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

Beckham, can you remind me the action on the hand?

The value of the suited ace is often not worth it, especially out of position, compared to the reverse implied odds of being overset and not being able to get away. Once again, this is advocating a tight preflop point of view but it's important.

With the rag AA, there's a situation where you'll be able to isolate and play a pot with unimproved AA, depending on the action behind you. With KK and rags, you can't even isolate because you'll be losing to AA too often with significant action behind you, so it just isn't nearly as valuable a hand. I'd open kings with raggy side cards in many positions, but early-ish with loose players behind is not an enviable place to play the hand.

So, for #1, as you get more experienced, is it then worth a complete? Not sure if being "unable to get away" just means you really never can or if it's more of an experience issue.

For #2, you mean if it goes something like raise, reraise we can just cold 4bet? Or can we get enough of our stack in with a limp RR if someone raises and there's a caller or two? (I'm assuming this is what you meant by isolating)

Also I'm not beckham but.. the KJ3 hand went like this (42:45 intot he video): open Ks9dKcTc UTG, called by CO and SB (150bb deep effectively), flop comes Kh3dJc and we bet out 10 into 13, CO raises us and we tank/raise and he sticks the last bit in.

Thanks for the answers btw, like the series =]

For the AA hand, yeah I mean mostly I'm talking about the situation where there is a raise and a 3-bet behind, which isn't completely rare in aggressive games. Also if we get to a favorable flop (T33r or something similar) we can call bets postflop with AA being reasonably sure it's the best hand and not having overcards that could kill us (such as would be the case when we call bets with KK).

As far as the AQT3 situation... if someone makes a large raise, it depends on stacks is all you can really say when deciding between sticking it in and calling to see the turn. If you have no fold equity at all, waiting for a non-board pair can't be too bad of an idea against someone who will show up with a set in that spot every time.

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How do you make a hand like 89JK a profitable limp in the SB? It just seems like that hand makes so many non-nut draws, and you're out of position in a multiway pot. Where is the value here?

How do you make a hand like 89JK a profitable limp in the SB? It just seems like that hand makes so many non-nut draws, and you're out of position in a multiway pot. Where is the value here?

Don't put a lot of money in if you flop a non-nut draw is the simple answer. You can definitely flop well enough with that hand to justify completing the small blind... I mean, I don't have extensive math on it of course but that's just my feeling.

Sort of like when you raise KTo in holden and someone min-reraises you 1000bb deep and you're pretty convinced she has AA. would you not call because it's a trap hand? of course not, you'd just call and not put money in unless you hit 2 pair or better.

Don't put a lot of money in if you flop a non-nut draw is the simple answer. You can definitely flop well enough with that hand to justify completing the small blind... I mean, I don't have extensive math on it of course but that's just my feeling.

Sort of like when you raise KTo in holden and someone min-reraises you 1000bb deep and you're pretty convinced she has AA. would you not call because it's a trap hand? of course not, you'd just call and not put money in unless you hit 2 pair or better.

Thanks for the response Vanessa. Hopefully your wonderful 2x6 series will cure me of my preflop nitty-ness. You're a great instructor.

--Congrats on the win!!!

Any way to get these eps on the ipod compatible vids?? Thanks for your work!!

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Completing with QdQc8h4h from the SB with 2 limpers and the BB to act:

What hands are at the bottom of our completing range? This seems likely to hit nothing except drawing to a set.

Good video.