AJT92
AJT92

AJT92

1-2-5 PLO. Hero started with 700 and everyone covers.

Hero in sb with AJT92ds

Pre: Utg limp mp 20, btn calls. Hero makes it 60, bb Utg mp btn call

Flop (300) : A84r both bdfd
Hero

29 July 2025 at 09:56 PM
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Half pot

Jam good turns


Half pot is too big (shouldn't pot be $240) - you can't call a raise.

Just go $40-80 or 20-30% pot on flop like you would with all your sets and 2 pairs and continue if you get a good turn.

Pre-flop is meh but most options are pretty crap.


by OmahaDonk m

1-2-5 PLO. Hero started with 700 and everyone covers.

Hero is the effective stack. I'll get to this point again later.

by OmahaDonk m

Hero in sb with AJT92ds

Firstly, minor stuff about posting. In 5-card PLO, if you say your hand is double suited (DS) you need to say the suits. Your AJT92ds might not even be suited to the Ace! For example, I personally like posting [A9][J2]T where the brackets identify suitedness and is so much easier than trying to match 5-cards worth of shcd. Also on the flop you said "A84 both bdfd" however not all bdfd are created equal. A nut backdoor flush draw (NBDFD) is a hell of a lot better than a BDFD and might change how a hand should be played.

by OmahaDonk m

Pre: Utg limp mp 20, btn calls. Hero makes it 60, bb Utg mp btn call

I'll get to this point again later.

by OmahaDonk m

Flop (300) : A84r both bdfd

And since I mentioned backdoor flush draws, your hand AJT92ds and this particular flop of A84 rainbow actually gives you just about every card in the deck that doesn't pair the turn as a backdoor straight draw. And the flop being rainbow helps strengthen the ability of a straight not losing to a flush coming in.

by OmahaDonk m

Hero?

People post in this subforum about exploitive plays, but no one really post about exploitative betting. Here I go again. Let's see if anyone whines this time. There are five players that put in $60 each preflop so the pot is $300. Hero is the effective stack starting the hand with $700. Hero has two backdoor flush draws (one of which might be a nut backdoor straight draw). Hero not only has two backdoor flush draws, just about every card in the deck that doesn't pair the turn gives the Hero a backdoor straight draw on a rainbow flop thereby lowering the risk of the straight losing to a flush. The Hero betting the flop is fine. I don't give a flying **** if someone normally uses a 1/3 c-bet sizing here or a 1/2 c-bet sizing here. At least take a moment, especially when you are the effective stack and it is easier to figure out, what bet size here would create a SPR of 1 on the turn. On the flop, many players are kind of inelastic in that they were going to always fold or always call no matter the c-bet sizing. But that isn't true on the turn anymore when you are shoving all-in and the all-in is as close to pot as possible instead of your turn all-in bet being only 75% of the pot or less. You end up with less fold equity as your turn bet is a lot less than the size of the post. Going back to Hero's c-bet sizing. Like I said, I don't give a flying **** if you normally use 1/3 pot (33%) or 1/2 pot (50%) here, at least investigate what creating a SPR of 1 on the turn heads up would be as a flop c-bet sizing. Flop c-betting $120 (40% of pot) creates a turn SPR of 1. Exploitative bet sizing is a thing, but if someone is so intractable that they have to bet 33% or 50% of pot here instead of sizing to 40% then oh well. I'll just keep on setting up as close to possible turn and river shoves with a much fold equity as possible when within reason.


My mistake that I didn’t mention if our suit was ace high, I guess I assumed it would be obvious since we 3b pre.


by OmahaDonk m

My mistake that I didn’t mention if our suit was ace high, I guess I assumed it would be obvious since we 3b pre.

It's cool. There are all kinds of strange combinations possible. Technically your "double suited" hand could have been suited to the ace but also ate up one of the cards of that suit with something like this [AJT][92] that is why I kind of like writing it with brackets so it is fast and easy for everyone to read and understand what the heck is going on with all 5 cards.

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