On the night of the O/8 FTOPS, I decided to play some O/8 cash as well and came upon what seems to be a pretty common profitable spot in low limit O/8 ring games:
Poker Stars
Limit Omaha Ring game
Limit: $5/$10
9 players
Converter
Pre-flop: (9 players) Foucault is MP3 with :kc :2h :5s :ac
2 folds, MP1 calls, MP2 raises, Foucault calls, 4 folds, MP1 calls.
Flop: :5d :5h :4s (7.4SB, 3 players)
MP1 checks, MP2 bets, Foucault raises, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.
Turn: :2s (6.7BB, 3 players)
MP1 checks, MP2 bets, Foucault raises, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.
River: :7d (12.7BB, 3 players)
MP1 checks, MP2 checks, Foucault bets, MP1 raises, MP2 calls, Foucault 3-bets, MP1 caps, MP2 calls, Foucault calls.
Results:
Final pot: 24.7BB
For some reason the converter isn’t showing my opponents’ hands, but they both had A3xx for the nut low and a straight. It should have been obvious to both of them that this was the case and that they were going to get quartered with a third person jamming the pot and a pair on the board. Better players usually know not to cap the betting with just the nut low, since they will often end up sharing that half of the pot. Although in this case the nut low also made a straight, they still should have backed off given how easy it was to get quartered it anyone had a full house.
Not really fair to throw MP1 and MP2 in the same bucket; since it was always correct for MP2 to call along (and not feel good about it).