I have been playing Omaha a lot recently, since it was a weakness of mine and it plays a big part in the mixed game me and my friends play. This seems like a strange question, but how aggressive should you be pre-flop? I often find that too much aggression can get you into trouble, for example, I find raising too much with Aces can get you committed to a hand and force you to bet the flop even if you don't improve, which makes you vulnerable to people who out-flop you, and Aces need to improve a lot more in Omaha. Consequently, I am fairly cautious pre-flop, I rarely raise from an early position since I know that no Omaha hands are a big favourite over any other hand and you can't always stand a big re-raise unless you have A-A-K-K or A-A-J-10 or something.

Is this a good strategy? Or should I be raising more? I like to see a lot of flops and I often just limp-in, but that seems to be against the maxim that "aggressive play wins." I have tried playing more aggressively, but I get check-raised to death.

Also, I sometimes fold hands like J-J-x-x pre-flop (xs being rags,) is that too tight? I know I should find my own style, but I dunno if I am making the most out of my hands and maybe playing too few hands.

Aggressive play wins more in Hold-em, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be aggressive in Omaha. You should just time your aggression more carefully, like if you have a "dry hand" you don't want to get too involved in a huge pot, but if you have a strong drawing hand you tend to want to be more aggressive to try to get the bigger hand to fold or build the pot so when you do hit your opponents will be commited to stay around. Pre-flop is just preference really IMO, you want to raise with your big starting hands and by big I like pairs with other possibilities like QQ78 double suited or something similar. With these hands yes you want to raise pre-flop to get some money in the middle for when you hit but on the other hand if you miss you want to dump it post-flop.

ds rundowns, suited aces w/ 3card wraps, pretty much all pocket pairs (as long as you're not gonna be a lil bitch about flopping set over set - it's gonna happen, they're still strong hands & can win you big pots) play 2pair & less extremely cautiously, and usually dont stack off w/ them vs alot of action, they're almost never good... overpairs aren't good most of the time...

dont cbet AA on like 789 boards


think about it like this: you're raising PF to build a pot for when you flop big and hopefully someone else flops not quite as big, or a big draw & you hope to hold vs it, and you can win a big pot.. it's way easier to make hands in omaha (and to rep hands, which is why position - imo - matters more than in NL) than in no limit

you wanna dump and never play hands like AsQd8h3c.. they're not gonna crush enough boards often enough to justify playing them ever

be cautious w/ wraps & FDs on paired boards...


just log a few k hands @ the micros till you get a feel for the game, and it'll sort of click eventually