Any Omaha Hi/lo Junkie on here

I play strickly Omaha Hi/lo and have manage to make a good amount of money playing it.However I see nobody on here that plays O8 .Everybody just plays Hold-em?

Heya zack.
I love omaha,personally I love just good ol"PLO HI myself but hi lo works to.
It is a great game of skill omaha and very few people really know how to play solid.
Also I posted A reply to ur post on florida,check it out.
I am about an hour north of you on the nature coast.

I play LO8, a couple thousand hands a month or so.

I play more PLO8 than NLHE. Some LO8...

I play a fair amount of omaha 8 at micro stakes tables. I would say it is my second favorite next to hold em. You can really clean up some tables at low stakes if you are smart and can hit that big scooping hand or 3/4 of pot hand.

I like it but the river burns me more in that game then hold'em ever did.

begley01 said:

I like it but the river burns me more in that game then hold'em ever did.

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Now... since you know this there are things you can do that will turn that energy around to where it is no longer you getting burned, but you doing the burning.

That's kinda what O8 is all about!

left52side said:

Heya zack.
I love omaha,personally I love just good ol"PLO HI myself but hi lo works to.
It is a great game of skill omaha and very few people really know how to play solid.
Also I posted A reply to ur post on florida,check it out.
I am about an hour north of you on the nature coast.

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Nice to hear from you man.I live in Tampa .Where are you at in the north of florida.I play at Derbylane .However I it hard to find a live cash game that has O8 .I play O8 more than any other game.You can usally find me playing the .10/.25 PL or .05/.10 PL at Full tilt.

I flip between Stud hi/lo, PLO/8, PLO and NLO.

I flip between Stud hi/lo, PLO/8, PLO and NLHE.

I love Omaha hi/lo and play low-buyin tournaments and micro-stakes whenever I can!
Just wish I didn't suck at it

My lo8 and Omaha game in general is pretty weak

Ideally I'd like to change that, best book? online blogs? online vids?

Thanks.

I have played a lot of PLO8 and some LO8. The game can be very profitable, but when you're getting a cold deck it can be the worst game ever.

I think it is very profitable to know other games beside holdem as its profitability is declining all the time when the level at games like PLO8 isn't changing a lot.

Maxi, there are some videos (mostly looking at PLO8 in MTTs) at propokerschool.com and the best thing is that they're free.

Who doesnt love Omaha hl! My top 3 biggest cash wins in my life has come by an omaha hl structure.
So id say im a big junkie , omaha hl > Holdem for me all day long.
Just that i keep em both active because the big $ tournaments are not oamha hl what can you do?

MaxiRodriguez said:

My lo8 and Omaha game in general is pretty weak

Ideally I'd like to change that, best book? online blogs? online vids?

Thanks.

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I've heard the Jeff Hwang book is overall quite good (it covers both O and O8).

But to tell you the truth O8 is such a straight forward game it is really not too hard to get a handle on.

Some basic ideas are:

Avoid paying much (at all) to draw to half a pot. (except in special circumstances)
Middle straights are intrinsically poisonous.
Play hands that have a lock on 1/2 the pot and high-redraw as if they were the nuts.
Pocket pairs (even aces) are easily overvalued.
A set is a drawing hand at best 80% of the time.
Sometimes it is right to risk getting 1/4ered when the price/draw is right.

You need to be able to handle post flop play well in a big bet version of the game, and you need to be able to just stick to your guns odds wise in a limit game.

I think of "Starting hands" as more of a texture, than strict situations. Position is more important than ever, and look for tables with dumb fish.