Basics of Pot Limit Omaha Poker Part 2: Strategies You Can Do During Pre-flop

It was cited in the first part of this series that beginning hands in PLO are rather closed to one another in terms of worth. It’s not recommended that you put a big part of your stack pre-flop unless you possess an AAxx hand. This is due to the truth that everything can change when the flop is turned.

It’s given that if you have a good hand, you won’t mind raising the bet but it’s advisable that you don’t gamble away 10% of your stack before the flop opens. The mere exemption would be having a hand not less than an AAxx or KK/QQ.

Whenever you acquire these hands pre-flop you can choose either to bet below 10% of your stack or gamble more than 50% of it.

Reasons in Less Than 10% Bet

Gambling below 10% of your stack is advisable so that you can backup with no financial heartbreak if the flop turn out not to favor you. An example would be playing in a $100 buy in PLO game where you possess a hand of AsKsJdQc which is rather a great hand.

If the flop turned out to be composed of two suited cards that you don’t have, AJQ, then at a $7 bet you can let the hand go with not much restraint unless you wanted to find yourself involve in a raising war.

But if the pot is opened to $7 and you gained two callers – it’s safe for you to re-raise your bet to $38 and then call with your current 3 pair and gut-shot to divide the pot. That time, the pot would be offering about $200 – 3 times more than your bet.

It is recommended that you don’t bet 20%-40% of your stack before the flop is opened.

Reasons in betting more than 50%

If you happen to have a tough hand either an AAxx or KK/QQ then you might want to go heads-up by betting more than 50% of your stack. You’ll basically fold anyone who’s not keen to battle up against a big pot and those who are brave enough to call will remain.

Then if you’re already heads-up with someone it will be your job to raise and re-raise the pot till the turn or river till the other player gives up. Don’t worry about getting head to head until the end because you have a pretty strong starting card to begin with which gives you advantage.