Review of omaha poker starting hands::How Do You Play Texas Hold'em Poker
Review of omaha poker starting hands::How Do You Play Texas Hold'em Poker
This analysis began when I found out I was constantly losing in Omaha poker. Having played only Hold Em extensively, my first thought was that pocket aces were a monster like in Hold Em. But I found myself losing again and again with what I thought were good starting hands. I also thought that if I had an ace and a king, that I had a very good shot of winning the hand. These ideas turned out to be about as far from the truth as you can get about Omaha poker. In order to improve my game, I sat down with a deck of cards and dealt to nine imaginary players. Rather than having the imaginary players fold their bad hands, I just played out the hands as if everyone stayed in the hand all the way to the river. So the numbers you see here represent somewhat bigger hands on average than you will see in real life, but my analysis shows that, as a general rule, you need very big hands to win in Omaha. Additionally, I found that winning in Omaha depends heavily on hitting draws because many of the monster hands hit on the turn or river. Compared to Hold Em, it turns out that you cannot really have a solid idea of the strength of your hand before the flop. This is because the game is so dependent on draws, and a hand way ahead even after the flop can still be run down by another player trying to hit a big draw. Therefore, do not get too excited about having pocket aces or pocket kings and certainly not any other lower pairs. Even if you do hit trips on the flop, you will often be behind already to a bigger pair that also hit trips. This is the just the way of life for Omaha players. You often need a monster to win a hand. Another interesting thing that I found is that you will often lose with flushes. While you will occasionally lose with flushes in Hold Em, this seems to happen much more in Omaha. I would not get too excited about getting lots of money in the pot with a weak flush. You could still win with a weak flush, but even a King-high flush often loses to an Ace-high flush. Full houses are also very common in Omaha. However, trying to draw to a full house is usually futile. Hitting two pair on the flop always makes me salivate at the thought of drawing out to a full house, but that draw does not seem to hit often. Rather, full houses seem more likely to hit when you have a paired board and trips due to an additional card in your hand matching that pair. Then, the board pairs one of your hole cards, filling up your full house. Therefore, hitting a full house is often somewhat unexpected. When you stay in a hand to draw out, more success comes from drawing to straights and flushes than trying to draw to a full house. Nonetheless, you often get lucky and hit that full house, ending up with an even bigger hand than you were trying to hit. Also keep in mind that there are many four-of-a-kind winners in Omaha. When the board trips with three of the same card, any player with a pocket pair has a full house locked up. But it is in this exact situation that another player often has that fourth card in their hand, hitting four of a kind. Of course, drawing to a straight is common, and straights are obviously good when there is no pair on board and no flush draw. Smaller straights win more than small flushes. Nonetheless, you really want to have the best possible straight. It is quite common in Omaha to have something like 4,5,6,7,8 but lose to 5,6,7,8,9. The following numbers are not meant to be a statistically significant sample of winning hands, but the pattern is clear from just a small sample - big hands win in Omaha. With that said, in a sample of 50 9-player hands, I showed the following results: 2 fours of a kind, 18 full houses, 14 flushes, 10 straights, 3 trips, and 3 two pair. There were no winning hands with only one pair or no pair over this small sample. As you can see, this is dramatically different than Hold Em, where just a pair or even ace high often wins a hand. Note, though, that real games will show a few more winners with trips and two pair because the imaginary players in this game did not fold their bad starting hands. In conclusion, the strength of an Omaha hand is not clear before the flop. Pocket pairs are not very strong, and drawing to a nut flush or straight is the typical way to play Omaha. If you do not hit your big draw, some other player often will. |
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