Re: Limit Omaha Hi - general advice wanted
I don't think there's much info at all out there on this game ... it's kind of a weird thing where the postflop strategy and odds are all intuitive and straightforward and the preflop hand evaluation is much less intuitive.
Position is much less important in limit omaha than in PLO since the pots are so big and so contested that you can't put much pressure on anybody, and you can't control the pot size that much in position either b/c everyone plays staight up and if their hand is promising, money is going in regardless of position.
A couple of hands you will quickly find out are troublesome in limit omaha (IMO):
1) Bottom set. You fart on this hand and it's gonna get cracked. You flop bottom set and you have to dodge all kinds of things, e.g. anyone with top 2 ruins your boat draw, there will usually be some sort of straight draw out there, goofy crap like backdoor flushes and turned higher sets, basically every card in the deck will scare you. Middle set is better but still a little scary. Bottom set can be a big money loser and I would fold small pairs preflop bacause IMO bottom set isn't worth the headaches.
2) Flopped straights without redraws. I mean, you have the nuts, but you can be in a lot of trouble if the flop action gets heated. If everyone is jamming in a 4-way pot then you should be afraid ... someone else could share your straight with you and you are vulnerable to being outdrawn by higher straights, flushes, and boats. When you flop a straight, be aware that your hand is fragile. You should continue with them, but with no protection there are so many ways it can lose and you may not even be an equity favorite on the flop. Also, counterfeitable straight draws (e.g. 89xx on a Q76 flop instead of 89Tx) can be trouble as well.
Top set is a monster in this game and should be pressed hard ... but even then, if your set is the nuts on the flop, you can expect to lose with it close to half the time. Just the way it goes. Top 2 you pretty much just hope for the best though, if the flop texture and action make you smell a set you need to get out fast. It helps if you have an overcard or two to your top 2. Nut flush draws are big winners in this game and flush draw + any other kind of draw is a monster on the flop.
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