4 Responses to “PLO8 with Nate (Part 3)”

  1. rbbeagles13

    Hey Nate,

    Cool series! I really like PLO8 but am having trouble finding good, reliable strategy to start myself off with. \I find myself playing way too many hands, and still am having trouble with some very basic distinctions between starting hands that make a big difference, as I explain below.

    In NLHE, it’s very easy to tell the difference between a multi-way hand (or one that performs better in a multi-way pot) and a hand that performs better heads up. However, I’m having trouble finding the same distinctions in PLO8. Early in this video you pick up A48J and state that it’s a hand that performs better heads up than multi-way. Could you possibly elaborate a little bit on why that is, and maybe one or two major distinctions and/or examples of hands that perform better heads up and ones that perform better multi-way?

    Thanks for your time, I appreciate you helping me and others to learn this great game!

    • Piojos

      I’ll take a stab at this rb. A hand like A48J is likely to be in good shape on either the high or low side against a single opponent, but could be drawing dead both ways in a pot with 3 or 4 players. For example on a board like AJ226, you could feel pretty good about getting half, or possibly even scooping heads up, but against 3 or 4 opponents, the likelihood that your low is beat, and the likelihood that someone has a better high goes way up.

      Hands that do well multi-way can make the stone nuts on the high side, so suited aces or pairs like kk or qq that can make top set. Also hands where your low has counterfeit-protection do well in multi-way pots. Having a hand like 234x on and A58 flop is great multi-way because you have the nut low on any runout, and are likely freerolling for the high. Getting quartered in a four way pot is OK.

      A hand that is strong heads-up, but that you should be very carefull with multi-way is something like AA6J without suits, especially in a raised pot, because one or both of the other aces is probably in an opponents hand, with a 2 or 3. When this is the case, there are very few, if any flops that you can feel good about continuing with.

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