Omaha Hi/LO

How do you play Omaha Hi Lo?

How do you play Omaha Hi Lo?

How do you play Omaha Hi Lo?
[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Badly! *rimshot*[/FONT]

😄[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Badly! *rimshot*[/FONT]

hahahahahaha.. no lie.. actually.
Omaha hi/low, especcially potlimit, is one of my favorite variants.

pot limit because you see some cards before the bad players are jamming the pot 'n forcing you to play badly with them or concede the action to them till they bust.
limit, well i have no patience for limit but wth.

The reason I like plo8 so much is that there are so many profitable and clear cut lines of play.
Your starting hands for instance, say u see aakq double suited, or a comparable hand. omaha yer going to play that/those hands for sure, hi/low on the other hand, those hands go str8 to the muck, no limping, definitely no raising. At least not early/middle game, maybe later on the bubble u can try some stealing with a good high hand but usually, If i dont have say, a23 a24 a34, or mayyyybe a 23 without an ace i'll play the hand.
Then i'm praying to see an ace on the flop.

What you want in O8 is the low hand first, the high hand second.
With no low draw in your holdings you're putting chips in there to split the pot. Best hand in o8 would be something like an a234 double suited. maybe ak23 double suited. Oh, also AA23, kk23 is junk, cause you need the ace for the low nut which kills your kings. small pocket pairs are usually trash when u hit the set. as are low straights/flushes. garbage.
O8 you can catch people drawing dead much more often, especcially in freerolls and micros. Position is always important but starting hands and post flop play is huge. the flop is almost everything in any omaha variant, O8 is no differant. 4 cards will almost always give you some type of draw, thing is, someone probably already has it, or the better hand if you do hit your draw, Ace 3 456 is almost never a goodnuff low if theres a lot of action.

i dunno,
In summary, No limit O8 sux imho, too high variance.
Limits a boring suckout game where who knows whats going to showdown.
And Pot Limit is where its at.
Starting Hands are huge. Dont even play without a low draw 'n it better be the nut most the time till you learn the lines of play.
The flop is everything else. Chasing kills much more often than it pays off.

great game though man. Lotsa dead money out there playing plo8.
Lotsa dead money out there playing all the omaha variants but its, IMHO of course, easiest to get it wtih the lowest risk playing PLO8.

How do you play Omaha Hi Lo?

How do you play Omaha Hi Lo?
[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Badly! *rimshot*[/FONT]