Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
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Bob Ciaffone
“This book is very accurate technically and a great addition to poker literature.”
Lou Krieger
“Lucid, literate, and comprehensive. Dissects the complexities of this game and explains why big play strategy is the winning strategy.”
Are You Ready for the Next Wave of Poker?
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 one of the most popular forms of poker in Europe, as well as the Midwest and Southern United States. PLO is also the highest-stakes game in every cardroom in which the game is spread. 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 a recreational player — 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.
Key topics include:
– The Big Play Objectives
– The Power of the Big Draw
– Straight Draws and Starting Hand Construction
– 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.
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Jeff Hwang has written the most helpful and insightful book on Omaha poker available. I also purchased Bob Ciaffone’s ‘Omaha Poker’ and ‘Pot Limit & No Limit Poker’ by Reuben and Ciaffone. All three of these cash-game oriented books are valuable additions to a well rounded poker players library. However, Hwang is far more systematic in his presentation of key ideas, his prose is lucid, and his insights are gold. Those insights have provided 90% of improvement in my game that I have gained by reading these books.
After a brief intro, Hwang jumps right into his core thesis: you only want to get involved with hands that have big play potential. Big play hands have structures that allow you to bet strongly when flopping the nuts with redraws to even better nuts by the time you reach the river. He then goes on to map out all of the types of big play potential hand structures in a clear and systematic way. While the big play notion, and the importance of counting nut outs have been made before, the systematic and lucid presentation in ‘Pot-Limit Omaha Poker’ really make it shine.
If you are hold em player who is branching out into Omaha you should buy this book. If you don’t, please invite me to your game.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just got this book a week ago and have spent more than ten hours reading it and taking notes. I’m blown away. I actually was a little afraid to come on here and tell others how good the book is, but I realized there was no need to worry. Only the most studious and stable players will get a lot out of this book. Most players, even the ones who read this book, will continue to play naked ace-deuces in pot-limit Omaha hi/lo, and call off their entire stacks with only a low draw. So I don’t care if a few people get educated by studying the game of Omaha through this book. For every one person who really studies this book and improves, there will be another hundred who couldn’t care less. I suppose all poker games are like that, especially in online play.
I should mention that I bought this book, thinking it would cover Omaha high only. But the pot-limit Omaha/8 discussion, which only covers about 50 pages of the book, is worth the purchase price in and of itself. The Omaha high discussion in this book has already been seen, for the most part, in previous books.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am a semi-pro player out of Florida and I will confess that Omaha has been my weakest game since I began playing. I never really got the gist of it. But I bought this book about 2 weeks ago and I must say, the ideas, topics and overall presentation of this book were so simply presented, that I will swear that my game has improved significantly.
Applying these strategies is a bit tricky, however the excercises and out counting regognition teqchniques used in this book are what will improve your game. If you study these guidlines your game will improve dramatically.
This book shows you betting patterens, real situation semi-bluffing techniques and a ton more. If you are really interested in playing Omaha read this book.
P.S. There are additionally chapters covering Omaha hi/lo that are staggeringly informative.
Hope this helps any aspiring pros, or anyone wanting to improve their game.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have read several poker books on Omaha; Ken Warren’s, Bob Ciaffone’s, T.J. Cloutier’s, and recently Rolf Slotboom’s book. None of them helped me with Omaha the way this book did. Yes, there are a few typographical errors, but it certainly should not stop you from buying this book if you want to play Omaha. It’s not just Omaha High, but the High Low section is excellent.
Jeff is systematic in his approach to each starting hand. The understanding of which drawing hands get you into trouble (i.e. your outs are not the nut outs)and which ones can turn into monsters is something the other books left out. Warren’s book is very elementary but a good starting tool. Ciaffone’s book is very thin, good information, but no examples. Rolf’s book has an interesting style for short stack play, but once you double up his big stack play is not as clear as Jeff’s. After I read T.J.’s book I thought no one should play a hand unless it was the Broadway wrap. This book is the only Omaha book you should buy.
This book is mainly for cash game play. There are a few examples from tournaments, but this book concentrates on the cash game arena. This book is a tremendous value for the price they charge.
Rating: 5 / 5
PLO seems to be the game of choice among big cash-game players, and it is growing in popularity among lower-limit players too. I was a casual PLO player going into the reading of this text, having spent most of my time playing No Limit Hold ‘Em.
In my opinion, no one should venture into PLO without having studied the nuances of the game first. With so much action post-flop, you can go broke fast if you don’t know what you’re up against. Mr. Hwang’s book is a great place to start.
The first third of the book is dedicated to PLO, then there’s a brief section on miscellaneous topics like bankroll management, maintaining emotional discipline, etc. and then the second half of the book goes into Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Split and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Split.
I read this book just for PLO for now, and I am a better player for it. I still make some donkey plays and go on tilt (which is more prevalent in PLO than in Hold ‘Em, because everyone is speculating in this game and people hit bigger hands on the turn and river almost every hand), but that’s my issue. Understanding run-down, one-gap and two-gap straight wraps; the percentages in draw vs. draw situations, why one shouldn’t necessarily get excited by flopping the nuts, etc. has helped me make regular profits in online small-stakes PLO games. I played as I read my way through the first two sections of the book (I can’t recommend doing this highly enough) and I felt so much more confident about the choices I was making.
Hwang includes enough math to open your eyes, but not so much that you feel overwhelmed. His book is both as reader-friendly and instructive as Dan Harrington’s NLHE books.
Get the book if you want a solid PLO foundation. Hwang also recommends several other PLO books out there (especially Ciaffone’s), so you’ll know where to go from here. See you at the tables!
Rating: 5 / 5