Poker Video: Pot-Limit Omaha by DJ Sensei (Mid Stakes)

yay!

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ahh PLO content finally!
I have a question tho. So it looks like you have green tag marking for bad players, red for good or solid ones. What the hell do you mark in PINK?

ahh PLO content finally!
I have a question tho. So it looks like you have green tag marking for bad players, red for good or solid ones. What the hell do you mark in PINK?

I'm not sure if I go over this in the vid or not but here's my system for PLO colortagging:

Green means fish
Yellow means nit
Orange means TAG
Red means LAG
Pink means superLAG, either a maniac fish or a maniac not-fish (sometimes its hard to tell the difference in PLO!)

Based on Mad Potters-series I thought DJ was pretty spewy/gamb00l type of PLO player, but this video really looked quite conservative and sensible.

Very good video.

That qqqax hand was weird quads are not possible and the nuts is aaxx just to mention... and unless someone had aqxx or aaxx, kk was the best boat out there

Mmmmmmm... PLO at last! Yikes, me likes. TY.

That qqqax hand was weird quads are not possible and the nuts is aaxx just to mention... and unless someone had aqxx or aaxx, kk was the best boat out there

Hello? You may want to check how this PLO poker thing works. QQQQ with deuce kicker is still quads and quads still beat boat. You dont have to have AQ there to qualify for quads and yes, villain had it.

I just realized that the other guy in the AQxQQ hand called with ATTx (5th nuts/def crushed). Heh.

DJ, ur are an omanit. just mash the pot button man!

the hud is PAHUD i assume? can you maybe upload the layout somewhere? it looks pretty good

that hand where u got min3b and decided to flat w/ KQQT or something, that guy specifically loves to min3bet to try and "find out" if you have aces w/ like random shit like A779 or T783ds. It's actually quite annoying and he's pretty passive postflop so personally I'm 4betting him a lot (esp with your hand) and also with lots of other ds rundowns etc.

the hud is PAHUD i assume? can you maybe upload the layout somewhere? it looks pretty good

My layouts are now posted here

AdAh8hJc hand like.. 15-16 min into the vid on table 3, flop KQXdd 3 way and you get led into halfpot by the seemingly super nitty dlizzle..

Seeing as how you have a gutshot and possibly the best hand, do you hate the idea of calling and bluffing diamonds? Would it being HU change things (prob. significantly less likely for him to lead Hu way heh).

AdAh8hJc hand like.. 15-16 min into the vid on table 3, flop KQXdd 3 way and you get led into halfpot by the seemingly super nitty dlizzle..

Seeing as how you have a gutshot and possibly the best hand, do you hate the idea of calling and bluffing diamonds? Would it being HU change things (prob. significantly less likely for him to lead Hu way heh).

With only 3 clean outs and against a tight opponent, I'm not too excited about my situation there. Yes my position will allow me to turn my hand into a bluff sometimes, but theres a good chance that in his hand are the cards I'm representing (which will be expensive). Also, if I just call him and the turn bricks, he has license to jam hard with anything since my hand is always pretty weak when I just call the flop.

DJ Sensei, you are such a NIT. So many spots i think you are losing money. Stick to unconventional wisdom.

DJ Sensei, you are such a NIT. So many spots i think you are losing money. Stick to unconventional wisdom.

Seems kind of pointless to post this sort of thing if you aren't going to talk about the hands where you thought he was being too tight.

Obv I only have about 20k hands of PLO but I thought it was v. good and helped me realize I don't need to go nuts preflop nearly as often as I do.

Rob

deuces_wild didn't watch DJ Mash Potato it up before obviously.

Very solid video and commentary, as always.

u say u 3bet a player who folds to 3bets sometimes more often. But u also say the fact that he folds to 3bets is a good thing.So he prbb makes good folds and good calls when u 3bet. Shouldnt u be looking to 3bet a wider range (for value) vs someone who never folds to 3bets instead of 3betting wider vs someone who makes good decisions.

He doesnt make -ev calls when he has bad hands, but a poor player does so you should 3bet him more, right?

i mean you rather have someone make -ev calls then good folds right?

