Tip #7: Pot-Limit Omaha Heads-Up Cash Games

There’s a good reason why pot-limit Omaha heads-up cash games are so lucrative right now. It’s a heavy action game and therefore attracts a lot of maniacs. Maniacs are loose-aggressive players that seem to raise every hand before the flop, always bet and raise after the flop. With their aggression, they are able to maneuver you out of the pot because the pressure becomes too high. So you will lose some pots but you will also win a lot of big pots if your pot-limit Omaha strategy is good.

First of all you should not adapt to his high speed. The maniac will play very fast and you should not play as fast as he does. Sure, you can call |with more hands before the flop than usual because he will raise with very weak hands, but you should still choose hands with “big hand potential”. These are hands that can make the nuts or a big draw. For example a hand like T987 double suited. This hand has a lot of potential even though it’s only a ten high hand so far. So you don’t have to wait for AAKK or hands like that.

Once you know how to select your starting hands it won’t take long to understand the fundamentals of post-flop play agains maniacs in pot-limit Omaha heads-up cash games. You want to stack him. You want him to move all-in while you have the nuts or a very strong draw. You don’t want hands like AAKK on a flop like 865 where you could be drawing dead already. That’s not the kind of spots you want to be in. I’d rather take a nice draw with a lot of outs to the nuts than a somewhat weak made hand like an overpair or maybe bottom set. Even maniacs can hit the flop and don’t forget: you’re playing Omaha so big hands are way more likely.