I am playing a live Omaha mix and I have certain doubts which I don't know how to deal with:
-How to play AA MWP in OMAHA
(We open AAxx, CO and BB pay us and flip Ks 9s 3c. What do we do after the flop? Do we have a value flop and another turn in white turns? Do we have an x / c flop?)
-How to play AA 3bet pot SPRs of 5
(We are IP 3, we beat AAxx to the CO and K64 flop comes out. We bet the flop and it pays us. How to play a turn 9. Bet/fold? We give behind and we pay the river ?.
-How to play AA HU once bet the flop. How to follow brick turns?
(How to continue 1v1 after betting flop)
-How to play OOP when dynamic cards come out.
(We are HU and we open KQxx and a KQ3 flop comes out. We bet flop, we get paid and a 9 or A turn comes out. How does our range's focus on that turn have to be?
There is no universal AA in PLO, you always have 2 other cards in your hand. And especially in 3bet pots those two cards dictate a lot on how you play the hand. Same thing in single raised pots. Especially in single raised multiway pots, dry overpair is pretty weak hand if opponents show interest to the pot.
I know that the question is very general, but I would like to have an idea of how to play bad Aces such as AA33 in KJ68 on the turn. Knowing that my rival still has hands like AK, KQ QT and even being half fishi Jx with backdoors.
How should my focus be on turn?
This being 3bet pot, but neither will I know how to play in raised pot MP (hero) vs BU.
In general, dry overpair has the problems with visibility. You have no idea whether you are ahead or behind in the hand, and therefore the playability is really poor. For an example, AA72r (totally dry overpair) on KJ86ss turn has only 55% equity versus totally random hand. Versus top50% of hands it is 47% underdog. Yes, opponent has some weaker hands in his range but he also has a lot of stronger hands there too. If we say opponent is playing with very wide preflop range (50%) and he has Jxxx range on that flop, AA72r has only 33% equity.
There are two kinds of live games as far as I have seen. Ones where players know how to play PLO and games are aggressive, and the ones where most players have Holdem background and they don't really know how to play PLO. Those players often approach PLO as a Holdem with 4 cards. They over-value two pairs, overpairs, non-nut flushes and straights/flushes on paired boards. They also often don't have a good idea of relative hand strengths, so they tend to be a bit too passive.
If you play with those passive but call-happy Holdem players, you should have a lot of multiway pots in the table. If that happens, you should play multiwaypot hands (high nut potential, multiple components) and extract value when you hit something. The more players there is on the flop, the higher the chance is that someone hits the flop. Like K93ss flop, versus 2 callers you have average equity of 32% on the flop with AA72r. No reason to start to make the pot bigger.
AA in 3bet pots on the flop (when you miss the flop) is very often all about your side cards. Here is a video about playing AA after 3bet when missing the flop, for 100bb stacks:
