Tricky Deep PLO Spot

Poker Stars
Pot Limit Omaha Ring game
Blinds: $2/$4
5 players
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Stack sizes:
CO: $784.95
Button: $146.10
SB: $662.20
Foucault: $702.30
UTG: $397.40

Pre-flop: (5 players) Foucault is BB with :4s :2d :3s :5d
UTG raises to $12, CO calls, Button folds, SB calls Foucault calls.

Flop: :qd :5h :3h ($46, 4 players)
UTG checks, Foucault checks, SB checks, CO bets $46, SB folds, Foucault calls, UTG folds.

Turn: :ts ($136, 2 players)
Foucault checks, CO bets $108, Foucault raises $434, Co raises $729 (all-in) Foucault calls
Uncalled bets: $0.3 returned to Foucault.

River: :8h

Results: He had QQxx and won the pot with top set.

I put him on either a set or the nut flush draw from the beginning, possibly with a pair or flush draw to go along with the latter. Against that range, I don’t have great equity, so even with two pair and an open-ended draw, I’m just going to call and see what the turn brings.

I would have folded a heart turn, but on this safe card, I decided to commit to a big pot. He definitely ought to be firing again with a flush draw with these stacks, because it puts a lot of pressure on me to fold something like two pair and I’m rarely going to be slowplaying the flop looking to check-raise him. However, people do tend to play very straight-forwardly in PLO, and although he shouldn’t, I don’t know for sure that he wouldn’t have checked behind with a flush draw on the turn. However, the fact that I held a 3 and a 5 made those sets less likely, which made me somewhat more comfortable against his range.