Double Flop Games

[DaleC76]

The guys I play poker with like to play PLH and PLO with two boards, with the best hand from either board winning the whole pot. The games tend to be very loose. Should I play looser against them, or as tight as I would in the regular game?

[Leo]

if you don't feel comfortable with playing a loose game with two flops you should just not play. just sit out and wait for the hold 'em, or whatever you prefer, begins.

if you wanna play it, then i suggest playing looser than you normally would, especially in double-flop PLO. if you can get a cheap flop, take it. you have alot of chances of flopping something nice. the dangerous part is that when you see a flop, you wanna stick around to the river cus you always make something on at least one flop.

me and my friends played tripple-flop omaha high-low, just sit out if they wanna play this game, it's confusing as hell.

[golddog]

I'm going to presume that playing double-flop games is part of a social gathering and not intended to be too serious. So, let me offer a couple weird ones we play:

Put out Omaha with two boards. This has two variations: one, the dealer declares pre-flop which row is high, and which is low (naturally, the low row almost always has the great draw). Two, don't decide til after the river. The highest hand on the board becomes the row you play for high, the other is for low.

tic-tac-toe-maha: Put out nine cards in a square, use any tic-tac-toe row with two from your hand, high and low. When you're exposing, turn three cards at a time, leaving one of the diagonals til last, so you get three bets like Omaha.

low-maha: "regular" old omaha, but you stop the board as soon as there's a possible low. Can be three cards, has gotten up to 10 or 12 or so, when things keep pairing. Play this one with 7 or better qualifier to make it last. :D