The quality of the original video leaves much to be desired in the quality department, despite boldly claiming to be 720p. To do without blurry screenshots, we'll give you the hand walkthrough, plus the solved spots.
The game is at Super Circus Mix, at a $10/$20 limit, 6-max.
One of the strongest mid- and high-stakes mixed players is in the game, named Go_On, believed to be the nickname of Georgy Belyanin. We also see the cards of KingOfTown, a student of Kyle Myaso.
Archie-66
from UTG
Kyle Myaso:
All right, queens under the gun in Archie. I've got to say, this is probably close, but I tend to fold queens under the gun in Archie. It's more of a playability issue. You know you're going to be up against a lot of hands that have a lot of equity against you.
The biggest hands you're probably opening under the gun are usually kings, and kings with an ace blocker is kind of beneficial. I haven't seen any sort of solver for Archie yet, but I'm throwing away my one-pair big pairs here unless they're aces, or maybe kings with an ace blocker. I do tend to fold my big pairs in early position.
KingOfTown: If you have one pair, like a pair of aces, are you pitching three cards or two?
KM: My philosophy is, especially in this game, that if given the chance you want to hide information. Obviously if you raise under the gun and draw three, you have one pair right now in single draw. You raise and draw three all the time in that spot, since one pair with a draw is one of the most common hand classes.
If this were a situation where you were in the big blind and had a pair like with a wheel card, or even like , you could call and draw three to hide a little information. But if you're opening under the gun and drawing three, you almost always have just a big one-pair hand. So if you were to open one pair under the gun and you had aces, a lot of times in that spot it doesn't matter what you draw to.
If you have with an extra suited wheel card, I like to keep that because you can make aces up, but you can also pick up a flush draw, make four to a wheel, and there are a lot of random draws you get in the process while still hiding information.
Hero folds.
Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
in the BB
Elastic raises to $20 from first position. Two players fold. Bidhitter1 calls on the button, Go_On three-bet to $30 from the small blind. KingOfTown folds.
KM: Hi-Lo Eight-or-Better, the best game in the history of the world, no questions asked.
This hand is most likely going to be a call from the big blind, because if someone re-raises you here, it's just going to be a call.
So what happens here is, if you're against the correct raising range from under the gun, with someone calling, and then someone three-betting from the small blind, your high hands go way up in value. Technically it is a five-bet cap game, and if it's a four-bet cap game, I would probably just throw the cap in. But I'm not folding this combo to this action.
So I am just calling in the big blind and seeing a flop.
Sometimes the flop still comes three low cards, and that's okay, that just happens, but you definitely have enough equity to continue.
On the river, elastic takes the entire pot with against Go_On, building a wheel on .
Wow, he had aces and ace-five double-suited. You had the best starting hand possible, and the other player even had a hand under the gun that you probably shouldn't have opened, but we're still figuring out the proper ranges.
We can basically see that it's still calling about 33% of the time, putting the cap in a good 20% of the time, calling 13%
Let's put a filter on :
We can see that every single combo here is actually playing again. Given this action, where under the gun raises, button cold calls, and small blind three-bets with those ranges, the high hands go up significantly in value.
What that means is, over the long run, if you fold in this situation, you're essentially folding a mistake of 100 big blinds per 100 hands. That would be a pretty significant mistake in the full-cap situation. But I think a lot of players don't understand how much value these high hands gain when this action occurs.
Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
in the BB
All right, lovely hand here. Double-suited to the correct suits, meaning it's the best possible suited configuration this hand can have. This is going to be a three-bet or a four-bet depending on what happens, because this hand is just printing money against this range. Calling is not going to be a huge mistake, but three-betting is better.
Bidhitter1 raises to $20 from the button. Go_On folds in the small blind. Hero three-bets. Villain calls.
Flop:
Flop middle pair and a gutshot with two backdoor draws and second-nut low. This is just a bet.
Bet, call.
Turn:
I would totally bet here again given that you have a straight-flush draw and a pair. If he raises, so be it.
Hero, after thinking, bets, Bidhitter1 calls.
River:
The river is a close spot. I might go for the value bet here, and the reason is that a lot of times on these boards, if I had here, I might check and probably bluff-catch.
Hero checks.
But if you check here, he doesn't have a straight. He could have something like queens or jacks, but that's just a low percentage of what his opening range should look like. In limit Holdem he'd have all combos of jacks and queens, but in limit Hi-Lo, he probably has the majority of jacks and queens, though limit Hi-Lo is a better-better game so he can't have the low.
So really, what happens if you check is that he either bluffs, or he gets to play perfectly against you and value-bet the hands that have some value against you while checking back the ones that don't.
The opponent quickly checks next and loses with .
So yeah, he checked back with a hand that has zero equity and didn't even try to bluff it.
Let's check preflop using Omaha Mate:
We can see that we're calling with our worst combos for the most part, like our triple-suited aces, with the range splitting some combinations.
I'm not really huge on the split and I usually go one way or the other. The quad-suit and triple-suit hands are just calling, but then you can see your double-suited hands over here.
Dramadugi
in the SB
The best low key in your hand and the best Omaha high on the board, so we'll split the pot. This is a non-qualifying split-pot hand.
With that eight-two, this is just another jam hand. Obviously this is five cards and not four, but with a single draw like you're able to do here, it's going great, especially against the cutoff. I don't love the four-bet, but I think the other player's range can be relatively wide here. I would go for the five-bet, honestly.
KoT: I think this is just one of those things where you're pushing equity and I would just jam the equity in. The difference isn't that significant here, because it's only one extra bet. If it were two bets, I think you'd be missing a ton of value by not five-betting. But even out of position, I'd still put the five-bet in and just draw one.
