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02-03-2015 , 08:36 PM

Dynasty

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 26,034

The February issue of the 2+2 Magazine has an article by Frank Jerome beginning a series for players new to Omaha 8 or better.

You can read the full article here: Omaha 8 or Better for Beginners by Frank Jerome

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There are three general types of Omaha-8 games, fixed-limit, pot-limit, and no-limit. The advice given in this article is primarily for fixed-limit (also simply called limit) rather than for pot-limit or no-limit, but some of the ideas are applicable for pot-limit or no-limit.

Made Hands
There are 4 categories of made hands on the flop or turn:
1. Lows
2. Full houses and quads.
3. Flushes and straight flushes
4. Straights

One of these categories, #1, is for low hands and the other three categories, #2, #3, and #4, are for high hands.

How often is there a High/Low Split Pot?
There always is a high hand in Omaha-8. However, the board needs to have three, four, or five different ranks of low cards in order to enable a low.

The board only has at least three different ranks of low cards about three times in five (~60%). Even when there are at least three low ranks on the board, somebody still active needs two other low ranks to make a qualifying low hand.

In real play, someone often folds the only hand that would have qualified for low before the showdown. Thus, low actually occurs less often than 60%.

The percentage of the time low actually occurs is variable, depending on how those seated at the table play. 50% of the time is probably a reasonable ballpark estimation for how often the pot is split between high and low at a full table (nine or ten players).

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02-03-2015 , 09:56 PM

AlienSpaceBat

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Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 9,703

Thanks Dynasty, it's a good article.

I would recommend it to beginners thinking of playing a variant other than NLHE, O8 is a fun game !

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