Tip #10: 6-max Pot Limit Omaha Part 2

This is the second article of our six-max omaha poker series, about aggression on 6-max PLO. You could say that poker is a game of aggression, and playing a loose-aggressive style may be good to you on holdem, but you have to adjust to six-max pot limit omaha.  First of all, stealing pots are not [...]

Tip #9: 6-max Pot Limit Omaha Part 1

This article series focus on six-max Pot Limit Omaha (PLO), a variety which is widely played online nowadays. Our aim is to provide you with a basic understanding about the difference between six-max and full-ring games of PLO, and how to adjust properly. If 9 player PLO is a game with big hands, known as [...]

Tip #8: Bluffing in Pot Limit Omaha

The first thing you usually learn on PLO is that bluffing is not as profitable as in Texas Hold’em, because each player has 4 cards, what increases the chances that someone connects with the board. This may be truth, but you do have opportunities to bluff on omaha, and it would be a mistake not [...]

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 [...]

Tip #6: Straight Boards in Pot Limit Omaha

When playing pot limit Omaha, many newer players tend to get themselves involved into hands where they end up being 2nd best which, obviously, is not any good. This will generally stem from their starting hand selection and over valuing hands that seem extremely valuable, but actually should be played with caution if at all. [...]

Tip #5: Paired Boards in Pot Limit Omaha

One of the most important things a poker player can learn how to do is learn how to properly analyze a board in relation to how it may have helped them, and more importantly, how it may have helped their opponent. This is especially true in pot limit Omaha considering the fact that there are [...]

Tip #4: Six-Max Pot Limit Omaha Strategy

If there were any money to be made when playing pot limit Omaha, it would be in a 6-max PLO cash game. The reason is that many players just do not know how to play Omaha well, especially at the lower limits. So what does this mean for you? Well, it simply means that if [...]

Tip #2: Pot Limit Omaha Starting Hands – Part 2

Solid Starting Hands Solid starting hands in Omaha are what will keep beginning players out of trouble when trying to play on the flop. The idea is to start with hands that will allow players to make as many different hand combinations as possible, with all of the different combinations leading to having the nuts. [...]

Tip #1: Pot Limit Omaha Starting Hands – Part 1

One of the biggest issues that new poker players have when learning how to play is being selective in their starting hands. This results in seeing a flop and immediately folding or connecting with the flop with a mediocre hand and paying too much to be second best. This issue is only amplified in Omaha [...]