Classic PLO Match Up
Today’s hand example is something that you must come to an understanding of, if you plan on profitably playing cash Pot Limit Omaha games. It is the classic match up in this wonderful form of poker. The hand happened to me a few days ago in the Stars 6-max .50/1.00 game with a $100 maximum buy-in. I had $109 in front of me and my opponent had $121. Here is what we held:
My hand:
My opponent’s hand:
The first mistake my opponent made was calling in late position when everybody else folded. He should have raised or folded. I was in the big blind and mini-raised after the small blind called. But never mind all that, here was the flop:
A raising war developed and we got all the chips in. Take a long hard look at this situation. It’s one you need to learn about. You don’t want to be the guy without the flush draw.
Now in this particular situation I cannot blame my opponent all that much for his predicament, seeing as we are playing at an aggressive 6-max table and we didn’t have deep stacks. It’s reasonable to think a player in this game might be pushing a flush draw. If the game conditions were more conservative and/or the money deeper (such as both of us having $200 or more) I would never get myself in his position. That is, I would fold to the last big raise from my opponent with the made nuts on this board.
Also, if I were him in this game I probably would have elected to call the flop bet and see if a heart is going to fall on the turn before committing fully. You always need to be watching for this trap in PLO.
OK OK, here is how the rest of the board fell:
Hey, at least he had a redraw.
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