Full Tilt Poker Pot-Limit , $6 BB (5 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
Button ($819.45)
SB ($1382.40)
BB ($604.65)
Hero ($837)
MP ($813)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with Kh, Ac, Ah, 7d.
Hero raises to $21, MP calls $21, Button calls $21, 2 folds.
Flop: ($72) 9c, 2d, Kc (3 players)
Hero bets $41, MP folds, Button raises to $162, Hero folds.
Final Pot: $275
Aces are always a tricky hand to play in PLO, and NLHE converts like myself are especially prone to overplaying them. Folding in a spot like this probably wouldn’t be bad regardless, but what’s especially relevant here is that I have the Ac. To be raising here, my opponent is likely to have either a set or a big draw. Since I have the Ac, I know that he can’t have the nut flush draw, and that makes sets a much bigger part of his range, even though something like JcTcxx that has a gut shot and a flush draw are also possibilities. If I had another club such that I had the nut draw, I would get the money in now, since I’d have his draws crushed and would have reasonable equity against his sets.