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Omaha High-Low Set-Up and Play

Heather — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:04:56 +0000

For those of you have that played poker in the past but really have no idea how to play Limit Texas Hold ‘Em or Omaha, you are absolutely in luck! For that is exactly what we are going to discuss below so that way you know exactly what you might be getting yourself into whenever you start playing either of these games. What you might not know about these two games is that they are pretty much exactly the same terms of playing.

Omaha high-low is a split-pot game. What that means is that it is possible to make both the best high and low poker hand. Half of the pot would then be awarded to the best high hand and half of the pot would be given to the best low hand. However, if no one has the best low hand, the entire pot will go to the high hand, so make sure that you keep that in mind. The idea of the whole game is to entire that you have the best of both worlds so you can scoop the pot (meaning, taking the whole pot).

That’s all for now! We will talk more about Omaha and Limit Texas Hold ‘em in the next blog!

Pot Limit Omaha Results

PPPPoker — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:46:01 +0000

Been working hard on my Pot Limit Omaha game (Sam Farha’s book is not as good as I hoped it would, but it’s still a decent resource), and have taken a little risk and have joined a $10/$20 pot limit game at the casino and hoped to get some good flops as according to Sammy Omaha is a flop-oriented game…

My first hole cards were: AJKT double suited, which I knew were good. Decided to play them strong and attack right off the bat. Raised pre-flop, got re-raised (assumed I was up against AA or KK as that’s what Sammy’s book said) and just called. Flop was…. QJ9 with two diamonds. I had two diamonds. Bet out right away, got re-raised, capped it — same on 4th street when a blank came up — and made my ace high flush on the river. Other guy had a set of queens.

According to the book — that guy made a donkey play with his queens. I ended up winner for the game mainly because of this massive first hand. Ha!

Poker poker poker!

PPPPoker — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:45:32 +0000

I’ll probably be out for a couple days as I’ll be doing a lot of POKER POKER POKER! (imagine Marcel Luske’s poker song in the background aight!)

Anyway, I’m doing one Omaha Hi/Lo tournament tonight, and will hopefully be doing cash games for the next two days. Will be back on friday night, hopefully with a couple thousand in profit, and not a couple thousand in losses.

Reading Farha on Omaha as we speak — final fine tuning of my game!

(the reason why I have the K10/KJ double suited as a pic attached is simple. It’s my signature Omaha hand! )

The Best Starting Hands in Pot Limit Omaha

PPPPoker — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:06:22 +0000

This video (by expertvillage) shows us the best starting hands in Pot Limit Omaha. Not only am I not a fan of starting hand ranks in the game of Omaha (I realise theoretically they make sense, but in a game of PLO it all boils down to what draws you make on the FLOP), but the video expert is also forgetting some of my other favorites…

Double suited AK QJ, double suited AJ KQ, double suited TT99, double suited AQ KK — all very valuable imho…

The video shows the value of the drawing hand, and should show why AAA4 rainbow is not a hand you want to shove too many chips in the middle with…. (but then again, Sam Farha would play the AAA4, so who am I? )

Click here to view the embedded video.

Betfair Poker: a review

PPPPoker — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:53:18 +0000

Betfair Poker is owned and operated by the biggest sports exchange in the world. They recently moved their poker room off of the Cryptologic network and now are a stand-alone poker room. It is home and sponsor to the newest rising star of poker Annette_15, who recently won the EPT. Piggybacking off her success, Betfair have two $200000 guaranteed tourneys a week, where you can pit your wits against this ruthless player.

Betfair Poker has one of the largest bonuses available to new players and other great incentives besides. Betfair Poker gives away $1,400 per week through twice-daily freerolls. They also have a very cool promotion called “Threedom Pass”. Players who qualify for a live tournament through this site and go on to make the final table will be bought into that same tournament for the next two years on courtesy of Betfair.

The games offered at Betfair include Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, and Seven-Card Stud. Betfair’s competition is fairly soft. Since Betfair is the largest betting exchange in the world, it attracts sports bettors who are quite frankly rubbish at poker. So you should be able to find someone to play at any level.

The first-rate software offered by Betfair Poker is privately developed and offers some nice functions, good playability and stability. It is lovely and clear and even in mini view. The latest software update added an option to play up to 15(!) tables simultaneously and for fantastic multi-tabling. NB BETFAIR is Not US Friendly, though — so bad luck to the US-players!