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Message: [QUOTE="rhoudini, post: 6811476, member: 1015282"] I think this is not necessarily a mistake. Your hand has a lot of potential, and is suited to the ace. However, you raise is a bit small considering that there was a limper before you. Gotta make it $0.35 or even $0.40. However, after that flop, I think that check/fold is the best option. Consider this: you are playing a 5-way pot, drawing to a low only, and your low might not even be the best. I would make a bigger size pre, and check-fold on flop (might call only those min bets that fish make sometimes, like pot is $3 and they bet $0.50, something like this). I think it is ok, specially if the table usually allows it. In late positions it is even better. Again, I don't see any mistakes on your play. I would have played the same way. Raise and check-fold. Sometimes this hurts, but there will be no other good option. Don't feel to much pressured to c-bet at these players in multi-way pots, or being OOP. Sometimes you will miss a lot, and your profit will come from value hands that will scoop the pot when you hit it. See the hands that your opponents showed. They are terrible most times. But flop is hitting them, and they are keeping their luck to the end of the hand. But it will not be like this forever. Proper hand selection will give more chances to hit to scoop the pot. This one is a great high hand, I don't see any problem in raising or limping, but if you are going to raise, you have to make it bigger. It seems that limping is ok at this table where there is no one punishing limpers. So only you can punish when you have a great hand. Yes, a lot of times when you raise this hand, you will fall in the same check-fold pattern, specially when many lows come on flop. At this flop, checking may be good, both when you hit or when you miss. When you miss (like now), you control the pot (better than betting small). You have a wrap, good, but this is split high-low, and you don't block flush draws. Better check. When you hit a great high hand or a monster wrap draw, you can check-raise, because many times the opponents will be betting, thinking you have a low starting hand, and this board does not help you a lot of times. Therefore, you extract a lot of value. These are my thoughts. Have in mind that I am just an enthusiast that tries to study and understand the game, I don't play PLO8 cash regularly, no specialist. Therefore, if you could validate these ideas with other people, it would be great too. But I believe these are good guidelines. [/QUOTE]

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