Top 5 Poker Hands You Should Fold! | Overplayed PLO Hands

In this episode Thomas asks Phil to list the TOP 5 poker hands you should FOLD! Instead, Phil discusses the Top 5 hand categories in PLO that you're probably overplaying- some of them may surprise you!

00:00 TOP 5 Videos
02:54 Stop Raising Two Pair!
04:16 Weak Flush Draws and Flushes
05:09 Weak Straight Draws and Straights
05:46 Overpairs
06:56 Weak Trips

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Producer: Thomas Deming-Henes
Post Producer: Anne Johnson
Editor: Josh Weinstein
Music: DJ Spinello
Card Images: Run It Once Poker

[ishkabibblemoskowitz]

Ive been playing NLHE for 4 years and recently started playing PLO. I have made all of these mistakes and more. Folding every hand except the rare one that wins is the best way to break even in PLO. Not playing at all also works😀

[jasonli]

Please keep the plo advice coming!! Most of the home games are switching to plo. More action, bigger pots and unfortunately more rake for game runner. But it is what is. Enjoying all your contents so far!!

[alext]

The most mistakenly and overplayed hand category in micro and low stakes in my opinion is double suited mid rundowns. People love to 3bet stuff like 9876ds but in the micros people will simply cold call a 14bb 3bet behind you with no money invested in the hand previously so your goal of 3betting to isolate so that your suits play better heads up rarely works and all you usually end up doing is bloating the pot multiway and shrinking the SPR with a hand that has trouble making the nuts. Those hands in multiway pots are only able to stick a lot of money in with the nut straight plus a flush redraw which is rare, oftentimes the naked nut straight is going to just be a flat call anyway unless stacks are shallow. In the micros be especially stingy and selective and stick to high pairs, connectivity and nut/2nd nut suits. Also, be thoughtful about why you're 3betting and what your goal is because in the micros rundowns aren't a great choice, and try and push raw equity while also picking hand combinations that flop well.

[brettblaster]

"Phil Galfond making everyone good at PLO again" - Tom Dwan 2021

[monte]

I have spent the majority of my poker life playing PLOH8 and have been playing some PLO as of late. The not playing bad flushes was never an issue as anything but the nut flush in 8 is trash. Now my biggest hole is my tendency to play hands in the lower end of the deck. 3456 and things like that. Too many times this is win little pots lose big pots.

[draewilly]

Explaining what top 5 lists are is peak Phil based on how I imagine you as a person 😂 you the man Phil

[tubingyouallday]

I play a regular holdem game on an app with mates. We have decided to play a £5 PLO rebuy next time out to introduce everyone to the game. I expect absolute carnage and all those 5 overplayed hands to feature but ill send them the link to your video so I can say “Phil told you so” after the game:-). Thanks for the great content!

[digitaldavid]

Extremely great advice. Watching this again. Thanks.

[grandpatzer]

Would love to hear you talk about PLO double board bomb pot strategy!

[adrianoalves]

Great video! I enjoy listening to whatever you have to say about poker!

[johnhammersmith]

Thanks Phil. Great video with very good explainations!

[Pokerfarhang]

Great tips, especially for me that will be trying to transit to PLO

[jldavis]

Hey Phil! Are you planning on keeping most of your content PLO focused? Hoping so...

[pokor]

I do like top 2 pair with better 2 pair draws and especially with a rainbow (maybe with backdoor flushes, backdoor straights). I love betting hard with a Ac 8d 4s flop with Ad Ks Jd 8s. Like ALL PLO advise, it depends.

[adeldazeem]

Hi, Phil, glad you started your YT journey. All advice is good, but humans like to relate. How about getting a little more personal? Throw in some degen stories, downswing/heater stories, Ivey stories and stuff like that.

[dungtri]

can u talk about donk bet flop and donk bet turn in plo, sir? and cbet flop in plo?

[mrtorbo]

Wow, that was an intense intro cutscene!

[jokedok]

Overplayed two pairs very often, my mistake . with overpaira too . guilty of this

[pokernightoutnyc]

If your poker dream truly matters to you, find the strength to keep your head up and power through all of the inevitable tough times along the way. And there will be many, many tough times. But you got this, lets grind.

[ligafftheindifferent]

I hate KKxx unless it is really high quality such as KKJT with a suit or two. I see people raise or call raises with hands like KsKcJc4d a lot. This seems barely better than set mining. If you get the nut flush draw, you KK is trash due to the ace on board. With this kind of hand you almost never flop a 2+ way hand. Drawing to the flush and your KK overpair seems good, but is it really. You can lose to AA and lose to the nut flush. So while KKJ4 with a K high flush can dominate some lesser hands heads up, it seems like weak garbage in multiway pots with any kind of action. And while flopping top set is nice, this particular hand has damn near no redraws unless the flop has a king and two clubs.

Are there any vlogs that really go into the proper way to play mediocre (and even good) kings pre flop. As for bad kings like KsKc9d5d, I just FOLD these hands unless i am on the button and expect a limped pot. Is this too tight?