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When transitioning from Texas Hold’em to PLO, there are a few major pitfalls to avoid. One of them is to 3-bet preflop with Aces, leaving too much money behind and announcing half-of-your hand. It is a major issue in PLO, because in this form of poker it is relatively easy to outflop a pair of Aces.
As a result, attempting to “break Aces” is one of the most profitable moves to perform with reasonably deep stack, against inexperienced players. But Aces are also a strong hand, and trying too aggressively to make your opponent fold can severely backfire. In this article, I use a post from our French forums to compute three interesting statistics.

In Cash Plays, 04 March’08 edition, the broadcaster discusses the concept of negative slowplay equity, and proceeds to give a pretty bad example to illustrate the concept.

In the October 30th, 2008 edition of the Cash Plays podcast, the excellent Samoleus was interviewed. If you do not know the guy, he is a player who has managed to show massive profits in 6-max games in spite of playing over 40% of hands overall!
In the interview, Samoleus declares that when betting, you should always know what you want to do against a check-raise. Let us look at this in more details.

Thanks to players such as Daniel Negreanu or Gus Hansen, the small-ball / loose-aggressive (LAG) style has been very popular of late. Playing against a good LAG can prove to be a costly experience, especially if you are not well prepared for it. This article will give you a few guidelines on how to fight those LAG players.
 

In our preceding article, we saw that when you have no chance at all to win high, chasing the backdoor low is rarely correct in Omaha Hi-Lo. In the current article, we will estimate how having some slim chances to scoop the pot on top of our backdoor low draw affects this problem.

One of the first thing a poker beginner is told is to never chase a backdoor draw. While generally true, there are situations in limit poker where the size of the pot will warrant going after such a backdoor draw. The purpose of this article is to determine when it is correct to chase a backdoor low draw in Omaha 8.

As its name indicates, this article is here to guide you through the advanced No-Limit Holdem contents.

We believe there is quite a lot of money to be made in Holdem by using a well thought-off short-stacking strategy. We have dedicated many articles to the models behind short-stacking, as well as the practical applications of these models. A good place to start is our introduction to the BBB model. Also important for shot-stackers, how to punish the loose button opener, and a few comments on squeezing with a short-stack.

When playing deep-stack at mid-to-high stakes, a few frequent situations need to be adressed. First of all, applying a well thought-off continuation-betting strategy is absolutely key to sucess. We dedicate a full serie of articles to C-betting, starting here.

A specificity of Texas Hold'em is that you will often find yourself way-ahead or way-behind. This is especially the case in 3-bet pots, where a pair will often be facing another pair or overcards. We adress this issue in this article.

As far as bluffing goes, we like to look at specific situations where we think bluffs will tend to show a profit:
The big turn check-raise bluff.
Trips or Flush Draw?

Beginners are often warned against the risk of leaving free card, potentially costing them the pot. While not leaving free cards is very good practice in limit games or games such as PLO, protecting your hand is generally not a good reason to C-bet in NL Hold'em. Note that this article will mostly deal with betting to protect weak made hands, as betting with strong hands was covered under the C-betting for value article.