PLO journy, from micros to midstakes

Hey there DC, I have a few hands that I'd like to post my thoughts on and give yall a little update to how things went today.

Only played 3 sessions today for a total of ~4.5 hours and 1732 hands. I've played over 4400 hands in the past 2 days, which is awesome and way above the target amount I set for myself so far. I made a goal to play 5k-7k hands a week. At this rate I may double that! And Merge is starting new promotions for the month of May on top of the Last man Standing competition, so I have even more incentive to continue grinding like a mad man.

I watched PLO by numbers Ep.2 today and took 2.5 pages of notes. Learning the math behind PLO im finding is way more useful than NLHE. I cant wait til im done with the series and am full of PLO math knowledge! Today's episode really helped me understand how to play better in 3bet and 4bet pots, which I'll admit I was a little confused in several situations each session ive played.

I went over some HH's using propokertools today, and I'll post 2 that I thought during the hand, I had way more equity than I really did, so lesson learned here thanks to some analysis. 

Merge $4.00 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 3 players - View hand 1749090
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Hero (BTN): $14.33
SB: $2.27 (playing 39/37/35% 3bet/54% agg) super aggro so far
BB: $10.93 (playing 74/20/3.5% 3bet/16% agg) typical loose passive fish

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is BTN with Q 9 T J
Hero raises to $0.14, SB raises to $0.46, BB calls $0.42, Hero calls $0.32

Preflop is pretty standard to call. Not much to discuss here, If i was double suited I'd be 4betting for sure.

Flop: ($1.38) 7 3 9(3 players)
SB bets $1.38, BB calls $1.38, Hero calls $1.38

At this point Im putting SB on AA** or KK** more than anything else, the BB's range is pretty wide still and I have a gutter to the nuts with redraws to bigger nuts when I do hit. Calling is the best option here imo.

Turn: ($5.52) T(3 players)
SB bets $0.43, BB raises to $6.81

So the SB sticks the rest of his stack in, and the BB now pot raise shoves AI basically as I hit 2pair with an OESD. At the time of the hand, I was pretty happy stacking off here, so I shoved in my stack. After looking at propokertools today, I realized just how poorly I put in over 200 bb's....I was getting pot odds of around 35% to call his shove, and I clearly did not have enough equity to be doing so despite having top 2 and an OESD.
600,000 trials (Randomized)
board: 7:spade:3:club:9:spade:T:diamond:
AA**, AKK* [b]6.47%[/b] (36,012 wins, 5,632 ties)
J8**,68**, TJQK [b]69.24%[/b] (409,442 wins, 12,030 ties)
Qd9cTcJh [b]24.29%[/b] (141,511 wins, 8,444 ties)

FWIW, the BB had 688* for the straight and blockers to my OESD which killed my equity even more.

Here's another hand I played just recently actually, and felt really good about how I played it.

Merge $4.00 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 5 players - View hand 1749091
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Hero (BB): $5.00
UTG: $7.43
CO: $12.27
BTN: $5.20 (22/17/5.6% 3b/48% agg)
SB: $4.05 (32/10/5.2% 3b/17% agg) -this guy is a fish who cant fold dominated hands

Pre Flop: ($0.06) Hero is BB with 6 J 6 J
2 folds, BTN raises to $0.14, SB calls $0.12, Hero raises to $0.56, BTN calls $0.42, SB calls $0.42

I like 3bet squeezing in this spot since im double paired and will flop a set 1/3 of the time so I want a smaller SPR being OOP in the hand when I do hit. Plus by 3betting, I can rep AA when i dont hit my sets quite often
Flop: ($1.68) 7 8 8(3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.84, BTN calls $0.84, SB folds

So here I cbet 1/2 pot like I would with my entire range basically, including AA because Im going to get tons of folds on this paired board. However the button calls me, so im led to believe he has an 8, 77, or a wrap of some kind.

Turn: ($3.36) A(2 players)
Hero bets $3.36, BTN folds

This was the perfect gin card other than a 6 or J for me to bluff at since I can rep AA perfectly, so i decided to shove AI expecting villain to fold even his 8*** type hands since he'd be drawing dead, and villain folded almost instantly. Well played me?

Propokertools is awesome for going over my hands. Ive made some pretty bad stackoffs in spots where I over estimated my equity by a long shot so Im really enjoying doing HH reviews. I'll try to post some more tomorrow. For now, Since its past midnight, im going to start my Monday grinding and get a jump on earning my extra bonus money from merge.