Re: Absolute Maniac Omaha play
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Preflop play is sooooooo unimportant.
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Advice that can get you broke if you are not a super reader and do not recognize trap situations.
While it is true that the best AA is not much more than a 2-1 favorite over any other hand, and that you can often double off players who can't let it go, position is fairly important postflop, especially regarding playing drawing hands. And if players with AA are truly tight, then you really don't have implied odds to see any flop against it especially headsup, because they will fold. And regarding seeing the flop with any playable hand, if you hold AK98ds, how glad are you going to be to see an A or K on the flop or even both when there have been 2 raises preflop from non-maniacs? You definitely do have to gamble if you want others to gamble with you, but you don't have to be reckless about it in early positions.
However, one of the reasons why you should ignore extremely weak-tight advice as in SS2 and raise from early positions with the hand I gave above, is so that you can often find out if AA/KK is behind you when they reraise and you can dump that hand, since you are most likely only going to flop a weak draw and any flop with A or K can be a stack dumper.
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