Today I’m gonna show you two important lessons in Pot Limit Omaha: representing the best hand and getting somebody to fold the best hand. Or actually, getting somebody to fold the best hand BY representing the best hand.

That’s what I did yesterday when playing the micro stakes on Everest. I just sat down on the table (I decided to play deep stack, with 100 big blinds) when I got the following hand:

As you this is not a premium PLO hand, but the (potential) pot odds made me make this call preflop. Now, in Hold’em this would be a great flop, as I flop the flush and other people could also certainly have made a hand. But in PLO, this is only a marginal flush BUT I draw to the straight flush of course. So I have a reasonably good hand + a reasonably good draw (my hand would be huge if I would hit it but I only have two outs to it), so I make a minimum raise to see where I’m at and add some value to the pot. Now nobody reraises, so I’m almost sure nobody flopped the nuts. With that in mind, it’s of course ME who can represent the A high flush, so I make a suspicous minraise ont the turn again. On the river, I know my only remaining opponent has a low flush (even Q high is kinda low here) or flopped two pair so he can never call a big bet on the river. So if he had the better flush here, it was easy for me to get him to fold that hand here. Finally, the song of the day:

Radiohead - Idioteque (Kid A, 2000)