Full Tilt Poker
Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Ring game
Blinds: $3/$6
7 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $588
UTG+1: $1034.10
Hero: $531
CO: $276.10
Button: $405
SB: $193.50
BB: $770.30
Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is MP1 with :ad :7s :4s :jd
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, Hero calls $6 (pot was $15), 2 folds, SB calls, BB checks.
Flop: :8d :as :3d ($24, 4 players)
SB bets $24, BB calls, UTG+1 raises to $102, Hero calls $102 (pot was $174), SB raises to $204, BB calls, UTG+1 raises to $948, Hero calls all-in $423, SB calls all-in $7.5, BB calls all-in $584.3.
Uncalled bets: $159.7 returned to UTG+1.
Turn: :4c ($2023.6, 1 player + 3 all-in – Main pot: $870, Sidepot 1: $940.5, Sidepot 2: $213.1)
River: :kc ($2023.6, 1 player + 3 all-in – Main pot: $870, Sidepot 1: $940.5, Sidepot 2: $213.1)
Results:
Final pot: $2023.6
SB showed 9h 5h 2c 8c
BB showed 4h 2s Th Ah
UTG+1 showed 4d Kd 2d Ts
Hero showed Ad 7s 4s Jd
Hand reading can be difficult in PLO8, especially in big multi-way pots, because there are so many different combinations of draws and made hands that anyone could have. Initially I’m trying not to play too big of a pot with top pair and the nut flush draw but only a very weak low draw, so once all the money started going in, I was worried. I tanked for a while before calling. I just didn’t know how to determine how likely it was for others to be holding some of my flush outs, for any of my two pair outs to be good, whether I had any outs to take the low, etc.
I lated used Poker Tracker Omaha to look at everyone’s equity, and it turns out I was the favorite, with 35.9% equity. UTG+1 had 25.2% with the nut low and second nut flush draw- her equity would have gone through the roof if I had folded. The BB had 26.9% with top pair and the nut low, and the SB had only 12% equity with the second nut low and middle pair.
According to Two Dimes, I’m in even better shape for the side pot, with 43.7% equity.
Of course, my equity versus the hands they actually had is only part of the story. Ideally, I’d want to know my equity versus the range of hands they could have, but that quickly becomes a nightmare to calculate in PLO8. but if someone had had, for instance, a set of 8’s or 3’s, my equity would have gone way down.