(sorry for bumping, I just didn't see this reply earlier).
This is not my HH, but my friend who played this is beating PLO100-PLO200 with a decent winrate, so I wouldn't say he can't play omaha...
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Wow, you really are nitty. (I'm not saying that it's awful, but I wouldn't fold QQds pre)
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We are mainly looking to flop a topset, so we want to have multiway pot and we can't call 3bet (people are 3betting
A LOT in smallstakes omaha, it's not like micros). Limping is OK, maybe even the best way to play this.
Any decent player is 3betting hands like A789ss or KQT8ss from the BTN/CO, and we really can't do anything other than fold in that case.
We are really just hoping to make a nut straight, "nut-straightdraw" + overpair, flush (we're not really happy with that) or top set. Why would we want to make pot bigger pre? We'd just have to fold to 3bet and
you're not really isolating at all in omaha by raising pre.
Openlimping is bad in most cases, especially EP, but limping behind is fine IMO.
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Flop is an easy bet/shove, std variance imo.
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Why not checkraise? People might just call with 5xxx and 3 overs, but if we checkraise they have to get it in on the flop. If we bet and turn comes A and it's still 3way, what do we do?
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Omg...I wish I had the roll for that 100PLO Game. Looks so juicy from all those limpers. WTF!?!?!?!?
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Once again,
limping is not bad in omaha. I don't like limping in first but
limping behind is often the optimal way to play preflop, especially if you have a hand that you want a multiway pot.
You can go play PLO1k (or watch Jeans' videos from coinflip.com) to see that people are (even open)limping a lot in those games too. If you're so much better than my friend at PLO you should be able to crush micros well over 10ptbb/100 and be rolled for PLO100 in a week or so.
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I agree that Omaha games are soft, probably better than NLHE et same stakes. Many players played that hand terribly, but Hero from the HH isn't one of them IMO. I think all 3 options are OK preflop, it's not like you can really make a big mistake with doublesuited premium pair.