4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 2,911
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I just started playing .25/.50 O8 (high/low) on Stars.
Someone mentioned it on IRC, and I remembered an article I read when I first started playing poker for realz.
http://www.playwinningpoker.com/omaha/
It's only a couple pages long, but it can be shortened further:
only play the nuts.
I like O8, because I like games where I can slowly make money without paying much attention (.5/1 LHE on Party, where I have tracking software). I only pay attention when I have a good hand (no bluffing, so no real need to read players)
I tried Pot Limit, because it seemed more lucrative - but the players are a little better, and it really HURTS when your nuts get counterfieted. Lost about 10BB overall, much of it when I got overboated., I only played for a couple hours though.
Since I'm the only one who ever raises preflop - I will raise with A2XX or AAXX, or even KKYY where YY are good cards (like another pair, or 23)
I limp in with like 23 looking for an A, and other coordinated hands (AXsXX or double suited connectors or two pair two suited)
I usually want to to get the nut low, ,and fluke a scoop. Other things to watch for are flops with 2-3 high cards (no lows!) since most of the chasers are low, you can win with trips and such (as long as you watch those draws 3 suited or paired board).
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