KM: You're out of position, but your hand is doing great. One thing that maybe hurts you a little bit is that you do have the extra eight, which removes some of his eight combos. But your hand is still ahead more often than not.
Flop:
Check, elastic c-bets, Bidhitter1 calls, Hero calls.
I would say his hand is close to a check-raise situation, but I'd probably just check-call given that you called the four-bet. It's close, honestly. If you had eight-three-four-five with a redraw, I'd totally check-raise, but right now you just have a kind of a gutshot and nothing else with it.
My guess is the person in the middle should be getting squeezed here, because they've got a mediocre draw almost all the time. They shouldn't be pat here that much, and the other player is representing a really strong draw. I have to estimate that our eight-seven is still doing pretty well against his range, so I think it's close.
I don't mind the call. I would probably just bet the flop and then gather some more information.
Exchange: Hero, after thinking, keeps all his cards. Elastic trades one card, Bidhitter1 trades two.
Wow. Interesting. Tell me, why did you leave the eight of diamonds?
KoT: That's a good question. I'm sure I did it because I thought my high hand was reasonably strong and I had a backdoor flush draw. But I think I probably should not have kept the eight. Did I have any other reasoning? No, I think I definitely should have drawn.
KM: Yeah, I tend to think a random card is better here. Plus you can reduce your card-sharing blockers. You can reduce that a fair amount, and even if I were to reduce to a set, if I get a low club or something, I can still pick up backdoor flush draws.
Turn:
Wow! Well played, it turns out! Now I get it... The question is, should we lead or check-raise? I'd probably try check-raising. Badugi can still take his half to 8.
Hero leads to $20, elastic re-raises to $40, Bidhitter1 folds. Hero 3-bets, elastic calls.
River:
Check – check. Opponent shows – Badugi to 9 and a pair of queens. Hero scoops $266.
Wow, well played there. Now I'm thinking I was right to be on the fence about that.
Dramadugi
on the button
Bidhitter1 raises to $20. Go_On folds.
Again, this is another combo where if it folds to you, I'm going for the three-bet. It probably depends. There are different types of badugis in this game. There are badugis that have Omaha High equity, like say you have . That hand has a ton of Omaha High equity plus the badugi equity. This type of hand for the most part doesn't have a ton of Omaha High equity, but it does have the badugi equity. So again, in these non-qualifying draw games it's close.
But with that being said, I still think what I'm doing here with a ten-badugi is three-betting and drawing one.
Hero 3-bets to $30, elastic in the small blind calls, BB folds, Bidhitter1 calls.
Flop:
Both opponents check and call Hero's bet.
Sometimes this is the weird spot that happens when it gets multiway. On this board texture with a middle pair, I still think I'm betting here.
Exchange: Elastic exchanges one card, Bidhitter1 exchanges two, Hero exchanges and gets a .
Turn:
So now we're wrapped up on the turn, plus we have a ten, plus we have ten-badugi equity. The middle player did take two again, which is good to know. On a check-two here, this is a definite spot where I think you want to bet again because of your badugi equity.
Your badugi should still be the best based on how these hands have played out.
Check, check, Hero, after thinking, checks next.
River:
Elastic bets, Bidhitter1 folds, Hero calls and loses the scoop against .
He had aYeah, there's not much to really say there. The turn was a six, so we did have a gutshot and an ace draw. So yeah, I mean, it's really close.
A four-bet is probably fine, and calling is probably okay for him too.
Dramadugi
on UTG
Hero raises to $20, elastic 3-bets to $30, Bidhitter1 in the small blind 4-bets to $40. Go_On folds to the BB. Hero calls, elastic calls.
Flop:
Bidhitter1 bets, Hero calls, elastic calls.
I'm calling two bets and then deciding, because obviously you could still hit the ten and the ten might be worth something.
Yeah, at this point I think your best bet is to actually keep the ten. Let's just see how the hand plays out.
Exchange: Bidhitter1 does not exchange.
The first question you have to ask yourself is whether he is patting worse than your hand. You have ten-seven-three-ace. If the answer is yes, then you should just go pat behind and take your equity on both sides. If the answer is no, then I would throw the ten away and keep the nut flush draw.
Hero changes the ten, gets . Elastic also changes one card.
Turn:
Bidhitter1 bets $20 into the $156 pot.
And now you pick up a straight draw and he's stuck with the flush draw.
So when he bets, yeah, I'm calling. And then we're still kind of stuck in there.
Hero calls, elastic raises to $40. Bidhitter1 calls. Hero calls.
River:
Bidhitter1 checks.
Yeah, I think we still check to go for a check-raise here. The reason being is he's representing a better badugi at this point.
Hero checks, and the action follows as predicted. Both opponents call.
Elastic:
Bidhitter1:
Elastic takes half with the best badugi, Hero takes half with the best flush.
Okay, so you broke correctly. And it looks like the other player actually took one card. Yeah, so he actually did have a better badugi and had everyone pipped here, right? He had ten-jack and kept the jack with an open-ender. You had ten-seven with the nut flush draw, threw the ten away, and the other player had nine-eight-seven-eight. He most likely caught the straight draw into a pair type of situation. So I think everyone kind of played their hand fine in this spot, and it was just everyone running into the mediocre part of each other's range.
But for what it's worth, I like the way you played this hand. I like the fact that you broke the ten here. I'm not sure if he ends up with a jack in this spot. Looking at the ten-six, it's probably close to the bottom of his range. And going for the check-raise on that river is a good play too. Because flushes are hard to make in badugi, right? It's just one of those things where it's hard for your opponent to actually have a flush when you have a badugi.
So usually your opponent should be betting straights on this river when they have a badugi in their hand.
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