PLO 5 x-r flop bet turn

fold pre, cr awful cause u never get value from worse hands

I would probably 3-bet this pre. For bonus there's some connectivity between the pairs and also one suit.

As played, if you want to win this hand, it's really hard to do by calling. You have only 3 outs to the nuts. 9's and 6's does give you at least additional equity if not even the nuts. You do block str8-draws which is nice.

What worries me is that we don't really know that much about villain. We don't know ~nothing about his range and we don't know whether he could/will fold overpairs. Because you have 9966 it blocks possible SD's so if he have hitted this table, more often it's some one pair type of hand or FD with overcards.
So what is he going to fold when you raise. Probably some plain overcards and ~air. What comes to the TP/OP we can only quess. FD's? Probably not unless it's really crappy. Or maybe he could call with that also, we just don't know.

Imo in PLO5 you make most of the money with value instead of bluffing so with only 8 hands on villain i wouldn't try to do any moves. Might be too weak, but i let Skod to judge that.

The idea of c-raising is basically fine. Usually players have more those big cards in their range (unless the villain is habitual blind stealer) so when you have blockers to the SD's, this table doesn't hit for them that often.
If villain calls you can start to barrelling him out of his hand unless for example comes to the table.
But in PLO5 i think it should use with caution.

As played i think you just have fold the river. FD's are quite big part of his range so without any reads there isn't that much to do..:(

Hi,

calling is the best play here preflop by far. I liked how you played your hand, but sometimes people are stationy at these stakes, so be a bit careful and don't assume too much FE on the flop.

regards,

Skod

Thank you all especially PerusJamppa for your lengthy comment!

Why calling preflop is superior to 3bet?

Request for Skod to take another look, missed that in previous post.

Originally posted by Kyyberi
Request for Skod to take another look, missed that in previous post.
Because we don't need to raise to get the flop HU as we are already there by closing the action. The hand has relatively poor playability postflop when we don't flop a set, and even if we do we are not guaranteed to have great equity; these type of hands also have very bad playability on turns if our cbets get called, and our ability to use blockers is severly reduced when the SPR is low.

All in all a 3bet isn't a bad play in itself, but i truly believe calling is far superior.

Regards,

Skod