Back in with PLO

Been having a good run at 50PLO lately, but the funnest hand was this one, where the up-six-buyin bigstack overplayed his weak draws, and I doubled up with rivered quad queens. Sweet. And then the ladies turned around and slapped me when I pushed 2nd set + top of open-ended draw here. The big stack from the first hand has two preflop moves: fold or raise the pot. And then he gets out of the hand quick if he misses the flop, but will bet pot in position if he smells weakness. He has a very successful strategy: by raising so much against players who have so little (in terms of stack size), he's pressuring them to get lucky. The players at 25PLO tend towards the obvious - bet if they hit, check/fold if they miss. So by raising the pot preflop, and betting the pot on the flop to a table of checkers, he scoops a lot of pots, barring of course the occasional all-in short stack checkraise (like in this hand when shorty felt really strong about 2nd set - and this time the bully flopped top set, rivering quads). Omaha is a tough game - it's less about reads, like in Texas Hold'Em, and more about fundamental hand value (especially the value of draws).

My ladies club hand sparked an unruly response from the big stack:

KODIAKZERO wins ($94.05) with (Four of a kind, queens).
KODIAKZERO: I love quads
CAMPBN44: ***** off'
KODIAKZERO: lol

and then when the ladies struck back he razzed me a bit:

MICK40165 wins ($79.95) with (Full house, queens full of twos).
CAMPBN44: lol
KODIAKZERO: funny?
CAMPBN44: yep
MR_ANDERSONJR: yeah you called
KODIAKZERO: with 2nd set and open draw

but we made friends after quadding it up himself:

CAMPBN44 wins ($37.87) with (Four of a kind, nines).
TILLTHEEND: lol unreal
KODIAKZERO: nh
CAMPBN44: ty K
KODIAKZERO: quads are nice eh?
CAMPBN44: yes sry about being an azz to u
KODIAKZERO: np
KODIAKZERO: its all part of the game ;-)
TILLTHEEND: u bet
TILLTHEEND: thats poker

It's all good bro. And don't forget, there's no sorry in poker.