Those are some good points. Truth be told I don't really adjust my 3betting range all that much at this point, because very few people actually do fold to them ever (and those even only fold maybe 20% of the time).

I saw that he uses some program that follows player statistics. I was wondering if you could tell me which program that is and where I can get it ?

I used Pokertracker Omaha and PokerAce HUD, both can be easily found on the internets.

I don't like the flop fold at ~23:00 on the upper right table. Villain's pretty nitty but you are in a bvb and I think his range here is a bit wider than AAxx. You flop probably just about as good as you're looking for, but c/f the flop. If you're going to just fold this flop, shouldn't you just fold preflop? You're basically looking to flop a set or diamonds, but won't even necessarily win those hands either, so calling preflop with the intention of folding this tightly on the flop seems like a losing play.

In your commentary, you seem to think fold>raise>call, but don't even really mention call as an option. It seems this particular villain plays pretty straightforwardly and will only put lots of action in with a set of Aces or Kings. You've got a FD, nut BDFD, and 3-straight, why not peel one? He could even check back a hand like AKQJ on a Jd turn and let you draw all the way to the river for only the price of the flop call.

u say u 3bet a player who folds to 3bets sometimes more often. But u also say the fact that he folds to 3bets is a good thing.So he prbb makes good folds and good calls when u 3bet. Shouldnt u be looking to 3bet a wider range (for value) vs someone who never folds to 3bets instead of 3betting wider vs someone who makes good decisions.

He doesnt make -ev calls when he has bad hands, but a poor player does so you should 3bet him more, right?

I think since position is so important in PLO, it sucks to bloat the pot with a 3bet defending your blind with a good hand. Yeah, you're solidly ahead of a bad villains' calling range but you have to play multiple streets OOP. If he has a high fold to continuation bet percentage, then it's probably better than just flatting preflop since we'll know just about exactly where we stand when called or raised. But if he floats/peels wide/raises light (basically uses position well), then we're probably better off keeping the pot small.

Excellent video. You do a good job of explaining your reasoning.

At 28:00 into the video, you have Tc9h8h6c in the big blind. Here is the way the hand went:

Preflop: The button limps. The SB folds and you pot it to 35. The button calls. You will be first to act after the flop. Pot = 75.

Flop: Td 9s 2d
You have top two. You bet 60. He calls. Pot = 185.

Turn: 5c
You bet 170. He calls. Pot = 535.

River: Ks
You check. He shoves all-in for 367. You fold.

After the turn, you still have what is most likely the best hand with top two pair, but you are out of position and betting puts you in an awkward spot if he calls. My suggestion on the turn would be to check. If he bets, you can shove all-in with what is likely the best hand and not have to worry about which scare cards beat you and which don’t , and if he checks behind you will have kept the pot smaller with what is a very vulnerable hand that doesn’t want to play a big pot. In fact you say that if you thought he was very aggressive, you might go for a check-raise. However, I think you should check anyway. Of the 44 possible river cards, the only 4 you are really happy to see are another nine or ten.

Here is a breakdown of the 40 bad cards:
(22) Any 6,7,8,J,Q,K makes a high straight possible
(4) Any ace makes a higher two pair likely
(6) Any 2 or 5 counterfeits your two pair and makes trips possible
(8) Any 3 or 4 makes a low straight possible
Even worse 11 of these cards are diamonds and make a flush possible.

To summarize, my plan would be to check the turn and check-raise if he bets. If he checks behind, I would bet if a nine or ten comes on the river and check-fold or check-call on the river depending on which of the bad cards fell and how much he bet. What do you think?

- Greg

I like your plan, Greg! I think its contingent on him being an aggressive player though, who's likely to bet the turn when checked to (or put a lot of pressure on me on the river). If he's passive, I prefer to valuebet again and then c/f the worst river cards (He probably won't bluff the sort of second-tier scarecards very often if he's passive, so that helps)

Awesome video, really enjoyed it. Liked how you played, no matter how you were running.