Can someone point me in the right direction for beginner's strategy? Or post some basic pointers?
Thanks,
OD

The basic strategy is simple: play strong 5-card draw hands and hope you connect with the flop. Of course you can only control the first part of that. But the point I want to make is that you want to play hands that can scoop, that only happens if you start with a strong hands.

An example of a hand that costs people lots of money is playing 2 small/middle pairs in multiway pots. Sure, sometimes this will win the board half when you flop a set or a straight, but my experience is that 2 bigger pairs (or better) are usually required to win the "in your hand" half. Also, calling the turn with only a draw to win half the pot is costly, if you play O8 it's the same idea.

Scotch's website has a brief review of a book on Drawmaha as well.

The middle part depends a lot on the game itself. Well played drawmaha is pretty tight and you shouldn't see too many hands that are multiway. If game is small stakes loosey goosey then yeah 2 pair gets a lot weaker.

This seems like a pretty bad continue to me, but there's no shortage of people who do it, even in single raised pots. It makes me wonder if I'm missing some kind of logic or math here or people just like to be stationy in these spots.

It depends how locked up "your" half is for you. How good is your hand and how likely is it somebody else has the same hand? If the answer is very strong for this situation and next to none or none then you ought to be trying to make your half as big as possible from the maximum number of players you can extract from.

Even if you have no shot at winning the other half, your hand for one direction or the other can be so strong that you can bluff all the other players out.

I have found myself thinking my aces up in the hand are absolutely smoking these goons who are playing every single hand, only to face a huge turn or river raise putting me into serious doubt. Or for example I start QQQxx and dont improve, my opponent draws 1 and pot raises me on the flop of 982 and I have nothing for Omaha, well now I have to question whether he made a straight or a flush and maybe beats me or is freerolling me on the Omaha side. Even if I am good, I now have to call 2 more streets of pot bets to get half or lose it all, and yet I have QQQ which is ordinarily very strong in Draw.

(btw we play it where we draw immediately after the flop is dealt but before the betting on the flop + idk if your rules are different)