Omaha8 newbie.. books?

TheCount212 · #1 09-10-2007, 02:02 PM

I started playing poker in NLHE tourneys, switched to LLHE ring games, and had a great run at my first attempt at Omaha8 last Friday. I'm told that the Zee book is excellent by some, and dated by others, and I have no interest in Stud Hi/Lo. Is the Zee book still the bible of Omaha8, or is there a better one out there? Any good online primers as well? Thanks, and sorry if this is redundant.

Buzz · #2 09-10-2007, 02:20 PM

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Is the Zee book still the bible of Omaha8, or is there a better one out there?

[/ QUOTE ]Count - Yes. The Zee book is still the best. All good solid advice. No erroneous or misleading statements.

The section regarding Omaha-8 in Super System 2 is also excellent and worth reading, especially if you are just starting.

Buzz

TheCount212 · #3 09-10-2007, 02:21 PM

Thanks Buzz

MattS · #4 09-10-2007, 03:16 PM

When I started with LO8 I found the online articles of Tenner&Krieger at Cardplayer and the articles of Annie Duke at Ultimate Bet helpful. Ray Zee's book is great but is better suited in my opinion for an intermeadiate or advanced player who wants to improve his play in shorthanded and/or aggressive games. I agree with Buzz, the chapter in SS II about LO8 is great for a beginner.

rando · #5 09-10-2007, 03:55 PM

keep yourself busy by Googling this

mudaro omaha hi lo

Google the hell out of the various O8 word combos and you will unearth several bales of articles. It's very simple.

Truthiness24 · #6 09-10-2007, 03:58 PM

Concur. I'm probably newer to the game than any of these guys, and SS2 & Zee are great primers once you get past figuring out what starting hands are useful.

Besides reading the posts on this site, I would like to know if anyone thinks that there are any books out there that go beyond these -- that are useful to an intermediate/advanced player.

franknagaijr · #7 09-10-2007, 06:40 PM

Footnote - Did anybody else read the Annie Duke autobiography? It discusses a few hands from her O8 bracelet tourney, but the discussions generally seem to omit lots and lots of information that would have been crucial to making a decision. IIRC, she almost never provided suits and whether backdoor flushes were possible.

Truthiness24 · #8 09-10-2007, 07:56 PM

That wasn't really a poker book, IMO. That was a book about "Annie Duke." Annie and/or the ghost writer assumed that her audience would neither know about nor be interested in O8, and I think they were right. She was out to sell books to a mass-ish audience, not write a technical treatise on O8.