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Fixed Limit Omaha Theory? Fixed Limit Omaha Theory?

04-22-2008 , 10:28 PM
Recently I discovered that there was a poker room in the town where I go ot school, while I'll probably be playing a lot of LHE, they also offer Omaha, however due to laws in our state PL, and NL cash games are not allowed. I love PLO and am pretty decent, but I've never played Limit Omaha High before. I searched the web and 2p2 for some information but really couldn't find anything but one really bad and vague article.

I you're playing FLO what are your opening ranges, is it right to assume that wraps lose some EV while AAxx gains EV? When drawing your most likely going to have odds, to make the calls when your outs are less, it just seems like from most the PLO coaching I have you want to be able to stack your opponents, since that's not possible in FLO how does your strategy change in FLO?
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04-22-2008 , 11:13 PM
I don't know from practice but it seems like low wraps go down and AA/KK and high wraps go up. This is analogous to suited connectors having more value in NLHE than in LHE.

You can no longer jam draws (unless you have a willing participant who probably has the current nuts), and you can't raise out overpairs or the nut flush draw very easily.

Probably a pretty boring game without much postflop raising.
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04-22-2008 , 11:26 PM
draw tot he nuts, and draw only to the nuts. JT89 is bad in a loose game if you don't flop the straight rigth away since you can pretty much count on the flush draw being bad.
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04-22-2008 , 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by grizy
draw tot he nuts, and draw only to the nuts.
This is not good advice, or at least is way oversimplified. Drawing to the nuts is great and all, but you are usually getting such good immediate odds with low reverse implied odds that you pretty much have to draw with whatever. Post-flop play in LO is boring, and most of the money is made from hand selection against donks.
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04-23-2008 , 12:42 AM
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Originally Posted by pete fabrizio
This is not good advice, or at least is way oversimplified. Drawing to the nuts is great and all, but you are usually getting such good immediate odds with low reverse implied odds that you pretty much have to draw with whatever. Post-flop play in LO is boring, and most of the money is made from hand selection against donks.
I am just saying starting out you should play tight and aim to draw to the nuts, namely pick his hands preflop to make the nuts and avoid trash like 3456.

Last edited by grizy; 04-23-2008 at 12:48 AM.
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04-23-2008 , 10:27 AM
Consensus seems to be that the play is going to be extremely boring, so maybe I'll play only LHE, and then if that goes well check out the LO. Is it safe to assume it will be a large number of multi-way pots, with a lot of drawing? That would mean that "draw to the nuts" may not be too bad of advice. Also I assume bluffing would be a bad play in almost any situation here with a large number of multi-way pots.

If the pots are multi-way doesn't AA/KK go down? Or does the fact that it's limit outweigh that?
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