Features/Strategy

Omaha/8 (a.k.a. Omaha Hi/Lo Split-8-or-Better) has grown in popularity over recent years thanks in part to the fact that online poker rooms are now regularly offering it not just in its traditional fixed limit format but also as a pot-limit or even no-limit game. While different types of betting does affect strategy considerably, there are a few truths about starting hand selection that apply to all variants of Omaha/8.

Know About the Importance of Betting for Value

Sitting ducks: call a flop bet and hit your pair in the hole Pocket rockets are all well and good, but what will you do with a small pair like deuces or treys?Marginal hands like K-10 and A-J are frequently responsible for some of the most difficult decisions in poker.

Turbo tournaments are gaining in popularity both in online poker circles and in the live arena but there are a core section of poker players who are dead set against them. They often cite the reason for disliking them as turbo structured tournaments not being real poker or that they take away some of the skill element and whilst to some degree they are absolutely 100% correct what they are omitting a few crucial facts that make turbo tournaments not only great fun but also massively profitable to boot.