| This is a discussion on Omaha Strategy within the online poker forums, in the Cash Games section; Well, lately i've been playing a lot of Omaha, SnGs and tourneys and have found some difficulty adapting to it. In the positive side, there's ... |
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| Omaha Strategy Well, lately i've been playing a lot of Omaha, SnGs and tourneys and have found some difficulty adapting to it. In the positive side, there's lots of players that tend to play very similar to Omaha and overvalue high pocket pairs, and that i found is easy to play against. On the flip side, it has happened a few times now that players will usually limp in with their pocket pairs and i'll end up losing against them often. Example: Quote:
I've found it hard because people will very often slow play their pocket pairs. Way more often than in holdem. Any tips or good omaha strategies that could help me ? |
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| What limits are you playing? 5 limpers to the flop isn't a good thing and you can almost expect to see higher pockets than 7's. Sounds more like very low to freeroll play. You've got to raise enough to narrow the field & get rid of limpers preflop (pocket 7's isn't the hand to do that with in Omaha most of the time). Villian with pocket aces would have called there anyway but you might have priced him out of the hand before he saw the turn if the pot bet on the flop was bigger. After the turn he's staying with top set Aces with no flush/straight/full house hands possible. |
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| ^ i kinda disagree on that, in omaha i dont think u want to be putting in too much chips with hands preflop, u dont wanna commit urself to anything, so it is probably best u just limp with the 77xx and try to see a flop for cheap but unless u have draws with that 77xx its a fold preflop not even a limp |
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7789 or 77QQ is pretty playable. But if the 7's aren't in a wrap, or with a higher pair, then its pretty much a standard fold preflop. |
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| Agreed. It's generally a bad idea to be playing hands that have only one way of hitting big. The only exception is AAxx in some spots where you can isolate and play the AA for pair value and not just set farm it (much more doable at 6-max than FR). Low to medium pairs have to have some heavy draws or another pair with them to make them worthwhile. I recall seeing the Poker Tracker Omaha stats of a good player, and those uncoordinated low pairs were played for a loss. Post-flop, I don't think your play was that bad, but I have one comment. You don't always have to bet pot. In this hand, I really don't think you need to bet the turn that strongly. That turn is mostly a blank. While a pot sized bet would most likely be a good idea versus AK, the odds of him having AK are rather low. Unless he's a big donk, he'd only call a flop pot bet in a 5-way pot with AK hands like AK9x, AK7x, AKT8, AK86, or something like that. Plain top pair top kicker is very weak. I think it's a lot more likely that he has a set, flopped two pair, or a big draw. The weaker two pairs often fold to two pot sized bets, so I think a pot sized bet is pushing out all the hands you're in good shape against. I'd go for something slightly smaller. Also, I don't know how much you had left relative to the pot on the river, but I don't like a big bet on the river. Bottom set doesn't get paid off by much on the river, even if no straights or flushes are possible. And since you've been showing aggression on every street, you've pretty much defined your hand as being very strong. I think a big bet will get all of the hands you beat to fold. I'd make a small value bet or depending on the tightness of the villain, no bet at all. Edit: I don't mind playing bare AA, KK, or QQ in games with a very large number of players limping to see the flop. You're going to hit set over set pretty often, so the implied odds are good. |
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I should have comented more on bottom set, Dave's post is spot on though. |
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