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ambitious207 · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: Bluffing on a 3 flush board.

Bluffing in PLO is very risky. There are not many times I choose to bluff in PLO (unless I sense extreme weakness). One example of a bluff that works well (for me so far) is when there is a suited board and you hold the nut card to that flush. For example you hold AsKhQhQd and whiff a flop of 2s3s9s. Firing a couple bullets, if the rest of the board comes without pairing, will usually work. An optimal time to use this is against a tight player who won't call down a pot size bet on the end without the nut flush.

Kloaked Spirit · Royal Flush Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 869

The "Ace High Flush" bluff is generally the most common form of bluffing in Omaha and it works well for the reasons you've described. Just make sure you're going after a person that will lay down the Jack high flushes (which happens a lot in low stakes games.)

If you have position, you can usually bluff tight, unimaginative players a lot more than you'd expect. These people are willing to let small pots go frequently, so if you gather an aggressive image you can buy yourself a lot of pots to keep you afloat. As an aside check raising as a bluff works wonders if you have a really tight, nutpeddling image, especially if you know the person that bet is betting in position and likes to bet at pots from position often.

Semi-bluffing is also a valuable tool in Omaha as well, because you'll project an image that you could have a made hand. Therefore people will tend to think their K-high flush draw is good and when the flush hits you both, you can sucker even more money out of them because they'll be likely to pay you off.

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