Poker Education

EV, or "expected value", is the amount of money you can expect to win or lose on average in a given betting situation. In poker, if you are in a situation where your hand is the favorite ...

In Omaha High/Low 8's and better (O8), as in straight Omaha high, the strength of a starting hand is dependent on numerous features. These are the game structure (limit/pot limit, fixed or max buy-in), the type and quality of opponents, and (by far the most important) the constituent features of the hand itself.

The first step - game selection! Game selection in O8 dictates that the best games to play are relatively passive, weak games with many players seeing ...

Well, lots of people seem to be asking this question. There’s a large number of things to take into account preflop in this game, but perhaps the first thing to consider is... don’t worry. It isn’t possible in PLO high to have a massive leak in your game by making poor decisions preflop, unless you are literally limping ...

Common questions a new player trying to improve their game will ask an established player are:

"How often should I raise pre flop?"

"What should I do when someone with position on me is very aggressive?"

"What's your tournament strategy?"

There is an inherent problem with these questions - they are non-specific. ...

Most poker players are already at the level of knowing what a continuation bet is and that they should be making them most of the time that they raise preflop and find a caller. A mistake I find with a lot of players ...

I'm writing these series of articles in an attempt to discuss all aspects of 3betting in PLO. What hands should we 3bet with, how should we react when someone 3bets us, how position and stack sizes factor in, postflop play in 3bet pots, and how all these change depending on our image or the opponent we're playing. 95% of my experience is playing 6-handed mid stakes PLO so that’s the situation I’ll be focusing on. If you have any questions or wish to discuss things further then there is a thread set up here for deeper analysis and discussion:

To begin, let's work backwards and start by discussing what happens ...