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First hand of the PokerStars NLO8 $5.50 Ante up tourney*. No read whatsoever.

Click through for how I played it and the spoiler. Advice on all streets welcome as always.

Poker Stars $5.00+$0.50 No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Tournament - t5/t5 Blinds + t10 - 9 players - View hand 577293
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN: t2000 M = 20
Hero (SB): t2000 M = 20
BB: t2000 M = 20
UTG: t2000 M = 20
UTG+1: t2000 M = 20
UTG+2: t2000 M = 20
MP1: t2000 M = 20
MP2: t2000 M = 20
CO: t2000 M = 20

Pre Flop: (t100) Hero is SB with Q 5 Q 4
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t5, UTG+2 calls t5, 1 fold, MP2 calls t5, CO calls t5, BTN calls t5, Hero checks, BB checks

Flop: (t125) 7 K Q (7 players)
Hero bets t70, BB folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP2 folds, CO calls t70, BTN folds

Turn: (t265) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets t135, Hero calls t135

River: (t535) K (2 players)

Hero ????


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*Fixed blinds, antes increase by round. An odd O8 structure that many people misplay, giving us value.

This seems like a pretty straightforward PLO situation (except for the overbet possibility). He isn't repping a ton of strength on the turn and if he was strong (straight w/ or w/o redraws) he probably would've bet more. His bet on the turn looks sort of like a weaker "extract value from I don't know what" sort of bet that hopes you have a hand like AAxx, I think.

Because your hand looks really weird and you don't rep much, I probably go ahead and bet/fold here. Something like 2/3 pot should do it. I expect him to basically only raise better full houses and call with a lot of straights, flushes, and potentially 77xx/99xx if he somehow gets to the river like this. I don't really know much about tournament considerations though...it might be a check/call if we are more concerned about protecting our chips or not bleeding them away on bet/fold spots. I think we might value own ourselves when he has K7/K9 but I think if we were going to check call and he had an overfull he would probably bet a bit bigger than we were going to on the river anyway.

Thanks. Yeah, that was my thinking, clear bet/fold as you can see from the HH link.