Preflop Suggestions

[Ironman]

Baxter,

Your final paragragh gets to the heart of the problem with playing limit O8 vs. pot limit O8 online. The pre flop rasies at 2/4 and 3/6 are generally not enough to make money when you limit the field because the hands that you raise with normally play very well with more players.

....should I really raise with AA23? Well, of course you want to get more money into the pot, but you need to decide if your table will call two bets cold to see a flop.

This is not a problem with pot limit.

Situation 1: muck
Situation 2: raise, you want to get out the middle junk
Situation 3: limp and get aggressive post flop when you hit
Situation 4: play very cautiously unless a nine flops
Situation 5: no different
Situation 6: limp then get aggressive post flop
Situation 7 & 8: We have entire threads dedicated to these situations as they can be very profitable, but very costly. I suggest a search back to about two months ago for the A 4 threads.

Hope that helps a little.

Dave

So anyone who knows hold 'em knows that KK plays better against a small field and 78s plays better against a large field. Do we have any general guidelines like this? I know that position/table image/player type (loose vs. passive) are all important, but are there any general rules? Just wondering.

[SteveY]

can anyone link to the A4 thread? cant find it.

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can anyone link to the A4 thread? cant find it.

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Think this is it:

A4 hands

[Buzz]

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So anyone who knows hold 'em knows that KK plays better against a small field

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Baxter - I don't think that's quite correct, but this doesn't seem the proper forum to debate it.

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Do we have any general guidelines like this?

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(1) In a short handed Omaha-8 game, the high is most often won by two pair or trips. But in a loose full game, depending on what is enabled by the cards on the board at the river (and your opponents), the high is usually won by a straight or better.

(2) Starting cards that are more likely to end up making a non-nut hand than a nut hand do better against smaller fields than larger fields (because you’re less likely to run into the nuts held by an opponent).

Thus starting cards that end up making a high two pair or trips tend to do better in short handed games than in full games.

On the low side, starting hands with two wheel cards other than A2XY, A3XY, or 23XY tend to do better in short handed games. A3XY and 23XY may also do better in short handed games, depending on your opponents in a full game.

Buzz