Andrew is still grinding the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker in Montreal, so he and Nate break down a few hands he played in a PLO eight-or-better event and a 2-7 triple draw event.
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Regarding PLO8 hand:
Villain does not have preflop premium holding with smooth equity across the flop boards.
His limp and call indicates semi-smooth equity(big or low).
Your raise on button represents premium hand AAxx or A2xx suited.
The board connects very well with your perceived range.
What I am saying his xr narrows his range significantly.
I will not xr with naked top set on flop because I will give you a possible free-roll with your low and possible draws or exclude your weaker range.
I will xr only with combinations:low + strength low protection or low+TP or low+ flush draw.
Actually low+plus strength low protection usually imply at least gut-shot.
Unfortunately this is the tournament and I do not have stamina for tournaments.
I do not exclude possibility that after couple hours not stimulated by cash I will be so bored and tired I will bet and call his xr.
Terrence Chan alias “Matt Glassman” Stud hand analysis blow me away too.
His interview with Matt too.
Regarding the first triple draw hand, you call before the first draw and I would suggest just drawing one. That’s not because a 9762x is good, but because the action was so heavy before the first draw (how many 4-bet, 3-way hands were there before the draw?), you really needed to see how many your opponents were drawing to. When SB draws 1, drawing 2 really paints you at 7[6-3]2, which only gives you 12/47, then 8/46 cards to draw to to make your 7, which is really slim. If you add the 8’s in there, you have 16/47, and 12/46, which is still slim. Your opponents can put a lot of pressure on you after the draw, because you are more likely to have not improved.
By drawing 1, you look stronger than you are, and so your opponents will slow down with some of their weaker hands.
As played out, you would have still seen HJ stand pat, which, into two people drawing to 1 is a real sign of strength. It becomes trivial to fold to SB check raise in that case, though, he might be less inclined to c/r there after you drew 1 and if you caught a 3,4,5 to have 976[3,4,5]2, you could feasibly call 1 to draw to your 76.
Thanks very much for this, it’s quite interesting. Suggests a lot of things I hadn’t considered before.
I like that post a lot too–thanks, Eddie!
That said, you won’t catch me drawing to a 9 in that spot. Being able to represent some good hands is not a good enough reason to draw to bad ones and make it impossible (unless you catch and also break off the 9 later) to make anything in the same ZIP code as the nuts. I’d rather fold predraw than draw one to the nine. (Remember I’m no 2-7 expert, though!)