Poker Variation PoLL

Have you ever played PL OH or a variation of it( Hi/Lo), 7stud, 5stud, lowball. Was it online or in a b&m locale? Feel free to share your experiences, did you Love it, Hate it, were you Indifferent? Have fun with this one All, and please take the survey if you like the idea for the thread, so we can share some insights!

I have played some Omaha online and got destroyed for about 2 buy ins so I quit that. I would need to learn A LOT more. I was just fooling around and playing any 4 cards because I cant seem to get a idea on what is good in that game preflop. At least I was at the lowest stakes so I couldn't lose to much .

I was actually thinking back on the first Fixed limit Omaha Hi/Lo trny I ever played in when I got the idea to start this thread with a poll. Also I thought It would be cool if we shared some interesting experiences of other poker variations we have had.

So this trny I was recalling was in 2007, and I had been studying Doyles Super System II So I felt confident that I had the game of Omaha fairly well understood, and a buddy of mine in South Carolina and I had messed around playing some heads up( as we often did with several different poker games). Anyways, since it was before BF I was on pokerstars, and registered for the late Omaha FR. Well, the final pool was 4986 players, and darn it ill probly never forget that number, cuz I just grinded my darn way through 6+ hours of Omaha, and left 4985 of those players behind me as I stood alone at the end with over 7million in Tourney chips! I was in awe, I really just played basic hi/lo strategy and kept to double suited with hopefully A2KX variations. I had been playing 5/10 fixed limit holdem at the time on the casino boats they have downthere in the south, so I had some experience with Fixed limits, and how some people will NEVER FOLD, EVER. So I tried to use all that previous experience and what I had read about Omaha to give it my darndest. To this day I still think about how amazing a run that trny was for me, and it got me even more interested into poker, and also to this day I ONLY WISH it had been a 4986 field in some major event LOL.

Well I hope you all enjoyed my long winded anecdote, and please feel free to share with us all some of your Fave moments in poker history, since of course, our own memories are the moments that matter the most to each one of us. Every time we share them, we get to relive them a little, and it feels darn good to do so! Thanks!

zEric7x said:

I have played some Omaha online and got destroyed for about 2 buy ins so I quit that. I would need to learn A LOT more. I was just fooling around and playing any 4 cards because I cant seem to get a idea on what is good in that game preflop. At least I was at the lowest stakes so I couldn't lose to much .

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A good starting hand in omaha is 4 cards that work well together. Drawing hands and pairs alike have value.

For example:

A-K-J-Q double suited is a good hand. A-K-6-7 is bad because your cards are not working together. You have dead wood (either the 6-7, or the A-K could be dead-wood depending on flop texture).

A-A-T-T double suited, good hand obv. A-A-7-8 rainbow, not that great... Unless you hit a set or smash the flop in another way, cards are not helping each-other. People always over-play A-A-x-x in PLO.

Just pick cards that work well together. Double suited.

Don't play hands like Q-Q-Q-x. garbage. And avoid random, non-connecting rainbow garbage hands.

[x] Cake
[x] Bastard

I didn't see Chicago Hi/Lo split as a choice in the poll, but not a lot of online poker rooms have that, just saying I have played that many times before as well.

curly said:

I didn't see Chicago Hi/Lo split as a choice in the poll, but not a lot of online poker rooms have that, just saying I have played that many times before as well.

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Never heard of it.

Beanfacekilla said:

A good starting hand in omaha is 4 cards that work well together. Drawing hands and pairs alike have value.

For example:

A-K-J-Q double suited is a good hand. A-K-6-7 is bad because your cards are not working together. You have dead wood (either the 6-7, or the A-K could be dead-wood depending on flop texture).

A-A-T-T double suited, good hand obv. A-A-7-8 rainbow, not that great... Unless you hit a set or smash the flop in another way, cards are not helping each-other. People always over-play A-A-x-x in PLO.

Just pick cards that work well together. Double suited.

Don't play hands like Q-Q-Q-x. garbage. And avoid random, non-connecting rainbow garbage hands.

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I was playing Omaha with my mum the other day, she is just learning so she has no poker face, I always know what she has it on the flop lol.

One day she looks at her cards and goes oooooh with a big grin on her face, so I say you have a three of a kind don't you and she said yes how did you know lol. I then said I just did and its no good to you, she said why? and I said remember you can only use two cards lol

EvertonGirl said:

Never heard of it.

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Chicago Hi and Chicago Lo are two separate games, Chicago Hi is the game I was referring to. Played exactly the same as 7 card stud except the player with the highest spade out of all the hole cards splits the pot with the winner of the hand. Obviously it's nice to have the Ace of spades in the hole while also having the best hand at the table, that way you can "scoop"the pot and take down everyone in the hand, it takes patience but it can be fun.

I forgot to vote on Pot Limit Omaha, I have also played that a few times.

The Chicago game sounds a little different, but sorry I had never heard of it so I didn't include it in the poll.

play a lot of omaha, chicago, baseball and pineapple (as well as holdem of course) at a local game i play at.