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| Pot Limit Omaha Basics |
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Pot Limit Omaha Basics
If you are normally play Texas hold'em online and are looking for a new challenge, you may want to check out pot limit Omaha. Omaha is a community card game like Texas hold'em poker, but has some different rules and strategy to think about.
In Omaha, you receive four hole cards, rather than two as in hold'em. Like hold'em, there are blinds and there is a flop, turn and river. Unlike Texas hold'em, you must use exactly two cards from your hand and three from the board. If you have the ace of clubs but no other club, you cannot make a flush, even if there are four clubs on the board. This seems like a simple rule, but it often makes Omaha hands difficult to read. Players often believe they have a full house when they merely have two pair or three of a kind, or that they have a flush or a straight when they have nothing. Especially in a pot limit game, these misreads can be very costly, so be sure your hand reading skills are in good shape before sitting down to play pot limit Omaha for high stakes.
The most important skill in Omaha is hand selection. When you play poker online (or live) you might be facing 9 or 10 players with 4 cards each, so it is if you are facing over 50 distinct hold'em hands. Imagine how good your hand would need to be to win if you were playing hold'em against 50 people at once! For this reason, you should not enter a hold'em hand unless all your cards are working together. For example, Th Jh Kc 3s is a hand that should be thrown away in a pot limit Omaha game. Nearly any hand where one of the cards is useless is unplayable. You are looking for four high cards, high pairs, high suited cards, and “wraps” hands with four cards that are close together in rank, giving multiple straight possibilities.
Once you have entered a pot, you usually do not want to continue with a hand unless you have the nuts or a hand that can become the nuts. The reason the game is played pot limit and never no limit is because given that any card can completely change the best hand, whoever had the best hand pre-flop or on the flop would move all of their chips in every single time, and very little poker would get to be played. If you do flop the best hand, you should nearly never slow play it. Other than quads or a straight flush, there are few nut hands on the flop in Omaha that cannot be ruined by many different turn cards. For example if the board pairs, your flush is no good. If you have a full house and an overcard to the board comes on the turn, it could very easily make someone a higher full house, etc. Most of the time if you flop big, you want to bet the maximum the pot allows, and continue to do so until a card comes that is likely to beat you.
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