Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #232891 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

my collection
This book was short on technical information. It related how the author took long shots and got lucky

If he learned to speak American, this rating would be 5 stars.
A terrific book for thinking through how to play a number of pot limit Omaha hands. It is not quite as well written as his later book on Pot Limit Hold Em, but I think Reuben is a better Omaha player than Hold Em player.

The simple fact is, there is no definitive book on Omaha, and maybe the subject is too complex for there to be one. I've learned from this book and the Cloutier/McEvoy book, but there are still gaps in my education that I am filling with experience, some of it not so pleasant.

The technique is to present a hand and ask you what you would do at various betting points in the hand. I sometimes disagree with his advice and do not play hands because I'm bored, as he does. So, we sometimes disagree about my score. The explanations of the correct strategy, which are often not the same as what Reuben did, himself, present many ideas we need to ponder to improve our games.

His phrasing is sometimes odd. I know, he's English and he can't help it. In one hand, he describes a player as making a straddle bet on the blinds. Huh? I trade options for a living and play straddles all day long. Whatever he is describing has no relationship to anything I call a straddle.

Still, a great book that would be even better with a nice, pretty English nanny translating it for me.

How good are you at playing hands that should be folded?
This book was quite instructive, but I found it annoying how many hands I thought should have been folded before the flop, and Stewart agreed with me. Once we get that question right, what is the point in going on with the analysis?

I also found that the games that these hands came from were much more aggressive than the low-limit games that you find online. I don't think that these strategies are completely appropriate for those games. But, if you are playing for thousands at the Grosvenor Victoria, this is your handbook.

Still, in the end, I would say that it improved my game. Plus, there is very little written on the subject of Pot-Limit Omaha, so you are going to end up reading all three of those books, anyway.