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The point is, he never covers when you should play aggressively, and proper aggression is key in PLO8. Often strong drawing hands are going to be nice favroites over the nut made hands on the flop, so recognizing these situations where you would like to get as much money in as possible is very important.

For instance a nut low draw with a flush draw is about an 11 to 9 favorite over top set with 2 to come and it is a nice image play to push this very hard. Pushing this hand hard is also good because it is an 11 to 9 favorite over middle and bottom sets which may fold incorrectly because they fear drawing to 1 out against top set. Of course he doesn't cover that you might want to push a hand that is not currently the nuts hard enough to get all in on the flop does he? The same hand (nut low draw nut flush draw on the flop) is a 13 to 7 favorite over a made straight which is why you don't want to put your money all in with a made straight. Also, playing this hand strong might push out non-nut straights incorrectly. He could also mention that this is why often flopped sets and straights should wait for a safe turn card before getting very active on draw heavy boards. They should push hard on a safe turn where they become the significant favorite.

Once you have a lock both ways, you are rarely going to get much more money in the pot. You must be raising preflop and betting flops to get a lot of money in by the turn or river.