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hey guys looking to get into o8. Have only played no limit holdem. What r some good books on this game, how bigger or smaller should my BR b? Any topics about the game a Newbie should know would b greatly app
thanks
lou
[/ QUOTE ]Hi Lou - Back when the Omaha forum split in two, there was not much on-line poker. As played in casinos, Omaha was pretty much a high/low fixed-limit game in the USA and pretty much a high-only pot-limit game in Europe. The Omaha I have seen in casinos in the USA, except for split games and some tournaments, has
all been low-fixed-limit (mostly 3/6 to 6/12 limit games). I understand there currently are some brick and mortar casinos in the USA where you can sometimes find a game of pot-limit Omaha-8, but I haven't actually seen a game of pot limit Omaha-8 with my own eyes, except in private games.
There just isn't much no-limit Omaha-8 played, to the best of my knowledge, but sometimes there is an inquiry about that game on this forum, which leads me to believe that people are playing it somewhere. (But I don't know where or when).
The betting strategies in fixed-limit Omaha-8 and pot-limit Omaha-8 are almost as different as night and day. And therefore the hands you like at various stages in the two games are very different. And six-max play is much different from full game play.
Be aware that poker, by nature, is a game of deception and there are vultures waiting for you in whatever version of Omaha-8 you choose.
So first of all, you have to decide what particular version of Omaha-8 you want to play,<ul type="square">• fixed-limit, or pot-limit
• full game, or 6-max.[/list]In my humble opinion, pot-limit Omaha-8 has more in common with pot-limit Texas hold 'em than fixed-limit Omaha-8. But that is my perspective as a fixed-limit Omaha-8 player. Perhaps a pot-limit Omaha-8 player has a different perspective.
I think the big money is more in pot-limit Omaha-8 than in limit Omaha-8. So if your motivation is to make big money playing poker, then pot-limit is probably the game for you.
I'm under doctor's orders to avoid stressful situations and so Omaha-8 is my hobby rather than an avenue to riches. As a hobby, I have fun and feel challenged enough for my tastes playing low-limit-fixed-limit Omaha-8.
But to each his own.
Once you make your choice as to fixed-limit or pot-limit, make sure you have access to the kind of game you have chosen. And then watch a successful player for a while. Different successful players have differing styles of play.
Once you have decided upon a style of play, look for an author whose writing reflects this style and who is easy for you to read. Both Ray Zee's 2+2 split poker book and the Omaha-8 section in Super System 2 are excellent, in my humble opinion, for fixed-limit Omaha-8. I'm not the one to advise you for pot-limit.
Buzz