I think just about both sides of the coin have been discussed at this point, so for better or worse, this is what happened next....
Before I say anything else, with a full ring of 6 or 7 players in the game, this is a hand that I definitely fold to a pot raise that limps/folds around to the button. However, given the game was short handed, and I had a nut flush draw in my hand of some kind, I decided to take a stab at it. It was 15 cents to see some cards, after all
That said, we're all SOHE novices and this is actually the first time we played it as a group together. We've played PLO at dealer's choice nights before, so the guys know how to play that. What I noticed in the couple of hands preceding this one was that the other players would load up on their PLO hands and put their trash in their hold em hand. This will be important later.
Still, it took me at least a full minute. What you guys so far argued for is exactly what I considered. Would it be more profitable to go for the nut flush on the hold 'em or PLO board, and what gives me a better chance to scoop? In the end, I decided to cap my hands with
as the PLO hand, and
as the hold em hand, hoping for low spades and a two to come out on the flop. If put the deuces and 3 and 6 as the PLO hand, I'm figuring the most likely hand I can have would be a straight, which on most drawing boards would be second or third best in the end. Pot is $1 at this point.
Anyway, I ended up getting half of what I asked for. The flop came
. The post flop was nothing exciting. Hero bet pot ($1) to try to take it down early with bottom set and a gutshot on the PLO board. BB flat calls, cutoff folds, and SB flat calls. Pot is now $4. Three to the turn, and the
comes out, giving hero a boat on the NLHE hand.
Hero?