I really suck at this game. I've managed to become a consistent winner at all forms of Hold'em, PLO and LO8, but PLO8 still eludes me. A standard session seems to have me building up slowly, usually by splitting a pot and picking up the dead money, then I bust by getting it in drawing thin or dead.

#1
A279ds in MP with a double stack. Two limpers, I pot to 5 and get 3 callers. Flop comes KJ8 giving me the nut flush draw. Checked to me and I pot it, get two check/callers. One guy is really short, the other has me covered. I have position. Turn is an offsuit 7 and it is checked to me. I was gonna take the free card but decided to fire another barrel and potted it, mistake? I have the nut flush draw, nut low draw and bottom pair.

#2
2346ds in MP with a full stack and table is 7-handed. EP who has me covered raises to 3, I call, re-raised by a half stack behind me to 12.50, original raiser call as do I. Flop comes 2K8 rainbow (one backdoor draw). Shorty pushes for 37, EP calls and I call. Turn is another 2, EP pushes and I call. Where do I get out of this hand? On the flop?

#3
A239, table is 8-handed and I'm short with 62. UTG raises to 4, I re-raise to 13.50 and two people call. Flop is J63 giving me the nut low draw and a 9-high flush draw and bottom pair. BB minibets, UTG calls and I push.


I really need some useful feedback, hopefully someone has by now picked up some trends or fundamental flaws in my game that I can adjust. This is not acceptable.

I think one huge leak is AAxx (like AA57) hands. I tend to play them hype aggressively preflop because unless I re-raise there will be 50 million people seeing the flop and I will have no idea how to play having no nut draws, unless I flop a set.

pred.... this is a swedish only site that plays a bit differently than any site i've played on. go back and read some of stoney's posts for details.

i'm not commenting on the relevance of your comments, just that you have to filter your "regular" game through the idiosyncracies of the site.

Hand 1
I would check the turn, then bet almost all rivers if checked to. I would only bet the turn again if I though I had reasonable fold equity.

Hand 2
Fold to the re-raise because as most other poster said a lot of A’s are probably out. This is the type of hand you want to play with good implied odds so you will have the chance to hit the big draw you hope to flop. If you don’t fold pre-flop, fold the flop. All you have is bottom pair and 3nd nut low draw. You are going to be way behind A23 or AA with a low (both reasonable because of the re-raise).

Hand 3
Don’t re-raise pre-flop. This is a pulling hand, so you would love people from EP calling.