Hi Evgenii,

Thanks for your comment. When a hand is “in the top 16% of starting hands” it can be anywhere from the 1st to 16th percentile inclusive. In this instance, AsJs8d7c is in the 16th percentile. As a consequence, when you run the HandvRange equity you would expect AJ87 to be a dog versus 16% because most of the hands in the top 16% dominate AJ87. In fact this effect gets more pronounced the tighter the range is due to the concentration of AA/AKK/KKds. The reason that we aren’t too concerned about equity with say a 50th percentile hand against a 50% 3-bet range is that those {AA…} hands form a tiny part of such a wide range. The reason this effect is very important against say a 7% range OOP is that the hands that dominate us constitute a great fraction of such a tight range.

In answer to your response to a 3-bet with AJ87 versus a 16% range, many other factors need to be considered. For example we should always continue having opened on the BTN at deep stacks because otherwise we fold so frequently that our opponent immediately profits by 3-betting virtually any 4 cards. In contrast when we open from UTG OOP we have such a tight range that our opponent is not exploiting us if we fold this hand. Whether to continue with this hand OOP would depend on exactly how our opponent constructs his 3-bet range (more ds trash makes this a better call, broadway concentrations make it worse) and how well he plays post flop. Since this hand has mediocre nut potential, we are looking for either a very passive player (who allows us to get to SD often) or a player who C-bets the flop with such a high frequency that we can check/shove or reverse float light.

That should get you started on understanding a much underestimated part of PLO- preflop strategy in 3bet pots.

Quad

2) Omaha Hi Hand Ranking in propokertools : AsJs8d7c has average mark 16 versus random hand

When I play poker and use HUD – for example I can see that opponent 3bet range = 16% => Am I need to fold AsJs8d7c? if no money from another players in the pot.

Please explain

Hi xazervl,

Thank you for your comment.
When I ran the simulation, “How often does Player 1 Match Hand Range 9%,” with those cards as blockers PPT returned a frequency of 7.3%. I’m curious as to what simulation you ran to get 5.25%, since 9-5.25 =3.75% >> all combos of KK. I would caution against the assumption that a BT 3-bettor drops most trip Aces from his range (I certainly don’t). If you accept my methodology, then the ‘blocker effect’ you wanted to calculate comes to 2.2%/7.3% = 30% of the time your opponent will have aces.

That should help,

Quad