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Buddy Love5
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02-01-2006, 08:37 PM
Post subject: Omaho Hi/Lo Tournament Help
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I've just stared playing Omaho, and I have been doing pretty good on the lower limits ($.05/$0.10 PL). I've been winning enough money to basically play in an Omaho Hi/Lo tournament as a freeroll, and I have done awful in these tournaments. So I was basically wondering what is a proper statergy in a tournament. Does it differ from cash game to tournaments? Any advice, links, books, etc would be very helpful.
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TLR
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There are fundemental differences between ring games and tournament. The main difference is that in ring game each hand is disconnected from the other hands while a tournament is a game with history.
Tournament is about surviving, stack size (yours and the other players) plays a major part.
The 'textbook' advice for tournaments is 'tight early, agressive later'.
I dont know if you refer to MTT or SNG when you say tournament, but you should go to the relevant holdem forum and read the stickies. It is a different game but a lot of it refer to tournament planning and play in general which works for both games
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Buddy Love5
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Originally Posted by TLR
I dont know if you refer to MTT or SNG when you say tournament, but you should go to the relevant holdem forum and read the stickies. It is a different game but a lot of it refer to tournament planning and play in general which works for both games
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I know the basics of a hold 'em tournament, but I didn't know if you played an omaho tournament about the same you would with a hold 'em tournament.
And I was refering to a MTT. I don't think there are to many SNG's going that are not Hold 'em
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biondino
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Fold a lot - in a low-stakes Omaha hi/lo tourney you're getting 7 or 8 people seeing flops even after raises. Understand what the best starting hands are, and fold almost everything else.
If you do see flops and turns, evaluate your cards and your draws. If you have a mediocre holding and poor drawing opporunties (or what draws you do have may well not be enough, say two medium suited cards on a flush draw) then fold early.
If you make it to 100/200 blinds, then you can start attacking. A raise can amount to a good portion of someone's stack, and gives you the momentum. People will have stopped simply calling every street by this point.
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biondino
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Oh - I was referring to Omaha hi/lo SNGs, which I've recently started playing at Party. They're good fun (even though they take a while to get going) and start at only $6.
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TLR
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Quote:
I know the basics of a hold 'em tournament, but I didn't know if you played an omaho tournament about the same you would with a hold 'em tournament.
And I was refering to a MTT. I don't think there are to many SNG's going that are not Hold 'em
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You can find a lot of Omaha h/l Sng in pokerstars and other poker rooms
I did not play too many omaha hi/lo Sngs and even less MTTs, however from my limited experience
1. Early on try not to commit too many chips preflop, try to see the flop for cheap and evaluate from there, the reasoning is that in multi way pots even the best starting hand usually needs improvement to win
2. Beware of situations where you commit a lot of chips and get quartered
3. Slowplay very rarely in early stages
4. In later stages when most of the pots are heads up or you can win them before the flop play your strong hands very agressively
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