Omaha High Low Strategy

You need extremely extensive math skills to play this game. There is no set strategy to playing Omaha. In fact, many professionals often have heated debates about this subject.

Omaha Hi/Lo Strategy Tips

Good starting hands in Omaha hi/lo would be A-A-2-3, suited aces, and A-2-Q-K. For a beginner, you should either just work on your hi cards or lo cards, until your comfortable with playing both. The less starting hands you play the better. A low hand is five different cards under 8 (8 included). Having ace suited is ideal. You also want to play hands like A2xx, 2345, and two high cards paired with two low cards.

I sometimes like to start hands from the small blind. Rather than being out of ‘position’ for the whole hand, I look at the small blind as one of the better positions in limit Omaha Hi/Lo. I can start the bet if I am at a table of passive players to raise the pot, I can check if I totally missed everything and am ‘surrendering’ and might get a free card. Or if I have a good hand, I have what I think is one of the more powerful plays. The small blind is the first position to check raise. I like that play because I want to increase the pot and get those drawing hands out that could beat me. Making them call a 2x limit bet makes the drawing odds much less for them. Since this is also a game of perception, if you check raise, then lead out with a bet, most opponents will perceive the strength of your hand to be better than it is.

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I especially like that play if the button is a holdem player who has the ‘always raise in the button’ mantra. I can confidently check, knowing he’ll bet, and usually the button folds on the raise or the next lead out bet. That’s why I use the small blind as the best position in Limit Omaha Hi/Lo to attempt a bluff or semi bluff as well. With the promotion and popularity of the H.O.R.S.E games, I find there’s more interest in Omaha. I think the differences between playing in a tournament with escalating blinds and in a ring game are most evident in Omaha E/B. Tournaments can be well played by good holdem players (who play the person and position as much as the cards) once they learn the basics. Limit ring games (IMHO) are successfully played more on pot odds and the drawing possibilities of a hand.