Hey 2p2ers,
I wanted to comment on this thread to promote NiceHandOmaha for Nik. Nik is an awesome dude, and the work he has done to make this small piece of software has made a tremendous impact in my PLO game. So, I felt like this thread needed a serious bump.
Quick background on me. I'm a former CardRunners pro from back in the day. I grinded online midstakes NLHE for a living for almost a decade prior to Black Friday. I went back to school, got my doctorate, and now have a "real" career. I played live poker occasionally then migrated back to online/apps when the pandemic hit.
In March of this year I decided to try to learn PLO. I bought an Upswing course and studied the game. This was my absolute first foray into PLO. Being new to the game I wanted to find out what software people used. I did some digging, found EliteHUD (which worked with PokerTracker), and then found NiceHandOmaha. I contacted Nik and he helped me get set up.
These are my results from 6 months of play at small and mid stakes:
Nik mentioned above what NiceHandOmaha can do. For me, the biggest value is in the first HUD. It tells you your PLO hand ranking using rankings from propokertools.com. If I want to RFI certain percentages from UTG, HJ, CO, or BTN, then all I have to do is look at the HUD. Let's say I raise 20% of hands from UTG - if the HUD says <20% then I raise it and if it's >20% then I fold it. I don't have to spend hours memorizing ranges. And more importantly, I never make mistakes. I always have perfect preflop ranges.
The other HUDs are helpful as well. I don't have to count my outs if I'm drawing, I just read the HUD. I also don't have to count my blockers, I know how many nutted combos are possible and how many of them that I block. This is incredibly helpful when multi-tabling.
If anyone plays PLO on any level, you absolutely must get NiceHandOmaha. It is INSANELY cheap. Imo Nik should be asking WAY more for it. To be perfectly honest, posting this could be bad for me. It's to my detriment if others get this program and use it - I definitely don't want any of my opponents getting ahold of it. But the impact NiceHandOmaha has had on my game is massive and Nik deserves to have people knocking down his door to get it.
-Brian
(Full disclosure, I wrote this on my own accord. I'm not getting anything from posting this. I bought the Gold Package 6 months ago and will buy it again 6 months from now when I need to renew.
Knowing that this program is approved by PokerStars and other sites is important to me. NiceHandOmaha creates HUDs with information that is only known given the board and hero hole cards. It does not tell you how to play.
Using NiceHandOmaha won't turn you into a pro. I am pretty good at poker. I'm not great. I still make mistakes. I'm just significantly better than my competition. Everyone should understand the Peter Principle.
AMA if you like and I'll respond here. And I'll squash this now, sorry, I don't do coaching.)
TLDR: Get this software. I did and am now crushing at 45bb/100.