Good book to learn to play PL Omaha?

[magus]

I'm a NL Hold 'em player, but the guys in my home game love PL Omaha and insist on playing a few rounds of it each time we get together.

What's a good book to read to get my PL Omaha game up to speed? (I've already read the chapter in SuperSystem 2)

[Senator7]

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.

[Troll_Inc]

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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.


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The book's fine, so it has that one chapter on $!%#stacking, other than that it's really a pretty decent book. It'd be like not watching Doogie Howser because Doogie's gay.

[Grandezza]

Someone please tell me why we can't mention this book. Ppl don't want to mention it in all the previous threads either

[skitzofranik]

its basically a long running joke that i feel has gone too far. It's because players feel cheated since they are buying in for full stacks and others are hit and running with shorter stacks.

It's a different type of strategy, just adjust and dont worry about it.

[CallYNotRaise06]

just start playing alot of hands. i wish i wouldnt have spent so much time reading books, and spent alot more time playing and studying the game on my own. (i know i might get flamed for this but w/e)

[pete fabrizio]

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just start playing alot of hands. i wish i wouldnt have spent so much time reading books, and spent alot more time playing and studying the game on my own. (i know i might get flamed for this but w/e)

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I pretty much agree with this. I would start by peddling the nuts, and then adjust from there. Almost all of the books are really bad anyway.

[TheRempel]

The only book I ever read before I started playing PLO was Hellmuth's awful awful POS. As bad as it was, it taught me at least some of the fundamentals. The rest just came with experience.