Omaha H/L

I'm looking for some strategy on playing Omaha H/L. When do you fold? When do you play for the high? When do you play for the low? Any suggestions?

This is really way too big a question to answer succinctly, so I'm not even gonna try. Here's a good place to start, found by a simple search on 'Omaha':

http://www.cardschat.com/search.php?searchid=1031651 (http://www.cardschat.com/search.php?searchid=1031651)

Many of the threads have links to various articles and books. I'd recommend Jeff Hwang's book. Called Pot-Limit Omaha Poker, but a huge section on H/L, both limit & PL, and it's fine for beginning/intermediate. In one of the posts here, there's a link to this:

http://www.playwinningpoker.com/omaha/strategy/

Just a few articles, and possibly way over your head at this early stage, but excellent stuff, and worth a look.

Just like Dive says, there is no easy answer to your question. Even once you learn to play Omaha, it takes a long time to really understand how to play it profitably. I once hated the game. I felt as though it was a drawing game and I hae drawing. Once you understand the math behind that game it is a blast.

omaha high first of all is considered a nuts game.. before you get into high low u should get a good grasp in omaha high. Good starting has are conected suiters... pairs... etc... fold any trio in hand btw.. cause u can only use 2 of them and it takes your odds down my a bunch...
Now you should almost always fold when you dont have anything that stands out... like 3 oak or whatever... cause in omaha high and highlow straights, flushes and fullhouses are very common! A lot of ppl tend to chase for their lows... but be careful, only do this when there are quite a bit of ppl in the pot, since you want it to be worth it, odd wise, since youll be paying a pritty penny to see those next few cards!! Good luck at the tables!

Play in a lot of play money games. This actually helped me a lot. I know, play money games have a lot of idiots in them, but you are more looking at hands you think are good and play well and hands that don't really play well. Since it is play money, you can get in almost every hand and after awhile you can make your own determinations as to what is good and what is not.

Thanks.

In a nutshell:

You want to fold A LOT pre-flop, and then you're going to fold A LOT on the flop. If you're calling flop bets and then folding on the turn, you probably shouldn't have called the flop (with the exception of a nut low draw getting counterfeited).

You can play high only hands QQJT KKJJ if you will have 4+ opponents. don't open them up front, and don't call when you have a single limper (unless the game is loose and you can count on more limpers).

You always play for low, but you only draw to the nut low.

Here's the O8 rub: low oriented hands can become high hands; high oriented hands cannot become low hands. If you want to equate them to Hold' Em hands think of it this way:

There is no AA, KK, QQ in O8: the closest you have is AA23ds, and that hand is like Pocket JJ; you'll like the flop about 50% of the time

A2xx hands are like mid suited connectors 89-JQ; not a hand you want to raise with, but you want to see the flop.

A23, A24 and such are like AQ/AK: you want to raise em up, but you better be prepared to get out of the hand if the flop bricks, and you are getting action

A3 and some lesser low hands (A456, 2345) are like mid pairs, hit or quit on the flop. You need a specific card with these hands to continue playing (the 2 if you have A3)

TJQK, TQKK, JJQK type hands are like small pairs, you want to see a cheap flop with a lot of opponents

Obviously this isn't a perfect analogy, but if you are coming from a hold' em background this will help you out. Especially that there are no AA/KK hands, you'll be raising and capping when you have a strong and multiple opponents.

one thing i discovered late in o8 is that low hands get splited a lot so a lot of times you only get 1/4th or even less of the pot even if u have the nut low so sometimes it doesnt even worth chasing for the low unless u have a decent high hand or a decent high hand draw.

First off, here are 2 fun videos on Omaha HL. Not the best for learning, but not bad, and very amusing.

http://academy.fulltiltpoker.com/en/...essions/id/45/

http://academy.fulltiltpoker.com/en/...essions/id/46/

First off, if you get your nut low, and you're holding A2, try to have at least 4 people in the pot before you start reraising. Some might argue this theory, but if your holding 34 or a 25 for example, it's far less likely to be split. And if that A25 flops, I'll raise a nut low out the wazoo. Nothing to do with math odds, just that people will fold a 349J, but less likely to fold an A29J. When an ace or 2 hits the board, you can be confident someone else's low just got screwed.

I can give you this tip, if you have a low draw example: as,2d,4s,8c, and you flop a draw like 3d5skc, my suggestion is to fold right away if someone puts you all in, cause it looks awful pertty, but seems like 90 percent of the time i never hit any low cards, i have experienced it like 6 times in the past couple months and it sucks to see 2 high cards next

One tip ...
Do NOT play Omaha Hi in one window and Hi/Lo in another ...
Mix up the windows and it can be Very expensive!

And you just folded not only a nut low if ANY A24678 (20 outs - 3 aces, 2s, 4s, & 8s plus 4 6s & 7s - BTW, that's 20 outs x2.) hits, also just folded a 13 out (out of the same 20 cards, so not additional outs) open ended straight draw (albeit only the ace gives you the nut straight), and on a smaller note, a backdoor nut flush draw. On that 35K rainbow, he's on a set, or 2 pair, or he's on a total draw himself. If he's got pairs/set, he's holding all the cards you don't want to see hit the table. I'm not laying this one down, not even for all my chips. The only way you're sorta behind is if he's got an A246 or 7 vs your A248.

Yeah, it does suck to see 2 high cards come, and surely it happens. But the odds here are very strongly in your favor. You've got counterfeit insurance, it's a rainbow, the king is innocuous for now (any other card above an 8 will be too), this is a 'wow' flop.

Now this is a great tip.

I like to play in Omaha Hi/Lo with A2Kx
In this case you can play for the Hi pot and the Lo pot.
Of course you can play with AAKQ, A23X, 9TQK and others hand conected.