aquila

Hi/Lo is not a fair game. Winner should win and the loosers should loose. You shouldent get paid for having a lesser hand. The game is awful, and what about all these cards you get. Nine of them total. Loosers game......

Force10

The skill in Omaha8 is to scoop both pot (hi and lo), and to do this you need to play very tightly. Hand selection is the key to success in Omaha8.
When you play pot limit omaha8 online you often see 6 or 7 players calling and raising preflop, and alot of the time you will see split or quartered pots because alot of people tend to be playing for either hi or lo but not necessarily both.

To try to show what I mean, take a look at the example Ive set up below.


Player 1=
Player 2=
Player 3= :10c

Player 1 has a monster hand. there are possibilities for the nut lo , str8 and str8 flush potential for hi.
This is a big starting hand to play agressively.

Player 2 has potential for a nut lo and a high flush but will have to quarter the llo pot if he hits the nuts. the 6 & 7 give back up to mid range str8 possibilities but in truth if he plays this hand he is unlikely to catch the hi pot and will end up getting back less than his pot investment if he splits the lo.
He will of course play the hand blindly, solely because he is holding A2 with a suited kicker for his ace.

Player 3 needs high cards on the board to have a chance to scoop the pot because he is ineligible for the lo pot even before the flop.
He should not commit too much money to the pot unless he hits big on the flop.


FLOP=
Turn=
River= :10s

You can work it out for yourself, but the point is that omaha8 is a complex game where the most immportant decision you will make is what to play and what to fold.

If you continually chase the high, or the lo, you will lose money in the long run.

You MUST have a shot at both hi and lo to make a worthwhile hand.

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ICBM

Force - that example you set up looks suspiciously (well exactly the same) as the example they had in this months pokerplayer magazine

Force10

Thats because it is...
But it illustrates the thought processes and decision making involved in playing omaha8 hands better than most and so i used it as opposed to one of the more complex examples i could've used from my own play log or from various books i refer to.

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Lil Fizz

Any objections to deleting this moronic thread? :P

PapaHun

No. This is such a waste of hard drive space somehwere

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ICBM

I love the way people say this is a no brain game - when they're just saying it because either they don't understand how to play it properly or they have never played it and don't know the rules at all. Learn how to play a game and give it a chance before having a go at it people.

Jayson745

Ive made a decient amount of money at the omaha H/L tables and sit an goes. Alot of the people that are at a table don't really know what they are doing. They over value a hand like flopping 2 pair. They bet like crazy and lose. If I have 2 pair and 5 people saw a flop that has 2 low cards on it, I will probably just check and hope to see a boat. And even worse some of them reraise with an over pair on the flop. This is bad bizzness. Alot of people see the flop and if your not drawing for the nuts your not gonna make money in this game. People who raise the 2nd best possible low hand with no high hand are gonna pay me off all day.

madowls

I really enjoy the game. I'm new to poker on-line (have played cards all my life and have run a quarterly poker game for a few about 4years)

I really enjoy Omaha as I have to think much more.

Whether its luck or not, I have now played in 3 on-line tourneys (6 players & 1st & 2nd get paid) and finished 1st once and 2 2nd's. I've also played on 6/10 player tables on 0.02/0.04 & 0.10/0.25 about 5 or 6 times and only once come out down.

In touney's, at my level, you definately get players not knowing what they are doin' and I tend to call 80/90% of flops but then put the hand down if it looks poor. On a table, esp if 10 seated, I maybe only call 40/50%.

s097960

once i was dealt in omaha hi/low. too bad, it wasn't in omaha.