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chawla2890 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: want to learn omaha hi/lo

so yeep, i've been playing no limit hold 'em since the summer of 2003, and have been playing competitively for a year or so. i've got the basics of hold 'em down and am trying to become a much better player. i'm interested in learning how to play omaha hi/lo. i know the basic rules and such, but do not know much of the strategy involved, what the good hands are, stuff like that. if anyone could post with that type of help it would be appreciated, thanks.

Flying_Kiwi · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject:

A few key notes:

1. Your 4 cards can make up 6 combinations of hold'em hands. Generally you want at least 4 of those combinations to be good playable hold'em hands (remembering you idealy want a low too).

2. Try to only play hands that can scoop the pot (good hi and good lo possibilities). But if you have a really good hi hand (AAKKds, KQJTds etc) then I would still play it.

3. At low limits you can get away with almost exclusively playing hands that contain A,2.

Just remember to play hands that either A) can scoop the pot, B) have a really high chance of winning the Hi only. Quite often there will be no low in the end, and this is where you can cash in by playing good solid High hands - just make those donkeys pay to chase lows for half the pot.

ALWAYS try to avoid getting quartered, so:
-Don't chase lows in multi-way pots unless you have a high draw too.
-Don't raise the low in multi-way pots.
-Don't play hands that can make a low only

Stay tight (esp at low limits), focus on scooping the pot, don't chase or hold onto low hands that aren't the nut low. At low limits you can get away with just peddling the nuts - but it can be very boring. While learning I would probably stick to Fixed Limit because the variance will be lower.

EDIT: There is a lot of good info in this Forum/Section of the Forum on O8. I would recommend taking an hour to read through a lot of the posts in here and you will pick up patterns of good starting hands and what crucial decisions you will face in O8.

TheHawk06 · Pair Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 30 Location: USA

I agree, i recently picked up omaha and this forum has some pretty good posts and info.

YohanN7 · Pair Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 43

Buy a good book on the subject. Ray Zee's "High-Low Split-Poker" is ok, and the chapter on O8 in Doyle Brunson's "Super System II" is good too.

REDMARION · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

If you are going to fold a lot, folding early saves you lots of bets.

They said play hands with [A,2,x,x] one of the x's should be another wheel card in case an [A] or [2] hits the board. The closer the connection the better off you'll be.

Starting with weak hands will burn lots of chips. You probably will not pay attention to that comment, but a few months from now when you have reloaded you bankroll a few times, you think about why you lost so many buy-ins.

If you're lucky to remember it you come back and read:

Starting with weak hands will burn lots of chips.

USFDoh · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

Lots of really good info here:

http://www.pokersyte.com/infosites.htm

O/8 and more!

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