Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12945 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 332 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780818407260
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Lucid, literate, and comprehensive. Dissects the complexities of this game and explains why big play strategy is the winning strategy." -- Lou Krieger

"This book is very accurate technically and a great addition to poker literature." -- Bob Ciaffone

From the Back Cover

Pot-Limit Omaha is the next big trend in poker. It is by far the biggest cash game in every casino where it is played. The only thing holding it back from going mainstream is that players have no idea where to start. They don't know how to think about the game in general, and starting hands in particular. In Pot-Limit Omaha literature, everybody knows that AAKK and AAJT double-suited are the best hands, and that a rundown like JT98 double-suited is nice; but NOBODY explains what else is playable, and more importantly why. If players knew where to start, then EVERYBODY would play Pot-Limit Omaha, because it is simply the most exciting and action packed game in poker. It is also the highest stakes poker game in every card room in which the game is spread.

POT-LIMIT OMAHA by Jeff Hwang is the most thorough discussion of the game ever published, and the only one to talk about starting hand construction, as opposed to the vague "the best hands to play" line given in every other book. It provides readers with a big-play strategy centered around straight draws and nut flush draws, as well as a basic understanding of post-flop play. The book includes sections on Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo (this is the only book in the market that discusses these games).

Jeff Hwang has established a concerted strategy aimed at winning the big pots, while using positional advantage to pick up pots (not necessarily on the flop) when the money is not all in. Hwang has sought to change the way the average Omaha player thinks about starting hands, as well as the game of PLO itself, by concentrating on the Big Play Objectives: the nut straight freeroll, the nut full house freeroll, set-over-set, flush-over-flush, overfull vs. underfull, top-set plus draws, and dominating draws.

Includes sample hands, practice situations and hand quizzes.

About the Author
Jeff Hwang is a semi-professional poker player and an investment analyst who writes about the gaming industry for the Motley Fool, a commercial website about stocks, investing, and personal finance. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S./B.A. in both finance and management, Jeff has been an advantage player since 1999, when he took an interest in blackjack. After he graduated college, Jeff picked up poker, and he has been playing semi-professionally ever since. Jeff's regular lineup includes Pot-Limit Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo, with the occasional Limit or No-Limit Texas Hold'em game.

Customer Reviews

Systematic and lucid
Jeff Hwang has written the most helpful and insightful book on Omaha poker available. I also purchased Bob Ciaffone's 'Omaha Poker' and 'Pot Limit & No Limit Poker' by Reuben and Ciaffone. All three of these cash-game oriented books are valuable additions to a well rounded poker players library. However, Hwang is far more systematic in his presentation of key ideas, his prose is lucid, and his insights are gold. Those insights have provided 90% of improvement in my game that I have gained by reading these books.

After a brief intro, Hwang jumps right into his core thesis: you only want to get involved with hands that have big play potential. Big play hands have structures that allow you to bet strongly when flopping the nuts with redraws to even better nuts by the time you reach the river. He then goes on to map out all of the types of big play potential hand structures in a clear and systematic way. While the big play notion, and the importance of counting nut outs have been made before, the systematic and lucid presentation in 'Pot-Limit Omaha Poker' really make it shine.

If you are hold em player who is branching out into Omaha you should buy this book. If you don't, please invite me to your game.

Very informative.
I just got this book a week ago and have spent more than ten hours reading it and taking notes. I'm blown away. I actually was a little afraid to come on here and tell others how good the book is, but I realized there was no need to worry. Only the most studious and stable players will get a lot out of this book. Most players, even the ones who read this book, will continue to play naked ace-deuces in pot-limit Omaha hi/lo, and call off their entire stacks with only a low draw. So I don't care if a few people get educated by studying the game of Omaha through this book. For every one person who really studies this book and improves, there will be another hundred who couldn't care less. I suppose all poker games are like that, especially in online play.
I should mention that I bought this book, thinking it would cover Omaha high only. But the pot-limit Omaha/8 discussion, which only covers about 50 pages of the book, is worth the purchase price in and of itself. The Omaha high discussion in this book has already been seen, for the most part, in previous books.

WOW
I am a semi-pro player out of Florida and I will confess that Omaha has been my weakest game since I began playing. I never really got the gist of it. But I bought this book about 2 weeks ago and I must say, the ideas, topics and overall presentation of this book were so simply presented, that I will swear that my game has improved significantly.

Applying these strategies is a bit tricky, however the excercises and out counting regognition teqchniques used in this book are what will improve your game. If you study these guidlines your game will improve dramatically.

This book shows you betting patterens, real situation semi-bluffing techniques and a ton more. If you are really interested in playing Omaha read this book.

P.S. There are additionally chapters covering Omaha hi/lo that are staggeringly informative.

Hope this helps any aspiring pros, or anyone wanting to improve their game.