PL Omaha Hi/Lo

[Felting]

Looking for some advice on how to play this game. I've played it fixed limit and do okay but seemed to get ran over in pot limit. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanx

[crack]

When someone bets the pot they usually have the nuts one way or the other. It's not really a huge bluffing game.

[BeerWench13]

O/8 is a huge drawing game. I have not had much success playing it, but then again, I've been playing with some pretty deep-pocketed folks who will chase just about any draw even to quarter the pot. You'd think this would be profitable, but it seems that having the nuts on the flop or the turn rarely seems to result in a win by the river for me. Perhaps if every pot wasn't 6-9 handed it would be a different story for me. Talk to diamond if you can. He seems to have a high success rate at this game.

A few helpful hints for playing 9-10 handed:
1) If the board pairs, odds are someone has a boat.
2) It is not profitable to draw to the low hand all the time. You're usually not the only one doing so.
3) If there's a straight or a flush possiblity on the flop, someone usually has it.
4) Don't stay in with the sucker end of the boat/flush/straight.
5) If you're not sure why someone is just calling you down the whole way, look for the low draw possibility.
6) If Diamond disputes any of the above, he's right and I'm wrong.

[Jernej Zorec]

never draw to 2nd nuts
and in pl i really dont like raising pre flop since it can build an uneccesary huge pot when u are not that far ahead

i'm know i'm a passive nit when it comes to it, i'd probably only push AA23ds hard preflop

[crack]

Raising is fun though.

I'd say that you should just nut peddle at the small stakes because the other players won't notice and you will get paid off by 2,3,4th nuts all the time.

When you start moving up in stakes though the game will probably change a fair bit.

For now, I'd say get yourself a basic PLO8 starting hands chart and play real tight.

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

I appreciate the vote of confidence from BeerWench, but PLO8 is not my game; I'm much better at Limit O8. For a beginner, I'd say BeerWench's tips are great advice. O8, in any structure, is a game where you want to draw to the nuts, have potential to scoop, and try to have redraws as well. Many times, you're going to have to put in a lot of money on a "draw," but sometimes you will have the best hand as the odds lie.

In Pot-Limit specifically, one piece of advice I'd give is to concentrate especially on the high hands for three reasons:

1. It is much harder to counterfeit the high hands, and it's much more devastating to get quartered in Pot Limit.
2. You will more often flop a made hand versus having to draw on the high side, though some high draws are very rich in equity (ie wrap + flush draw).
3. There will not always be a low hand, so high hands will automatically scoop more often.

If there's a lot of action and you have only the nut low draw (and especially if you do not have a "wrap" nut low draw, ie nut low draw with backup, such as A23 on a 478 board), you will have to fold much more often.

[mortaleclipse]

If not mistken in this months or possibly last months Bluff magazine had a outstanding article about 0/8 and when to fold. It actually had to do alot folding or not betting a floped nut straight which sounds weird but made alot of sense once i read the article. I advise picking it up and reading it.

[crack]

f*ck knows what the article was about, but people know that sometimes people should fold nut straights and stuff, but I think what a lot of people forget when they try and make the perfect fold is that if they are a money favourite they arent supposed to fold.

[melal20]

i really hate omaha hi lo at the moment because everyone just goes all in every hand and hopes for the best, soooo many people dont know how to play the game but will still enter a freeroll anyway because its free.
Happens all the time on the site i play on.
spoils it for those of us that know how to play.

[ninetensuited]

spoils it for those of us that know how to play.

O Rly?