I am only playing Omaha High-Low 8 now, usually pot limit, though I will occasionally play it limit in a tournament. It fits my personality. The game is slow, so I can get a beer or take a leak if I fold and not miss a hand. I like being able to win with high or low, but I LOVE scooping both ends.
This is really a hand game and I am better at evaluating hands than people. You may be the world's greatest bluffer, but if I have a wheel, you aren't betting me off the hand. Even if I sometimes wish you could, especially when it ends up quartered.
The best feeling in the world is hitting the nuts high, then have 3 other players fighting to make the low. Every time the pot comes around, it's "raise da pot" for me. And they bitch and moan, but how do you throw away ace, deuce, three with a 4, 5 on the board? It's o.k. when we divvy it up and I get half and they each get a sixth. But it's even better when the third low card doesn't hit, or it hits but counterfeits one in their hands. Then I may get it all.
BTW, I hate it when some other SOB is in that position and I have the lock low. <G>
What is really great is that this game is much less understood than hold em or even Omaha high. Players will go all in with an ace/two before the flop, and then cringe as 9, 10, jack hits on the flop. Or, they'll have a mediocre low or a mediocre high and call if there is only one player left, thinking he's going one way or the other. Just to find he has the nuts low and a nuts flush.
The only negative is that you get a lot of beautiful cards in your hand and then the flop hits nowhere near you a lot of the time. It happens to everyone, but I consider it a personal insult when it happens to me. <G>
Good luck, all. |
