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Originally Posted by tankgirl
For me, the game seems to revolve around having a 2 in your hand, and as such i'll often try and play hands that hit better lows vs nit players who will have a2 a lot.
I don't think the game revolves around having a deuce in your hand.
In high/low split pot games, in general, high cards beat middle and low cards for high while low cards beat middle and high cards for low. It's just that simple.
Deuces are thus good low cards. However, deuces are not generally very good cards to have for winning the high half of the pot.
Note that low is only possible for 3/5 of the hands played. In actual real full table and six max games, someone actually qualifies for low roughly half of the time.
But someone wins the high half of the pot 100% of the time.
Instead of a deuce, if you had to choose the most important card in the deck, it would be an ace. Easily. An ace is the highest high card and also the lowest low card.
But note very carefully that you must use exactly two cards from your hand to make either a high or a low. If you're going to play Omaha-8, you should start thinking in two-card combinations, rather than about single cards. Thus if you are dealt
A
,2
,5
,9
as a starting hand, your hand has six two card combinations:
• A
,2
,
• A
,5
,
• A
,9
,
• 2
,5
,
• 2
,9
, and
• 5
,9
.
Before you see the flop, the first and third of these,
• A
,2
and
• A
,9
,
are the best two card combinations in your starting hand and the second of these
• A
,5
, is the third best two card combination in your starting hand. Note that all three of these have an ace.
The other three two card combinations are relatively poor. Note that two of them have a deuce.
• 2
,5
is not absolutely horrid, but is not considered good, even though it has two wheel cards, including a deuce.
Everything may change after the flop.
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In addition to this, I'm potting turn and river a lot vs players i think have a mediocre low only (I am bluffing with literally zero equity a lot - is this ever ok?)
Yes if not overdone.
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I will try and get my strong hi only hands hu pre by raising,
Bad idea, in my humble opinion. I realize some recommend it and I agree one should mix up one's play somewhat.
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and will most often fire again as it's hard to flop a low.
I understand what you mean, but it doesn't make good sense to me. Seems like a very reckless way to play the game. It's a tactic that probably works better in Texas hold 'em than in Omaha-8. You will tend to terrorize the table playing that way, and if your opponents are stupid enough they may never catch on. But I don't think that tactic will work well, except as an occasional change of pace, against good opponents.
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Other than this, I'm completely lost, though I seem to be having good results.
Do whatever works for you. Aggressive play
is recommended, but overly aggressive play is not, even though you'll have some good results sometimes with overly aggressive play.
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Anyone have any general tips to improve my play, and does anyone playing plo8 rush have any specific tips for the format?
Post some hand histories here and you might get some good feedback. One hand history per thread, please, and include a specific question or two. You'll get better answers to your questions if you don't overwhelm us with too much in one thread or post.
Buzz