Another Plo flop spot (1 Viewer)

[onerand]

Eight-handed 2-2 plo, $10 straddle, maniac makes it 30 and gets 6 callers, including hero on the button with A866 and nut hearts. I am not hero.

7 see a rainbow flop of Q64, one heart. Both blinds check, straddle checks, maniac checks, hijack checks, cutoff bets $200 with $125 behind.

Hero?

Reads and stacks:

Hero covers table. Tight and perceived by some as a nit. Does play big draws fast and bluffs on occasion.

Cutoff: loose passive.

SB ($900). Splashy, has played back against maniac light with mixed results. Last time got lucky when he shoved 543ss flop with jj52ss and beat maniac's aces with nut spades. Has not gotten out of line since and won a few pots.

BB and straddle have $400. On the loose side. Straddle is more aggressive pre flop.

Maniac ($900) is driving the game. Only folded several times preflop over 3 hours. Often first to raise. I would say he would bet kings and a gutter 40%. Has a very wide check calling range on flop. Not his style to try to check raise. Stack was over $2k not long ago.

Hijack ($800). Talks a lot but is tight. Showed a dry ace bluff with bottom two pair as backup when he donked flush river for pot, around $350, into two players who both folded. Big hands at showdown otherwise. Since he checked after maniac he likely has very little.

 

[DrStrange]

Hero got lucky and hit the flop rather hard. I do not see this as a place to try a fancy play. A seven way hand is filled with unseen perils in Omaha. While I'd love to play against the maniac, he seems less than enthusiastic.

Looks like a fine opportunity to flip or better for some dead money - lets pot this and price out a some of the hands. Maybe Hero will pick up a call from the maniac anyway?

Pot I say, I bet the pot -=- DrStrange

 

[kirchhausen]

fold pre

 

[onerand]

I'll close this out. I would pot too. In the hand button made it 500 and called SB's shove.

 

[Jimulacrum]

I'd consider folding preflop, especially if the hand isn't specifically 66. Small pairs have massive RIO problems in PLO, and playing them with deep stacks is perilous. As a general rule, we don't want to hit small sets with no meaningful redraws in multi-way pots.

Now that we're in the situation, pot it. But with this many players seeing the flop, Hero shouldn't be surprised to be up against QQ pretty often when he gets action, particularly if that action is coming from one of the bigger stacks. It's fortunate that he got up against SB this time, given his history of making plays light.

In a pot this multi-way, though, it seems crazy for anyone to make a move for only $400 over a $500 raise. Hopefully he has 44 or maybe a weak wrap.