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Omaha Hi-Lo is a great poker game. Improve your game through study and practice. We've compiled these Omaha Hi-Lo articles, written by Bohemian from the poker forum.
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6 Reasons to Start Playing Omaha Hi Lo
Written by Bohemian
When I first started to play internet poker, I headed for the texas holdem tables. One day, while distracted, I accidentally joined a single table Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo tournament. Despite not knowing anything about the game, I proceeded to eliminate all 9 players within the next 30 minutes.…
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Winning Preflop in Omaha Hi-Lo
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Let me be honest with you. I am very hesitant to write this article. I wish you wouldn’t read it. Or if you do read it, DON’T play at my table. If you apply what you learn from this article, you will be in a position to start beating the…
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In the previous article, we discussed how winners play to scoop the pot. Winners always keep an eye out on how well their cards are coordinated. Most of their edge comes from playing better preflop than their opponents would with their cards. In this article, we are looking at how…
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Omaha Hi-Lo Basics
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Sometime in the 90s, I enrolled as a computer science student at a certain Canadian university. The first year was tough enough. The program had an 80%+ drop-out rate. I survived thinking how tough it was, not knowing what was ahead of me in the second year. I had to…
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Omaha Hi-Lo Hands : Close in Value
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Sometimes players say that Omaha hands “run close together in value”. Others disagree with that statement and claim that they do not. Usually, neither side makes any cogent argument for their claims. What exactly does it mean to be “close in value”? A quantitative judgment presupposes some sort of a…
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How Not to Tilt in Omaha Hi-Lo
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Across different poker games, there is one thing that can be counted on: there will be players going on tilt. One often hears hold’em players complaining about losing large pots on the river (“oh man, another suckout, I can’t believe this”). Perhaps they have not played Omaha. It can be…
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Profile of a Typical Omaha Hi-Lo Fish
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One dictionary defines fish as “any of numerous cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates of the superclass pisces, characteristically having fins, gills, and a streamlined body”. I am not sure how many omaha players fit that description but you will definitely find plenty of fish in the game. In this article, we will…
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Perhaps the biggest reason why people lose money at poker is tilting. And perhaps the biggest reason for tilting is having unrealistic expectations. Many omaha high/low players live in a la-la land, a land of boundless optimism that knows no statistical limits. When the flop, the turn, or the river…
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Omaha Hi-Lo Tips : Beyond Basic Omaha
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So you’ve mastered the basics. You understand the nature of the game, starting hand qualities, the importance of position, how high and low possibilities affect your pot odds, why a dry A2 is not the second coming…etc. The $64,000 question is: how far will this take you and how do…
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