Raising pre flop
 

Hi.

I´ve been playing Omaha high for a few days and I think I have a fairly good idea about what hands to play from what position. The problem is that I don´t know what hands to raise with pre flop. It would be great if someone could help me out with what hands to raise from EP, MP and LP. By this I mean GOOD raising hands, not the kind you use for postional raises from LP.

Greateful for any input

// M

Re: Raising pre flop
 

Here's my general rule: If at least one player has voluntarily entered the pot, I'll raise pot on any hand that can handle a re-raise.

What that tends to exclude among good hands are the pair hands except AA (JJ-KK). I'll raise some of those, too, but I'm significantly more selective. I'm also fairly selective about raising AA simply because you automatically get put on AA when you raise--hence usually making your hand LESS profitable when you hit top set, except for the fact that you can take down a bigger pot.

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if you do that
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If at least one player has voluntarily entered the pot, I'll raise pot on any hand that can handle a re-raise.

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you neednt to scare of
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I'm also fairly selective about raising AA simply because you automatically get put on AA when you raise--hence usually making your hand LESS profitable when you hit top set

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Re: Raising pre flop
 

Hi and thanks.

So if I get this right, you basically just raise AA (but not every time) and against some opponents and in position evan JJ-KK, depending what the other two cards are.
How about the str8 hands like AKQJ, KQJT, QJT9 etc. Are these just limping hands and the kind of hands you raise OTB?

// M

Re: Raising pre flop
 

you dont get it right
he said he raises everytime he is enough to call a reraise
and if you want to call a raise you should have (if its not HU) at least with str8 with gap or maybe pair+kind of a straight
or maybe kind of stra8+ace high flush and so on

you should absolutely raise any str8 card higher than 3456 in any position and be rdy to call a reraise

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you should absolutely raise any str8 card higher than 3456 in any position and be rdy to call a reraise

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i don't think this is true.

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could you elaborate some pete?

Re: Raising pre flop
 

An AKQJ-type hand with suited A is probably my favorite raising hand from any position.

I agree that all wraps can be raised.

Some others: suited A with 3 connecting cards (As4s5c6d), 2 connecting pair with full extension, pair wraps at least ss. Those are the main ones I can think of.

JJ also has to be pretty monstrous. I'd raise JJQKss or even 8TJJss, but not much less than that.

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could you elaborate some pete?

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oop, 4 unsuited straight cards are basically junk.