Pot Limit OMaha Hi-lo help for beginners.

Omaha8orbetter is my best game, or so i think. I thought that as my first posting I would write a little about my "best game" and hope it helps beginning players. I'm going to write about what you're looking for as far as starting hands are concerned. I really hope this helps some of you.

In pot limit Omaha 8 what you're really looking for is a scoop. You're looking for a starting hand that looks something like A235 or A234, AA23, AA24 or sommething like that. Your starting hand must consist of at least 3 low cards and you want your highest card to be a 6 although the lower the better. A24K isn't a bad hand if double suited but what you really want is 4 lo's. Once in a pot what you're looking for is to scoop the pot. The reason why you want to scoop the pot is because if you're going for the low and some1 else has the same exact low as you do then the winner of the high will take three fourths of the pot while the other person only takes 25% of the pot after putting in more than that. This is just a basic advice I wanted to give beginners because I felt it was really important. As far as reading you're oponents and knowing when certain hands are good or bad I believe thats the kind of thing each person has to figure out by playing. Playing is the best way to learn and don't you ever forget that.

check out ray zee ... he doesn't go for the spotlight ... but for those of us who play oh8 and stud ... he's a great person to learn from.

Thanks I'll try it and post how it goes

Great tip! I just wanted to throw in a tips about reading your hand. EVERYONE who is learning to play Omaha for the first time seems to have trouble reading their hand correctly at times. So here are a few remnders or tips to keep in mind when reading Omaha hands.

1. You must use two cards from your hand and 3 from the board. Keep that in mind. I see a lot of newbies mistakingly think they have a straight, flush or fullhouse if one of their cards make it that.

2. In order to have a fullhouse, there must be a pair showing on the board.

3. All possible straights have either a 10 or a 5 in them.

4. Three cards of the same suit have to be showing on the board in order for there to be a flush.

5. Low hands are read starting with the largest number and working on down. If you are using an A7 from your hand and there is a 642 on the board, your hand is 7642A. Someone using a 53 from their hand beats yours even though you have the ace. Their hand would be read as 65432. 65432 is a smaller number than 76421(A).

6. If the board has 3 qualifying low cards, you must have 2 different qualifying low cards. If the board has 4 you only need one different and one can counterfeit (copy) one on the board. In this case if everyone in the hand counterfiets one of the cards, it doesn't matter which one, whomever has the lowest 'live' wins the low. If the board is 5 different qualifying low cards, you may counterfeit 2 of them. Your low hand will then be the same as what is on the board. And when 2 or more people all counterfiet one of the cards on the board.

7. Avoid playing hands that include a set. For example, if you are delt 555J. And avoid hands that are two pairs such as 4499, especially if they are unsuited.

Omaha hi/lo is one of the tougher games to get to final table. I find a tight play is best because of the higher hands usually win (flushs, fullhouse, and straight on a occasion) Two pair most times are beat. The other problem is you usually stay with hand longer to see if you make a winner, if not typically you lose more chips per hand played. So play TAG in this game.

Here is a good one. If you have the nut straight on the flop, FOLD. It will almost always lose to a higher straight, flush or FH by the time the river hits.

Debel, that was some really sound advice. I got my head handed to me on a sit-n-go yesterday. I accidentally signed up for Omaha instead of Hold em. Out of 9 i came in 5th (OTM) but really couldn't match the skill of the other players. I think it made me take notice that even if I miss the game I want, it's better not to slam through the keys and make a mistake, and end up playing in the wrong game. But I did get a paid lesson!

I have done that a few too many times. Most recently I thought I had bought into an Omaha hi/lo. The first two hands I get the nut low and go all in and it was just by chance that I won the high so I didn't realize it wasn't a hi low game. The third had, another all in with the nut low, opened my eyes when I lost all my chips.