plz i would like to suggest me several books to read about PLO and PLO8 except jeff hwang"s POT-LIMIT OMAHA POKER.thank you very much

Besideds Whangs Advanced series and Jokusch Understanding Winning Play there isn't that many books out there except the very expensive e-books

The other books worth reading are the Rolf Slotboom's books. Slotbook's book is probably the best for short stack strategy.

Bob Ciaffone wrote some good stuff in his Pot Limit Poker book as well.

Forgot about slotboom. But thats probably cause i dont like them. The plo advice in them is solid but their a pain to read in my opinion

ty people.how about bill boston"s books for PLO8?

i agree 100%. but was looking at his main full ring omaha book the other day and has great stuff on stack size.

hwang's first book is excellent, but a little too tight and doesn't deal with post-flop enough. a little too scared too. i mean, your opponent isn't always free-rolling you when you have the nut straight on a two flush board.

ciaffone's book is small but good and i think it was re-released at some point with more content added (that could have been years ago though, i wasn't aware of it myself)

tri nguyen's first book looks really good from what i've seen of it.

sammy farha's book is entertaining but you'll probably lose money playing his way.

For PLO8 it has to be PLO8 Revealed by Dan Deppen.

I believe that book is for limit and not PLO.

I like the Slotboom books. But you'll probably hear the voice of Dr Sheldon Cooper while reading.

lol

I bought and read first book, I was pissed off that it ended and I was like wtf I hope I learned something

+1. Make sure you get the revised and expanded/2nd edition.

Before Black Friday I considered myself a PLO specialist. IMO Jeff's books are the only ones worth reading.

I love Bob with all my heart, and Improve Your Poker is one of my favorite poker books ever. But Bob's Omaha book is showing its age.

I wasn't impressed with the Jochurst book at all.

Rolf's books are about short stacking, even the ones that aren't suppose to be about short stacking. I like my PLO 200 bb deep.

I was just browsing through the "Advanced Series" today, do you think someone who has never played PLO before, but knows the rules and is solid at NLHE(knows concepts such as ranges, value, position etc) could get started with these books, or should a beginners book be read first? (Perhaps to learn the very basics such as rank of starting hands, terminology, etc)

If so, which one would you recommend?

Thanks

I would NOT start with Hwang's advanced series. If you play at my table full ring you'll lose money to me until you really know what you're doing.

Having said that (ha ha, Hwang's favorite phrase), his first book gives an exaggerated impression. You could wait months for some of those scenarios, and if you wait to freeroll people you'll never play a hand of Omaha. Still, you have to understand what a good Omaha hand is. You have to understand what sorts of hands are good compared to what Holdem hands are good. It's more complicated than in Holdem and sometimes even counterintuitive. Once you really understand hand structure and how strength relates to how much money you can put it, then you can advance to his looser books, because you will know when you're deviating from solid theory and venturing into sheer aggression and playing the other man's hand.

One problem I see beginners run into (assuming they're past the stage where they get confused about their straight draws and if they have a flush or not), is that they confuse quantity with quality. They get hands that look so tremendous compared to Holdem, that they fall over themselve to get all their money in. They flop bottom 2, plus an open ended straight draw (half of which is to the bottom end), and a 9 high flush draw. With "all that", they can't wait to shove it. I mean, they have "the world!" Well, it looks good, but it's crap in a multiway pot and a big pot.

I must admit, it takes great patience to play the way he suggests in his first book. But the good news is you'll learn fundamentals that you'll understand for the rest of your life.