Also, calling one bet with the specific intention of folding to a raise is not good omaha poker. If you are going to call one BB, you should at least be doing it with a hand that can stand a small raise or call a raise in a pot with multiple callers. Putting one BB in only to fold to a (likely) raise accomplishes little. IMO, your hand was pretty marginal on a table with regular preflop raises, but probably not the worst play in the world. The main problem with calling raises with these sort of hands is that your two best flops are both marginal and unlikely to be happy facing a big bet - you can hit a 7, which is liable to give you the second or bottom set (and with the raise preflop, one raise from the nut set could put you or your opponent pretty much all in), or a flush draw, which you'll have to fold to a full pot-sized bet more often than not. I must admit that one of my worst habits in omaha is calling one bet and then dumping my hand to a raise, but these days I do it rarely and certainly don't start a hand with the specific intention of doing so on an aggressive table!
On the flop I don't much like betting that hand into 5 opponents, a call is almost a certainty and you have nothing made, with, as you said, 6 outs to a delicate nut. I can't see how a bet there can possibly be +EV. Against maybe 2 opponents, where it's more likely they're playing high-orientated cards and thus may fold to a semi-bluff, betting is much more defendable and quite possibly usually the correct play.
Welcome to the forum, good to have you on board and we look forward to more good contributions from you! All the best,
Monk
xxxxxStatistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:39 am
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