I play some small MTT and double-or-nothing SnG PLO on Hero/Merge. I'm not great at PLO, but I find that many in the low stakes are... a bit challenged.

In the third round of a 10-seat DoN, I've only played a few hands - limped into a couple family pots and potted one hand that was promptly folded to me. This table is fairly tame. I have only played with two on my table, but neither factor in the following. Starting stack was 1500. My stack (1360) is 7th out of 9 remaining. Blinds are 75/150 ante 10. I have :Ah :Ad :Kd :Th in the small blind. That's about as good as it gets. There's one fellow shorter-stacked limper from MP, so I pot it for 690, hoping it looks like a steal. The likewise short BB calls, but MP folds. I would have preferred to get it all in, but maybe we're pot-committed at this point.

Flops comes out :9d :6h :4s . I check and the BB shoves. I would have 55 behind after the call. I fold, and live to fight again, albeit crippled. I had seen plenty of crappy hands tabled, so maybe people will get stupid. It's happened before! I go out a round later - all-in 3 ways with :Ah :Qh :As :Tc . I lose to my same villain, who beats me with :Kh :5h :2c :6c because he makes a set of sixes. (I think this lends some credence to my idea that the previous flop could have hit his range!)

Okay, not my night! Fair enough, but I regret the earlier play. By potting pre-flop with so little behind, one would tend to be committed to following through on the flop. But due to the pot limit and the villain merely calling, I got to make a second decision. (And I went a bit Hellmuthian.) If I can chicken out on the flop, should I bother potting with half my stack pre-flop? I got half in good pre-flop. What is that... half good?

smithbk (long-time listener, first-time... questioner?)

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