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I've been playing pot limit for a while and I'm decent at it, but my experience is my only real knowledge of the game. What are some of the best books out there about how to play Pot Limit Omaha Hi?
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Or better question, why isn't there something about this in the FAQ?
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Omaha Poker by Bob Ciaffone is considered the best first read for Pot Limit Omaha.
Some recommend How Good Is Your Pot Limit Omaha by Stewart Rueben, but I didn't like it at all. Pot Limit & No Limit Poker by both Ciaffone and Rueben would be very helpful as a second read. Once you read Omaha Poker and PL&NLP and get more playing experience, you can then read the best book available on PLO. Unfortunately, many people in this forum (and they're a grumpy bunch) cringe at the mere mention of this book so I will refrain from doing it here. There aren't many books on PLO available so if you do a search on this forum or on Amazon, you should be able to figure out the book that must not be named. |
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Omaha Poker by Bob Ciaffone is considered the best first read for Pot Limit Omaha. Some recommend How Good Is Your Pot Limit Omaha by Stewart Rueben, but I didn't like it at all. Pot Limit & No Limit Poker by both Ciaffone and Rueben would be very helpful as a second read. Once you read Omaha Poker and PL&NLP and get more playing experience, you can then read the best book available on PLO. Unfortunately, many people in this forum (and they're a grumpy bunch) cringe at the mere mention of this book so I will refrain from doing it here. There aren't many books on PLO available so if you do a search on this forum or on Amazon, you should be able to figure out the book that must not be named. [/ QUOTE ] Very good post, add Slotbooms (little to weak/tight and full of fps, but alot good concepts) name and this is FAQ matherial. - B |
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I've just bought the Stewart Reuben book and I like it. It's in the form of full hands that he's played or observed which seem to be all live and you have multiple choice questions on each betting decision in each hand.
And then he analyzes the hand afterwards. The book is entertaining as well as teaching you, soit's well worth the money in my opinion. |
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I've just bought the Stewart Reuben book and I like it. It's in the form of full hands that he's played or observed which seem to be all live and you have multiple choice questions on each betting decision in each hand. And then he analyzes the hand afterwards. The book is entertaining as well as teaching you, soit's well worth the money in my opinion. [/ QUOTE ] It has been a while since I read this book, so my recollection might not be 100%. Overall, I was disappointed by this book. I had low/moderate experience when I read it (maybe 6-800 hours). To his credit, he does develop a framework for evaluating hands and situations. If you are able to apply this thinking, then you've certainly learned something. However, his examples aren't relevant for the games that most of us on this forum are playing everyday. He was playing super deep-stacked poker (500+BB) against a group of people he'd played against for 100's/1000's of hours. In fact, there are several times in the book where the "answer" to the question is based on the fact that a call is correct because it was Fat Louie who made the bet. So the value of the book only really comes if you can train yourself to think through every hand using the same process. The content/examples/"correct answers" in the book are irrelevant and many times misleading. Start playing like he does in a literal sense on 2/4 (or 1/2, or 3/6, or 5/10) FTP PLO and you'll notice a sharp decline in your performance. |
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[ QUOTE ] Omaha Poker by Bob Ciaffone is considered the best first read for Pot Limit Omaha. Some recommend How Good Is Your Pot Limit Omaha by Stewart Rueben, but I didn't like it at all. Pot Limit & No Limit Poker by both Ciaffone and Rueben would be very helpful as a second read. Once you read Omaha Poker and PL&NLP and get more playing experience, you can then read the best book available on PLO. Unfortunately, many people in this forum (and they're a grumpy bunch) cringe at the mere mention of this book so I will refrain from doing it here. There aren't many books on PLO available so if you do a search on this forum or on Amazon, you should be able to figure out the book that must not be named. [/ QUOTE ] Very good post, add Slotbooms (little to weak/tight and full of fps, but alot good concepts) name and this is FAQ matherial. - B [/ QUOTE ] Whoosh!! |
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Slotboom is a bloody plague. I was in Vegas just last week and I saw a player that used to be good deep stack come in short stacked and obviously doing that BS. I left the game after about 3 hours.
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Or better question, why isn't there something about this in the FAQ? [/ QUOTE ] Because FAQs on 2p2 are not supposed to contain book reccomendations. |
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[ QUOTE ] Or better question, why isn't there something about this in the FAQ? [/ QUOTE ] Because FAQs on 2p2 are not supposed to contain book reccomendations. [/ QUOTE ] Would it be possible just to list them without recommending them? Because it is actually quite silly to have a discussion list where you have the same question asked over and over again, frequently. |
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