need to be adjusted somewhat. I'm probably opening too widely out of UTG, and completing too widely in the SB. For some reason, I'm raising more out of the CO than the BU, but maybe this is a more common phenomenon than in NLHE.

So, let me have it. Thoughts, commentary, (semi-constructive) insults welcome.