A form of poker that continues to grow in popularity is Omaha eight-or-better high-low split, which is often abbreviated as "Omaha/8" in print. You?ll find an Omaha/8 game in virtually every cardroom--brick and mortar or on the Internet. Yet, Omaha/8 is widely misunderstood. As a result, better players stand to make a significant profit in the game. This book provides a much needed and useful tool for poker players interested in improving their game.

Clearly written strategies and powerful advice shows the essential winning strategies for beating Omaha high-low poker! This money-making guide includes more than sixty hard-hitting sections on Omaha. Players learn the rules of play, best starting hands, strategies for the flop, turn, and river, how to read the board for both high and low, dangerous draws, and how to beat low-limit tournaments. Includes odds charts, glossary, low-limit tips, and strategic ideas. 240 pages

Omaha eight or better high-low split is a form of poker that surpasses every form of poker except Texas hold'em in popularity. Omaha/8 has much in common with Texas hold'em, but there are significant differences too. As a result, better players stand to make a significant profit in the game.

From a semi-professional poker player, a guide to playing and winning the biggest game in town. If you’ve never tried Pot-Limit Omaha, you’re missing out on the most exciting, most lucrative cash game around. Omaha has long been the most popular form of poker in Europe, and now it’s spreading like wildfire throughout North America. The reason is simple: Omaha offers more action and bigger pots than Texas Hold ‘em. Isn’t it time you got in on it? Whether you’re a cash-game professional or poker hobbyist—and whether you play live or online—this book will arm you with a winning big-play strategy that's easy to master even if you've never played Omaha before. You'll discover the subtle distinctions that set Omaha above other games. Key topics include: • The Big Play Objectives • The Power of the Big Draw • Straight Draws and Starting Hand Construction • Playing the Position Game • Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Complete with practice situations and hand quizzes, this is the most comprehensive Omaha book available—and the only one you'll ever need. “A great addition to poker literature.”—Bob Ciaffone, author of Omaha Poker “Everything you wanted to know about the game but never asked.”—Lou Krieger, author of Hold ‘Em Excellence

The first volume in a series, the book reviews a collection of poker hands played from the button, cutoff, and hijack positions which illustrate concepts to help improve the reader's poker game.

Pot-limit Omaha to the untrained eye looks similar to Texas hold 'em except that you start with four cards instead of the standard two. But this complex form of poker has many differences and it continues to grow in popularity as the poker boom matures. This book starts with the fundamentals of hand valuation and continues up through advanced concepts. Topics include preflop hand strength, short stack play, wrap hands, blind stealing, marking aces, playing on the flop, which flops are good for bluffing, position and check-raising, pot size manipulation, blockers, and much more including numerous sample hands. This book is a discussion of winning play, and more importantly, winning thinking on all streets. It should be of value to almost all pot-limit Omaha players from the beginner to the more advanced, and every effort has been made to give you the best information possible, with nothing held back. Two Plus Two Publishingand William Jockusch are proud to bring you Pot-Limit Omaha

This strategy guide to the second-hottest new poker game is the only one with reliable information on all 5,211 possible Omaha high-low hands. This is the only book that shows you the chances that every one of the 5,278 Omaha high-low hands has of winning the high end of the pot, the low end of it, and how often it is expected to scoop all the chips.

The third book in the "For Advanced Players" series. It is really books 3 and 4 for two reasons. First, many of the concepts are similar for both games. Second, players mastering one game can easily make the transition to the other. Some of the ideas discussed in the seven-card stud eight-or-better section include starting hands, when an ace raises, disguising your hand on third street, play on fourth street, fifth street, sixth street, seventh street, position, bluffing, staying to the end, and scare cards. Some of the ideas discussed in the Omaha eight-or-better section include general concepts, position, low hands, high hands, your starting hand, how to play your hand, play on the flop, multiway versus short handed play, scare cards, getting counterfeited, and your playing style. A great deal of this material has never appeared in print before.

0 Comments Rolf Slotboom and Rob Hollink join forces to produce THE definitive guide, to short-handed Pot-Limit Omaha (tables with six or fewer players). Do you know Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the fastest growing forms of poker? Do you know that the biggest games online (in money) are Short-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha? Rolf and Rob will tell you how to: Gauge the optimum size of the buy-inDecide whether to check-raise or bet into the raiserRepresent big handsMisrepresent hands in order to get paid offGet your opponents off good, but non-nut handsJudge when to raise with drawing hands The team – Rolf Slotboom – author of the classic “Secrets of Professional Pot Limit Omaha”. In his first attempt in 2007 on the World Series of Poker he cashed four times, including the main $10,000 event. Rob Hollink has been a leading player for over 20 years and has won both a European tour title and, in 2008, a World Series bracelet.

This is the first edition of the book. Also see the Expanded Edition for additional content.PLO8 poker plays much differently than the No-Limit Hold'em games that most players are familiar with. Because there are only a few specialists who understand how to play the game, most PLO8 players have no idea what they are doing. This book will reveal the secrets that enable these specialists to make so much money and give you the knowledge you need to absolutely crush PLO8 poker games. Even if you are already a winning player, you will learn new skills that will increase your win rate. This is the first book dedicated solely to PLO8 poker.