Today I’ve got some perfect examples (from other players sitting on my table of course) how not to play Pot Limit Omaha. I removed their nicknames of course to not insult them . But the bottom line is the following: there are a lot of poker players at the moment who try their luck at the Omaha tables, but have no single clue about this game.

The first hand shows a typical beginners move in PLO. The contrast with a more experienced player is even more clear because I have the same hand as this beginner, but I play it like it has to be played . Watch:

I have four connectors again so I make the move that’s already known to the readers of this blog. Then comes the flop and yeah, I make a straight, but you don’t see me being all too happy about it, flopping the baby straight. So when somebody makes a pot bet in front of me, I immediately fold, knowing I’m probably already beat by AT and I’m not very likely to improve much. As you can see, ‘Player 6′ does exactly what I didn’t.

With the second hand I really made a very nice profit myself thanks to the donkeys. It’s one of those hands which you push all the way preflop in PLO (now the converter makes some error with the pot size, as ‘Player 5′ doesn’t get enough money returned, total pot size was about $25):

So I have Aces, and I have pretty good Aces: a suited one and with a King on the side. So I make a BIG pot preflop and am really stunned to see the hands where I’m called with and especially the hand which raised me, being ‘Player 1′. However, my Aces are never really in danger and I make trips Kings on top of it. Thank you very much! The song of the day really is a song to celebrate such winnings with:

Animal Collective - For Reverend Green (Strawberry Jam, 2007)