Pot Limit Omaha?

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Does anybody here play pot limit omaha? I have been trying to play it a little bit and learn which plays are optimal and which plays aren't and stuff like that.
 
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Bumping it up.

I know all the rules of Omaha, but trying to figure out good strategy/hand history analysis to play 6-max Omaha. Feel like I'm getting the hang of it but definitely looking to improve
 
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i play omaha...i think that u had to try omaha H/L there are more outs...:p
 
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i play omaha...i think that u had to try omaha H/L there are more outs...:p

Haha i don't like playing Omaha H/L for that very same reason lol.

Omaha is just a very interesting game to examine. I've gotten into a couple hands where I think I am a huge favorite, and turns out I am only a minor favorite...

For example, if player A flops top set, and player B has a flush draw and open-ended straight draw, player A only has a 57% chance to win! That's like the same odds that QQ have vs AK all-in pre-flop
 
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A very good friend of mine is making a Killing playing 50NL omaha.

He's not a pro or anything and doesnt have a Hud . He double tables zoom sometimes when he comes to my house to show me how its done.


In all honesty, i think that it all comes down to preflop hand selection.

You want double suited almost always. pocket two pairs are great and all types of suited connectors.


Thing is you want to Press when you have the nuts. And realize that full-houses are as common as drinking a glass of water.(meaning trips are not good half the time and higher sets are everywhere)

be careful.
 
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You may want to read some of the PLO books by Jeff Hwang or Rolf Slotboom.
 
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books imo are so limited in what they can teach you training videos are so much better imo

and yah post some hands and start playing around with the equities it will push your math ability likely
 
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A very good friend of mine is making a Killing playing 50NL omaha.

He's not a pro or anything and doesnt have a Hud . He double tables zoom sometimes when he comes to my house to show me how its done.


In all honesty, i think that it all comes down to preflop hand selection.

You want double suited almost always. pocket two pairs are great and all types of suited connectors.


Thing is you want to Press when you have the nuts. And realize that full-houses are as common as drinking a glass of water.(meaning trips are not good half the time and higher sets are everywhere)

be careful.

Very cool. Yeah, I've definitely tightened up my pre-flop range a little bit, and I always seem to get action when I have the nut.

Thanks for the advice with the paired board. I am definitely playing my baby full houses very cautiously lately.

I seem to be having a little bit of success as well. A very swingy game, but I am up a couple of buyins in the last 2 weeks
 
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and yah post some hands and start playing around with the equities it will push your math ability likely

I have definitely been playing around with the equity calculator a lot, seeing what the percentages are to hit their hand, etc etc. That has been very valuable to me
 
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I have almost won some omaha tournements and it is an interesting game type. But I don't like the omaha hi/lo limit. The no limit is still playable but don't the play the limit hi/lo.
 
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I have almost won some omaha tournements and it is an interesting game type. But I don't like the omaha hi/lo limit. The no limit is still playable but don't the play the limit hi/lo.

love high low actually you get to see so many hands it is really an action game
 
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I RECOMMEND Something Interesting in Omaha PL Never throw your hand without the river See maybe you take a large printing
 
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^what language is this doesn't sound like English
 
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Figured I'd throw this in here. Just a much different mindset from Hold'Em, such a drawing game! Getting your chips in as a favorite vs. top set.

PS, just played this hand in, all the money went in on the flop (I only had 40 bbs behind in cash game). I was putting him on a big pocket pair and figured I was a favorite as long as they didn't have a higher flush draw. I had the 3456, Ended up hitting an 8 on the turn to hit my straight, and river was a brick :)
 

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Figured I'd throw this in here. Just a much different mindset from Hold'Em, such a drawing game! Getting your chips in as a favorite vs. top set.

PS, just played this hand in, all the money went in on the flop (I only had 40 bbs behind in cash game). I was putting him on a big pocket pair and figured I was a favorite as long as they didn't have a higher flush draw. I had the 3456, Ended up hitting an 8 on the turn to hit my straight, and river was a brick :)
welcome to omaha equity it is why wraps are so strong, along with redraws
 
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Since almost everyone who starts playing Omaha will be coming from a HoldEm background, I offer a few gems;

At a 6 max table (most preferred);

-You are dealt the equivalent of 6 holdem hands, and are up against 30 other holdem hands. Because you have to use 2 of your cards it isn't exactly like being up against 30 other holdem hands but close enough.

-There is no starting hand that offers much better odds than being 60% favorite. In holdem a bigger pair over a smaller anything gets to about 80% favorite. Nothing like that in Omaha.

-EVERY HAND IN OMAHA is a drawing hand.

-You think people don't fold in HoldEm? Hah!

Personally, I prefer LIMIT Omaha and more so LO8. Limit sort of helps control the insanity.

A conventional wisdom holds that you never play a hand without an A in it. I don't agree, but it is not a bad wisdom to understand. Another wisdom is to not play a hand with trips in the hole. Makes it harder to improve. I find this situational myself, but I adhere to that wisdom more than the one about having an A in my hand.
 
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Im trying to make myself to start learning omaha but when i think of how much time and effort it takes to get to moderately descent level in holdem, i just dont have enough energy to do the same with another game. I do playing playmoney at ftp sometime when im bored and i play pot limit hi/lo and im paying every pot just to see what people playing and what a heck is low pot :D

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what a heck is low pot :D

All hi/lo games are split pot games. Lo will always be the lowest 5 cards where the highest of those 5 cards is below an '8', straights and flushes usually do not count against a low. So an 8,7,6,5,4 xx will lose to a '7 lo' (7,6,5,4,3 xx). The best lo hand will be 5,4,3,2,A. Usually that wheel will win the high pot as well. But just as often, that wheel can be quartered by another wheel, or 2 other wheels, or 3!

Rarely a lo game might play it differently with respect to straights and flushes. 2-7 games make straights a bad thing. the best lo hand there being 7,5,4,3,2 (notice it is not a straight. But I have never seen a Hi/lo game with 2-7 rules for lo.

O8 hands are often split hi/lo, but there will always be a high hand, and not always a low hand even possible. The board must show 3 cards below an 8 for any lo hand to work. So a flop of TTQ eliminates any possibility fr a low hand to split the pot.
 
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