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Poker Video: Pot-Limit Omaha by DJ Sensei (Micro/Small Stakes)

I liked this video very much but I'm not quite sure of the terminology:

run-down: four cards of adjacent value (5678) - can they also have a gap (4678)?
wrap: what is a wrap?

I liked this video very much but I'm not quite sure of the terminology:

run-down: four cards of adjacent value (5678) - can they also have a gap (4678)?
wrap: what is a wrap?

A run-down refers to a starting hand which is very connected. Obviously 5678 is a rundown but I'd consider connected hands with a gap (like JT87) to be rundowns too.

A wrap refers to a postflop connection with the board, where at least 3 of our holecards work together to create a large straight draw. QT98 is a wrap on a 762 flop or a J92 flop. 9764 is a super wrap on an 853 board.

At 58:00 You are talking about 3 bet folding as an option, but if someone opens for full pot and we 3 bet for full pot, than it seems to me that it is almost always a call cause we are getting 2 to 1 and we have always at least 30% equity.
On the left table a lose opener opens for fullpot and you suggest to 3 bet Jc3cTh7h. I guess 3 betting this hand is very marginal when we shouldn't have some considerable fold equity which I don't think we have vs this opponent.
Nice Vid and thank you for your effort.

Nice vid. The nuttiness/flopability chart that you guys referred to many times helped to vision what type of hands you were discussing vs where people many times just quickly rattle off some random hands.

At 58:00 You are talking about 3 bet folding as an option, but if someone opens for full pot and we 3 bet for full pot, than it seems to me that it is almost always a call cause we are getting 2 to 1 and we have always at least 30% equity.
On the left table a lose opener opens for fullpot and you suggest to 3 bet Jc3cTh7h. I guess 3 betting this hand is very marginal when we shouldn't have some considerable fold equity which I don't think we have vs this opponent.
Nice Vid and thank you for your effort.

I think you might have posted in the wrong video thread.

However, I also think you need to give more consideration to future streets of action when considering preflop plays. While its true that we usually have at least 30% equity preflop, that only matters if we're calling off our stack. When there are several more streets to play and plenty more $ in the stack, preflop equity is less and less relevant and its more important to consider our implied odds and postflop playability. Some hands just don't have either of those against a tight 3betting range, and we should fold them.

I think you might have posted in the wrong video thread.

However, I also think you need to give more consideration to future streets of action when considering preflop plays. While its true that we usually have at least 30% equity preflop, that only matters if we're calling off our stack. When there are several more streets to play and plenty more $ in the stack, preflop equity is less and less relevant and its more important to consider our implied odds and postflop playability. Some hands just don't have either of those against a tight 3betting range, and we should fold them.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, I did mean Bustacap 1. Can someone remove this? Either way, when playing cap, there will not be any future street. If someone opens fullpot and we 3bet fullpot than his 4 bet means full cap.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, I did mean Bustacap 1. Can someone remove this? Either way, when playing cap, there will not be any future street. If someone opens fullpot and we 3bet fullpot than his 4 bet means full cap.

Yes, even in a cap game I'll 3betfold sometimes! ProPokerTools Omaha Hi Simulation
600,000 trials (Randomized)
AKK* 28.55% (167,813 wins, 6,967 ties)
AA** 71.45% (425,220 wins, 6,967 ties)

I hear a lot about playing hands that make the nuts and avoid situations where we get freerolled. But how do we go about doing that? is it in the preflop hand selection? I mean, if we have the nuts on a flop but there are redraws, what do we do?

example if we have AK89 on JQTtt and we have no flush draw, and get lead into. do we just call then get it in on the turn when flush misses or do we get it in knowing there are possibility we are getting freerolled.

I guess I understand the concept of not getting freerolled, but how does one avoid that?

You'll never avoid it completely, but you can usually do so by playing better hands. Instead of AK98, play AKQJ, or AKQTds, so now you're free rolling the other guy with bare AK whenever you do flop the nuts. You can't avoid it because even if you play AAKKds and flop QJT you might not flop a flush draw and the other guy might with the bare AK, sometimes it's just running bad. But yea, you can minimize it by playing strongly connected suited hands that usually flop nuts + redraws.

By the way, I wouldn't worry too much with AK on QJT since at least you know there's not bigger straight redraws. Having 78 on 69T is much much worse.

I hear a lot about playing hands that make the nuts and avoid situations where we get freerolled. But how do we go about doing that? is it in the preflop hand selection? I mean, if we have the nuts on a flop but there are redraws, what do we do?

example if we have AK89 on JQTtt and we have no flush draw, and get lead into. do we just call then get it in on the turn when flush misses or do we get it in knowing there are possibility we are getting freerolled.

I guess I understand the concept of not getting freerolled, but how does one avoid that?

With "naked nuts" on the flop and a high SPR, we should almost never be raising. We want to avoid getting stacks in while being freerolled, and we also want to keep worse hands in so we can get some value. So, check-call oop is often a good play, at least in a multiway situation. You should certainly bet when checked to in position, but facing a bet you should probably just call.

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why AAA2 ? and not AAAK. and why do you want to have 3 Aces. It will reduce de probability that you hit one A . Can't have quads. Less FH's.

why AAA2 ? and not AAAK. and why do you want to have 3 Aces. It will reduce de probability that you hit one A . Can't have quads. Less FH's.

Well, we don't want to have 3 aces, but its still an equity favorite over most hands if we get all the $ in preflop. The point here is that it plays very poorly postflop with money behind because it has extremely low floppability. Thats not to say its unplayable with deep SPRs (for instance, naked ace bluffs, which we'll have available fairly often, work better with high SPR), but you have to be cautious and not overcommit yourself.

Thanks for a great first EP. Really liked the presentation style.

Peace out

Great stuff, The nuttiness/floppabilty differences and the concept of treating preflop mostly to set up good postflop situations really clicked for me. Downloading the rest of the series now.

Wow this episode has a lot of info to take in! Good stuff.