1. If this is multiway (3 players minimum), what hands will you cap with besides AA23ds?

2. If there is no heads-up cap, do you keep raising your lone opponent with AA23ds? What other hands will you do and how many times of raises before you stop?

1) A234s, A23Ks, AKQJds, AA24s, AA25s, AA26, AA35. Basically, any hand that makes nut lows and/or good high potential, too(i.e.) three to a wheel. I threw in AKQJds because I like to give action on high only hands, too, as long as they're very strong(i.e.)being nut double suited+holding an ace and a king; often times top two will scoop.

2) I wouldn't keep raising(if I wanted to do that I would play nlo8). Even the best hands are only 60/40, which, yes, is still very good heads up, but you don't have Broadway cards and there's a lot flops that you're still going to hate, so, I'd probably put in about 4 or 5 raises(which often ties players to the pot putting their money in poorly postflop) and then I'd just take it from there. I'm more likely to give him the last raise pre if I have position.

You could also write AA23ds as (A3)(A2).

I feel like my ideas are old fashioned and possibly passe. But my philosophy is whether or not to raise depends more on the nuances of the particular opponents you're facing than the cards you hold.

There are 16,432 uniquely different Omaha or Omaha-8 hands. AA23ds, or (A3)(A2), is only one of them, presumably the best of the Omaha-8 starting hands, but even with the best Omaha-8 starting hand, you might not want to raise. Or you might want to raise with a crummy starting hand. It just depends on the effect your raise will presumably have on your particular opponents.

Do you want all of your opponents to fold? Do you want only particular opponents to fold? Will raising cause particular opponents to fold? Will raising merely serve to increase the size of the pot?

Playing fixed-limit, you can easily get stuck in a pot because of the size of the pot relative to the size of the bet(s).

Anyhow, here's a list of all the uniquely different Omaha-8 hands, ranging from the best, (A3)(A2) to the worst 2222.
http://www.propokertools.com/simulator/o8ordering.txt

Which ones do you raise with? I think it depends on the situation and your opponents. The game is Omaha-8, but you still have to "play poker."

Again, in my humble and old fashioned opinion, it's opponent dependent.

Be careful whose advice you follow. Some of these guys are full of ****.

Buzz