PZ95: Greg Vail, Split Pot Expert

About this episode

The episode features Greg Vail discussing the intricacies of split pot poker games and his book series on the subject.

This year we have focused on very broad issues in poker, both in poker theory and in its statistics, but today we are going to get very specific. Scoop! is a series of detailed books focused on one game in two variants: PLO8 and Big O. Its author, Greg Vail, makes a living playing and teaching these games alone. In Hold’em, there are often cards on the board that are considered to be blanks or bricks that should not help anyone’s hand. This is almost never the case in High Low. Since there are so many combinations of hands in play, most cards on the board are going to help or connect with something or someone. Therefore, we must consider how the “best” hand can fare against the entire deck and the entire run out. Once this is done, the “best” hand is the hand with the highest equity. Most of the time, this is not the hand that a Hold’em mind would consider to be “ahead” right now. Vail, Greg. Scoop!: Big O and PLO8: Winning High Low Concepts for the Hold’em Mind (p. 13). For whatever reason, splitting the pot into two simply blows away many poker players. While I have been preparing a modest class for Double Board Bomb Pots in particular, the Scoop! series by Greg , soon to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris M. aka Persuadeo, Dean Martin

Guest: Greg Vail

Topics covered

• poker theory
• split pot games
• PLO8
• Big O
• high low concepts
• poker strategy

Keywords

• poker
• split pot
• PLO8
• Big O
• high low
• poker strategy
• Greg Vail

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Scoop!: Big O and PLO8: Winning High Low Concepts for the Hold’em Mind

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