I agree you should not have this in your "game plan". It's extremely rare, which means "irrelevant" in a long run. I think this is part from this "freerolling" thing..What is "freeroll" in PlO? exactly this, I think, you both have a straight, but someone have redraws...Those off suit rundowns are very "dangerous" in PLO. But the people like them very much..I saw in YouTube, they like those hands even from early positions, I mean hand like T987 or JT98..The coaches...But then I used Pokerprotools, I saw that the rank for this hand is very low...The theory don't "like them"..I even heard some coach, he said "You can play JT98 from UTG, but you should be capable of avoiding freeroling". How to avoid this? If we never fold with the nuts? It's easy to say "you should avoid this". But how? Talking with the stars maybe...Sixth sense...
About this "half of our profits in the long run comes from AAxx hands", I think, even then, some of the AAxx hands can be -EV. Or borderline..Or with very small profit. Most of the profit comes from the good AAxx, isn't it? Crappy AAxx still can have positive profit, because of the blocking effect. But what about the 3bet? I think big part of our profit comes from "cracking" AAxx...I prefer to be with JT98ds vs AA 3bet, instead of 3beting crappy AAxx vs JT98ds..
even in NL you can fold with the nuts sometime...Lets say in small pot K♥:Q♥:J♠:T♠:, someone shove OTT and you have A♣:Q♣:, what then? Call?..
I mean if some player 3bet with crappy AAxx and I have JT98ds, postflop he can't really fold. If the flop or turn are not very ugly. If he decide to fold without good reason, only because I am raising, then he will loose money in a long run. Because some of the players are very aggro...He is the victim here, 3beting vs me, not I...He is the victim :f_biggrin:..the fish...I know his range, possible range..He don't know mine...It is very hard for me to make a mistake, but very easy for him. And mistakes do happen , all the time...
But what if some NL player 3bet only with AA and KK and I have JTs? I will fold...I will not hit the flop often enough..To continue..profitably..Yes, AA are overrated in PLO. That's why you can play this game profitably. I think without this profit from calling vs AAxx 3bet, you can't beat the game at PL10 fast. And without a HUD. No way...You will lose with AAxx so many times...But you still can beat NL10 fast, the profit from AA is at least 2000/100, even without a HUD..I had an argue in another very popular forum (way more popular than this) and it's like 20 people was arguing that you can't beat Zoom NL10, it's impossible. I was alone, I can't give a graph right now, for some reasons. And in the end, I took the ban and that's it. But when I played this, I had 12/100 win rate. But what about Zoom PL10? If you say here , @Kyyberi, that you can beat Zoom PL10, no one will believe you. I mean no one...And you have a HUD there...Why is this? Because the people over play with AAxx, that's why. Maybe it's too much, but that is my opinion. No one can beat fast PL10, because of this. Because of this crappy AAxx..