30 Omaha/8 Starting Hands

[dcasper70]

1 fold
2 Raise to thin the herd if you're the first into the pot. Multiple limpers in front of you, call & hope to flop a set or nut flush draw.
3 fold
4 fold
5 fold, this hand is garbage
6 ep & mp fold, CO & sb call 1 bet
7 call 1 bet in lp, else fold
8 fold
9 call 1 bet in lp, else fold
10 fold
11 ep call, lp + blinds raise. Ep you want chasers tagging along, lp build the pot
12 call or raise (see 11)
13 fold
14 fold
15 fold/check (well, you're the bb, so sure...)
16 fold
17 call
18 fold
19 fold
20 fold
21 fold another crap hand
22 fold (see 15)
23 fold
24 fold
25 (see 2)
26 fold
27 ep & mp fold, CO & sb call 1 bet
28,29, 30 all garbage


In general, I agree with Cooker's thoughts, except the blanket raising of AA66 and AA56 (Edit - in limit O8) . This needs to be dependant on position and # of players in the pot. If your sitting in the CO and 8 players call for 1 bet, raising these 2 hands will certainly not thin the feild, they'll thin your bankroll.

And as long as I keep winning (4.3 BB/100), I'll keep pointing people <a href="www.homestead.com/ehutchison/OmahaSystem.html" target="_blank">here</a>

[Cooker]

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In general, I agree with Cooker's thoughts, except the blanket raising of AA66 and AA56 (Edit - in limit O8) .

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This is true. I have been playing mostly PLO8 lately where a big pot raise can force out limpers, but in limit you want to raise these mostly when you can limit the field. At some low limit tables, you are probably fine and maybe even better off only limping (i.e. if every player will call anyway when you raise then only the best 2 way hands probably have enough equity to raise preflop).

[gergery]

I pretty much agree with Cooker in this thread.

--Greg