Trouble-Starting Hands for Omaha Poker. Part of the series: Pot-Limit Omaha Poker Tournament Strategy. Hands in Omaha poker that can start trouble from the b. The Strongest Omaha Starting Hand The strongest Omaha starting hand is ace-king double-suited: A ♠ K♠ A ♥ K♥. In this hand you hold AA and KK as starting made hands, two nut flush opportunities and A-K for the potential broadway straight. Double-suited hands with high-valued connectors and pairs are always the best Omaha starting hands. James How to play Omaha, How to play Omaha poker, Poker Strategy June 22, 2019 June 22, 2019 How to play Omaha poker, Omaha starting hands How to play Omaha poker is one of the mysteries of life, you need an Omaha poker strategy and to know your starting hands – the best Omaha hands – learn it all here.

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Unlike holdem poker in which winning combination may be formed using two, one or none of hole cards in Omaha there have to be used two hole and three community cards. On those who play Omaha after playing holdem poker these four cards play a mean trick.

On the one hand four cards in your hand in Omaha are better than two in holdem poker, because they allow you to form better starting combinations. Though you should take into consideration the fact that your opponents also have four cards! That’s why straights, flushes and fulls appear in Omaha more often, and small pairs, which in holdem will surely play, in Omaha deserve only check. And a third card in your hands to a pair, which gives to beginners an impression about the strength of their hands, is not a positive side but a negative one – because only two of them play in the game and the probability of appearing of the similar card on the board visibly lowers. Accordingly a fantastic for other games four-of-a-kind combination in hands is considered in Omaha a losing one.

The main mistake which costs beginners the biggest money in Omaha hi poker is playing each and every hand. Even in holdem poker such delusion is very often, and in Omaha where almost every four cards give hope for good combination it happens all the time.

With what starting cards should one enter the game? There is no definite answer to this question as well as of course to many other questions in poker.

There is a strategy for Omaha hi poker developed by a famous American player Edward Hutchinson that uses Monte Carlo’s mathematic modelling. But we will repeat once more that this system like any other is not completely universal. In addition it is generally used in games with a lot of players (8–11 people at a table); with fewer players one should play more aggressively.

Starting hand rank in Omaha holdem by Hutchinson system:

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1. First, suited cards are estimated.

If in your hand you have two or more suited cards count your points on the basis of highest of them (if you have double-suited cards then count for both):

• if your highest card is Ace add 4 points;
• King – 3 points;
• Queen – 2.5 points;
• Jack – 2 points;
• 10 or 9 – 1.5 points;
• any other card – 1 point;
• if all your cards are suited – subtract 2 points.

2. Now let’s estimate pairs’ value:

• a pair of Aces – add 9 points;
• a pair of Kings – add 8 points;
• a pair of Queens – add 7 points;
• a pair of Jacks or 10 – add 6 points;
• a pair of 9 – add 5 points;
• any other pair – add 4 points;
• if you have three or more cards of the came kind – don’t add any points.

And at last let’s calculate the possibility of forming a straight.

If you have in your hand cards which will help you to get a straight (meaning that a “gap” between them is not more than three cards) then:

• Ace with King, Queen, Jack or 10 earn you 2 points;
• Ace with 2, 3, 4 or 5 – 1 point;
• any two cards from 2 to 6 – 2 points;
• any two cards from 6 to King – 4 points;
• any three cards from 6 and higher – 7 points;
• any four cards from 6 and higher – 12 points;
• if a gap between the cards is one or two cards – subtract 1 point;
• if a gap makes three cards – subtract 2 points.

Now let’s calculate the sum. You should come into play (of course it depends upon the street position which mustn’t be overestimated and upon the opponents’ strength) only if you have 15 points and more and raise only if you earned 20 and more.

For continuation see Part 2.

The difference between Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) and No Limit Hold'Em (NLH) is still massively underestimated.

When starting out in PLO, it's imperative that you adjust your starting hands from NLHE.

• in Hold 'Em, a hand like qq is considered extremely strong, however, in PLO, a hand like qq83 is a very weak hand and should almost never be played.
• So many combinations of hands in PLO have an extremely similar change of winning pre-flop, for example a hand like aakk is a very marginal favourite to win pre-flop against a hand like qj109.

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• We've listed the best 30 starting hands in Pot Limit Omaha below, all of which are Double Suited.

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Make sure that you fully understand Omaha Rules before you begin your Omaha poker career and that you also know How to play pairs and Rundowns in Omaha