I'm lucky in that Parx actually now has Omaha 8 games going. These hands came from the 4/8 limit game (with 1/2 kill), although they also are getting an 8/16 game that I'm looking to move up to. The game I was in yesterday was very loose, passive, and involved lots of hands where several people went all the way to the river, often with no good reason that I could detect. Yummy! But, high variance as well. No point in bluffing here, or trying anything fancy, that I can see.
My background is in NLHE, and I know enough to realize that what works in Hold 'em won't necessarily work in Omaha - but I don't know enough to know what's necessarily good or not in this game.
Here are a couple of starting hands that I picked up yesterday, and I'm wondering if my thinking is correct them.
Comments please. Thank you.
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and similar hands. No real low here, and I'm wondering if set mining really makes sense for a hand like this, and similar type hands. Is it worth the limp in (or perhaps calling one raise) since I'm likely to only be playing for 1/2 the pot? Especially since straights and/or flushes happen so often? I don't know.
What about a hand such as QQxx? Again, with no low or flush draw. Is this playable, really, in O8?
Just how good are even AAxx and KKxx hands, with no good low and no flush possibilities? Should they just be limped in O8? Especially out of position?
Thanks in advance.
Lee