How Do You Play Pot Limit Omaha

• How to Play Pot Limit Omaha Pot Limit Omaha is perhaps the second most-played format of poker in the world, trailing only No Limit Hold'em in terms of popularity. Proponents like the action and the strategic complexity that comes along with Pot Limit Omaha, but new players can sometimes get tripped up on the basic mechanics of the game.
• You might not necessarily want to play a small speculative hand like 7-6-4-2 heads up, but a slightly bigger hand like 10-9-7-5 does OK even heads up with position on a preflop raiser, or in a three-way pot with position, as your opponents have to hit the flop harder than you do.
• In PLO, four cards are dealt to each player, and hands are formed by using two of those cards in combination with three community cards.

Players will find there is no limit on the amount raised in the Pot Limit Omaha. The last bet in the Pot Limit Omaha is the same as the size of the big blind, but it depends on the player if he or she wants to bet as per the size of the pot. Pot Limit Betting Structure. In Omaha Poker Rules, players will find that the maximum bet would be two times the amount to call plus the pot.

For those of you thinking about taking a shot at pot-limit Omaha/8 poker, here are a few strategies and points that must be considered. Everything discussed here is with the assumption you are a good limit Omaha/8 poker player.

If you are not a good limit player, immediately abandon the idea of playing pot-limit unless the money you are using is purely discretionary. In my experience, this is the most brutal and unforgiving poker game available at high stakes today.

Even if you are a good limit player, I recommend starting at a much lower buy-in than you are used to playing until you can handle the differences between limit and pot-limit Omaha/8 poker.

By now you know that most of the profit you make in Omaha/8 is from the mistakes of your opponents and playing hands that offer good scoop potential. This is magnified to a great degree when playing pot-limit, and when you add having a made hand with a redraw to a better hand you have covered just about everything of importance.

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How Do You Play Pot Limit Omaha

Because of the nature of pot-limit poker, the pot can quickly become very large and you can lose a great deal of money on drawing hands. Here are the three biggest mistakes, other than poor starting hand selection, I see players make.

The first is calling large bets with only a draw to half the pot, the second is raising with only three players in the pot with only a low hand and the third is calling bets with second and third best hands with no real chance to improve to the best hand.

Because of the great possibility of being quartered with a low hand, when less than four players are contesting the pot, every dollar you put in the pot may only return seventy-five cents.

How To Win At Pot Limit Omaha

I have put together a short list of rules to live by when playing pot-limit Omaha/8 poker. If you don't live by these rules, you surely will die by them.

How To Play Pot Limit Omaha 8 Or Better

Only play starting hands that offer scoop potential, including high only hands.

This is a game of scoops and redraws.

Don't draw to a low only hand against a made high hand.

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Be careful to not trade a dollar for seventy-five cents very often.

Be patient and let your opponents make mistakes.

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How To Play Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo

Don't lose much money with second best hands. Wait for the best possible hand to get most of your money into the pot.