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Old 04-22-2005, 10:43 PM
Orpheus Orpheus is offline
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Default Forum or site dedicated to Omaha High?

Lately, I've been mostly interested in mastering LIMIT Omaha High, but the pickings have been slim. There are a few scattered articles and pages, Cioffone's slim "Omaha Poker - the Action game" at $100 a pop (anyone have a used copy they'd like to sell?), a few forums with barely a dozen posts and a lot of glosses that really aren't what I'm looking for.

Surely, in a world where every fetish and picayune hobby has a dozen websites, where a domain created to facilitate the sale of Pez dispensers (eBay) could grow into a megalith and a cultural icon, where security cam footage of Dennis Franz trying on jeans at the gap -commando- travels around the globe faster than an ICBM, there MUST BE a decent site on Omaha High poker.

Google has always been my friend, but this time she's let me down. Nothing substantial, and lots of hits on Omaha high-low confounding my search for simple Omaha High. I can't just filter against "low" because it's a word that will legitimately appear on Omaha High sites.

So I turn, hat in hand to you. It's a Mickey Mouse hat with the name "bin Laden" embroidered on it, but still...
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Old 04-23-2005, 03:58 AM
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Default Re: Forum or site dedicated to Omaha High?

Caffione's book is the best resource that addresses it and even it spend a lot of time on pot-limit play. I think you'd need to get that book first ($100? I got a copy like 3 months ago from the gamblers book club for the cover price of $20 or whatever), play a lot, and probably read everything on pot-limit omaha high and adapt it. I know that Big Dave D from the pot-limit omaha forum used to play limit omaha high so you might want to check out his blog to see if he has posted any hands in the archives or anything.

I'm just curious, if you like omaha high why not learn pot-limit? There are many juicy games online and it is much more interesting (in my opinion).

That being said I've been a few thousand hands of it (a fart in the wind but it's something) when I used to bonus whore on the crypto sites (the 1/2 game on their is insanely loose) so if you post hands here I'll try to respond if I see them.
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Old 04-23-2005, 10:47 AM
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Default Re: Forum or site dedicated to Omaha High?

I also got my copy for the cover price about a year ago, but it isn't in stock anymore it seems. I would try emailing ciaffone and seeing if he has any copies he would sell you, he might. (I think his email is listed at Card Player somewhere).
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Old 04-23-2005, 12:48 PM
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20? For Omaha Holdem Poker: The Action Game? I was told it was the best book on Limit Omaha, though it's really short: 106 pages! If you subtract the index, TOC and chapters on things like the rules, origin and future of Omaha that aren't of use to me, it'd be up to $2 per page of useful text. Sure, it could easily be worth it, Amazon didn't have it in stock, and I decided to keep my eyes open for a cheap used copy for a few weeks. In an earlier life I was a molecular biologist, and I got burned as a student investing in some excellent books that didn't fit my needs/style (e.g. Field's Virology, at $175 starving college student 1985 dollars).

I'll probably move to PLO when I have a fuller grasp of limit. I have an odd -or perhaps typical?- history with Omaha. I originally dabbled online with draw poker in the early days when there was a lot of it. I got into HE after the first TV broadcasts (before the NHLE Tidal Wave started in the second year), and I don't know how I ended up at a Omaha table. I guess it was because there were always a few 6-handed $1/2 Omaha tables at Party, 24/7. After a series of bad beats by chasers, Omaha's four cards looked soothing: a better chance of catching a piece of the board, and a short table meant less chance of a chaser beat.

Okay, okay, quit laughing! Obviously, I needed a short bus, not a short table. I see the game totally differently now. When I look back on my impressions of the game then, I can't believe I'm the same person thinking about the same game. My theories on starting hands and strategy now seem... bizarre, to say the least. Yet I won!

[The road to hell is paved with juicy pots. Maybe *that's* why they always say you should pull over and enjoy the scenery, instead of hurrying on to your inevitable final destination.]

After a while I lost interest in HE and online poker, and quit playing for over a year. Coming back, my interest is more theoretical. Make money is nice, sure, but I'm not looking for an income stream. I have no interest in 8-tabling -- you may *see* more interesting hands per hour, but the clockwork pace doesn't leave much time to savor and ponder those hands.

I can definitely see why PLO would be more interesting, but for reasons of personal history, I want to get Limit down first. I still have things to learn in full-table and I need to learn short-table all over again. [I can't believe I was once a 6-seat specialist who thought 10-seat Omaha was for chumps. Today, I can hardly play my old 6-seat $1/2 tables. There's no sense of familiarity at all.)
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