PLO Strategy

[paperjamm]

I am very new to PLO so im just trying to learn this intresting game. I wonder about entering pots do you always raise? I have only played about 500 PLO hands and i tend to raise alot mostly pot or 3-5BB I play fairly LAGish but not extremly LAG though. Sometimes it feels abit strange to raise with 30-40% of the buyin and then fold after the flop cause usually you dont flop anything good either. I play Microlimit since im trying to learn so faar ive made about 5 buyins so it works pretty well.

I have read in some forums and a few pages of Bob Ciaffones book pot limit and no limt something whatever the book is named

Ive seen that some pepole say that you should play tight. I cant really understand why you should do that cause no hand has an big edge even if you hold the best PLO hand. So why not raise alot when you enter a pots? The only thing im concerned about tho is that raising alot costs alot and if you are folding alot after the flop it might become quite EV- in the end. Anyway when looking att diffrent sites its seems like those persons who raise alot are those ones sitting with the big stacks in the end.

This was just some toughts by an newbie. Any comments?

[Stoneburg]

[paperjamm]

I do agree with everything you say. I do think though if you dont have a good post flop game you have two options.

1.Learn to get a good one
2.Play another game.

I do not have any numbers of this but I would guess out of 10 hands i raise preflop i fold maby 7 after flop. But if you are playing lets say 25% of your hands or less, when are you ever going to make your money cause you are seeing so few flops and you have to fold most of the time anyway after the flop. Its just that i cant se how playing tight would be a profitable play or 25% of your hands.

[Stoneburg]

[paperjamm]

I raise in position late or Button....
I try to play with premium hands like QJ109 AAKK AAXX KKXX QQXX and so on some smaller hands like 10987. I do think im pretty ok with the value of the hands.
and double suited hands with AxKx.
Its just that i want to punish limpers. But its hard to do that out of position but i do it sometimes(rare though) just to get them to raise and gamble. But i do think i have to re think about punish limpers it works fine in 6-max nl holdem what i use to play but not as good here cause they get pretty good odds to call with any garbage.

[Felonius_Monk]

PS. Welcome!