Redraws in Pot Limit Omaha
23 June 2009
You’ve heard pot-limit Omaha described as a “drawing game,” a reference to the fact that because players are dealt four hole cards (as opposed to just two hole cards in Texas hold’em), there are so many more opportunities available to draw to straights, flushes, and other “made” hands when those community cards start coming out.
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Pocket Aces in PLO
23 June 2009
No single hand gets players into bigger trouble in pot-limit Omaha than A-A-x-x, especially novice players with a background in Texas hold’em. Take a peek at any online game, especially at the lower stakes, and within a few dozen hands you will almost always see a player losing his or her entire stack by overplaying aces.
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Board-Reading Omaha high-only
23 June 2009
Poker players who make the move from hold’em over to Omaha often discover early on that reading the board isn’t necessarily as simple as might appear at first glance.
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Dangerous Danglers
23 June 2009
Whether we are talking about pot-limit Omaha (high only) or Omaha high-low, it is of particular importance when selecting starting hands to try to play hands in which all four hole cards are coordinated or “working together.”
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Folding the Nuts in PLO
23 June 2009
Yes, it’s true. One curious facet of pot-limit Omaha is the fact that it is occasionally strategically sound to fold the best hand. Seems to go against intuition, I know, but there are times in PLO when it is not such a good idea to proceed with your hand after the flop even if at the time you hold what is undoubtedly the best possible hand.
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Omaha High-Low: One-Way Hands
23 June 2009
As you well know, Omaha High-Low is a game in which you are hoping to win both the high half and the low half of the pot. In other words, the object of the game is really to “scoop” pots and not simply play for half of them.
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Omaha High-Low: Starting Hands
23 June 2009
The split pot version of Omaha poker, known as “Omaha High-Low” or “Omaha Eight-or-Better,” is usually played as a fixed limit game, although lately the pot-limit version has begun to be played, too, especially online.
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PLO Flop Play
23 June 2009
As far as a lot of seasoned pot-limit Omaha players are concerned, the flop is where the game really begins. That’s one reason why PLO is sometimes called a “flop game” -- because so much is affected on the flop with regard to hand values and subsequent action.
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PLO is a Flop Game
23 June 2009
You hear pot-limit Omaha described in various ways. It’s an “action game,” meaning it tends to encourage players to mix it up, play more hands, and not be content with folding. It’s a “drawing game,” meaning it is often not until the turn or river cards are dealt that players finally make their hands.
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PLO Pre-flop Play
23 June 2009
Among the many factors you should be considering before the flop are your position at the table relative to the button, your starting cards, and the stack sizes around the table. Of course, you’re also paying attention to the playing styles of your opponents, as you would in any poker game.
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