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Pot Limit Omaha Fun

You’re missing out on an incredibly fun game if you don’t play Pot Limit Omaha. It’s where all the nuts and tilting players go to throw around their money.

The key in Omaha is to find a really good table. It’s worth the extra time to scope out a few tables to find the nutty players.

The best tables have at least one player who thinks their hold’em hands are good or someone raising every hand preflop. For some reason when a player always bets the pot preflop, it triggers an effect where every other player must call to see the flop.

The worst is the table full of nut-peddlers. Everyone limps in preflop and plays passively unless they have the nuts or close to it. The only time you’ll see any action is when one player has a royal flush and the other has quads. Even then both players are likely to check the river.

Once you find a juicy table and start taking notes on players, it gets hard to leave. The mistakes people make are usually so obvious that you can often accurately put them on a hand.

The best is when you find players who only raise preflop with AAxx. You can usually split them into two categories post flop: The ones that continue to bet the pot no matter what the flop is and others who check/fold if they don’t improve. Either way you should almost always call preflop if you have a decent hand, because chances are they won’t improve and AAxx isn’t to much better then an average omaha hand.

As for starting hands, just wait for a hand where all your cards work well together. a hand like JT98 is good because you have really good drawing hands like JT, J9, J8, T9, T8, and 98. If the flop misses you, you can easily get away from it. QQ72 would be bad because the only decent cards you have going for you is QQ, which is useless unless you make a set.

Also, if you’re drawing to a hand in a large pot, make sure it’s the nuts. If someone’s playing back at you, and there’s a better possible hand on the board, there’s a good chance they could have it.