My Omaha Experience

mads777

I just read Zithal post and wanted to share my experience:

I started playing a bit of Omaha Hi lately and find it very profitable (well, I've been playing only for 2 weeks ). PS offers a good range of limit for beginner. I started at the 0.01/0.02 PL just to "master" the general concepts.

Yesterday, I decided to give a try at Party PL $25 (as my primary account is there) and found my self at a table full of clueless players...which I think is the standard at that limit at PP!

I just said to my self, I'll sit at a full table of people with ~$25 stack and stick to the nuts concept (I think it's the right thing to do at that limit at PP) and I'm pretty sure I can't do that bad. Everyone seems to be playing any 4 cards and overplaying any 2 pairs, set, straight or flush...I mean some people are drawing to J High flush...

I ended up +$80 seeing ~45% of the flop for 2 hrs of play...having to end my session after everyone else decided to leave the table... :frown:

Well maybe it was just beginner's luck...

Any thoughs?

Pigga

im learning omaha too right now...
me and josh_fp play heads up all the time ,tournament style PL omaha

i tried it online on empire, .50/$1 limit omaha high 8 and in about 20 hands, i have flopped quads 2 times, and profited about $18 from quad 10's first, and about $16 from quad 8's (both flopped)

It was awesome, i'd post the hand histories but i dont really want to be flamed for the quad 10's b/c it was a bad play, i had T,T,2,7 and i was UTG and i raised (flame on) but im new to omaha, and it was limit.... but then had quads on flop so slow played that to build a nice pot. upon request, ill post them later tonite if any1 wants to see them.

BBC Z

Loose low limit omaha games are pretty straight forward. Because so many people see the flop with bizarre hands, the nuts are usually out there.. So sticking to nut draws is the proper way to play those games..

Once you get more confortable with the game, you can start considering 2nd nut hands based on what you think everyone else is holding..

ended up +$80 seeing ~45% of the flop for 2 hrs of play

I can't really comment on omaha hi, but that seems too high to be sustainable.. In general you should play tighter starting hands than you would in a HE game.. Sloth would probably have some good insight into a good flop %..

ScottyZ

In general you should play tighter starting hands than you would in a HE game..

I think the opposite is true since the pre-flop edges of superior hands are generally higher in Texas holdem than in Omaha.

ScottyZ

garro

Omaha high is a game where (IMHO) you want to play as much post flop as possible. That is get in as cheap as possible, see the flop, then fold. Of course only really playing hand where all 4 cards are working together in some way. Medium-High Pairs, Doubled Sooooted, Straight draws (8 or higher), All paint. Then Fold if not/do not have/are not... drawing for the nuts on the turn/river.

Keep in mind that at lower limits, in PL (especially LLPL games) you will see and feel bad beats a plenty. People love to call with 2234 even when not playing H/L or with 237K unsooted.

BBC Z

I think the opposite is true since the pre-flop edges of superior hands are generally higher in Texas holdem than in Omaha.

I think yer right. O8 is my game and seeing too many flops in it can kill you, but I guess in Omaha hi hands like 6789 aren't terrible.. So the universe of playable hands in hi is larger ..