| Pot-Limit Omaha Poker |  | Author: Jeff Hwang
Publisher: Citadel
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ISBN: 0818407263
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Bob Ciaffone
"This book is very accurate technically and a great addition to poker literature."
Lou Krieger
"Lucid, literate, and comprehensive. Dissects the complexities of this game and explains why big play strategy is the winning strategy."
Are You Ready for the Next Wave of Poker?
If you've never tried Pot-Limit Omaha, you're missing out on the most exciting, most lucrative cash game around. Omaha has long been one of the most popular forms of poker in Europe, as well as the Midwest and Southern United States. PLO is also the highest-stakes game in every cardroom in which the game is spread. And now it's spreading like wildfire throughout North America. The reason is simple: Omaha offers more action and bigger pots than Texas Hold'em. Isn't it time you got in on it?
Whether you're a cash-game professional or a recreational player -- and whether you play live or online -- this book will arm you with a winning big-play strategy that's easy to master even if you've never played Omaha before.
Key topics include:
- The Big Play Objectives
- The Power of the Big Draw
- Straight Draws and Starting Hand Construction
- Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
Complete with practice situations and hand quizzes, this is the most comprehensive Omaha book available -- and the only one you'll ever need.
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 Very Good Intermediate Text March 23, 2010
ZenMaster_Flash
This is a Very Good Intermediate Text.
There are far too few texts specifically covering Omaha, this one is worthwhile.
 PLO requires preparation; This is a great place to start August 24, 2009
M. Drudzinski (Santa Monica, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
PLO seems to be the game of choice among big cash-game players, and it is growing in popularity among lower-limit players too. I was a casual PLO player going into the reading of this text, having spent most of my time playing No Limit Hold 'Em.
In my opinion, no one should venture into PLO without having studied the nuances of the game first. With so much action post-flop, you can go broke fast if you don't know what you're up against. Mr. Hwang's book is a great place to start.
The first third of the book is dedicated to PLO, then there's a brief section on miscellaneous topics like bankroll management, maintaining emotional discipline, etc. and then the second half of the book goes into Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Split and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Split.
I read this book just for PLO for now, and I am a better player for it. I still make some donkey plays and go on tilt (which is more prevalent in PLO than in Hold 'Em, because everyone is speculating in this game and people hit bigger hands on the turn and river almost every hand), but that's my issue. Understanding run-down, one-gap and two-gap straight wraps; the percentages in draw vs. draw situations, why one shouldn't necessarily get excited by flopping the nuts, etc. has helped me make regular profits in online small-stakes PLO games. I played as I read my way through the first two sections of the book (I can't recommend doing this highly enough) and I felt so much more confident about the choices I was making.
Hwang includes enough math to open your eyes, but not so much that you feel overwhelmed. His book is both as reader-friendly and instructive as Dan Harrington's NLHE books.
Get the book if you want a solid PLO foundation. Hwang also recommends several other PLO books out there (especially Ciaffone's), so you'll know where to go from here. See you at the tables!
 Doesn't live up to the hype. August 15, 2009
andy (Los Angeles, CA United States)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased this book mainly based on the numerous positive reviews (mostly 5 stars). Apparently, most people find this book to be profound. Unfortunately, I found it to be lacking in depth, unclear at times, poorly edited, and infuses a distracting amount of his ego. On the positive side, he has much breadth, includes a chapter on miscellaneous topics, and chapters on Hi/Lo. I think this may be a good starting point book for people familiar with the basics of Hold 'em, but completely unfamiliar with Omaha, but for someone who has played Omaha enough to get the gist of how it works, this is not the book for you. I bought this book in a bundle pack with Hwang's other book and am hoping his strategies there are more substantial.
There were enough negative aspects to this book to make me regret buying it. I think it would have been much better if he had a better editor (or perhaps one at all?) who took out things like the non-word, "irregardless," duplicate words, and other inconsistencies. In fact, he kept plugging Bob Ciaffone's book, "Omaha Poker" so much, I wish I had purchased that one instead!
Hwang did a very good job including a breadth of topics from hand selection to Omaha Hi/Lo to bankroll management. Unfortunately, he didn't expand on many topics he discussed. For instance, he always justified plays with claims of "implied odds," but never went into a discussion on how to calculate those or comparing them to the odds of actually hitting your draw. In fact, he never explicitly states what comparison you are looking for with implied odds vs the odds of making your hand. I think without that, some of his justifications were less effective.
His ego also began to get annoying. If you are reading this, then you are a poker player and you already know that most poker players have substantial egos. Hwang is no different. Spoiler alert: almost every practice/hypothetical hand you play vs him in the book, he wins. (In Hi/Lo, he'll let you split.) He also kept mentioning how successful he is. It wasn't until I read the final section, "Closing Thoughts," that I realized he has only been playing Omaha for a couple of years. He has no major accomplishments under his belt other than winning at low stakes games. Now, a bracelet is not a prerequisite for being a poker author, but it helps if you're going to keep talking about how great you are in your book.
All in all, I think this is an acceptable rough introduction into the game for someone without any prior knowledge of it. However, most of the skills here can be gleaned from a few hours of observant play at the tables. You won't be a pro, but you'll know the strategies found in this book.
AN excellent Omaha Book August 2, 2009
D. Huhsl
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I started playing Omaha a few months before I bought this book and now that I have bought and read it it has definetly improved my game. If you are seriouse about learning this game this book is a must read.
 Good book, but leaves me wanting more June 16, 2009
Joseph B. Schulz
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was very helpful for me and I highly recommend it, especially to relatively new Omaha players. The best part was Hwang's analysis of the different types of starting hands and their structures (which is more complex than you may expect). He also does a good job of explaning the thought process that you should go through on the flop when you are deciding whether or not to continue with your hand. He favors a solid, tight/aggressive style which I agree with.
However I did have a few issues with the book:
1. Not enough postflop play. I know he is saving most of his advanced plays for the next book, but still, there wasn't enough discussion of postflop play for me. The turn is an especially tricky street, and he doesn't discuss turn play nearly as much as I had hoped. For instance, what if you have a solid 13-card draw on the flop, but you don't hit it on the turn? For the most part he says to keep betting it on the turn, but surely there are times when you should slow down, or even fold your hand on the turn. So, I found his discussion of turn play to be very short and overly simplified - he basically just says that if you liked your hand on the flop, then you should keep betting it on the turn, no matter what the turn card actually is.
And I don't think there was a single hand in the book where he advocated going for a check/raise. This seems strange to me because the check/raise can be a very powerful move, even in PLO.
There wasn't enough discussion on reading your opponents based on their betting habits, and he made no mention at all of using deception and varying your play in order to make yourself harder to read. This is another area that he will probably cover in the next book.
2. The book stretches itself a bit too thin. He covers pot-limit omaha high, limit omaha 8/b, and pot-limit omaha 8/b. I would have liked to see the entire book devoted to PLO so that he could cover it in more detail. Omaha high/low could have been covered in a separate book.
Having said that, it's a very good book and well worth the price. I just hope that volume 2 covers some of the "trickier" aspects of Omaha that were not discussed here.
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