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I posted this in the beginner's forum, but didn't get any responses, so this is now my first post in the Omaha forum.

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I played Omaha for the first time last night. I am almost exclusively a NLHE tournament player. I have played a little LHE.

I didn't know much about Ohmaha except that you use three cards from the board and two from your hand. I found a site online with a few basic strategy tips, and scanned that a few times while I was playing, until I got the feel of it.

It was a PokerStars freeroll tournament, and I placed 65 of 2,794.

I couldn't get a sense of what percentage of starting hands I should be playing. I saw the flop 50% of the time, but even so, I was playing fewer hands than almost anyone (9 players per table). It was not a turbo.

I was often the only one to fold after seeing the flop, and at least three times I was the only one at my table that didn't see the flop.

Were these players just nuts? Was I too loose? Are both true?

Even after the first hour, I sat at tables where 7-8 players were seeing every flop.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

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Since I first posted the above, I thought of a related question.

During the second and third hours of the tournament, I started playing fewer one-dimensional hands (such as a pair of jacks with two unconnected and unsuited low cards), and more hands that had more than one possibility, let's call them two dimensional hands.

Examples: Hands such as 2358 that have more than one way to make a straight, two-suited hands, or hands with both straight and flush draws such as Ad Kd 7c 6h.

It just seemed logical to me that with all the draw chasing that goes on in Omaha, it's best to have a hand that give you more than one option.

Am I looking at this correctly?

Thanks for your help.