Pot-Limit Omaha FAQ

[FeliciaLee]

Pot-Limit Omaha FAQ and Guidelines

This is going to be a work in progress. Please PM me with suggestions of your own that you would like to see in this FAQ.

1) From the 2+2 website:

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2) Posts may be regarding Limit Omaha High, Pot-Limit Omaha and any Omaha tournaments. If you are unsure if your post is regarding a game belonging in this forum, please PM me and I will answer ASAP.

3) Please form your question in a narrative rather than a hand history, or use one of the converters available free of charge, so that we may better give you advice without having to wade through hard-to-read hand histories.

4) What B&M Cardrooms regularly spread Omaha High?

In Vegas, some of the Stations Casinos have daily Omaha High games. Most are 4/8 with a kill, Boulder seems to have 6/12 with a kill, in addition.

Sam's Town sometimes spreads Omaha High. Horseshoe has been known to spread limit as well as PLO at times. Wynn has an interest list for PLO and will spread it if there is enough interest. In the mixed games around town, Omaha High is sometimes in rotation. Call first to any cardroom you are considering.

The deep south used to have a love affair with Omaha High. I'm not sure if it is still being spread there. Call first!

5) Some frequently used acronyms are as follows:

PLO (pot-limit Omaha High only)
LO (limit Omaha High only)
EP (early position)
MP (middle position)
LP (late position)
B (button)
CO (cut-off)
UTG (under the gun)
BB (big blind or big bet depending on context)
SB (small blind, occasionally small bet depending on context)
AI (all-in)
$100 game, $200 game, etc (usually a pot-limit game where the dollar amount is the maximum buy-in for that game)

6) Q: Am playing correctly if I lose my stack with top boat vs. quads?

A: Yes.

More to come...

[autobet]

1. books
2. starting hands

these two come up over and over

[gergery]

I tried to think of what the best topics would be for playing a game, and the result was the stuff I covered for O8 at my site, so you might leaf thru to see topics to incorporate.

some that immediately come to mind are
1. what is the variance like at PLO vs. other games like NL
2. what are the major differences b/w PLO vs. NL
3. what are is a typical/good earn rate
4. what other good sources are there

--Greg
www.o8poker.com (http://www.o8poker.com)

[yellowjack]

thank you for your 08 site

[Spellmen]

I think the explanation of how to get the converter to work should be added.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=3193390&page=0&view=colla psed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1#Post3200387

[joewatch]

Anybody actually working on this, or is it dead in the water?

[liquid]

Suggested addition: Which B&Ms regularly (or irregularly) spread PLO, and at what limits.

[beset7]

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Anybody actually working on this, or is it dead in the water?

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i got too busy. i e-mailed felicia once about it

[FeliciaLee]

Nothing is "dead," it's an ongoing FAQ. I have just been gone on vacation for the past two weeks, so nothing has been added.

[FeliciaLee]

Good idea! It is added.

As an Omaha n00b browsing this forum I would like to suggest a brief discussion of Omaha starting hands and their relative strengths preflop be put in the FAQ(maybe even using anolagies to holdem, ie - are there certain hands that play similar to suited connectors for holdem? dominated hands like KJo?)

Although this might take up too much space, so a few links to some good threads discussing this would be awesome!

[beset7]

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As an Omaha n00b browsing this forum I would like to suggest a brief discussion of Omaha starting hands and their relative strengths preflop be put in the FAQ(maybe even using anolagies to holdem, ie - are there certain hands that play similar to suited connectors for holdem? dominated hands like KJo?)

Although this might take up too much space, so a few links to some good threads discussing this would be awesome!

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I'm working on putting this together. A real FAQ, complete with links to good threads etc should be forthcoming (i.e. 1-2 months tops).

[beset7]

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As an Omaha n00b browsing this forum I would like to suggest a brief discussion of Omaha starting hands and their relative strengths preflop be put in the FAQ(maybe even using anolagies to holdem, ie - are there certain hands that play similar to suited connectors for holdem? dominated hands like KJo?)

Although this might take up too much space, so a few links to some good threads discussing this would be awesome!

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I'm working on putting this together. A real FAQ, complete with links to good threads etc should be forthcoming (i.e. 1-2 months tops).

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I just wanted to clarify, i don't plan on writing a treatise on how to play PLO. Just the FAQs and then links to threads that cover common situations and concepts (including starting hands, preflop raising, etc).

[AKQJ10]

Perhaps this isn't the place to point this out -- I don't know what would be -- but the left-hand menu says, "Pot-Limit Omaha" whereas the forum itself says "Omaha High". (I'm looking for a quick crash course in playing PLOH so I suppose either one is useful to me tonight....) I would think this would be an FAQ, at least until it's fixed.

Searches attempted: "Omaha high", "Pot-limit" with default params.

FWIW I'm of the opinion that a wiki (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiki) is a good way to maintain an FAQ. Our experience with the Beginners FAQ (http://poker.wikicities.com/wiki/Beginners_FAQ) has confirmed this belief.