PLO10: Run vs probably AAxx

[Willem]

Playing some PLO lately. I do have some experience playing FR tables with Rolf Slotboom's short stack strategy (with decent results). Even though I sometimes feel completely lost playing PLO, the games still intrigues me.

Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
5 players
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Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is Button with
UTG calls, CO folds, Hero raises to $0.3, SB raises to $1.1, 2 folds, Hero calls.

I am raising here to build the pot a bit with my more than average hand. I don't raise pot since my hand is not that strong and it will also make the pot smaller when someone re-raises me. This will mean higher implied odds and more fold equity. Calling the pot-sized reraise is probably the easiest decision you can ever face in PLO.

Flop: ($2.4, 2 players)
SB bets $1.2, Hero calls.

Very good flop, I have wrap and a pair. If he has AAxx without a flush draw, I have over 65% equity and can probably raise. But if he does have the flush draw, my equity less than 50% and the raise would be EV-. Since I don't think he will call without the flushdraw, I don't think raising here is good.

I decide to just call here and probably fire the turn when he checks there, regardless of what comes there (except an A).

Turn: ($4.8, 2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $4.8, SB folds.
Uncalled bets: $4.8 returned to Hero.

Ok, I hit and he checks. I don't have the nuts but he will have 97xx here exactly never. And even if he does, I still have 4 boat outs as backup. I bet the pot here but I don't think he will ever call here. I might consider betting less but I don't think he will call that anyway. Besides, I don't want to price him to draw to a flush. I don't think I can do anything else here but bet and hope makes a very stupid call.

Results:
Final pot: $4.8

Any comment? It was PLO week a while ago so people here should be experts now .

[clabbers]

Cute preflop raise, although I don't usually make it. If you show a hand like this down, opponents can't peg you as having AA for the raise, and players can make mistakes on this hand if they feel you are overwhelmingly likely to have AA. Even with two suits and no gap, it's a marginal raise. It could be clear if you are playing the player, perhaps these blinds fold a lot to raises.

Huge flop, and I agree with conservatism in the face of two suited cards that don't make you a flush draw.

You can't afford to bet less than half pot because of the flush draw, and flush draws will wrongly call pot a lot more than beaten hands will pay anything off. I guess I like pot better than half or three quarters pot.

Well played.