Pot-limit Omaha Poker:: The Big Play Strategy

Jeff Hwang

Jan 2008 · Kensington Publishing Corp.

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From a semi-professional poker player, a guide to playing and winning the biggest game in town.

If you’ve never tried Pot-Limit Omaha, you’re missing out on the most exciting, most lucrative cash game around. Omaha has long been the most popular form of poker in Europe, and now it’s spreading like wildfire throughout North America. The reason is simple: Omaha offers more action and bigger pots than Texas Hold ‘em. Isn’t it time you got in on it?

Whether you’re a cash-game professional or poker hobbyist—and whether you play live or online—this book will arm you with a winning big-play strategy that's easy to master even if you've never played Omaha before. You'll discover the subtle distinctions that set Omaha above other games.

Key topics include:

   •  The Big Play Objectives
   •  The Power of the Big Draw
   •  Straight Draws and Starting Hand Construction
   •  Playing the Position Game
   •  Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo

Complete with practice situations and hand quizzes, this is the most comprehensive Omaha book available—and the only one you'll ever need.

“A great addition to poker literature.”—Bob Ciaffone, author of Omaha Poker

“Everything you wanted to know about the game but never asked.”—Lou Krieger, author of Hold ‘Em Excellence

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Jeff Hwang is a semi-professional poker player and an investment analyst who regularly writes about the gaming industry for the Motley Fool, a well known website about stocks and investing. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S./B.A. in both finance and management, Jeff has been an advantage player since 1999, when he took an interest in blackjack. After he graduated college, Jeff picked up poker, and he has been playing semi-professionally ever since. His regular lineup includes Pot-Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo, with the occasional No-Limit Hold’em game. The material in his book is the result of playing various Omaha games nearly exclusively for over eighteen months, both live and online. Jeff lives in St. Louis eight months of the year and spends time in Fort Lauderdale, Washington, D.C., and on the road the rest.