Product Description

There are at least as many variations of poker as there are cards in a deck, and yet at any given point in poker's history there has been one variation of the game that is the most popular. Yesterday, the game most favored by professional poker players was Texas hold'em. Today, it is hold'em's close cousin, Omaha. In Farha on Omaha, Sam Farha, the world's greatest Omaha player, and Storms Reback, a noted poker writer, offer those new to the game simple strategic tips that will help transform them into winning players. The authors provide strategies on how to beat the three most popular forms of Omaha--limit, eight-or-better, and pot-limit--in both cash games and tournaments.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34615 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

From the Publisher
"Poker players come in all shapes and sizes with many different styles. In pot-limit Omaha, Sammy Farha's style stands alone at the top of the mountain. --Chip Reese, winner of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the 2006 World Series of Poker and the player many consider to be the best high-stakes cash game player in the world

From the Inside Flap
By far the most prevalent form of poker in Europe for the past two decades, Omaha is now enjoying a tremendous surge in popularity in the United States, thanks largely to its reputation as an action game. In other games, like Texas hold'em, most hands are contested by no more than two or three players. But in Omaha it is not uncommon to have five or six players paying to see a flop, creating massive pots ripe for the picking by those who know how to play the game correctly. Sam Farha finished second in the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker; plays in the biggest cash games in the world, including the famed "Big Game" in Las Vegas; and has won two gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker ($2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha in 1996 and $5,000 Omaha High-Low Eight-or-Better in 2006). Now for the first time, he shares with readers the inside secrets of how to beat not only the legions of amateurs flocking to this hot "new" game but accomplished professionals as well. Providing practical advice and advanced strategy tips, and discussing specific hands from his victories at the World Series of Poker and high-stakes cash games, Farha on Omaha promises to turn beginners into winning players and winning players into champions.

About the Author
Sam Farha has won two gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker. A successful high-stakes cash game player, he is considered by many to be the best pot-limit Omaha player in the world.

Storms Reback is a writer and professional poker player. He is the coauthor of All In: The (Almost) Entirely True Story of the World Series of Poker as well as a regular contributor to All In magazine.

Customer Reviews

Gotta be better books
Have been reading this book for a few days and it is one most people could do without. From blatant errors of just about every kind...textual mistakes to simple pot odd mistakes, it makes me wonder if Sam Farha had anything to do with even writing this book. It is time to wonder about who is actually writing these poker books. Pot odds mistakes? Telling you it is good expected value to walk away from a favored drawing hand because it is the last hand of the night? I mean give me a break...spend your money on the Farha Bobblehead Doll instead of the book because it may actually help your poker more.

Skip it
This book doesn't deliver. I suspect that the contribution of each author is inversely proportional to the size of text used for his name on the cover.

The authors devote excessive space to structured limit Omaha high. That's a very unusual (and awful) game. Although the basic advice in this section isn't too far off, the conceptual arguments have some fundamental flaws.

The pot-limit section contradicts itself with respect to the importance of hand selection within the first two pages. Farha relates the story of an elaborate bluff that's a little bit interesting but in the end comes off as a brag.

There are better books on this subject. Try Doyle Brunson's Super System II or Pot-Limit & No-Limit Poker.

The worst Omaha book out there.
Wow, I was really disappointed in this book. I've seen Sammy play Omaha, and all I can figure is that he didn't write this book. Ghostwriters are big in the publishing business, but I wonder if Sammy read this book before it was released. If you want a book that will help you (and that doesn't waste space covering limit high Omaha, which no one plays anymore), then buy Jeff Hwang's book.
Sorry, Sammy, I like you. But I've already given your book to Goodwill.