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GENERAL POKER STRATEGY - OMAHA POKER
Many players, myself included when I started playing, believe being good at Hold’em will automatically make them good at Omaha. I am here to tell you from experience that this is not true. Omaha is a very different game, even though the play is similar. Once learned though, this game can be very profitable. Most online players are very loose when it comes to Omaha. It is true that any hand can be a winner, but learning which starting hands are profitable and how to fold a loser after the flop are very important. The first strategic lesson to learn is how to play tight. Limit yourself to very few hands when you start playing and you will be able to stay even while learning the intricacies of the game. There is not much bluffing in Hi/Lo and people chase cards frequently.
The face-up cards provide a tremendous amount of information. If there are three clubs on the board someone has a flush. If there is a pair on the board someone probably has a full house. When you have a good hand before the flop in Omaha it is imperative to make a raise and chase out the junk hands. It is very frustrating to lose to a horrible hand that made a low straight or an eight high flush. It is also important to make people pay to chase their flush or full house on the Turn and River. If you flop a good hand you will lose more often on the Turn and River than you are used to in Hold’em, but make sure you make the other players pay to chase their cards when you have a strong hand.
I love to play Omaha Hi/Lo. This game is interesting and a lot of fun. Very low hands are often more profitable in Hi/Lo than very high hands, but don’t ignore the high hands completely. In Omaha Hi/Lo any combination of cards can, and does, win the high hand. I have found it is often worth playing a high hand cheaply based on your position in this game. If you are near the last to play and a flop with more than two cards 9 and above comes out you will quickly eliminate most of the other players trying to make a low hand with a minimal bet. The most money is to be made in this game when you do not have to share the pot with anyone else.
If you know you have the high hand locked up, it is often a good idea to check and let the low hands do the betting. After a bet is out there and other players have called it, then it is a good time to raise. This gives the other players with Lo hands a chance to re-raise and inflates the pot for you. The Lo hand frequently splits the pot between two or more players, but the high hand usually takes the full half portion from the pot. When you have a good high hand you want as much money as possible in there. I often wait until the Turn to start betting with a high hand. This is when the betting amounts double in a limit game.
Poker Columnist
Gary Steele
www.poker-programm.com
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