10: The Three P’s (You can’t win big without them) Our final golden rule. One that applies to many forms of poker. The Three P’s: Position: The mark of a good player includes losing less with bad hands. A key way to do this is to reduce the number of marginal hands which you play… Read More »
9: Rarely or never slow play There are number of reasons that you should rarely slow play including the following: Omaha is a drawing game and it is rare that you will flop the immortal nuts, for either high or low. You need to charge others to draw against you. Even if you have half… Read More »
8: Controlled aggression/ semi bluffing is important, but Omaha 8 Limit is not a game for bluffing One of the keys to success in Omaha 8 is to work out when you have good equity in the pot, and try to get more money in. For example, suppose you hold A-2-3-x pre flop in late… Read More »
7: Aces are easily overrated In Hold’em you can expect to be dealt aces once every 221 hands [odds of 220 to 1]. In Omaha you will be dealt aces more than one time in every 60. Omaha 8 aces can vary greatly in quality. At the top end, A-A-2-3 double suited gives you terrific… Read More »
5: The way to avoid being counterfeited is to hold re-draws The strongest hands are those which can make the nuts with re-draws. For example if you have A♦ 2♦ 3♥ on a board of 4♦ 7♦ 8♠ , then you have a made low, redraws to the low if you are counterfeited, and a… Read More »
3: Try to avoid being quartered, or worse, taking a sixth of a pot Omaha 8 players dream of scooping whole pots. The converse of scooping is being quartered or worse taking a sixth of the pot. Typically this happens when you hold A-2 for a nut low but with a weak high hand. Being… Read More »
Play to scoop The big money at Omaha 8 Limit is made by winning both the high and the low part of the hand (‘scooping’). Typical ways to do this include making a nut low (A-2) with the nut flush, by making a wheel, or a wheel with a 6 high straight. A good starting… Read More »
When in a multi-player pot, play for the nuts Omaha and Omaha Hi-low are very different games to Hold’em. In Hold’em a pair of aces will frequently hold to the river, a set is a monster hand and a full house a licence to print money. In Omaha the hand values run differently. With… Read More »