Heartbreaker

There's still room for more. The group is fairly active. Please instant message me on RIO with your skype name and i can share skype contacts with you

Yes! The group is active, we have about 10 people right now... The more the merrier.

ok thanks mikey

Are there other PLO coaches for $100/hour or less available ?

Yes there's still room for more, I'm sending you guys PM's with my skype name and a link to the group. Send a contact request to me on skype.

Yes there's still room. We're very active so far. A lot of good players and hard working learners

Yeah it looks like we've got about 5 people already, the group is taking off quickly.. still room for more

I'm forming a new PLO study group if anyone is interested. PM me

Jimmy, what hands do you get value from with the donk bet besides flushes and sets ? What is the likelihood of villain(s) checking back a set or flush?

My first instinct was to jam all in on the flop. Then I ran a couple equity calcs, and you have 40% equity OTF vs AAxx. I'm really happy with a jam in this spot. He might even fold AA, and he will have to fold any high rundown that doesn't hit the 76, and he's gonna hate everything else. Equity vs AAxx and JT98 is 41%. I like my instincts :)

Agreed

your hand looks like a bluff catcher to me on the flop, and his bluffs have like 38 outs on you while if he has a made strait you only have 6 outs. I would prefer a flop call to a raise.

I like the hand as played

Can you just flat preflop?

SPR is only 2:1, maybe just cbet flop? Maybe even just flat preflop instead of 3betting pre because you are OOP? But once you blast it pre, might as well blast the rest in on the flop and hope for the best? I dunno. If they don't have KK or the nut FD they aren't gonna like your cbet and might fold out their equity. I don't like checking the flop because it's just asking to be bluffed off your hand and giving people a free card for their flush draws and 2 pair draws if they check it back.

I like playing this more passively. Since this guy is a maniac, he's gonna be bluffing a lot, and you can get lots of chips if you check/raise when you hit your flush. Maybe even just call instead of 3bet preflop? And just check call flop to bluff catch with KK and just draw to the flush with large implied odds vs the maniac ?

I agree with plolearnerguy. This is a mediocre hand, you're out of position, you barely touched the flop, I don't wanna put in any chips here at any time. Bloating the pot out of position with a mediocre hand preflop seems like setting yourself up to be in a difficult situation, and gives you opportunities to make more expensive mistakes on future streets.

I like check-raise on flop better than donking. He can't raise your don't bet with anything except his exact hand (and for some reason he did not even raise that). Checking gives him and the other guy a chance to value bet flushes and sets and a chance to bluff. Anything that they are checking back (no flush no set) is probably not even calling your donk bet anyway. And if your check raise by some miracle works then just bet bet turn and river I suppose.

I don't hate it. Maybe check call instead of bet call flop? He could have bigger made hand and/or bigger draw(s), and SPR is over 6:1, seems like a mediocre hand, I don't wanna fold it but I'm not happy about slamming all my chips in with no made nuts or nut draws. with a check instead of a bet on the flop you can maybe guide the hand to a cheaper showdown?

I like the flop check raise.
I think it's better to bet the turn than to check-fold. You have about 22% equity even vs a made flush or strait, and if he has the strait he won't be able to call easily and might even struggle calling with a non nut flush, and you're getting about 2.8:1 pot odds on your turn bet even if he does call, so you're not losing a ton of money even if he has a nut flush 100% of the time, which he does not. I guess you could give him some kind or range and run EV calcs with what % he folds, what % he calls, and what % you win when he calls with his calling range. He would only need to fold to your turn bet a small percentage of the time to make it profitable, like maybe 7% or more villain folds = +EV turn bet? The problem I see with check fold turn is he's bluffing sometimes.

I don't think you can fold preflop or on the flop. Maybe you could raise preflop or as played just call the flop, but whatever it looks good as is. I think your hand range depends more on if you want to narrow the field or set up a high or low SPR. I like the call pre because you have a hand that I think plays better with a high SPR and the more the merrier of the blinds wanna come along. I think you played the hand well

Since the SPR is so low, and this guy is playing 90% of hands, I would bet here.

I agree with plolearnerguy. I highly suggest single tabling a regular table to start out. You will learn from your own mistakes much faster because you will be able to see it play out without new hands popping up on other tables to distract you, and you will have time in between hands to process WTF just happened. I also mass tabled NL and even LHE in the past, and am also bored with Texas, but when i started out in Omaha and 4 tabled, i just didn't do that well and even felt overwhelmed sometimes. My winrate is WAY higher with just one single table of regular Omaha. It is slightly more boring than 2 or 4 or more tables, but we aren't playing this game for fun, and it's still more fun than 8 tables of FRNL imho. I did play 6 tables of PLO2 the other day for fun, it was super crazy and i actually was winning, but i'm sure i was sacrificing reads and edges all over the place.

it looks like propergood's group is full. i'm starting a new group. i am playing PLO from .01/.02 up to .50/1 online and 1/2 live PLO. I'm looking for people who want to discuss training content and watch each other play and give constructive helpful critiques. PM me for invite to my skype group.

propergood has a uPLO study group it looks like... i'll try to join that

I'm interested. PM please