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Is it the nature of Omaha Hi/Low that really bad starting hands can do exteremly well for a short peroid of time or am I just being stupid?

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Steamboatin - What do you mean by really bad starting hands?

Just as some bets at a craps table are less favorable to a craps player than other bets, some starting hands are less favorable to an Omaha-8 player than others.

Casinos make money on craps by arranging payoffs for various bets so that the odds are favorable to the casino. A player might beat the odds in a given playing session, but over the long haul, and with many players, the slight casino edge proves profitable to the casinos.

Craps players obviously have a better chance of being successful if they choose bets that are less favorable to the casino.

A goal of many (maybe most) poker players is to make money playing poker. There seem different ways to accomplish this feat.

One way is to find a game with players who make more mistakes than you do, so that even if now and then you make a mistake and give some money away, you’ll probably still end up a winner at the end of the session because your opponents will give more money away than you will.

Another way seems to be to play when the odds are on your side and fold when they aren’t.

But before the flop, how do you know when you will have favorable odds and when you won’t?

Seems to me that it depends (1) partly on the cards you hold, (2) partly on the cards your opponents hold, (3) partly on the cards on the flop, turn and river, (4) partly on how your opponents play, and (5) partly on how you play yourself.

Maybe I’ve left out something. But at any rate, it seems very clear to me that the cards you hold yourself are only part of the picture.

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I am playing just under 20% of my hands and I am beginning to eat away the red ink from PTO stats.

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The number of starting hands you presently play seems to me reasonable for you to play at this time. What does that have to do with “really bad starting hands”?

Are you sure you’re playing the 20% of hands dealt to you that is the top 20%?

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The red ink doesn't bother me, much because I still have a lot to learn and it costs money to learn.

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Seems a good attitude, if you really believe it. But then why this post? Just venting because you took a bad beat or two (or more)?

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I have a little over 6k hands now and it seems that Omaha can be really streaky.

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Anything involving luck can be streaky.

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It is my understanding that starting hand selection is even more imprtant in Omaha than in Holdem. Is this an accurate assumption?

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How could anyone know the answer to that question?

Starting hand selection is important in both Omaha-8 and Texas hold ‘em.

Here’s one for you. If the universe encompasses all space and is expanding, where does it go when it expands?

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