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[Mr. Blonde 0]

What are some good books for learning omaha/omaha 8?

[Blumonkey 0]

I like Ray Zee's "High Low Split Poker" in the Advanced Players series but it is not exactly a beginners book.Also the section in SS2 is not bad.

[AlphaOmega 0]

I just read Ken Warren's "Winner's Guide to Omaha Poker." I thought it was a pretty good book for a beginner, it'll definitely take some of the confusion out of the game. As far as that though, it doesn't really have any advanced strategy, other than look for hands to scoop and play for the nuts. Some of the finer aspects of the game, like playing in position, and folding nut lows to not get quartered, are only lightly touched. If you have enough of a bankroll, you can do what I did. Read the book, learn how to play basics, and piddle around at 25$ maxes. Experience is a good teacher. Be prepared to get quartered a lot though.

[Mr. Blonde 0]

What's quartered?I never really had much interest in Omaha until I started screwing around this morning and was killing my table. Are they normally that horrifyingly bad at low .1/.25 and .25/.5?

[greatwhite 0]

Ignore Warren's omaha book. It's just terrible. You can learn all the usefull stuff he says in there just by playing on play money for a few hours. Omaha Hold'em Poker is good for omaha high. I haven't heard of any really good books for omaha hi/lo, but I hear good things about Tenner, Zee's book isn't bad (the stud/8 section is alot better), and SSII is pretty good. I don't like Cappelletti's book, because he is too loose and disorganized. There are some decent articles online too. o8poker.com is a great site with more book reviews.

[AlphaOmega 0]

Not many people know how to play Omaha well. I consider myself a very inexperienced Omaha player, but I've made well over 250 dollars playing on the 0.5-1.00 since I started, which was Monday.Omaha Hi/Lo is much more profitable and less volatile in comparison to most poker games, including NL hold 'em. Well worth the time to learn.

What's quartered?

Quartered is when you get a small fraction of the pot back, so small that it is smaller than what you have invested. Since half of the pot is for high and half is for low, If you hold the best low allong with 3 or 4 other people, not only are you only getting half the pot, but that half of the pot is getting divided amongst ALL the players with the best low. That's why it is best to play with hands that "scoop," or win ALL of the pot.

[Mr. Blonde 0]

Do you think the tables are extra fishy today because everyone saw Ivey clean the house last nite playing Omaha on WSOP?I'm up 175 today just 2 tabling .1/.25 Variance to be sure, but these people are just horrid.

[AlphaOmega 0]

At the site I play at, It is VERY common to see people push with just a low hand, and a non-nut low hand at that. Sometimes people will even draw to JUST a low hand heads up. It's like they have no idea that at best they will get the money back that they invested in the pot.

[Blumonkey 0]

A large amount of Fish play Omaha esp Hi/Lo because they think "Hey I have four cards how can I miss a flop" also people have a tendenacy to play A2xx anytime any where because of the low possibility without thinking about Scooping or getting counterfited. So if your just starting out playing Omaha if your folding more hands pre-flop than your opponents you are probably playing better than them.(at the lower limits)

[rog 0]

At the site I play at, It is VERY common to see people push with just a low hand, and a non-nut low hand at that. Sometimes people will even draw to JUST a low hand heads up. It's like they have no idea that at best they will get the money back that they invested in the pot.

I've never seen a low-limit omaha hand play out heads up. What site do you play at where anyone folds before the river?