Lessons From PLO
Of the 5/5/10 rock PLO games, the Wynn is far superior to Aria. At Aria I was at a table with 6 local pros & one other tourist. I’m not a favorite in that game. I table changed & things got only marginally better. At the Wynn yesterday my table had no pros & several people who would call down with less than the nuts. Including the guys who wouldn’t stop speaking French during hands. Drama ensued.
Suited ace hands with no backup are just trash. In the Wynn game I started trying to make the nut flush & burned a buy-in not connecting or flopping it & not getting paid or flopping a draw with not that much equity. Stop playing them. I think I like the lack of ambiguity—do I have the nuts? Doesn’t mean they are profitable.
More generally, I simply can’t play many hands profitably. Doesn’t matter how juicy the game or bad the other players, I can’t do it. Don’t modify my pre-flop ranges until I have more skill.
JT97 is 40/60 versus AAXX. I just called the 3-bet, then folded 35% equity to the flop jam when all I had was top pair with a 9. Pre-flop is a profitable call. Flop is a profitable call. This is one of those Omaha things.