Pot-limit Omaha Poker - Softcover

Hwang, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0818407263 ISBN 13: 9780818407260

Publisher: Lyle Stuart, 2008

Synopsis

Are You Ready For The Next Wave Of Poker?

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

Pot-Limit Omaha is the next big trend in poker. It is by far the biggest cash game in every casino where it is played. The only thing holding it back from going mainstream is that players have no idea where to start. They don't know how to think about the game in general, and starting hands in particular. In Pot-Limit Omaha literature, everybody knows that AAKK and AAJT double-suited are the best hands, and that a rundown like JT98 double-suited is nice; but NOBODY explains what else is playable, and more importantly why. If players knew where to start, then EVERYBODY would play Pot-Limit Omaha, because it is simply the most exciting and action packed game in poker. It is also the highest stakes poker game in every card room in which the game is spread.

POT-LIMIT OMAHA by Jeff Hwang is the most thorough discussion of the game ever published, and the only one to talk about starting hand construction, as opposed to the vague "the best hands to play" line given in every other book. It provides readers with a big-play strategy centered around straight draws and nut flush draws, as well as a basic understanding of post-flop play. The book includes sections on Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo (this is the only book in the market that discusses these games).

Jeff Hwang has established a concerted strategy aimed at winning the big pots, while using positional advantage to pick up pots (not necessarily on the flop) when the money is not all in. Hwang has sought to change the way the average Omaha player thinks about starting hands, as well as the game of PLO itself, by concentrating on the Big Play Objectives: the nut straight freeroll, the nut full house freeroll, set-over-set, flush-over-flush, overfull vs. underfull, top-set plus draws, and dominating draws.

Includes sample hands, practice situations and hand quizzes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyle Stuart
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0818407263
• ISBN 13: 9780818407260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332