I played the 9.15 tournament, really enjoyed the game. I found it quite frustrating/difficult to get my chips in late on when I was short stacked, twice I had great starting hands when down to about 8BBs, and all I could do was min raise. Eventually managed to get all in pre with a strong hand vs one opponent but the low came in and snatched half the pot back. Great game! I guess the advice is try never to get so low in pot limit? Posted by bbMike[/QUOTE]
Mike,
IMO, you can coast with a MUCH smaller stack in PLO before you press the gung-ho button & ship with spanners.
I'm sure the players involved won't mind their names in there.
no problem
Geldy is enjoying the night.
Posted by TommyD
indeed i was - even managed to win a couple of them, though more through luck than judgement - as no doubt will become clear once my hand is exposed in your example (I assume - i don't actually remember what i had)
thks TK, tommyD et al for providing such a fun evening, and everyone for the advice
note to self: don't try to play NLHE while multi-tabling PLO8
In Response to Re: Hi-Lo Low cost fun tonight....... :
I played the 9.15 tournament, really enjoyed the game. I found it quite frustrating/difficult to get my chips in late on when I was short stacked, twice I had great starting hands when down to about 8BBs, and all I could do was min raise. Eventually managed to get all in pre with a strong hand vs one opponent but the low came in and snatched half the pot back. Great game! I guess the advice is try never to get so low in pot limit? Posted by bbMike[/ QUOTE] Mike, IMO, you can coast with a MUCH smaller stack in PLO before you press the gung-ho button & ship with spanners. 10 bigs is nowhere near "panic time" in PLO8. Posted by Tikay10
Thanks for this, there was no problem seeing a flop, but it would always be 3/4 way and easily pushed off by big stacks if I didn't have a great or improvable hand post-flop. I guess it's just more variance which feels intimidating with such a bowl, but perhaps finer starting hand selection is what's required. Playing short is definitely something I'll need to think about.
In Response to Re: Hi-Lo Low cost fun tonight....... : Thanks for this, there was no problem seeing a flop, but it would always be 3/4 way and easily pushed off by big stacks if I didn't have a great or improvable hand post-flop. I guess it's just more variance which feels intimidating with such a bowl, but perhaps finer starting hand selection is what's required. Playing short is definitely something I'll need to think about. Mike. Posted by bbMike
You need to take less Hold-Em thinking in to these games.
3-4 way flops are standard, most of the time the others are in the same state as you and are getting to see a flop with a marginal (or worse) starting hand.
"A bowl" in a Omaha High Low will be less, often way less, than what would be considered a shoving stack in No Limit Hold Em, and you can hang around for ages with a short stack even if you split the hands you do play.
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3-4 way flops are standard, most of the time the others are in the same state as you and are getting to see a flop with a marginal (or worse) starting hand.
"A bowl" in a Omaha High Low will be less, often way less, than what would be considered a shoving stack in No Limit Hold Em, and you can hang around for ages with a short stack even if you split the hands you do play.